I'm surprised McAfee's argument for its decline has no mention of five of the anonymous core group being busted by the feds after one turned informant.
And does this not display a flaw in their design? The fact that by design they allow for "Core Members" to be arrested and by design allow themselves to be treated as a criminal organization. They fucked themselves. How would an informant get you arrested if you're truly Anon? How would you get busted if you don't break the law? It seems fairly obvious that if you're a criminal then you're not really a core member of Anon.
The problem with Anon is that criminals have become the leadership. When criminals run the organization then no one who is truly an intellectual and who doesn't want to go to prison will be bothered to associate with Anon. Why not just join a local street gang if one wants to associate with that?
Thats kinda the point of Anon. It has never been this is the leader and here is what we are gonna do. It was more of a bunch of angry people, or stupid, or bored, or someone just looking to hide behind the mask of anon, trying to do something. Good? Bad? Logical? Every time its something different. Its not a collective as much as a revolving door to a community room.
If that is the point of Anon then it's time to replace it. Autopoeitic symbiosis within and between social systems can be achieved but the main thing Anon in particularly has to do is decentralization. Also the Anon banner has been in my opinion permanently diminished as a resource as it's now associated with hackers, with thugs, with criminals.
Anon itself isn't bad conceptually but the implementation was like giving a bunch of children rocks and baseball bats and sending them to go against the mafia and other bigger older thugs with guns. These children weren't even the best and brightest in many cases, creating the perception among the best and brightest that Anon is populated by people who are incompetent. Conceptually if you understand what Anon is on a philosophical level then you understand it's a collective autopoeitic system with the intent of PROMOTING security and symbiosis between systems. The problem is it doesn't do this.
Anon ultimately breaks down to moralist cock shuffling. Those who think their morality is better than the morality of another so they have the exclusive right to break the law to enforce their feelings, afterall they believe their feelings are right simply because they feel more passionately than everyone else or they are louder or more willing to break the law. But that does not mean their feelings are any more correct or are of any more value than anyone elses.
Anon is at this point in time too adapted to moral realism and has not yet adapted itself to the more accurate yet more complex which is moral anti-realism (More can be found here on the problem of moral bigotry in Greene's Dissertation). Moral realism is the problem with Anon in it's current form and in my opinion if Anon is ever going to be effective as an organization it has go under a different banner as Anon is now toxic due to FBI arrests etc, and it would have to adopt moral anti-realism. This way it could actually promote security for everyone or at least the vast majority of people rather than worry about niche issues like West Baptist.
I'm not against Anon conceptually, but I do not like Anon as it is today. The solution for Anon is to get rid of all "principles" and "list" based ethics. There should be no list of right and wrong. Anon should instead decide on a case by case basis and utilize applied ethics to determine their actions based on the pros and cons.
What they should however avoid doing for the best interest of the Anon public image is avoid criminal activity, remain non-violent, avoid anything which can make Anon look like the bad guys, but do everything possible to make Anon look like the good guys. If Anon were a corporation they suck at public relations. They also suck at philosophy, ethics, math and science, where are their apps? Why aren't they generating source code? Why isn't there a consequentialist philosophy or a methodology for deciding on the ethics of ops? Why isn't there Anon blogs everywhere studying the actual results of ops so that lessons can be learned or promoting best practices?
As Anon exists today, they just suck. They got involved with guys like Julian Assange which was a bad move, as Julian Assange should never have been allowed to use Anon as a personal army. They also messed up by not having level headed smart people to explain what their function is. You're telling me there isn't a single professor in the United States or in the world who can explain Anon in a scholarly and academic manner to the erudites and luddites?
Anon has a function. The technology landscape is becoming dangerously oppressive and it makes perfect sense to maintain the ability of dissent, but their method of dissent is often misguided or unintelligent and I hope my post explained why.
Right now they have a huge hard on for the west baptist church hate group and rightly so. They've already doxed their senior membership as an appetizer. I'm sure we'll be hearing more and more...these people hiding behind 'god' are pure scum of the earth.
Like I said. There are no standards for what ops are permitted. West Baptist has freedom of speech, I thought Anon stood for freedom of speech? Wtf? F--- ANON.
