If you have ever seen a pet Iguana, you would know that they are far smarter than the mice being fed to a snake. I knew someone who had one that knew words. He would tell it he was going to give it some strawberries and it would get excited and come over. If you didn't have any, it would get pissed off at you and turn it's back on you. It was pretty amzing.
This AC makes a good point. Look at how bad the factory farming has gotten in the way they treat animals. When people are familiar with where their meat comes from, they don't really want the animals to suffer or live in squallor. But when the meat comes in plastic wrap from the store, then who even knows that it used to be an animal.
I can see the same thing happening if people were not allowed to have animals anymore. Nobody would care about the wild animals, as they are just something to watch on some nature show. Animals would have even less meaning in people's lives and in the end they would suffer.
It is similar to the purpose of a zoo. The animals in the zoo may not have it as good as the wild ones. But they help us connect to and care about them as a species. Then we care what happens to the wild ones also.
Another handy tip: I always forget to take out the liquids and gels bag from my carry on. They have never said anything about it. Last time I flew, I didn't forget. . . I just didn't bother.
No, they are not similar. The Euro and the Dollar are backed by the countries that use it - the people, the industries, the services. Something that goldbugs fail to realize.
And Rome backed it's currency back in the day also. Any government can collapse. And no democracy has ever lasted as long as the US has before. So it could be just a matter of time.
Monopoly money and Pokeman cards can be used to play the games they came from, so they have value on their own.
Bitcoin has absolutely no use other than as a fiat currency.
The fact that they took bitcoins in the first place puts serious doubts into my mind about the understanding of technology at the EFF. Typically its clear they have a clue, however this is one of those moves that makes you wonder. Well not this one, this one makes sense. It was the accepting them in the first place part that boggles my mind.
It's kind of like buying and selling stock. The only reason it has value, is because someone else is willing to buy it from you. The stock market makes no sense. The money you put into the stock does not go to that company in any way. It's like Monopoly money in that it is only usefull while playing that game.
Like MSIE in Windows, they won't work without these extras installed.
I agree that it's out of hand and does not respect people (their customers) but since "everyone" is doing it, there is no escaping it. They need to be afraid of doing these things but they are not. In fact, they are actively encouraged to do it.
Actually they use it as a selling point. I remember seeing a commercial for onStar that was touting the fact that it can listen in on you all the time as a feature that is a good thing. Plus, they have used it to catch drug dealers in conversation by turning on the microphone and listening in.
2. A massive conspiracy in which congressmen and women and their staff do nothing but play videogames
I wish; then they wouldn't have time to write up multi-thousand page laws to shove on us.
Ha ha ha ha! You actually thought that the congress-people write those multi-thousand page laws! Those are written by the lobyists. The congress-people just vote on them without even reading them if the lobyist paid them enough money.
Ha ha ha ha! That's a good one. You had me going there for a minute!
For that matter, do we really need another round of people who don't like company X attacking company X for filing a patent on something they object to, pretending not to understand that tech companies never implement 90% of what they patent? Seriously, remember those articles about Apple patenting OS-level advertising that locked people out of their computers until they watched it? Seen any Macs or iOS devices doing that lately?
That certainly sounds like patents are promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts. I say use it or lose it. And then nobody else can patent it either, because it was already patented and expired. This would stop the actual patent trolls too.
How about a different hypothetical situation. One where I am driving home completely sober. I happen upon a DUI check point and the PIGS there are being their usual piggy selves. So I swipe one of their guns and blow them all away. Wouldn't there have been less death and destruction if I had checked the app and taken a different route home.
Developers expressed fears Microsoft might let their investment in skills "die on the vine"
Serves them right for getting in bed with the evil empire. How many times has Microsoft demonstrated the way they treat their partners? Plays for Sure, IBM - PS/2, and the list goes on.
I think you still don't get it... When my flashlight does dark, I can have light again in about 30 to 60 seconds because I have a pack of AA batteries waiting for it, or whatever other AA powered device runs out of juice. If it takes overnight to charge off my car, that kinda defeats the purpose of using a flashlight at night while backpack camping...
