According to TFA, her email password was written down in a little book kept by the family computer. And yet, "The guy is a hacker" and "It was password protected, he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained."
Really, I don't see how it can get any more ridiculous than this. I realize the prosecutor has to put on a show to support such ridiculous charges, but good lord...
I take a bit of a different view on the guy. I wouldn't call his films documentaries, and I wouldn't call them propaganda either. Honestly, it looks like he's just trying to get people to care. He could certainly go about it more honestly, but the sad truth is if it doesn't generate a lot of controversy the public simply doesn't care enough to take notice. And if there's one thing his films have done it's bring the issues they're about into the public spotlight.
What's that old adage? "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see". It's no different just because it's Michael Moore doing the talking.
Tens of thousands of students in the UK put in the effort to make it work recently. They were out in freezing temperatures, protesting against legislation that would triple the tuition cap in the country. What did it get them? A new law that triples the tuition cap in the country, and a broken election pledge from the Liberal Democrats.
Or a reflected SYN attack, which is a little more potent. But the main problem in concealing your identity by forging the source IP is that most ISP's these days perform egress filtering, meaning those forged packets will simply be dropped before they leave your local network. You have to find the range of IP's allowed through your local network and restrict your spoofing to that range, which in the end doesn't conceal your identity very well anyway.
4chan was actually hit by a reflected SYN attack last year, which forced AT&T to black hole its domain for several hours. Apparently there are still some ISP's, particularly in Eastern Bloc countries, that don't bother to filter spoofed packets leaving their networks.
What he meant to say is "online is where the money is". DLC, DRM, lower development costs due to lack of story or AI, mini-transactions, monthly fees, it's a wet dream for EA.
WikiLeaks also promises its sources that it will work to get "maximum impact" for whatever they provide. If you're risking life imprisonment for "treason" by giving WikiLeaks internal documents then this actually means a lot. Nobody wants to take that risk only to have their work forgotten by the media after a couple of days. WikiLeaks knows that by staggering the release like this and keeping the media interested they'll encourage others to take that risk too.
"The promise that we make to our sources is not only will we defend them through every means that we have available, technological and legally and politically," said Assange calmly, "but we will try and get the maximum possible political impact for the material that they give to us, and..." There, Colbert interrupted. "So 'collateral murder' is to get political impact?" Assange responded by saying, "Yes, Absolutely." Source
I've tried this, it actually works really well for photographing lightning. The only downside is the motion detection script eats up batteries like nobody's business.
This is exactly right. I spent almost a year working at UPS while I was going to university as a "pre-loader", night shift loading the delivery trucks. The place was chronically understaffed, full of temp workers from work placement agencies, and far too small for the number of boxes we went through on any given night. Christmas time was the worst though. Our volume almost doubled, but our staff didn't, and neither did the time we had to get everything done. If anything we had less time due to the shift before us lagging behind because of their ridiculous work load.
The cars are all lined up along a conveyor belt, and your job is basically to stand by the belt, pick off every box that belongs on the 3 or 4 cars you're responsible for and load them into the proper position on the proper shelf. Sometimes the managers just want to "git 'r done", so they'll have the tractor trailers unloaded so fast that it floods the belt and nobody has any time to actually load their trucks. All the boxes are basically thrown off the belt into a giant pile outside the trucks, because there's no time to do anything else. And remember, this is all happening at 3 am in a warehouse largely open to the sub zero temperatures outside. Tim Hortons coffee was the only thing that kept us going.
It's probably worth mentioning that every second box is labeled as fragile, there's really no point anymore. If it really is fragile, then either ship it by air or throw some extra padding into the box. Aside from that, make the box interesting in some way. Paint it bright pink. Slap some funny comics on it. Anything to make it stand out and brighten someone's day a little. Those boxes will usually get the royal treatment, because at 4 am it's the little things that keep you going.
Lastly, theft was never really a problem where I worked. I know of one guy who was fired on the spot for taking a pack of gum out of a box that broke open as it was being handled with care. Though if someone wants to steal something and is smart about it, I think it'd be fairly easy to get away with.
So looking through that list all I could think of was "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong!"
Dozens of sites that (judging by the domain names) sold counterfeit clothing or accessories for profit, and then a torrent indexer. Not a tracker mind you, not even a site that hosts torrent files, just a search engine.
You mean being interrogated before boarding the plane?
Why don't we just go back to what we had before and just accept the fact that flying will never be 100% safe, but remains the safest form of transportation available? A hijacking will never be successful again, not after what happened the last time. People won't just sit there when somebody jumps up with a box cutter. Explosives will always be a threat, but realistically what's to keep a terrorist from walking into an airport with an explosive vest and detonating it in the security area? Will we install body scanners at all entrances and exits then? It's just ridiculous. Of all the ways to die in this world why are we making such a big deal out of this one?