Anon at this time needs to determine not a list of principles to fight for as I believe this is short sighted but instead list a style of decision making or ethics to use to determine it's actions. Anon are currently what? Act Utilitarians? Rule Utilitarians? Consequentialist? What ethical philosophy guides Anon? If they can't even determine this then they need to get some deep high powered brains involved. I think what went wrong with Anon is the script kiddie teenage criminal element scared aware the deep thinkers and caused a brain drain. No one who is serious wants to be directly involved with Anon.
The design of the current Anon is structurally and organizationally flawed. There aren't any Anon ethics think tanks to actually guide Anon philosophically. There aren't any professionals to advise or consult Anon on the potential global consequences of their actions. As a result they are a blind politically oriented umbrella organization. This is fine if you're a teenager or young adult in the early 20s range but by the time you reach your 30s and 40s you'll see that Anon isn't the way to go and wont really lead to the results they desire due to how they go about it.
Anon has a function and a reason to exist if it were used intelligently but as it is now it's not used intelligently, it's not a self aware collective. An unaware collective is worse than no collective.
Traditional game consoles will not be able to keep up with the pace of innovation now that a Kickstarter project can come along and do this.
Sony and Microsoft are going to have their work cut out for them. If their console is not significantly more powerful than the average PC then Google or any third party company can come along and take their asses to the bank. The linux, steam and android combination really is a game changer and with truly state of the art hardware they could get the hardcore gamers this way.
If a console were released for $1000 but it had massive graphics and computer power I would seriously consider buying it over the traditional $300 console. I think the reason people would be willing to pay is people now want gaming super computers and not just consoles. The first company to offer a true gaming supercomputer will get my money. They say graphics don't matter but obviously they do if people are always trying to buy the latest PC and latest graphics card.
What someone needs to do is create a console which somehow links up multiple graphics cards for under $1000. Call it a gaming supercomputer, and target hardcore gamers via Kickstarter. See how much funds can be raised. See if a custom chip can be designed for the project if enough funds can be raised to be used along side the Nvidia GeForce GTX 590. Allow for upgrading the card or cards and you have it.
There's no way to know because he's dead, but there's certainly a body of evidence suggesting neurological differences between genius level mathemetic prodigies to suggest that a poor young man from an Indian village who literally taught himself 100 years worth of mathematics was in possession of cognitive abilities beyond the average person's.
The amount of grey matter is an obscenely crude way to measure intelligence. What I find interesting is your need to make the man average and ordinary. Does the possibility that some have greater cognitive capacity than others bother you?
Or maybe he was just more motivated than average. How many people would want to spend all their best moments in life on math?
What I know, Good Citizen, is that this government is assembling an engine of tyranny, literally a thousand times bigger than that of any absolute dictatorship mankind has ever known. And if things work the way you suggest, it would also be the first time a government assembled such a system without any interest in using it.
It's people like you who insist "but they're only *building* internment camps! They're not *using* them!" 40.427277 -111.934485
It's always been the same system. Nothing new is being assembled.
Speaking of pulling things out of their ass.... NSA presenting itself as the covert white knight of America's domestic computer systems. HooBOY.
So, Good Citizen, you must think that free men should be stopped from overthrowing an unjust government. You can think what you want, but when you sputter "NSA? Possess surveillance software?!?! Ridiculous!!", you only look like an idiot.
You look like an even bigger idiot when you're like "Revolution! Free men!". You have no clue how things work.
..for CIA to operate on US soil. And the FBI is very much capable of spreading lies and disinformation on their own. Then there are present and former members of the armed forces who can always be counted on to play the thugs in a dirty game. They are accustomed to believe the lies they are told by their former COs and their buddies. All very informal, no paperwork generated at all. Does not include physical violence in Pax Americana Land, as that would bring police into picture. But most people can be "effected" with other means such as rumors, lies, slander, sex, marriage and some dark tricks you cannot find in any textbook. It works mostly optically and there is not more than a eyeglasses involved. It is called MK1 eyeball. If you are interested, start training with a cat and learn what effects you can get on the cat just using your eyes. That is one reason some people wear windshield-class glasses; it protects against optical attack by opposing eyes.
