"she told the grand jury that Swartz had co-authored a blog post advocating for open data (the Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto), which prosecutors latched onto and spun into evidence that the technologist had 'malicious intent in downloading documents on a massive scale.'"
What's next? If they find that someone wrote somewhere that he didn't like the look of the WTC building, it will be used as evidence that he was involved in the 9/11 attack?
The point is, if they want to get you then they'll find something on you. If you're a saint, a team of informants can change that.
Aaron was furious. He told me not to meet Steve. But no one, including Aaron, would tell me why. No one would tell me even how to get out of it. And still I had an unshakable belief that if I could just somehow explain all this it would go away. I delayed once, too sick to go. My lawyers told me Steve was furious at my medical delay. I might be arrested. I told Aaron, and others, that I wanted to talk to Steve human to human.
Never talking is not necessarily practical. But the problem is not recognizing that once something progresses to a certain point a "human to human" talk is never ever ever going to stop an investigation or prosecution. They were way past that point. That is where they get you: when you believe a human tale will persuade while they are looking for mis-steps that will hang you and all your friends.
The prosecution only hesitates when sources of evidence completely dry up. Talking encourages the prosecution.
These lawyers were giving ineffective counsel, even though they were probably thinking that they could get her immunity for her cooperation and testimony.
Not your friend, your family, people you've known all your life. There will be no one you can trust because anyone can be pressured to turn against you with enough threats against them. To trust anyone would put them in greater risk of being pressured and being destroyed too.
No UI changes. The UI is perfect as it is. It still is very sluggish and could benefit from performance tweaks. It still has security issues all over the place. It still is buggy. But for the most part its now the main interface to Linux and that comes with a certain level of responsibility.
Make the most stable KDE possible. Follow the Mozilla model. Release often.
How has is helped? We are closer to government collapse. Then we can reset and try again. We are The Great Experiment, so maybe the experiment didn't go as well as it could have.
Do you understand what government collapse is? It's martial law. It means all the people who supported Wikileaks will be rounded up at gunpoint as terrorists because the Civilized government will have collapsed. It means military dictatorship. That is what happens in all the other countries where the government has collapsed.
It probably is a hoax. Honestly I don't think they would brag about doing that even if they did. That being said, it would be hard to criticize them if they did because the US government is harassing them.
And let me say it's not the entire US government either. It's a faction of the US government that has lobbyists for certain corporations telling it to act that way.
NK is brutal. The problem is the US is brutal as well. Maybe if a country which actually didn't have the most prisoners in the world were to comment people wouldn't view it as a joke. It's clear the US government is not serious about human rights. Do we care about the rights of our prisoners?
I do think that American citizens care abut human rights but the lawmakers aren't voting that way. They won't even end the brutal war on drugs and outlaw for profit prisons. How can I take them seriously when they are building the worst prison state in the history of mankind. A prison state which will allow rich people to own shares in the prison camps. Laws which will arrest people on any charge they need to, in order to meet some quota so the prisons can profit.
I don't see how it's any worse or any better than what NK does. NK uses less humane methods, but the result and plan seems to be the same. Both nations have a prison industry. If the US has a prison industry it cannot speak on prisons. Outlaw for profit prisons and then you can speak on it.
How many people does the US government have in secret prisons or black sites? How many secret prisons or black sites exist? How many terrorists are in prison? How many illegal immigrants are in prisons? Find those statistics.
I am anti-US in a lot of ways (corporatism, a culture of violence, religious extremism...), but even when I choose to be a bit dishonest in order to win an argument, there are some comparison that are so absurd that I would never dare to make them, even when talking to someone really, really stupid.
Comparing North Korea with the US about human rights? Seriously?
But we know how many people are in US prisons. The US has more prisoners than any other nation. We know the US has used black sites, has used water torture, has done experiments on people without their knowledge, has used secret prisons.
Why should I trust either country? They both abuse human rights and the only difference is the US government is better at covering it up. Why don't we have information on the terrorists locked in these so called secret prisons? Even if secret prisons are needed why hasn't the UN been able to investigate? Why these kinds of secrets?