At this point I don't believe it has anything to do with public safety, not really. I think terrorism is embarrassing to governments. A small group of people can't possibly be allowed to "beat" one of the greatest countries in the world with some home made explosives and box cutters. It's just plain embarrassing. So lets just keep ramping up security to show those miscreants who's in charge here, put them back in their place so they'll never make fools of us again.
If you RTFA they clarify that the tube is 1 dimensional as far as the electrons and holes are concerned, probably because instead of being able to move across the sheet of graphene in both the x and y directions they're now constrained to move only in one direction, up and down the nanotube. If there's only one possible axis of movement, then you're effectively in a 1 dimensional system.
I'm totally on Wikileaks side. I know it's PC to damn Wikileaks for accidentally releasing some names in the 75,000 reports that were leaked recently, but I find it's always good to keep some perspective. The wars in the middle east have cost tens of thousands of lives, and part of the reason they're still going is the tight lipped attitude of the government with regards to any kind of transparency. If the administration weren't in the habit of releasing reports that are entirely blacked out, or flat out refusing FOIP requests altogether, then the task of providing a clear picture of how the war is progressing wouldn't befall a volunteer organization like Wikileaks. And when Wikileaks requested the help of the Pentagon in redacting the names, that request was of course ignored.
Perhaps some people suffered as a result of that leak, but I find that no more tragic than the dozens of people who die to IED's and suicide bombings every other day in those same countries.
I'm not sure about out-of-the-box support for this, but Civ V is much more mod friendly than Civ IV was and I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to make a mod addressing color blindness.
The next iPad will double as a suitcase using Checked Baggage Technology to ensure your precious cultural artifacts make it back into your hands every time! The iPadCase is also virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit!
I've spent semesters at both a Canadian and German university and for the most part they were pretty similar. Most of the professors spent the entire lecture copying the notes posted on the course website onto the blackboard, and in most courses your final grade was entirely dependent on a single exam (and an optional, harder re-exam a few weeks later). Don't expect big differences in that department.
But in the end I enjoyed the German university far more. For one, tuition was free*. Dealing with the bullshit that comes with a higher education is so much easier when you know you're not digging yourself into five figure debt for the privilege. Aside from that there were lots of perks on the side. The cafeteria served a choice 6 complete meals at lunch time, all between 2 to 4 euros for students including some salad, dessert, soup and a main dish. Students were able to ride all in-state public transportation for free, and it was good public transport. Single dorms were about 250 euros a month. Student loans were provided by the government with 0% interest, 50% to be paid back with payments starting 5 years after graduation. Good marks and early payment could lower that amount even further.
Last but not least, I was able to get a part time job at the university helping with research projects in my field. I probably learned more about programming through this work with the professor and his staff than I did in any of the lectures, and I was paid for it at the same time. These sorts of jobs were available in almost every department if you cared to ask.
I still had plenty of gripes, but I'm sure it could have been far worse.
*Before I get the inevitable "But it's not free you pay for it with taxes" reply yes, you're right. The point is the cost of your education is spread over your entire working life, instead of being dropped on you all at once. And I still had to pay a 120 euro/semester "fee" for administration, student union and so on.
Not that I have any sympathy for those yahoos but wouldn't that constitute some kind of assault? Seems like it wouldn't be much different than zapping someone with a taser for getting too close to your car, though maybe I'm wrong and there's actually some maritime law that gives you the right to protect your boat from anyone who gets too close.
Though maybe those Sea Shepard people would be guilty of the same crime, throwing their stinky cheese onto the fishing boats or whatever it is they do. But something tells me if they were the ones with the heat ray, using it on fishing vessels, it wouldn't be considered ok.
I guess part of the problem is the pressure created by the rising expectations of a "successful" game. Big publishers like EA and Activision aren't content with a game earning back twice what they put in, they're looking for a small fortune from each franchise. It's a problem that's been plaguing the entire entertainment industry recently. Where you used to have hundreds of smaller publishers and developers, all of whom would be thrilled to see a product making a profit at all, you now have a handful of huge, lumbering giants that demand every penny be squeezed out of a project. Companies with entire departments whose only job it is to go through every project and cut costs to the bare minimum, then go through them again and cut the costs even further. At the same time these giants are stifling the smaller competition by flooding advertising mediums and buying up any IP that shows signs of being successful.
Capitalism may be the lesser evil, but I just feel like it's running out of control these days.
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You're right, it's just not the same without Jack Bauer...
According to TFA, her email password was written down in a little book kept by the family computer. And yet, "The guy is a hacker" and "It was password protected, he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained."
Really, I don't see how it can get any more ridiculous than this. I realize the prosecutor has to put on a show to support such ridiculous charges, but good lord...