I have a rechargable flashlight with a few hundred lumens output. The packaging lists the charge as lasting 6 hours. After 6 hours, the light is still going strong for another 10 hours or so. It just is not at full brightness. It is still brighter than the 4-D cell Maglight I have though, so I don't thing the issues are raising are as big a deal as you make them out to be. I put the thing on charge every few months, after I notice it has been a while since I have charged it. Then I notice how bright it can actually output because you get used to the light level at the lower charge.
Fifteen to twenty year terms would be a more than adequate incentive for the creation of new works, as well as providing a huge catalogue of new public domain works every year which would, in turn, stimulate further creative re-use.
The reason that the industry does not want shorter lengths of copyright is that their back catalog would become competition for their new releases. There is plenty of old music that the rights holders don't even bother selling. I was listening to an independant movie maker that was trying to get the rights to use an old song and the amount of difficulty she had was rediculous. It seemed as if the rights holders were not interested in making money.
All the post-9/11 "freedom restriction acts" legislated by the US or enacted by executive order, these policies were made under provocation. They wouldn't exist if the terrorists left us alone.
This is false. It is quite well known that the laws (PATRIOT ACT) were written before the attack had occured. In fact, there was not even enough time for congress to write new bills after 9/11 before they passed them into law.
My concern is that the actions of these hackers will incite a response from governments around the world that will limit internet freedom for the rest of us...
With the breach in Lockheed, Google, and (maybe) a senator also happening this week. And with accusations this last week that the Chinese are out to get American secrets, high-profile hacks on major international companies, and the Pentagon declaring hacking an 'act of war', these series of events compressed into a short period of time will only create impetus for governments to crack down and create new laws that will restrict the internet.
I don't think it matters one bit. The people who run for government want more and more power. They will push for the laws you are afraid of for any reason they can find, or no reason at all. Perhaps these events will be their excuse. Or they will use another excuse at a later date. Whatever happens, they will find a way to pass the laws they want to put the citizens under an ever more present force of law!
If it is truly a violation of the law, I'm all for punishing them.
Just imagine what criminal charges would have been brought up on some individual person if they put rootkits onto as many computers as Sony did. They certainly got away with breaking the law there! If the justice system is so broken that it can no longer hold large corporations accountable for their actions, then the only recourse left is vigilante justice. I think we have more like this to look forward to in the future. The goverment is beholden to the corporation, so there is no one to look out for the people but the hackers. Just look what the US prosecutors did for Cisco recently.
unless its all in ONE chip, any hardware guy worth his salt could open a laptop (etc) and bypass this.
Would it really take a hardware hack to allow the camera to work. Couldn't you just blast a bunch of IR yourself into the room and jam their signal. It could either be a very strong continuous IR source, or possibly a random IR noise signal. I think it would be hard for the camera to read the shut down signal if it was getting a bunch of noise with it. This would allow everyone's camera to start working while not requiring you to modify your camera and loose the warranty.
These people just sound like unprepared idiots to me. They expected life with children to be like the advertisements in a magazine. My wife and I read several good books on what to expect, and have not had some huge expectation crash along with loss of happiness. In fact, we are now wondering why we didn't start sooner. Thanks for sharing, but listening to a couple of idiots talk about how stupid they are does not reflect how intelligent and prepared people deal with things.
the loose-knit, leaderless group is 'becoming more and more sophisticated.' and 'could potentially hack into sensitive government, military, and corporate files.
So the smart thing to do would be to tell them you are going to go after them. Isn't that what HBGary did before they were brought down. This does not look good for NATO.
Anytime someone says that, I think of the officers and soldier at the concentration camps. They were just doing their jobs also. You can justify anything by the need to pay the mortgage.
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If you have ever seen a pet Iguana, you would know that they are far smarter than the mice being fed to a snake. I knew someone who had one that knew words. He would tell it he was going to give it some strawberries and it would get excited and come over. If you didn't have any, it would get pissed off at you and turn it's back on you. It was pretty amzing.
