Wow you were serious? I thought your original post was a satire.
I'll bet you're one of those people who would love to have a Thought Police, if or when the technology ever arrives that can read thoughts. Then all non-politically correct thoughts can be purged from everyone's minds!
(they're already extracting crude images from a dreaming person's brain so this is not as farfeteched as it sounds)
But this here is dead serious... China is the new big boy on the block, and it's going to take all those "disputed" territories by force or intimidation soon.
How many times must I say it? You cannot steal IP. If China broke into America and stole a bunch of F-22 airplanes, that would be stealing. That is not what happened here.
This at most is copyright infringement, and at least it would be simply information wanting to be free!
If you've ever looked at, and held an RC airplane of that size (54 inch wingspan), in person, you would quickly come to realize that it's a toy and of no danger to society. As have apparently the DHS and NYPD guys.
They are made of balsa wood and foam. They are very light. They have a useful payload of about a pound. Yes a 1-pound bomb can cause damage, but really it would just be so much easier for a terrorist to throw a hand grenade or something, rather than go through all of this shenanigan.
back in 1946 the military got rid of racial segregation, and opened up any post to anyone of any color. It took the rest of the government 20+ years to catch up.
How about the entire federal gov't follow the army's lead and REQUIRE ALL COMPUTERS, ROUTERS AND NICS BE PRECONFIGURED FOR IPV6 OUT OF THE BOX from all vendors by end of 2012, or they don't get a gov't contract. How about it, Nancy Harry and Barry?
I use Wikipedia frequently, and made a donation. Did you?
Hell no.
Here's a hint: the money to run Wikipedia comes from somewhere. If it came from advertising dollars, that money would ultimately be reflected in a increase in the cost of products, but because the conversion of money in your pocket through a retailer's payment processing system to the manufacturer's accounts receivable to the marketing department budget to an advertising agency to an adbuy at Wikipedia is horribly inefficient, the total cost for you, out of pocket, will be much higher than if you just send Wikipedia money. The only difference is you won't be obviously, immediately aware of it.
Web hosting service does not cost very much. They are begging for more money so they can pay for other pet projects of Jimbo Wales, not because they can't pay the Hostgator monthly fees.
Please, donate directly.
No thanks. I'd rather give to Salvation Army than line Jimbo's pockets. Last time I looked he was doing quite well for himself from Wikipedia.
well to use an internet cafe, you have to actually get up and leave the basement and walk out of your mom's house. This is not an palatable option for most Anonymous members. Stealing your neighbor's wifi is a possibility, but then when the p0lic3 come knocking on your neighbor's door and start asking questions, and the nice old lady tells them she doesn't know anything about interwebs hacking but the geeky kid next door with the Star Wars T-shirt might, it won't take them long too figure out who's the Anonymous member.
Except most people probably agree with Amazon's decision. It probably helped them. Surely you have noticed that Slashdot is not very representative of what we might call the "general population," falling somewhere to the left of where most people are, at least in the United States, Amazon's largest market.
I agree for the most part. However I am not sure that the/. mantra of "a US liberal would be considered a right wing fascist in Europe" is true or not... I'm starting to think that's a myth.
Just this morning I read this story about the pretty crappy way immigrants are treated in Germany. And I know for a fact that in Italy it's even worse, they are very draconian in that regard. And lately in the news are all those budget cuts in Ireland France UK and other EU countries, due to their huge government debt problem... cuts in SOCIAL BENEFITS! Reduced wealth redistribution. This is actually happening in Europe as we speak. It would be UNIMAGINABLE in the USA still, there is no way in hell there will ever be any reduction in welfare or unemployment or healthcare benefits..... at least not while Obama and Pelosi and Reid are still alive. So all in all I would say in many respects, USA is quite liberal even compared to Eurozone.
dude, which ecig do you use? I wanna try it, but apparently not all brands are teh same (quick search reveals that some brands suck big time, chief complaint being that it hardly makes any vapor and battery dies too fast)
"But one payment service company told the BBC its customers were experiencing "a complete loss of service" on MasterCard SecureCode. The credit card company later confirmed that loss."
I think there is a strong need for Wikileaks (or something similar). While Julian Assange has done some great services, he is probably not the person to head such an organisation.
Agree on both counts.
Pushing for government transparency, exposing corruption = good
Leaking documents just because you can, even when they contain no government evildoing, just to stroke your own ego = bad
Responsible thing would've been to actually go through and read the damn documents and leak only the ones that are actually relevant to wikileaks' purported mission.
The clowns DDOS'ing Mastercard website aren't doing wikileaks any favors either. Now any claims they might have had about having the moral high ground are gone. Criticizing gov't suppression while crashing somebody else's website is pure hypocrisy.
while driving to work this morning. I was like, Fuck Yeah!
This was accomplished by Elon Musk using only a few hundred million$ of Paypal money. Now imagine what Bill Gates could be doing with the billions he's supposed to be giving away.
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Wow you were serious? I thought your original post was a satire.
I'll bet you're one of those people who would love to have a Thought Police, if or when the technology ever arrives that can read thoughts. Then all non-politically correct thoughts can be purged from everyone's minds!
(they're already extracting crude images from a dreaming person's brain so this is not as farfeteched as it sounds)
i was being sarcastic... lol
But this here is dead serious... China is the new big boy on the block, and it's going to take all those "disputed" territories by force or intimidation soon.
How many times must I say it? You cannot steal IP. If China broke into America and stole a bunch of F-22 airplanes, that would be stealing. That is not what happened here.