Also the war on drugs destroyed peoples lives, destroyed families, and continues to do so. I could point out Americans who have been destroyed. Yet you're believing what the US government says about North Korea, a country you've never probably been to. I'm not saying NK isn't abusing human rights, I'm certain they are as abusive as any other government. I'm saying that governments in general abuse human rights and to try to pretend that the biggest most powerful government wouldn't be the best at it, why not? Who is going to police the US government?
I know, I just wanted to point out that the US has a higher incarceration rate than any other country. It is an important point to make.
The important point you make is the collateral damage potential with torture and possibly other innocent people being punsihed/killed.
Prison conditions outside of the US and Western Europe are pretty deplorable on the whole. North Korea is particularly bad, I wonder how they stack up against sub-Saharan African nations.
Doesn't the USA have secret prisons and black sites? Where are all those terrorists? Were any of them tortured? Why is the US government keeping all these secrets?
I think we cannot really judge the human rights record of the USA until we know certain facts the the US government deliberately covers up. And just because the US government is better at covering abuses up it doesn't mean less people are abused.
And what's the difference between two prisoners, say a North Korean (NK) political prisoner and a US marijuana user.
It's unlikely that the US marijuana user in prison will be tortured and his family killed, plus he'll probably be in for a few moonths rather than decades. But apart from that they're exactly the same.
I find the whole war on drugs thing stupid, and am no great lover of US foreign policy, but the US really isn't in the same league as North Korea.
So if the US prisoner is in prison on a terrorism charge is it still unlikely? Terrorists have no rights.
Regarding outsourcing Flash development to a prison camp...
In the US we use prison camp labor for license plates, road work, and other manual labor (sometimes skilled labor). And prison isn't supposed to be a nice place. And what's the difference between two prisoners, say a North Korean (NK) political prisoner and a US marijuana user. Conditions and treatment are the differences, both are in prison (and unfairly in my opinion).
US prisons look at their prisoners as a profit source. An obvious conclusion to that is that other countries will follow suit. Shoot, in the US we get China-priced labor from at least a couple of million people in prison.
I'm not saying that NK prisons are as nice as US prisons, but neither are those in South/Central America (or Africa, or Eastern Europe). I'm also not saying that justice is served 100% of the time by incarcerating people (anywhere in the world). The US doesn't lead the world in per-capita prison rates by accident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Anyway, the US bitching about North Korea's political prisoners is the Pot calling the Kettle Black given our War on Drugs. We started the modern prison state, and we're still the best at it...
Exactly my point. People need to learn to separate the truth from politics and propaganda even when it's coming from the US government. Our prison system is among the worst in the world. We have more prisoners with stripped rights than any other country, even more than China. Our laws are doing this, and our prisons make people rich. So basically it's slave labor in the USA as well but I guess if you're a criminal thats okay? Well maybe the prisoners in NK are labeled terrorist or criminal or something else and to them it's okay for the same reason it's okay to our people. It's wrong for both countries or right for both countries but you can't say it's wrong for NK but okay for the US.
They had to close the consulate in Australia once because they couldn't afford to run it anymore.
50k might be peanuts to you but it would is cold hard cash.
NK has been trying to sell IT services for a while now. You can outsource pretty much anything there, if you can stomach it.
From NK's point of view, this might NOT be about 50k, it might be about the millions/billions the RIAA claims are made by copyright infringement that they want a slice off. The UN gave one small island group the rights to hurt the US by giving them permission to violate US copyright law... NK could hardly get in more trouble for doing the same AND thinking they are going to get payed for it.
Plus their leaders are just batshit crazy, the previous guys had an unknown number of people abducted (from outside NK), including relatively famous ones because he wanted them to work for him. There is no career in NK telling the leader his idea is silly.
One of the most shocking things I saw was years ago when people were actually shopping outsourcing and when you asked where it was outsourced they said Korea, which I found odd because Korea's standard of living is rather high and they also need every tech person they can get for themselves... and then I remembered there were two korea's. I was actually sitting in a presentation with someone trying to persuade us that outsourcing flash game production to a prison camp was a good idea.