This AC makes a good point. Look at how bad the factory farming has gotten in the way they treat animals. When people are familiar with where their meat comes from, they don't really want the animals to suffer or live in squallor. But when the meat comes in plastic wrap from the store, then who even knows that it used to be an animal.
I can see the same thing happening if people were not allowed to have animals anymore. Nobody would care about the wild animals, as they are just something to watch on some nature show. Animals would have even less meaning in people's lives and in the end they would suffer.
It is similar to the purpose of a zoo. The animals in the zoo may not have it as good as the wild ones. But they help us connect to and care about them as a species. Then we care what happens to the wild ones also.
Depending on the drugs you put into the rat, this could be really fun!
Animal activists say it will save small but important lives . .
. . unless you plan to eat it.
I love how the crazy people just make themselves look stupid! We don't even have to do anything!
Another handy tip: I always forget to take out the liquids and gels bag from my carry on. They have never said anything about it. Last time I flew, I didn't forget. . . I just didn't bother.
No, they are not similar. The Euro and the Dollar are backed by the countries that use it - the people, the industries, the services. Something that goldbugs fail to realize.
And Rome backed it's currency back in the day also. Any government can collapse. And no democracy has ever lasted as long as the US has before. So it could be just a matter of time.
Monopoly money and Pokeman cards can be used to play the games they came from, so they have value on their own.
Bitcoin has absolutely no use other than as a fiat currency.
The fact that they took bitcoins in the first place puts serious doubts into my mind about the understanding of technology at the EFF. Typically its clear they have a clue, however this is one of those moves that makes you wonder. Well not this one, this one makes sense. It was the accepting them in the first place part that boggles my mind.
It's kind of like buying and selling stock. The only reason it has value, is because someone else is willing to buy it from you. The stock market makes no sense. The money you put into the stock does not go to that company in any way. It's like Monopoly money in that it is only usefull while playing that game.
Like MSIE in Windows, they won't work without these extras installed.
I agree that it's out of hand and does not respect people (their customers) but since "everyone" is doing it, there is no escaping it. They need to be afraid of doing these things but they are not. In fact, they are actively encouraged to do it.
Actually they use it as a selling point. I remember seeing a commercial for onStar that was touting the fact that it can listen in on you all the time as a feature that is a good thing. Plus, they have used it to catch drug dealers in conversation by turning on the microphone and listening in.
2. A massive conspiracy in which congressmen and women and their staff do nothing but play videogames
I wish; then they wouldn't have time to write up multi-thousand page laws to shove on us.
Ha ha ha ha! You actually thought that the congress-people write those multi-thousand page laws! Those are written by the lobyists. The congress-people just vote on them without even reading them if the lobyist paid them enough money.
Ha ha ha ha! That's a good one. You had me going there for a minute!
For that matter, do we really need another round of people who don't like company X attacking company X for filing a patent on something they object to, pretending not to understand that tech companies never implement 90% of what they patent? Seriously, remember those articles about Apple patenting OS-level advertising that locked people out of their computers until they watched it? Seen any Macs or iOS devices doing that lately?
That certainly sounds like patents are promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts. I say use it or lose it. And then nobody else can patent it either, because it was already patented and expired. This would stop the actual patent trolls too.
How about a different hypothetical situation. One where I am driving home completely sober. I happen upon a DUI check point and the PIGS there are being their usual piggy selves. So I swipe one of their guns and blow them all away. Wouldn't there have been less death and destruction if I had checked the app and taken a different route home.
These hypothetical situation stories are fun!
Developers expressed fears Microsoft might let their investment in skills "die on the vine"
Serves them right for getting in bed with the evil empire. How many times has Microsoft demonstrated the way they treat their partners? Plays for Sure, IBM - PS/2, and the list goes on.
But that only occurs if you open up the closed system.
What? An earthquake can't open up the closed system of a pubble bed reactor?
You would have been Rick-Rolled. You escaped narrowly thanks to Youtubes country restrictions.
I think you still don't get it... When my flashlight does dark, I can have light again in about 30 to 60 seconds because I have a pack of AA batteries waiting for it, or whatever other AA powered device runs out of juice. If it takes overnight to charge off my car, that kinda defeats the purpose of using a flashlight at night while backpack camping...