If something is clandestine then the law simply does not apply. You cannot arrest what doesn't exist and didn't happen.
You're right about most of what you say.And the tactics are terrible and destroy lives, but what alternative is there really in warfare?
The unanswered questions are; if, and how does the NSA inform critical domestic utilities of their vulnerabilities, and what power might they have to compel those utilities to secure their systems appropriately? The problem being that the NSA would probably prefer to quietly catalog and study vulnerabilities, to help quell revolts or secessions in the future, rather than send out emails full of advice for patching bugs. Thus, they're no help to anyone, and at a high price. On the other extreme, the NSA's solution to every problem would likely be the compulsory installation of their own home-grown monitoring software, you know, to be "extra secure". Certainly, you can trust them. Their entire history is proof of the advantages of cooperation.
If they help quell revolts and secession in the future then they are a help to everyone. That is the least I would expect from them. Also what monitoring software does the NSA have or did you pull that one out of your ass?
>hunts for vulnerabilities in 'large-scale' utilities
It's not like they're spying wholesale on American citizens...wait, they're already doing that, too.
I think the whole foreign/domestic spy division is pretty much gone at this point. Not saying it's right, just the reality.
It never actually existed. The US government spied on itself since the Revolutionary war in the form of the stay-at-home militia. It continued in the form of the Pinkerton detective agency. The correct term for it is counter-intelligence.
Up to 9/11 the FBI was the domestic counterpart to the CIA. After 9/11 all lines got blurred.
The FBI never had the power of the CIA. The CIA can do clandestine ops while the FBI does not have the authority to do clandestine ops without the specific and expressed permission granted by the President. This is a major difference.
Domestic clandestine operations are operations which can be said to not exist at all. The CIA for example could run a clandestine CIA operation which does something clearly illegal such as hack a bunch of websites and then claim the terrorists did it. I'm not saying this sort of false flag is something the CIA would do, usually the FBI would do something like that but it's a possible example of a clandestine operation. The civilian government would believe criminals or cyber-terrorists did it.
Five or six years, I transcribed podcasts for Mechanical Turk. Their audio files were already split into shorter passages (3 or 5 minutes, for example). Split them even further, and the transcriber might miss out on the context, which is often vital to knowing what exactly is being jabbered about.
That said, I'm not sure who is the target demographic for this kind of work anymore. Many of the podcasts were on subjects of interest to me, and I was getting about $10/hour from Mechanical Turk, which wasn't bad considering that I was often doing the work from backpacker beach havens around the globe where a couple of hours of work would pay all my expenses for the day. But the last time I had a look at Mechanical Turk, the amount they pay had been heavily reduced. Who wants it now? Even if you are in a cheap third world country, if you have the English skills for such transcriptions, you can surely find better and more dependable work elsewhere.
Where can I find these backpacker beach havens? Seriously!
Never block anything. Get a court order, watch the bits and arrest the miscreant that has them. Track the bits back to the originator and haul their asses away. Do this often and in a public manner.
Your idea isn't actually bad. I think there should be a way for people to report the bits if they discover it without getting arrested though.
It should not be that sex offenders are banned from gaming. They can't play games why? It's just a game. I don't understand this logic.
Online games mean that real people can talk to each other, as in a real paedophile and a real vulnerable child.
It's really not that hard.
You might as well say "what's the harm in paedophiles chatting to children online, it's only an internet forum".
Newsflash: the online and real worlds do coincide sometimes.
You don't have to ban sex offenders from playing games to keep children from meeting them. You restrict it at the network level by age and not have to worry about any of this. If you're an adult why would you want to play games with children when you can play with other adults? Also why assume everyone listed as a sex offender is a pedophile?
Hmm... you get better performance with a lot of RAM. Put at least 4GB or more in your laptop and the OS will cache hard drive content in RAM (buffers/cache) making things go a lot faster. RAM not used by programs will typically be used by the OS to cache hard drive or SSD data. RAM is much faster than SSD.
So, scaling down on memory is a bad idea, scaling down on CPU is acceptable. With a lot of RAM, you won't notice the SSD gains as much compared to an hard drive.