It would be like going back in time and witness a powerpoint slide by the nazi's (you can see the link) about the cheap labor to be had in their polish facilities. I have lived a sheltered life really like most western people. But that day I saw true evil. Someone bought a truckload of gold teeth and did not ask questions and someone sends emails with work instructions to NK and does not ask questions.
TPB is making a gigantic mistake. Once again, the enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend. But the friend of my enemy is most assuredly my enemy.
The enemy of your enemy is your friend. That is true regardless of politics. The USA hates the Pirate Bay and hates North Korea. At this point it's even irrational in nature and it's entirely political. The Pirate Bay has no reason not to work with North Korea if anyone they work with who isn't North Korea will be pressured by the USA and will turn on them. It's probably just a publicity stunt but even if it isn't, it's not a lot of money going to the NK government. I think the majority of responses here on the matter are also political and seem scripted directly from the US government.
Human rights abuses? So where are you people when US prisoners are abused or when for profit prisons are set up in the US to abuse human rights? Those aren't called "camps" but they function as for profit "camps".
TPB as operating expenses of ~$100,000. If half of that went to a single bandwidth provider, NK would have enough money to cover 1 middle-class contractor at an embassy.
The money coming in from TPB will have exactly zero impact on Kim Jong-un's capacity to violate human rights.
So we don't even know him well enough to know if he will be as bad as his father.
As far as violating human rights, all governments do that. The US government does that. So the Pirate Bay should not work with US companies because of politics?
Here is the problem, what would it take to get the USA and North Koreans to have actual diplomacy? Apparently diplomacy is impossible because North Korea has a disgusting record of human rights abuses? If that is the case then it's only going to end in war.
Without doubt, North Korea will take some remuneration from the Pirate Bay, which makes the Pirate Bay give money and credibility to a country with a population living in fear and hunger, and strengthening a regime that operates concentration camps.
This shows that they either have not thought this through, or they have no stance on human rights (i.e. they show they just want to download illegal stuff, not increase freedom of individuals). I hope this is a joke or will be retracted.
The US has millions of prisoners, some in for profit prisons. The USA is in no position to speak on prisons any other country has when we have even more prisoners.
Human rights abuses are no joke, but I know what you're doing is playing politics. Piratebay is also playing politics. You two belong together.
I leave Slashdot open almost always, but I tend to read it upon waking up or during breaks from what I have to do. Sometimes its a good idea NOT to focus on stress of work.
The secret is you gotta take enough breaks so that you don't get stressed. If you try working without breaks you'll day dream and wont get any work done. Every 30-45 minutes you gotta take a break for an hour. After an hour you'll be able to spend another 30-45 minutes. That's how I do programming or any task which requires intense focus. I don't think it's possible to intensely focus for longer than an hour at a time on most days. There are exceptional days when I'm just in the zone hyper focused for 4-8 hours straight or even all through the day and all night but that isn't necessarily healthy because you end up with insomnia.
The secret to working well is knowing when to take breaks. You're going to need time for Slashdot, time for entertainment, time for research or whatever else it is that you do online. You have to factor that in and when you take breaks from work you do that other stuff. You work for as long as you can, you take a break when you can depending on how much progress you make. You set goals, start with short simple goals that you know you can meet and don't worry about deadlines at first, and then when you get good at what you do then add deadlines internally. Such as complete task X by the end of the day. Complete task Y by the end of the week.
Keep a to-do list. Learn to multitask. I have ADHD so I know what it's like, but I don't let ADHD become my excuse for not getting the job done and completing my goals.
he press has already been so grossly compromised by corporate influence that it's "critical watchdog function" isn't currently all that functional anyway
Yup. And that's why organizations like Wikileaks and technology like encryption and Tor are so critical. They've taken over that function. Actually they're even better for that function because there much less likely to be influenced by political pressure of any kind.
Technology like WIkileaks and Tor will only create political pressure to further militarize the internet. Wikileaks and Tor will be viewed as weapons in an arms race and other nations will develop their own.
Did you read the link? Making them paranoid is part of the point. And I didn't say that it does in the first place: the guy I replied to gave a list of results, apparently meaning that they are bad results, and I just said that these would be exactly what Assange wanted according to the linked essay.