I have a rechargable flashlight with a few hundred lumens output. The packaging lists the charge as lasting 6 hours. After 6 hours, the light is still going strong for another 10 hours or so. It just is not at full brightness. It is still brighter than the 4-D cell Maglight I have though, so I don't thing the issues are raising are as big a deal as you make them out to be. I put the thing on charge every few months, after I notice it has been a while since I have charged it. Then I notice how bright it can actually output because you get used to the light level at the lower charge.
Fifteen to twenty year terms would be a more than adequate incentive for the creation of new works, as well as providing a huge catalogue of new public domain works every year which would, in turn, stimulate further creative re-use.
The reason that the industry does not want shorter lengths of copyright is that their back catalog would become competition for their new releases. There is plenty of old music that the rights holders don't even bother selling. I was listening to an independant movie maker that was trying to get the rights to use an old song and the amount of difficulty she had was rediculous. It seemed as if the rights holders were not interested in making money.
I have made edits to Wikipedia without them being reverted. I think it would depend on what you are editing.
All the post-9/11 "freedom restriction acts" legislated by the US or enacted by executive order, these policies were made under provocation. They wouldn't exist if the terrorists left us alone.
This is false. It is quite well known that the laws (PATRIOT ACT) were written before the attack had occured. In fact, there was not even enough time for congress to write new bills after 9/11 before they passed them into law.
My concern is that the actions of these hackers will incite a response from governments around the world that will limit internet freedom for the rest of us...
With the breach in Lockheed, Google, and (maybe) a senator also happening this week. And with accusations this last week that the Chinese are out to get American secrets, high-profile hacks on major international companies, and the Pentagon declaring hacking an 'act of war', these series of events compressed into a short period of time will only create impetus for governments to crack down and create new laws that will restrict the internet.
I don't think it matters one bit. The people who run for government want more and more power. They will push for the laws you are afraid of for any reason they can find, or no reason at all. Perhaps these events will be their excuse. Or they will use another excuse at a later date. Whatever happens, they will find a way to pass the laws they want to put the citizens under an ever more present force of law!
If it is truly a violation of the law, I'm all for punishing them.
Just imagine what criminal charges would have been brought up on some individual person if they put rootkits onto as many computers as Sony did. They certainly got away with breaking the law there! If the justice system is so broken that it can no longer hold large corporations accountable for their actions, then the only recourse left is vigilante justice. I think we have more like this to look forward to in the future. The goverment is beholden to the corporation, so there is no one to look out for the people but the hackers. Just look what the US prosecutors did for Cisco recently.
unless its all in ONE chip, any hardware guy worth his salt could open a laptop (etc) and bypass this.
Would it really take a hardware hack to allow the camera to work. Couldn't you just blast a bunch of IR yourself into the room and jam their signal. It could either be a very strong continuous IR source, or possibly a random IR noise signal. I think it would be hard for the camera to read the shut down signal if it was getting a bunch of noise with it. This would allow everyone's camera to start working while not requiring you to modify your camera and loose the warranty.
These people just sound like unprepared idiots to me. They expected life with children to be like the advertisements in a magazine. My wife and I read several good books on what to expect, and have not had some huge expectation crash along with loss of happiness. In fact, we are now wondering why we didn't start sooner. Thanks for sharing, but listening to a couple of idiots talk about how stupid they are does not reflect how intelligent and prepared people deal with things.
the loose-knit, leaderless group is 'becoming more and more sophisticated.' and 'could potentially hack into sensitive government, military, and corporate files.
So the smart thing to do would be to tell them you are going to go after them. Isn't that what HBGary did before they were brought down. This does not look good for NATO.
Painless and self-renewing (or maybe reprogrammable!) nano-tattoos coming soon to flesh near you?
It's certainly been a staple of cyberpunk.
It's already here. Think geek has a wand that changes an e-Ink tatoo to a new picture.
They're just doing their jobs.
Anytime someone says that, I think of the officers and soldier at the concentration camps. They were just doing their jobs also. You can justify anything by the need to pay the mortgage.