Holy crap! At PSU (graduated 2012) we only got the plagiarism talk in writing-intensive classes, and while I don't remember the exact rules there was no instant-fail of the course unless you were caught multiple times. You'd instantly fail the assignment if they had direct proof you plagiarized a significant potion of it. Otherwise they'd maybe write a note that you need to cite your sources and take a couple points off.
Are you advocating that people should be arrested and charged with shoplifting if they go into a bookstore, read a chapter of a book, and put it back deciding they don't like it? After all, they get the same IP and they didn't pay for it...
Also integration with other devices and services. I have a custom built media center system. I stuff a magnet link into it and it downloads the movie, then it looks it up on IMDB and grabs all the details, then it dumps all of that into my library. Then I can select it from the library and it will turn on the projector and stereo and such before playing the movie, and turn them off when it's done.
There is literally no paid service that I could do even half of that with. I'd pay for the media if I could use it the way I want...until then, screw 'em. Offer me a bittorrent option of your media and I gladly pay for it or give a donation. Otherwise, I'm not gonna pay for something that I can't use how I want.
The U.S. government presently spends tens of billions, employees many thousands of analysts and engineers, has unlimited time, and basically faces no danger whatsoever.
So...ten billion dollars, divided by 300 million people in the US, gives us a value of $33 per person that the NSA has budgeted to crack their encryption. Good luck brute-forcing PGP on a single Raspberry Pi.....
Yes, not everyone uses strong crypto. Nearly nobody does right now. So that value is far higher. But the technological solution of 'everyone encrypt everything' certainly *could* work, in theory. And yes, they have men with guns as well, but at that point it's no longer a surveillance problem. That's a lot harder to do covertly, which makes the political response much easier to rally.
Of course this is all a moot point unless you can figure out how to get grandma to encrypt and sign her emails...
OK, so why the hell doesn't someone take the five minutes to add some code to Tor that would strip out client-side scripting? It's not that hard; plenty of other secure networks do it (ex. Freenet) so why the hell doesn't Tor? I mean yeah, I get it, they give you ample warnings before you download, but is there any legitimate reason they don't do this or have they just decided they don't want to try to stop this kind of attack?
They *lost* billions because the government forced them to cancel it, and now you want to double their losses by making them pay the same amount to the government? I don't care if it was the government's money to begin with; you don't get to give a bunch of money to someone to buy something, then steal it from them, then demand the money back!
I mean I'm no fan of corporations -- I've nearly been arrested protesting quite a few though Occupy, the Tar Sands blockade, etc....but seriously?
Don't blame all of nuclear energy because a couple freakin CEOs wanted to save a few bucks. They *knew* Fukushima was vulnerable. They *knew* exactly what happened was possible. They also knew what needed to be done to ensure the reactor would be able to withstand such a situation. They decided not to spend the money.
Saying Fukushima is a failure of nuclear energy is like saying the NSA surveillance scandal is a failure of electricity.
There's a cop in my city who was *convicted* of aggravated assault, *while on the job*, for kicking a seated, handcuffed woman in the face. Multiple times. Caught on video I think.
They fired him, he sued, and he's now back on the force, patrolling the streets.
And he's not the first such case, nor the last. Go tell *her* how great all cops are you fuckin facist.
If Snowden was lying then they wouldn't be able to prosecute him for anything. You can lie about absolutely anything you want -- first amendment and all that. They could fire him, but that's about all. So yeah, the whole manhunt is not just good evidence; it's *conclusive proof* that at least some of it is true.
If another human felt concerned enough about what they were seeing in search logs then you it's reasonable to go ask what is going on.
No, it's reasonable to ask the person reporting it if they have any other cause for concern. If not, you log the report and move on. If they say 'yeah, he was also looking for the special forces training manual and some jihad websites' *then* you go check it out.
No, they shouldn't have ignored it. They shouldn't have searched his house either. They should have logged a report, and if they had any *other* reason to be suspicious then maybe they go check it out. A single freakin Google search is not "reasonable suspicion" and it does not matter where the tip came from.
Please tell me where the fuck in the Fourth Amendment there's a 'unless your neighbors think it's necessary' exemption?