I take a bit of a different view on the guy. I wouldn't call his films documentaries, and I wouldn't call them propaganda either. Honestly, it looks like he's just trying to get people to care. He could certainly go about it more honestly, but the sad truth is if it doesn't generate a lot of controversy the public simply doesn't care enough to take notice. And if there's one thing his films have done it's bring the issues they're about into the public spotlight.
What's that old adage? "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see". It's no different just because it's Michael Moore doing the talking.
Tens of thousands of students in the UK put in the effort to make it work recently. They were out in freezing temperatures, protesting against legislation that would triple the tuition cap in the country. What did it get them? A new law that triples the tuition cap in the country, and a broken election pledge from the Liberal Democrats.
Or a reflected SYN attack, which is a little more potent. But the main problem in concealing your identity by forging the source IP is that most ISP's these days perform egress filtering, meaning those forged packets will simply be dropped before they leave your local network. You have to find the range of IP's allowed through your local network and restrict your spoofing to that range, which in the end doesn't conceal your identity very well anyway.
4chan was actually hit by a reflected SYN attack last year, which forced AT&T to black hole its domain for several hours. Apparently there are still some ISP's, particularly in Eastern Bloc countries, that don't bother to filter spoofed packets leaving their networks.
What he meant to say is "online is where the money is". DLC, DRM, lower development costs due to lack of story or AI, mini-transactions, monthly fees, it's a wet dream for EA.
WikiLeaks also promises its sources that it will work to get "maximum impact" for whatever they provide. If you're risking life imprisonment for "treason" by giving WikiLeaks internal documents then this actually means a lot. Nobody wants to take that risk only to have their work forgotten by the media after a couple of days. WikiLeaks knows that by staggering the release like this and keeping the media interested they'll encourage others to take that risk too.
"The promise that we make to our sources is not only will we defend them through every means that we have available, technological and legally and politically," said Assange calmly, "but we will try and get the maximum possible political impact for the material that they give to us, and..." There, Colbert interrupted. "So 'collateral murder' is to get political impact?" Assange responded by saying, "Yes, Absolutely." Source
He touched on these ideas in another of his videos from before this latest one.
I've tried this, it actually works really well for photographing lightning. The only downside is the motion detection script eats up batteries like nobody's business.
This is exactly right. I spent almost a year working at UPS while I was going to university as a "pre-loader", night shift loading the delivery trucks. The place was chronically understaffed, full of temp workers from work placement agencies, and far too small for the number of boxes we went through on any given night. Christmas time was the worst though. Our volume almost doubled, but our staff didn't, and neither did the time we had to get everything done. If anything we had less time due to the shift before us lagging behind because of their ridiculous work load.
The cars are all lined up along a conveyor belt, and your job is basically to stand by the belt, pick off every box that belongs on the 3 or 4 cars you're responsible for and load them into the proper position on the proper shelf. Sometimes the managers just want to "git 'r done", so they'll have the tractor trailers unloaded so fast that it floods the belt and nobody has any time to actually load their trucks. All the boxes are basically thrown off the belt into a giant pile outside the trucks, because there's no time to do anything else. And remember, this is all happening at 3 am in a warehouse largely open to the sub zero temperatures outside. Tim Hortons coffee was the only thing that kept us going.
It's probably worth mentioning that every second box is labeled as fragile, there's really no point anymore. If it really is fragile, then either ship it by air or throw some extra padding into the box. Aside from that, make the box interesting in some way. Paint it bright pink. Slap some funny comics on it. Anything to make it stand out and brighten someone's day a little. Those boxes will usually get the royal treatment, because at 4 am it's the little things that keep you going.
Lastly, theft was never really a problem where I worked. I know of one guy who was fired on the spot for taking a pack of gum out of a box that broke open as it was being handled with care. Though if someone wants to steal something and is smart about it, I think it'd be fairly easy to get away with.
So looking through that list all I could think of was "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong!"
Dozens of sites that (judging by the domain names) sold counterfeit clothing or accessories for profit, and then a torrent indexer. Not a tracker mind you, not even a site that hosts torrent files, just a search engine.
You mean being interrogated before boarding the plane?
Why don't we just go back to what we had before and just accept the fact that flying will never be 100% safe, but remains the safest form of transportation available? A hijacking will never be successful again, not after what happened the last time. People won't just sit there when somebody jumps up with a box cutter. Explosives will always be a threat, but realistically what's to keep a terrorist from walking into an airport with an explosive vest and detonating it in the security area? Will we install body scanners at all entrances and exits then? It's just ridiculous. Of all the ways to die in this world why are we making such a big deal out of this one?