On the Revodrive ram is not much faster than SSD actually. The speed limit of the Revodrive is PCI x16. Ram might be faster but I doubt it.
Agree! Currently I'm using a Corsair F120 for my SO and main games and apps. The rest of my stuff goes to normal, run of the mill HDD. This SSD was probably the most effective upgrade I've ever done, both in terms of value for money (payed around 120 € more than a year ago) as well as pure performance. I think that having a main SSD drive (a 120 GB one will be enough for having the SO + some stuff), along with one or more additional standard HDD should be next "unofficial" mandatory config any new computer nowadays.
I don't bother with HDD except external storage. The Revodrive works great and uses the PCI x16 port.
Unless they do something about the reliability problem, harddrives will still have at least one advantage.
How many of your SSDs have failed? None of mine have ever failed but all of my harddrives fail within 10 years.
10 years from now I'll just transfer my data off the SSD onto something bigger. Just buy a new SSD within 10 years. My SCSI from Seagate failed over the course of a year.
If all ISPs and search engines agree to block anything flagged as child porn then wouldn't this solve the problem of child porn distribution? Then we wouldn't have to arrest thousands of people a year.
Doesn't work. How would you flag something as child porn - or not choild porn? There is no way of doing this automatically.
c: allows the government to ignore the fact that the material exists rather than trying to put the creator/distributor in jail
d: fucks with my internet
A. It does make access hard enough that no one who isn't actively looking for it can stumble upon it by accident. B. It costs even more money to arrest people on possession charges. C. The material isn't the issue, the harm to children during the production is the issue. D. I think our internet is fucked with more when we have to worry about tinyurl and other random links infecting us with child porn.
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I'm surprised McAfee's argument for its decline has no mention of five of the anonymous core group being busted by the feds after one turned informant.
And does this not display a flaw in their design? The fact that by design they allow for "Core Members" to be arrested and by design allow themselves to be treated as a criminal organization. They fucked themselves. How would an informant get you arrested if you're truly Anon? How would you get busted if you don't break the law? It seems fairly obvious that if you're a criminal then you're not really a core member of Anon.
The problem with Anon is that criminals have become the leadership. When criminals run the organization then no one who is truly an intellectual and who doesn't want to go to prison will be bothered to associate with Anon. Why not just join a local street gang if one wants to associate with that?
Thats kinda the point of Anon. It has never been this is the leader and here is what we are gonna do. It was more of a bunch of angry people, or stupid, or bored, or someone just looking to hide behind the mask of anon, trying to do something. Good? Bad? Logical? Every time its something different. Its not a collective as much as a revolving door to a community room.
If that is the point of Anon then it's time to replace it. Autopoeitic symbiosis within and between social systems can be achieved but the main thing Anon in particularly has to do is decentralization. Also the Anon banner has been in my opinion permanently diminished as a resource as it's now associated with hackers, with thugs, with criminals.
Anon itself isn't bad conceptually but the implementation was like giving a bunch of children rocks and baseball bats and sending them to go against the mafia and other bigger older thugs with guns. These children weren't even the best and brightest in many cases, creating the perception among the best and brightest that Anon is populated by people who are incompetent. Conceptually if you understand what Anon is on a philosophical level then you understand it's a collective autopoeitic system with the intent of PROMOTING security and symbiosis between systems. The problem is it doesn't do this.
Anon ultimately breaks down to moralist cock shuffling. Those who think their morality is better than the morality of another so they have the exclusive right to break the law to enforce their feelings, afterall they believe their feelings are right simply because they feel more passionately than everyone else or they are louder or more willing to break the law. But that does not mean their feelings are any more correct or are of any more value than anyone elses.
Anon is at this point in time too adapted to moral realism and has not yet adapted itself to the more accurate yet more complex which is moral anti-realism (More can be found here on the problem of moral bigotry in Greene's Dissertation). Moral realism is the problem with Anon in it's current form and in my opinion if Anon is ever going to be effective as an organization it has go under a different banner as Anon is now toxic due to FBI arrests etc, and it would have to adopt moral anti-realism. This way it could actually promote security for everyone or at least the vast majority of people rather than worry about niche issues like West Baptist.
