lol, yeah I got that it was a metaphor. So Alice sending the magic envelope with carbon paper in it to the bank was pointless? Why did he include all that junk about the envelope and the invisible ink then?
As scary as it is for cops to be arresting people for 'net activities it's nice to see that little SOBs like him are getting there just desserts. Unfortunately it seems that the only time anyone gets penalized for spamming is when someone tries to use it to extort money from a corp. No one in the government gives a rat's ass if mine and every other human citizen's inbox gets flooded with porn ads. FBI HQ: "What? Myspace is getting attacked?? Call Gitmo and see if they have room!"
Could someone explain to me how you implement carbon paper, "magic envelopes" and invisible ink inside of a computer? seriously...
Also, it seems like you could come up with an algorithm to make password guesses based upon the numbers that were returned...trying different values that add up to zero. Or would this take too long?
I have nothing but respect for these courageous people - understand that before you flame. However I feel obliged to point out that sadly they are not exactly putting their lives on the line for their country. Iraqi soldiers and policemen are putting their lives on the line for their country - and frankly so are the "insurgents".
You bring up a good point, the phone rates for insurgents are HORRIBLE! What can we do for these guys?
1. Company decides to rob people on the street to make money
2. Employees of company get arrested
3. Company needs money to bail them out
4. Company raises prices
5. Regular people pay higher prices to company
By your logic a company can do anything it wants to.
What difference does it make if someone is responsible or not? STDs and computer viruses, for whatever reason, are an unavoidable fact of life. You're thinking about computers is if they're a hammer that was made with a crack in it, "just make it right the next time." That's thinking about it wrong-- there's no such thing as a secure computer.
yeah, I've heard of PBMRs before actually. =) But for any country, especially china to be petroleum independent before serious oil shortages start just isn't believable...how will their massive fleet of internal combustion engine powered vehicles be powered by nuclear? from what I hear there's been quite an explosion in automobile ownership in china. where will they get the money for fuel cell or other wise powered electric vehicles? And all this talk about PBMRs is great, but countrys like china that have little concern for their own citizens will deploy traditional nuclear for quite awhile. also, no one really knows how much petroleum is left in the world...what you said is not a fact, it's a hunch. The oil crunch when it does occur won't come on nearly so quickly as you would like to think...it's not like we're going to wake up one morning and there won't be any gasoline at the pumps. There'll be time to adjust.
As far as declining birth rates for people of european descent go you're looking 500 years in the past. Birth rate has nothing to do with whether a civilization or race is dominant or not. China's massive population is a LIABILITY, not an asset. They know that, that's why they do so much to try to bring their birth rate down. Technology, specifically military technology, is what is important and europeans are still dominate in that arena. Space is the key to military dominance of Earth and the US and the Europeans are ahead of everyone else. Currently our hands are tied by nuclear weapons being too horrific to use and the whole MAD thing, but once the next generation of super weapons is created, by us, we will have once again engraved our name in history as the dominate race. The decline in the importance of reproduction to whites is just the beginning of the end of humanity, the next step in evolution, as we know it...reproduction decreases, life span's increase, biology is replaced by technology. most non-whites(and quite a few whites) will end up like the neanderthal.
When I asked my formerly chinese, now american, land lady what the chinese really thought about whites she said that they say publicly that they're the best but deep down they view us as superior. I'm kind of doubtful that a nation with a deep inferiority complex is going to dominate anything. that and the fact that europeans are the superior race...we're slumming it right now buying a lot of tvs and crap that we don't need but just watch what happens if china trys to break out of it's east asian box. A few thousand dead american GIs aside, we control the middle east...guess who's going to be buying oil from us in 30 years?
yeah, the technology is old technology, but the _operational experience_ that the chinese are gaining is going to be something that they can offer to other nations...even the US.
The world IS a dark place. This stuff is happening all the time and it's going to keep happening, except so far it's been more economically efficient for terrorists to do things in more low tech ways. Your analysis of the terrorist psyche, if there ever could be such a thing, is pretty much wrong. Terrorists tend to be more educated than the average person and come from affluent families. Bin Laden, the arch-terrorist, is a perfect example, educated and extremely rich. Congress did a report on it in 1999 where they came to this conclusion. There are exceptions of course, tamil tiger child suicide bombers aren't educated or rich, for example but hardly anyone in sri lanka is. Your judgement of terrorists as narrow minded because they don't "find something more enjoyable to do" is tautological and thusly contains 0 information. The congressional report on who becomes a terrorist found that terrorists, on the whole, are sane and thus respond to conditions in the real world. Sane people don't knowingly sacrifice their lives unless they feel they have no other choice. Perhaps this guy should "just get over it." OR he could try to get into place a federal government whose foreign policy(economic and martial) wouldn't encourage people to commit terrorist acts.
More important than all this is that there is so much counter-terrorism work going on behind the scenes that we never hear about. We're not going to hear about failed assasination attempts on presidents unless it's completely impossible for it to be covered up. They don't want to encourage copy cats. You shouldn't assume something isn't happening just because you don't know about it.
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don't be retarded.
right, if it's good for them it's probably bad for us.
fuck him
The only problem is: where do we get actors that don't look like dorks?
lol, yeah I got that it was a metaphor. So Alice sending the magic envelope with carbon paper in it to the bank was pointless? Why did he include all that junk about the envelope and the invisible ink then?