At this point I don't believe it has anything to do with public safety, not really. I think terrorism is embarrassing to governments. A small group of people can't possibly be allowed to "beat" one of the greatest countries in the world with some home made explosives and box cutters. It's just plain embarrassing. So lets just keep ramping up security to show those miscreants who's in charge here, put them back in their place so they'll never make fools of us again.
That team won't get very far without Anna Belknap from CSI: New York on hand to write some gooey interfaces in Visual Basic.
Maybe I could read the whole thing at once, if I had a quantum computer?
If you RTFA they clarify that the tube is 1 dimensional as far as the electrons and holes are concerned, probably because instead of being able to move across the sheet of graphene in both the x and y directions they're now constrained to move only in one direction, up and down the nanotube. If there's only one possible axis of movement, then you're effectively in a 1 dimensional system.
I'm sorry, that information is classified.
But it's there, trust us.
I'm totally on Wikileaks side. I know it's PC to damn Wikileaks for accidentally releasing some names in the 75,000 reports that were leaked recently, but I find it's always good to keep some perspective. The wars in the middle east have cost tens of thousands of lives, and part of the reason they're still going is the tight lipped attitude of the government with regards to any kind of transparency. If the administration weren't in the habit of releasing reports that are entirely blacked out, or flat out refusing FOIP requests altogether, then the task of providing a clear picture of how the war is progressing wouldn't befall a volunteer organization like Wikileaks. And when Wikileaks requested the help of the Pentagon in redacting the names, that request was of course ignored.
Perhaps some people suffered as a result of that leak, but I find that no more tragic than the dozens of people who die to IED's and suicide bombings every other day in those same countries.
One man's villain is another man's hero.
I'm not sure about out-of-the-box support for this, but Civ V is much more mod friendly than Civ IV was and I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to make a mod addressing color blindness.
What reason is there to release the game 3 days later in Europe?
I wouldn't be surprised if they steer the whole thing to a federal court for a class action lawsuit, then pull a pretty low judgment out of it.
The next iPad will double as a suitcase using Checked Baggage Technology to ensure your precious cultural artifacts make it back into your hands every time! The iPadCase is also virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit!
I've spent semesters at both a Canadian and German university and for the most part they were pretty similar. Most of the professors spent the entire lecture copying the notes posted on the course website onto the blackboard, and in most courses your final grade was entirely dependent on a single exam (and an optional, harder re-exam a few weeks later). Don't expect big differences in that department.
But in the end I enjoyed the German university far more. For one, tuition was free*. Dealing with the bullshit that comes with a higher education is so much easier when you know you're not digging yourself into five figure debt for the privilege. Aside from that there were lots of perks on the side. The cafeteria served a choice 6 complete meals at lunch time, all between 2 to 4 euros for students including some salad, dessert, soup and a main dish. Students were able to ride all in-state public transportation for free, and it was good public transport. Single dorms were about 250 euros a month. Student loans were provided by the government with 0% interest, 50% to be paid back with payments starting 5 years after graduation. Good marks and early payment could lower that amount even further.
Last but not least, I was able to get a part time job at the university helping with research projects in my field. I probably learned more about programming through this work with the professor and his staff than I did in any of the lectures, and I was paid for it at the same time. These sorts of jobs were available in almost every department if you cared to ask.
I still had plenty of gripes, but I'm sure it could have been far worse.
*Before I get the inevitable "But it's not free you pay for it with taxes" reply yes, you're right. The point is the cost of your education is spread over your entire working life, instead of being dropped on you all at once. And I still had to pay a 120 euro/semester "fee" for administration, student union and so on.
Not that I have any sympathy for those yahoos but wouldn't that constitute some kind of assault? Seems like it wouldn't be much different than zapping someone with a taser for getting too close to your car, though maybe I'm wrong and there's actually some maritime law that gives you the right to protect your boat from anyone who gets too close.
Though maybe those Sea Shepard people would be guilty of the same crime, throwing their stinky cheese onto the fishing boats or whatever it is they do. But something tells me if they were the ones with the heat ray, using it on fishing vessels, it wouldn't be considered ok.
I guess part of the problem is the pressure created by the rising expectations of a "successful" game. Big publishers like EA and Activision aren't content with a game earning back twice what they put in, they're looking for a small fortune from each franchise. It's a problem that's been plaguing the entire entertainment industry recently. Where you used to have hundreds of smaller publishers and developers, all of whom would be thrilled to see a product making a profit at all, you now have a handful of huge, lumbering giants that demand every penny be squeezed out of a project. Companies with entire departments whose only job it is to go through every project and cut costs to the bare minimum, then go through them again and cut the costs even further. At the same time these giants are stifling the smaller competition by flooding advertising mediums and buying up any IP that shows signs of being successful.
Capitalism may be the lesser evil, but I just feel like it's running out of control these days.