And I disagree with the strategy. Making them paranoid will result in a backlash where they will remove all our human rights and privacy in the name of national security. Everyone will be treated like a terrorists. Obama now has the ability to kill American citizens as a result of making governments paranoid. How has it helped at all?
No measureable change that has been acknowledged publicly. A lot of government organizations have tightened their grip, though. New security policies, programs that allow and encourage coworkers to report potential security risks, more thorough background checks and monitoring of access to data just to name a few.
So how exactly does Cablegate do anything but make governments paranoid and more suspicious of us? The other problem is Bradley Manning claims the documents were somehow sanitized before submission but how is it technically possible? I know technology well enough to know that isn't possible for one person to do. It's also not possible to do on an unsecured machine so unless he did it himself while somehow still on the government computer I just don't believe it. Is there some process to automatically redact or sanitize information built into the government computer because I cannot make sense of that.
What happened in the Arab spring isn't a direct result of Cablegate. Bradley Manning wasn't a part of that and to try to make Julian Assange into a general of some sort is not completely honest either.
Anonymous may have been a part of that but what does that have to do with this case? I'm not sure if Bradley Manning's statement is true or false. Claims that the documents were sanitized before they were submit to Wikileaks? How do you sanitize that many documents all by yourself? How would he even have gone about doing that without risk of the documents falling into enemy possession?
You're right Manning should be punished and the fact that he pleaded guilty means he recognizes that he should be punished.
Are you really that naive?
He could have fought it. His case was fairly strong as they didn't have the best proof he did all that. The logs wouldn't really make the best evidence.
That said I think he wanted to get caught and be punished. That is why he turned himself in to Adrian Lamo. Unless he was that naive and if he was naive enough to think like that then yeah I do think he's naive enough to continue being that naive.
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"she told the grand jury that Swartz had co-authored a blog post advocating for open data (the Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto), which prosecutors latched onto and spun into evidence that the technologist had 'malicious intent in downloading documents on a massive scale.'"
What's next? If they find that someone wrote somewhere that he didn't like the look of the WTC building, it will be used as evidence that he was involved in the 9/11 attack?
The point is, if they want to get you then they'll find something on you. If you're a saint, a team of informants can change that.
Aaron was furious. He told me not to meet Steve. But no one, including Aaron, would tell me why. No one would tell me even how to get out of it. And still I had an unshakable belief that if I could just somehow explain all this it would go away. I delayed once, too sick to go. My lawyers told me Steve was furious at my medical delay. I might be arrested. I told Aaron, and others, that I wanted to talk to Steve human to human.
Never talking is not necessarily practical. But the problem is not recognizing that once something progresses to a certain point a "human to human" talk is never ever ever going to stop an investigation or prosecution. They were way past that point. That is where they get you: when you believe a human tale will persuade while they are looking for mis-steps that will hang you and all your friends.
The prosecution only hesitates when sources of evidence completely dry up. Talking encourages the prosecution.
These lawyers were giving ineffective counsel, even though they were probably thinking that they could get her immunity for her cooperation and testimony.
Talking to them on their terms is stupid.
Not your friend, your family, people you've known all your life. There will be no one you can trust because anyone can be pressured to turn against you with enough threats against them. To trust anyone would put them in greater risk of being pressured and being destroyed too.
No UI changes. The UI is perfect as it is. It still is very sluggish and could benefit from performance tweaks. It still has security issues all over the place. It still is buggy. But for the most part its now the main interface to Linux and that comes with a certain level of responsibility.
Make the most stable KDE possible. Follow the Mozilla model. Release often.
How has is helped? We are closer to government collapse. Then we can reset and try again. We are The Great Experiment, so maybe the experiment didn't go as well as it could have.
Do you understand what government collapse is? It's martial law. It means all the people who supported Wikileaks will be rounded up at gunpoint as terrorists because the Civilized government will have collapsed. It means military dictatorship. That is what happens in all the other countries where the government has collapsed.
We can guess about those as well, and the guesstimates are significantly lower.
What input are you using to form your estimate?
This is probably hoax
https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake
It probably is a hoax. Honestly I don't think they would brag about doing that even if they did.
That being said, it would be hard to criticize them if they did because the US government is harassing them.