As scary as it is for cops to be arresting people for 'net activities it's nice to see that little SOBs like him are getting there just desserts. Unfortunately it seems that the only time anyone gets penalized for spamming is when someone tries to use it to extort money from a corp. No one in the government gives a rat's ass if mine and every other human citizen's inbox gets flooded with porn ads. FBI HQ: "What? Myspace is getting attacked?? Call Gitmo and see if they have room!"
Could someone explain to me how you implement carbon paper, "magic envelopes" and invisible ink inside of a computer? seriously...
Also, it seems like you could come up with an algorithm to make password guesses based upon the numbers that were returned...trying different values that add up to zero. Or would this take too long?
damn imperialist humans...
You bring up a good point, the phone rates for insurgents are HORRIBLE! What can we do for these guys?
Why don't you stop killing iraqi baby's? Get the hell out of those people's country then you can make all the calls you want.
1. Company decides to rob people on the street to make money 2. Employees of company get arrested 3. Company needs money to bail them out 4. Company raises prices 5. Regular people pay higher prices to company By your logic a company can do anything it wants to.
So what are you saying? No company should ever be held liable for making defective products or causing any other kind of harm?
What difference does it make if someone is responsible or not? STDs and computer viruses, for whatever reason, are an unavoidable fact of life. You're thinking about computers is if they're a hammer that was made with a crack in it, "just make it right the next time." That's thinking about it wrong-- there's no such thing as a secure computer.
yeah, and wearing condoms sucks, but that's the kind of world we live in.
"First they came for the dead, and I did not speak out because I wasn't dead..."
yeah, I've heard of PBMRs before actually. =) But for any country, especially china to be petroleum independent before serious oil shortages start just isn't believable...how will their massive fleet of internal combustion engine powered vehicles be powered by nuclear? from what I hear there's been quite an explosion in automobile ownership in china. where will they get the money for fuel cell or other wise powered electric vehicles? And all this talk about PBMRs is great, but countrys like china that have little concern for their own citizens will deploy traditional nuclear for quite awhile. also, no one really knows how much petroleum is left in the world...what you said is not a fact, it's a hunch. The oil crunch when it does occur won't come on nearly so quickly as you would like to think...it's not like we're going to wake up one morning and there won't be any gasoline at the pumps. There'll be time to adjust.
As far as declining birth rates for people of european descent go you're looking 500 years in the past. Birth rate has nothing to do with whether a civilization or race is dominant or not. China's massive population is a LIABILITY, not an asset. They know that, that's why they do so much to try to bring their birth rate down. Technology, specifically military technology, is what is important and europeans are still dominate in that arena. Space is the key to military dominance of Earth and the US and the Europeans are ahead of everyone else. Currently our hands are tied by nuclear weapons being too horrific to use and the whole MAD thing, but once the next generation of super weapons is created, by us, we will have once again engraved our name in history as the dominate race. The decline in the importance of reproduction to whites is just the beginning of the end of humanity, the next step in evolution, as we know it...reproduction decreases, life span's increase, biology is replaced by technology. most non-whites(and quite a few whites) will end up like the neanderthal.
that's what I was going to say, but you only got a 1, so I'm glad I didn't...
ahh yes, the old "first line is free" technique employed by coke dealers on school children so sucessfully.
When I asked my formerly chinese, now american, land lady what the chinese really thought about whites she said that they say publicly that they're the best but deep down they view us as superior. I'm kind of doubtful that a nation with a deep inferiority complex is going to dominate anything. that and the fact that europeans are the superior race...we're slumming it right now buying a lot of tvs and crap that we don't need but just watch what happens if china trys to break out of it's east asian box. A few thousand dead american GIs aside, we control the middle east...guess who's going to be buying oil from us in 30 years?
Just cause our government has some treaties with a government which it installed them doesn't mean that we trust 'em.
And for the record, we don't like you LIMEYS either. Still pissed about Washington DC getting burned... and that tax on tea was BS as well.
yeah... but the chinese government doesn't value human life at all so it won't be a big deal for them if it does blow up.
yeah, the technology is old technology, but the _operational experience_ that the chinese are gaining is going to be something that they can offer to other nations...even the US.
sorry, try a different planet.
if someone date raped a CORPORATION then they would get 5 years.
The world IS a dark place. This stuff is happening all the time and it's going to keep happening, except so far it's been more economically efficient for terrorists to do things in more low tech ways. Your analysis of the terrorist psyche, if there ever could be such a thing, is pretty much wrong. Terrorists tend to be more educated than the average person and come from affluent families. Bin Laden, the arch-terrorist, is a perfect example, educated and extremely rich. Congress did a report on it in 1999 where they came to this conclusion. There are exceptions of course, tamil tiger child suicide bombers aren't educated or rich, for example but hardly anyone in sri lanka is. Your judgement of terrorists as narrow minded because they don't "find something more enjoyable to do" is tautological and thusly contains 0 information. The congressional report on who becomes a terrorist found that terrorists, on the whole, are sane and thus respond to conditions in the real world. Sane people don't knowingly sacrifice their lives unless they feel they have no other choice. Perhaps this guy should "just get over it." OR he could try to get into place a federal government whose foreign policy(economic and martial) wouldn't encourage people to commit terrorist acts.
More important than all this is that there is so much counter-terrorism work going on behind the scenes that we never hear about. We're not going to hear about failed assasination attempts on presidents unless it's completely impossible for it to be covered up. They don't want to encourage copy cats. You shouldn't assume something isn't happening just because you don't know about it.