I'm not against Anon conceptually, but I do not like Anon as it is today. The solution for Anon is to get rid of all "principles" and "list" based ethics. There should be no list of right and wrong. Anon should instead decide on a case by case basis and utilize applied ethics to determine their actions based on the pros and cons.
What they should however avoid doing for the best interest of the Anon public image is avoid criminal activity, remain non-violent, avoid anything which can make Anon look like the bad guys, but do everything possible to make Anon look like the good guys. If Anon were a corporation they suck at public relations. They also suck at philosophy, ethics, math and science, where are their apps? Why aren't they generating source code? Why isn't there a consequentialist philosophy or a methodology for deciding on the ethics of ops? Why isn't there Anon blogs everywhere studying the actual results of ops so that lessons can be learned or promoting best practices?
As Anon exists today, they just suck. They got involved with guys like Julian Assange which was a bad move, as Julian Assange should never have been allowed to use Anon as a personal army. They also messed up by not having level headed smart people to explain what their function is. You're telling me there isn't a single professor in the United States or in the world who can explain Anon in a scholarly and academic manner to the erudites and luddites?
Anon has a function. The technology landscape is becoming dangerously oppressive and it makes perfect sense to maintain the ability of dissent, but their method of dissent is often misguided or unintelligent and I hope my post explained why.
Right now they have a huge hard on for the west baptist church hate group and rightly so. They've already doxed their senior membership as an appetizer. I'm sure we'll be hearing more and more...these people hiding behind 'god' are pure scum of the earth.
Like I said. There are no standards for what ops are permitted. West Baptist has freedom of speech, I thought Anon stood for freedom of speech? Wtf? F--- ANON.
Anon at this time needs to determine not a list of principles to fight for as I believe this is short sighted but instead list a style of decision making or ethics to use to determine it's actions. Anon are currently what? Act Utilitarians? Rule Utilitarians? Consequentialist? What ethical philosophy guides Anon? If they can't even determine this then they need to get some deep high powered brains involved. I think what went wrong with Anon is the script kiddie teenage criminal element scared aware the deep thinkers and caused a brain drain. No one who is serious wants to be directly involved with Anon.
The design of the current Anon is structurally and organizationally flawed. There aren't any Anon ethics think tanks to actually guide Anon philosophically. There aren't any professionals to advise or consult Anon on the potential global consequences of their actions. As a result they are a blind politically oriented umbrella organization. This is fine if you're a teenager or young adult in the early 20s range but by the time you reach your 30s and 40s you'll see that Anon isn't the way to go and wont really lead to the results they desire due to how they go about it.
Anon has a function and a reason to exist if it were used intelligently but as it is now it's not used intelligently, it's not a self aware collective. An unaware collective is worse than no collective.
Traditional game consoles will not be able to keep up with the pace of innovation now that a Kickstarter project can come along and do this.
Sony and Microsoft are going to have their work cut out for them. If their console is not significantly more powerful than the average PC then Google or any third party company can come along and take their asses to the bank. The linux, steam and android combination really is a game changer and with truly state of the art hardware they could get the hardcore gamers this way.
If a console were released for $1000 but it had massive graphics and computer power I would seriously consider buying it over the traditional $300 console. I think the reason people would be willing to pay is people now want gaming super computers and not just consoles. The first company to offer a true gaming supercomputer will get my money. They say graphics don't matter but obviously they do if people are always trying to buy the latest PC and latest graphics card.
What someone needs to do is create a console which somehow links up multiple graphics cards for under $1000. Call it a gaming supercomputer, and target hardcore gamers via Kickstarter. See how much funds can be raised. See if a custom chip can be designed for the project if enough funds can be raised to be used along side the Nvidia GeForce GTX 590. Allow for upgrading the card or cards and you have it.
There's no way to know because he's dead, but there's certainly a body of evidence suggesting neurological differences between genius level mathemetic prodigies to suggest that a poor young man from an Indian village who literally taught himself 100 years worth of mathematics was in possession of cognitive abilities beyond the average person's.