This at most is copyright infringement, and at least it would be simply information wanting to be free!
I am not sure who to cheer on here, a spammer or a lawyer.
Let them kill each other, then the rest of us will be better off
ads have some of the hottest babes.... maybe that's why the submitter wants to save them
If you've ever looked at, and held an RC airplane of that size (54 inch wingspan), in person, you would quickly come to realize that it's a toy and of no danger to society. As have apparently the DHS and NYPD guys.
They are made of balsa wood and foam. They are very light. They have a useful payload of about a pound. Yes a 1-pound bomb can cause damage, but really it would just be so much easier for a terrorist to throw a hand grenade or something, rather than go through all of this shenanigan.
from the video it looks like the F18 wasn't even on afterburner and it got airborne as soon as it came off the catapult xD
because US Navy needs to launch large aircraft with significant payload (unlike the brits or russians)
back in 1946 the military got rid of racial segregation, and opened up any post to anyone of any color. It took the rest of the government 20+ years to catch up.
How about the entire federal gov't follow the army's lead and REQUIRE ALL COMPUTERS, ROUTERS AND NICS BE PRECONFIGURED FOR IPV6 OUT OF THE BOX from all vendors by end of 2012, or they don't get a gov't contract. How about it, Nancy Harry and Barry?
is that you Bill? How's Melinda doing these days?
Thanks for the informative post... although that FOSStard bit was a little over the top
I use Wikipedia frequently, and made a donation. Did you?
Hell no.
Here's a hint: the money to run Wikipedia comes from somewhere. If it came from advertising dollars, that money would ultimately be reflected in a increase in the cost of products, but because the conversion of money in your pocket through a retailer's payment processing system to the manufacturer's accounts receivable to the marketing department budget to an advertising agency to an adbuy at Wikipedia is horribly inefficient, the total cost for you, out of pocket, will be much higher than if you just send Wikipedia money. The only difference is you won't be obviously, immediately aware of it.
Web hosting service does not cost very much. They are begging for more money so they can pay for other pet projects of Jimbo Wales, not because they can't pay the Hostgator monthly fees.
Please, donate directly.
No thanks. I'd rather give to Salvation Army than line Jimbo's pockets. Last time I looked he was doing quite well for himself from Wikipedia.
why exactly they need all the money they are trying to gather
Jimbo Wales needs a salary raise.
well to use an internet cafe, you have to actually get up and leave the basement and walk out of your mom's house. This is not an palatable option for most Anonymous members. Stealing your neighbor's wifi is a possibility, but then when the p0lic3 come knocking on your neighbor's door and start asking questions, and the nice old lady tells them she doesn't know anything about interwebs hacking but the geeky kid next door with the Star Wars T-shirt might, it won't take them long too figure out who's the Anonymous member.
The only good thing about Suckerberg being person of the year is that it didn't go to Assange.
Although it's hard to say which is the bigger douchebag...
and tan his hide!
Except most people probably agree with Amazon's decision. It probably helped them. Surely you have noticed that Slashdot is not very representative of what we might call the "general population," falling somewhere to the left of where most people are, at least in the United States, Amazon's largest market.
I agree for the most part. However I am not sure that the /. mantra of "a US liberal would be considered a right wing fascist in Europe" is true or not... I'm starting to think that's a myth.
Just this morning I read this story about the pretty crappy way immigrants are treated in Germany. And I know for a fact that in Italy it's even worse, they are very draconian in that regard. And lately in the news are all those budget cuts in Ireland France UK and other EU countries, due to their huge government debt problem... cuts in SOCIAL BENEFITS! Reduced wealth redistribution. This is actually happening in Europe as we speak. It would be UNIMAGINABLE in the USA still, there is no way in hell there will ever be any reduction in welfare or unemployment or healthcare benefits..... at least not while Obama and Pelosi and Reid are still alive. So all in all I would say in many respects, USA is quite liberal even compared to Eurozone.
the movie
dude, which ecig do you use? I wanna try it, but apparently not all brands are teh same (quick search reveals that some brands suck big time, chief complaint being that it hardly makes any vapor and battery dies too fast)
the *idea* behind wikileaks was good, but Assange is an Ass-hat with an overinflated ego, who needs to go.
Another site that does what wikileaks does, without Assange, sounds like a good thing.
"Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event"
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is"
more snow = global warming
less snow = also more global warming?
Don't target the website, target the servers that do the money-traffic!!!!
Apparently they're doing that already
"But one payment service company told the BBC its customers were experiencing "a complete loss of service" on MasterCard SecureCode. The credit card company later confirmed that loss."
I think there is a strong need for Wikileaks (or something similar). While Julian Assange has done some great services, he is probably not the person to head such an organisation.
Agree on both counts.
Pushing for government transparency, exposing corruption = good
Leaking documents just because you can, even when they contain no government evildoing, just to stroke your own ego = bad
Responsible thing would've been to actually go through and read the damn documents and leak only the ones that are actually relevant to wikileaks' purported mission.
The clowns DDOS'ing Mastercard website aren't doing wikileaks any favors either. Now any claims they might have had about having the moral high ground are gone. Criticizing gov't suppression while crashing somebody else's website is pure hypocrisy.
did you and Bubba have a nice breakfast?
while driving to work this morning. I was like, Fuck Yeah!
This was accomplished by Elon Musk using only a few hundred million$ of Paypal money. Now imagine what Bill Gates could be doing with the billions he's supposed to be giving away.
I'm waiting to read the news "Julian Assange has been arrested"
Apparently he has been arrested already... Newswire: Julian Assange arrested