And let me say it's not the entire US government either. It's a faction of the US government that has lobbyists for certain corporations telling it to act that way.
Maybe there's more rape in North Korean prisons?
More of everything.
Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag
North Korea is Dark
Japanese families fear that North Korea is still abducting
Care to take a holiday?
The world's worst cruise holiday?
Two resources that they will apparently never run short of:
Nitwits that take up their cause.
Soldiers and weapons
Food, on the other hand....
The Cannibals of North Korea
NK is brutal. The problem is the US is brutal as well. Maybe if a country which actually didn't have the most prisoners in the world were to comment people wouldn't view it as a joke. It's clear the US government is not serious about human rights. Do we care about the rights of our prisoners?
I do think that American citizens care abut human rights but the lawmakers aren't voting that way. They won't even end the brutal war on drugs and outlaw for profit prisons. How can I take them seriously when they are building the worst prison state in the history of mankind. A prison state which will allow rich people to own shares in the prison camps. Laws which will arrest people on any charge they need to, in order to meet some quota so the prisons can profit.
I don't see how it's any worse or any better than what NK does. NK uses less humane methods, but the result and plan seems to be the same. Both nations have a prison industry. If the US has a prison industry it cannot speak on prisons. Outlaw for profit prisons and then you can speak on it.
How many people does the US government have in secret prisons or black sites? How many secret prisons or black sites exist? How many terrorists are in prison? How many illegal immigrants are in prisons? Find those statistics.
I am anti-US in a lot of ways (corporatism, a culture of violence, religious extremism...), but even when I choose to be a bit dishonest in order to win an argument, there are some comparison that are so absurd that I would never dare to make them, even when talking to someone really, really stupid.
Comparing North Korea with the US about human rights? Seriously?
But we know how many people are in US prisons. The US has more prisoners than any other nation. We know the US has used black sites, has used water torture, has done experiments on people without their knowledge, has used secret prisons.
Why should I trust either country? They both abuse human rights and the only difference is the US government is better at covering it up. Why don't we have information on the terrorists locked in these so called secret prisons? Even if secret prisons are needed why hasn't the UN been able to investigate? Why these kinds of secrets?
Also the war on drugs destroyed peoples lives, destroyed families, and continues to do so. I could point out Americans who have been destroyed. Yet you're believing what the US government says about North Korea, a country you've never probably been to. I'm not saying NK isn't abusing human rights, I'm certain they are as abusive as any other government. I'm saying that governments in general abuse human rights and to try to pretend that the biggest most powerful government wouldn't be the best at it, why not? Who is going to police the US government?
I know, I just wanted to point out that the US has a higher incarceration rate than any other country. It is an important point to make.
The important point you make is the collateral damage potential with torture and possibly other innocent people being punsihed/killed.
Prison conditions outside of the US and Western Europe are pretty deplorable on the whole. North Korea is particularly bad, I wonder how they stack up against sub-Saharan African nations.
Doesn't the USA have secret prisons and black sites? Where are all those terrorists? Were any of them tortured? Why is the US government keeping all these secrets?
I think we cannot really judge the human rights record of the USA until we know certain facts the the US government deliberately covers up. And just because the US government is better at covering abuses up it doesn't mean less people are abused.
And what's the difference between two prisoners, say a North Korean (NK) political prisoner and a US marijuana user.
It's unlikely that the US marijuana user in prison will be tortured and his family killed, plus he'll probably be in for a few moonths rather than decades. But apart from that they're exactly the same.
I find the whole war on drugs thing stupid, and am no great lover of US foreign policy, but the US really isn't in the same league as North Korea.
So if the US prisoner is in prison on a terrorism charge is it still unlikely? Terrorists have no rights.
Regarding outsourcing Flash development to a prison camp...
In the US we use prison camp labor for license plates, road work, and other manual labor (sometimes skilled labor). And prison isn't supposed to be a nice place. And what's the difference between two prisoners, say a North Korean (NK) political prisoner and a US marijuana user. Conditions and treatment are the differences, both are in prison (and unfairly in my opinion).
US prisons look at their prisoners as a profit source. An obvious conclusion to that is that other countries will follow suit. Shoot, in the US we get China-priced labor from at least a couple of million people in prison.