The amount of grey matter is an obscenely crude way to measure intelligence. What I find interesting is your need to make the man average and ordinary. Does the possibility that some have greater cognitive capacity than others bother you?
Or maybe he was just more motivated than average. How many people would want to spend all their best moments in life on math?
What I know, Good Citizen, is that this government is assembling an engine of tyranny, literally a thousand times bigger than that of any absolute dictatorship mankind has ever known. And if things work the way you suggest, it would also be the first time a government assembled such a system without any interest in using it.
It's people like you who insist "but they're only *building* internment camps! They're not *using* them!" 40.427277 -111.934485
It's always been the same system. Nothing new is being assembled.
Speaking of pulling things out of their ass.... NSA presenting itself as the covert white knight of America's domestic computer systems. HooBOY.
So, Good Citizen, you must think that free men should be stopped from overthrowing an unjust government. You can think what you want, but when you sputter "NSA? Possess surveillance software?!?! Ridiculous!!", you only look like an idiot.
You look like an even bigger idiot when you're like "Revolution! Free men!". You have no clue how things work.
..for CIA to operate on US soil. And the FBI is very much capable of spreading lies and disinformation on their own. Then there are present and former members of the armed forces who can always be counted on to play the thugs in a dirty game. They are accustomed to believe the lies they are told by their former COs and their buddies. All very informal, no paperwork generated at all.
Does not include physical violence in Pax Americana Land, as that would bring police into picture. But most people can be "effected" with other means such as rumors, lies, slander, sex, marriage and some dark tricks you cannot find in any textbook. It works mostly optically and there is not more than a eyeglasses involved. It is called MK1 eyeball. If you are interested, start training with a cat and learn what effects you can get on the cat just using your eyes.
That is one reason some people wear windshield-class glasses; it protects against optical attack by opposing eyes.
If something is clandestine then the law simply does not apply. You cannot arrest what doesn't exist and didn't happen.
You're right about most of what you say.And the tactics are terrible and destroy lives, but what alternative is there really in warfare?
The unanswered questions are; if, and how does the NSA inform critical domestic utilities of their vulnerabilities, and what power might they have to compel those utilities to secure their systems appropriately? The problem being that the NSA would probably prefer to quietly catalog and study vulnerabilities, to help quell revolts or secessions in the future, rather than send out emails full of advice for patching bugs. Thus, they're no help to anyone, and at a high price. On the other extreme, the NSA's solution to every problem would likely be the compulsory installation of their own home-grown monitoring software, you know, to be "extra secure". Certainly, you can trust them. Their entire history is proof of the advantages of cooperation.
If they help quell revolts and secession in the future then they are a help to everyone. That is the least I would expect from them.
Also what monitoring software does the NSA have or did you pull that one out of your ass?
>hunts for vulnerabilities in 'large-scale' utilities
It's not like they're spying wholesale on American citizens...wait, they're already doing that, too.
I think the whole foreign/domestic spy division is pretty much gone at this point. Not saying it's right, just the reality.
It never actually existed. The US government spied on itself since the Revolutionary war in the form of the stay-at-home militia. It continued in the form of the Pinkerton detective agency. The correct term for it is counter-intelligence.
Up to 9/11 the FBI was the domestic counterpart to the CIA. After 9/11 all lines got blurred.
The FBI never had the power of the CIA. The CIA can do clandestine ops while the FBI does not have the authority to do clandestine ops without the specific and expressed permission granted by the President. This is a major difference.
Domestic clandestine operations are operations which can be said to not exist at all. The CIA for example could run a clandestine CIA operation which does something clearly illegal such as hack a bunch of websites and then claim the terrorists did it. I'm not saying this sort of false flag is something the CIA would do, usually the FBI would do something like that but it's a possible example of a clandestine operation. The civilian government would believe criminals or cyber-terrorists did it.
This is a good idea. The NSA should take on these sorts of roles because domestic computer systems are notoriously insecure.
The real question is whether or not the NSA has the expertise to pull it off.
Five or six years, I transcribed podcasts for Mechanical Turk. Their audio files were already split into shorter passages (3 or 5 minutes, for example). Split them even further, and the transcriber might miss out on the context, which is often vital to knowing what exactly is being jabbered about.