And that's news again every couple months because...?
Also, if the story is about how their servers handle the load, then talk about how their servers handle the load, not who the alliances were and what they were fighting over. The only people who care about that crap are active EVE Online players....and I'm guessing this isn't really news to any of them.
Of course, I'm just reading this while I wait for more comments to read on the next article, so...guess it's better than nothing?;)
Yeah, I was gonna comment the same thing. Do we *really* need a front-page story every single time there's a battle on some MMO? What next, a Slashdot article every time the Horde raids Stormwind?
I mean, I get that it's interesting how much load their servers were hit with and such, but if that's why you're posing it you should talk about *that*, not who was fighting over what.
Then again, what do I care...I used to read practically every single story on Slashdot...now I just pop in when I have an abnormally boring shift...
I was just gonna say the same thing! Also the headline says 'discovered', the summary says 'developed'...I thought this was possible 'Earth life was seeded from another planet!' stuff. I mean why else say 'colonize most planets' instead of 'extremophile' or something? Such a letdown!
Governments are not necessary for a socialist system. All you need is the agreement of the majority of the workers. Not an easy thing, certainly, which is why it hasn't happened yet. But it's certainly possible. The same way we've moved political power from oligarchy to democracy (and perhaps back again) we can move economic power as well.
FYI, people holding these views tend to refer to themselves either as anarcho-syndicalist or, more broadly, as "Leftist". Never "liberal" and CERTAINLY not "Democrat". There's a reason for that. When it comes to oppression, both parties are on the same side -- they're both the Authoritarian party. Actually they're both the Authoritarian-Capitalist party...we could use any sort of Libertarian-* or *-Socialist.
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Holy crap! At PSU (graduated 2012) we only got the plagiarism talk in writing-intensive classes, and while I don't remember the exact rules there was no instant-fail of the course unless you were caught multiple times. You'd instantly fail the assignment if they had direct proof you plagiarized a significant potion of it. Otherwise they'd maybe write a note that you need to cite your sources and take a couple points off.
Are you advocating that people should be arrested and charged with shoplifting if they go into a bookstore, read a chapter of a book, and put it back deciding they don't like it? After all, they get the same IP and they didn't pay for it...
Except that studies show that "pirates" actually spend far *more* money on legal media:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121126/00590921141/dear-riaa-pirates-buy-more-full-stop-deal-with-it.shtml
What definition of 'Middle Class' are you using in which they can afford private education???
Also integration with other devices and services. I have a custom built media center system. I stuff a magnet link into it and it downloads the movie, then it looks it up on IMDB and grabs all the details, then it dumps all of that into my library. Then I can select it from the library and it will turn on the projector and stereo and such before playing the movie, and turn them off when it's done.
There is literally no paid service that I could do even half of that with. I'd pay for the media if I could use it the way I want...until then, screw 'em. Offer me a bittorrent option of your media and I gladly pay for it or give a donation. Otherwise, I'm not gonna pay for something that I can't use how I want.
The U.S. government presently spends tens of billions, employees many thousands of analysts and engineers, has unlimited time, and basically faces no danger whatsoever.
So...ten billion dollars, divided by 300 million people in the US, gives us a value of $33 per person that the NSA has budgeted to crack their encryption. Good luck brute-forcing PGP on a single Raspberry Pi.....
Yes, not everyone uses strong crypto. Nearly nobody does right now. So that value is far higher. But the technological solution of 'everyone encrypt everything' certainly *could* work, in theory. And yes, they have men with guns as well, but at that point it's no longer a surveillance problem. That's a lot harder to do covertly, which makes the political response much easier to rally.
Of course this is all a moot point unless you can figure out how to get grandma to encrypt and sign her emails...
OK, so why the hell doesn't someone take the five minutes to add some code to Tor that would strip out client-side scripting? It's not that hard; plenty of other secure networks do it (ex. Freenet) so why the hell doesn't Tor? I mean yeah, I get it, they give you ample warnings before you download, but is there any legitimate reason they don't do this or have they just decided they don't want to try to stop this kind of attack?