I'm not saying that NK prisons are as nice as US prisons, but neither are those in South/Central America (or Africa, or Eastern Europe). I'm also not saying that justice is served 100% of the time by incarcerating people (anywhere in the world). The US doesn't lead the world in per-capita prison rates by accident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Anyway, the US bitching about North Korea's political prisoners is the Pot calling the Kettle Black given our War on Drugs. We started the modern prison state, and we're still the best at it...
Exactly my point. People need to learn to separate the truth from politics and propaganda even when it's coming from the US government. Our prison system is among the worst in the world. We have more prisoners with stripped rights than any other country, even more than China. Our laws are doing this, and our prisons make people rich. So basically it's slave labor in the USA as well but I guess if you're a criminal thats okay? Well maybe the prisoners in NK are labeled terrorist or criminal or something else and to them it's okay for the same reason it's okay to our people. It's wrong for both countries or right for both countries but you can't say it's wrong for NK but okay for the US.
They had to close the consulate in Australia once because they couldn't afford to run it anymore.
50k might be peanuts to you but it would is cold hard cash.
NK has been trying to sell IT services for a while now. You can outsource pretty much anything there, if you can stomach it.
From NK's point of view, this might NOT be about 50k, it might be about the millions/billions the RIAA claims are made by copyright infringement that they want a slice off. The UN gave one small island group the rights to hurt the US by giving them permission to violate US copyright law... NK could hardly get in more trouble for doing the same AND thinking they are going to get payed for it.
Plus their leaders are just batshit crazy, the previous guys had an unknown number of people abducted (from outside NK), including relatively famous ones because he wanted them to work for him. There is no career in NK telling the leader his idea is silly.
One of the most shocking things I saw was years ago when people were actually shopping outsourcing and when you asked where it was outsourced they said Korea, which I found odd because Korea's standard of living is rather high and they also need every tech person they can get for themselves... and then I remembered there were two korea's. I was actually sitting in a presentation with someone trying to persuade us that outsourcing flash game production to a prison camp was a good idea.
It would be like going back in time and witness a powerpoint slide by the nazi's (you can see the link) about the cheap labor to be had in their polish facilities. I have lived a sheltered life really like most western people. But that day I saw true evil. Someone bought a truckload of gold teeth and did not ask questions and someone sends emails with work instructions to NK and does not ask questions.
TPB is making a gigantic mistake. Once again, the enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend. But the friend of my enemy is most assuredly my enemy.
The enemy of your enemy is your friend. That is true regardless of politics. The USA hates the Pirate Bay and hates North Korea. At this point it's even irrational in nature and it's entirely political. The Pirate Bay has no reason not to work with North Korea if anyone they work with who isn't North Korea will be pressured by the USA and will turn on them. It's probably just a publicity stunt but even if it isn't, it's not a lot of money going to the NK government. I think the majority of responses here on the matter are also political and seem scripted directly from the US government.
Human rights abuses? So where are you people when US prisoners are abused or when for profit prisons are set up in the US to abuse human rights? Those aren't called "camps" but they function as for profit "camps".
TPB as operating expenses of ~$100,000. If half of that went to a single bandwidth provider, NK would have enough money to cover 1 middle-class contractor at an embassy.
The money coming in from TPB will have exactly zero impact on Kim Jong-un's capacity to violate human rights.
So we don't even know him well enough to know if he will be as bad as his father.
As far as violating human rights, all governments do that. The US government does that. So the Pirate Bay should not work with US companies because of politics?
Here is the problem, what would it take to get the USA and North Koreans to have actual diplomacy? Apparently diplomacy is impossible because North Korea has a disgusting record of human rights abuses? If that is the case then it's only going to end in war.
Yes. This. They have exactly zero chance of affecting change in DPRK, but Korean Government will get some hard currency to work with.
North Korea isn't exactly the best choice politically but the Pirate Bay is being persecuted for political reasons. What do you expect?
Without doubt, North Korea will take some remuneration from the Pirate Bay, which makes the Pirate Bay give money and credibility to a country with a population living in fear and hunger, and strengthening a regime that operates concentration camps.