That said, I'm not sure who is the target demographic for this kind of work anymore. Many of the podcasts were on subjects of interest to me, and I was getting about $10/hour from Mechanical Turk, which wasn't bad considering that I was often doing the work from backpacker beach havens around the globe where a couple of hours of work would pay all my expenses for the day. But the last time I had a look at Mechanical Turk, the amount they pay had been heavily reduced. Who wants it now? Even if you are in a cheap third world country, if you have the English skills for such transcriptions, you can surely find better and more dependable work elsewhere.
Where can I find these backpacker beach havens? Seriously!
And a new group of people expected to go on unemployment. Good job.
Nononono.
Never block anything. Get a court order, watch the bits and arrest the miscreant that has them. Track the bits back to the originator and haul their asses away. Do this often and in a public manner.
Your idea isn't actually bad. I think there should be a way for people to report the bits if they discover it without getting arrested though.
It should not be that sex offenders are banned from gaming. They can't play games why? It's just a game. I don't understand this logic.
Online games mean that real people can talk to each other, as in a real paedophile and a real vulnerable child.
It's really not that hard.
You might as well say "what's the harm in paedophiles chatting to children online, it's only an internet forum".
Newsflash: the online and real worlds do coincide sometimes.
You don't have to ban sex offenders from playing games to keep children from meeting them. You restrict it at the network level by age and not have to worry about any of this. If you're an adult why would you want to play games with children when you can play with other adults? Also why assume everyone listed as a sex offender is a pedophile?
It should not be that sex offenders are banned from gaming. They can't play games why? It's just a game. I don't understand this logic.
My laptop only has a SSD drive.
I have two operating systems, some Windows video games, and some films and TV series.
It's fine.
When your disk is full, it just means it's time to move your old stuff to some slow large-capacity disk as an archive.
Exactly. I don't know what people are doing with their 3-4TB drives.
Hmm... you get better performance with a lot of RAM. Put at least 4GB or more in your laptop and the OS will cache hard drive content in RAM (buffers/cache) making things go a lot faster. RAM not used by programs will typically be used by the OS to cache hard drive or SSD data. RAM is much faster than SSD.
So, scaling down on memory is a bad idea, scaling down on CPU is acceptable. With a lot of RAM, you won't notice the SSD gains as much compared to an hard drive.
On the Revodrive ram is not much faster than SSD actually. The speed limit of the Revodrive is PCI x16. Ram might be faster but I doubt it.
Agree! Currently I'm using a Corsair F120 for my SO and main games and apps. The rest of my stuff goes to normal, run of the mill HDD. This SSD was probably the most effective upgrade I've ever done, both in terms of value for money (payed around 120 € more than a year ago) as well as pure performance. I think that having a main SSD drive (a 120 GB one will be enough for having the SO + some stuff), along with one or more additional standard HDD should be next "unofficial" mandatory config any new computer nowadays.
I don't bother with HDD except external storage. The Revodrive works great and uses the PCI x16 port.
Unless they do something about the reliability problem, harddrives will still have at least one advantage.
How many of your SSDs have failed? None of mine have ever failed but all of my harddrives fail within 10 years.
10 years from now I'll just transfer my data off the SSD onto something bigger. Just buy a new SSD within 10 years. My SCSI from Seagate failed over the course of a year.
If all ISPs and search engines agree to block anything flagged as child porn then wouldn't this solve the problem of child porn distribution? Then we wouldn't have to arrest thousands of people a year.
Doesn't work. How would you flag something as child porn - or not choild porn? There is no way of doing this automatically.
The users can flag it.
because blocking:
a: doesn't actually prevent access
b: costs money
c: allows the government to ignore the fact that the material exists rather than trying to put the creator/distributor in jail
d: fucks with my internet
A. It does make access hard enough that no one who isn't actively looking for it can stumble upon it by accident.
B. It costs even more money to arrest people on possession charges.
C. The material isn't the issue, the harm to children during the production is the issue.
D. I think our internet is fucked with more when we have to worry about tinyurl and other random links infecting us with child porn.