This shows that they either have not thought this through, or they have no stance on human rights (i.e. they show they just want to download illegal stuff, not increase freedom of individuals). I hope this is a joke or will be retracted.
The US has millions of prisoners, some in for profit prisons. The USA is in no position to speak on prisons any other country has when we have even more prisoners.
Human rights abuses are no joke, but I know what you're doing is playing politics. Piratebay is also playing politics. You two belong together.
Not how much time you spend working but how many goals or tasks you get done.
I leave Slashdot open almost always, but I tend to read it upon waking up or during breaks from what I have to do. Sometimes its a good idea NOT to focus on stress of work.
The secret is you gotta take enough breaks so that you don't get stressed. If you try working without breaks you'll day dream and wont get any work done. Every 30-45 minutes you gotta take a break for an hour. After an hour you'll be able to spend another 30-45 minutes. That's how I do programming or any task which requires intense focus. I don't think it's possible to intensely focus for longer than an hour at a time on most days. There are exceptional days when I'm just in the zone hyper focused for 4-8 hours straight or even all through the day and all night but that isn't necessarily healthy because you end up with insomnia.
The secret to working well is knowing when to take breaks. You're going to need time for Slashdot, time for entertainment, time for research or whatever else it is that you do online. You have to factor that in and when you take breaks from work you do that other stuff. You work for as long as you can, you take a break when you can depending on how much progress you make. You set goals, start with short simple goals that you know you can meet and don't worry about deadlines at first, and then when you get good at what you do then add deadlines internally. Such as complete task X by the end of the day. Complete task Y by the end of the week.
Keep a to-do list. Learn to multitask. I have ADHD so I know what it's like, but I don't let ADHD become my excuse for not getting the job done and completing my goals.
he press has already been so grossly compromised by corporate influence that it's "critical watchdog function" isn't currently all that functional anyway
Yup. And that's why organizations like Wikileaks and technology like encryption and Tor are so critical. They've taken over that function. Actually they're even better for that function because there much less likely to be influenced by political pressure of any kind.
Technology like WIkileaks and Tor will only create political pressure to further militarize the internet. Wikileaks and Tor will be viewed as weapons in an arms race and other nations will develop their own.
Did you read the link? Making them paranoid is part of the point. And I didn't say that it does in the first place: the guy I replied to gave a list of results, apparently meaning that they are bad results, and I just said that these would be exactly what Assange wanted according to the linked essay.
And I disagree with the strategy. Making them paranoid will result in a backlash where they will remove all our human rights and privacy in the name of national security. Everyone will be treated like a terrorists. Obama now has the ability to kill American citizens as a result of making governments paranoid. How has it helped at all?
No measureable change that has been acknowledged publicly. A lot of government organizations have tightened their grip, though. New security policies, programs that allow and encourage coworkers to report potential security risks, more thorough background checks and monitoring of access to data just to name a few.
Which would be a very big success for Assange.
So how exactly does Cablegate do anything but make governments paranoid and more suspicious of us?
The other problem is Bradley Manning claims the documents were somehow sanitized before submission but how is it technically possible? I know technology well enough to know that isn't possible for one person to do. It's also not possible to do on an unsecured machine so unless he did it himself while somehow still on the government computer I just don't believe it. Is there some process to automatically redact or sanitize information built into the government computer because I cannot make sense of that.
What happened in the Arab spring isn't a direct result of Cablegate. Bradley Manning wasn't a part of that and to try to make Julian Assange into a general of some sort is not completely honest either.
Anonymous may have been a part of that but what does that have to do with this case? I'm not sure if Bradley Manning's statement is true or false. Claims that the documents were sanitized before they were submit to Wikileaks? How do you sanitize that many documents all by yourself? How would he even have gone about doing that without risk of the documents falling into enemy possession?
You're right Manning should be punished and the fact that he pleaded guilty means he recognizes that he should be punished.
Are you really that naive?
He could have fought it. His case was fairly strong as they didn't have the best proof he did all that. The logs wouldn't really make the best evidence.
That said I think he wanted to get caught and be punished. That is why he turned himself in to Adrian Lamo. Unless he was that naive and if he was naive enough to think like that then yeah I do think he's naive enough to continue being that naive.