According to the NYT it was passed by the regulatory agencies despite violating the regulations. That's not passing, that's failing in secret.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/opinion/fukushima-could-have-been-prevented.html
Sorry, thought it was pretty well known.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/opinion/fukushima-could-have-been-prevented.html
No, millions dead for a greedy, selfish dictator. Seems to validate this article quite well.
...on your *phone*? Because if not, that's irrelevant. Like talking about how fast your Ferrari goes to people discussing the best budget car...
That is not the market they're talking about. You're aware Qualcomm mostly makes chips for phones and such, right?
They *lost* billions because the government forced them to cancel it, and now you want to double their losses by making them pay the same amount to the government? I don't care if it was the government's money to begin with; you don't get to give a bunch of money to someone to buy something, then steal it from them, then demand the money back!
I mean I'm no fan of corporations -- I've nearly been arrested protesting quite a few though Occupy, the Tar Sands blockade, etc....but seriously?
Don't blame all of nuclear energy because a couple freakin CEOs wanted to save a few bucks. They *knew* Fukushima was vulnerable. They *knew* exactly what happened was possible. They also knew what needed to be done to ensure the reactor would be able to withstand such a situation. They decided not to spend the money.
Saying Fukushima is a failure of nuclear energy is like saying the NSA surveillance scandal is a failure of electricity.
There's a cop in my city who was *convicted* of aggravated assault, *while on the job*, for kicking a seated, handcuffed woman in the face. Multiple times. Caught on video I think.
They fired him, he sued, and he's now back on the force, patrolling the streets.
And he's not the first such case, nor the last. Go tell *her* how great all cops are you fuckin facist.
If Snowden was lying then they wouldn't be able to prosecute him for anything. You can lie about absolutely anything you want -- first amendment and all that. They could fire him, but that's about all. So yeah, the whole manhunt is not just good evidence; it's *conclusive proof* that at least some of it is true.
If another human felt concerned enough about what they were seeing in search logs then you it's reasonable to go ask what is going on.
No, it's reasonable to ask the person reporting it if they have any other cause for concern. If not, you log the report and move on. If they say 'yeah, he was also looking for the special forces training manual and some jihad websites' *then* you go check it out.
No, they shouldn't have ignored it. They shouldn't have searched his house either. They should have logged a report, and if they had any *other* reason to be suspicious then maybe they go check it out. A single freakin Google search is not "reasonable suspicion" and it does not matter where the tip came from.
Please tell me where the fuck in the Fourth Amendment there's a 'unless your neighbors think it's necessary' exemption?
Would be nice if the summary talked about *that* then instead of just who was fighting over what....
And that's news again every couple months because...?
Also, if the story is about how their servers handle the load, then talk about how their servers handle the load, not who the alliances were and what they were fighting over. The only people who care about that crap are active EVE Online players....and I'm guessing this isn't really news to any of them.
Of course, I'm just reading this while I wait for more comments to read on the next article, so...guess it's better than nothing? ;)
Yeah, I was gonna comment the same thing. Do we *really* need a front-page story every single time there's a battle on some MMO? What next, a Slashdot article every time the Horde raids Stormwind?
I mean, I get that it's interesting how much load their servers were hit with and such, but if that's why you're posing it you should talk about *that*, not who was fighting over what.
Then again, what do I care...I used to read practically every single story on Slashdot...now I just pop in when I have an abnormally boring shift...
I was just gonna say the same thing! Also the headline says 'discovered', the summary says 'developed'...I thought this was possible 'Earth life was seeded from another planet!' stuff. I mean why else say 'colonize most planets' instead of 'extremophile' or something? Such a letdown!
Congress is part of the government. As are the courts.
Look up anarcho-syndicalism.
Governments are not necessary for a socialist system. All you need is the agreement of the majority of the workers. Not an easy thing, certainly, which is why it hasn't happened yet. But it's certainly possible. The same way we've moved political power from oligarchy to democracy (and perhaps back again) we can move economic power as well.
FYI, people holding these views tend to refer to themselves either as anarcho-syndicalist or, more broadly, as "Leftist". Never "liberal" and CERTAINLY not "Democrat". There's a reason for that. When it comes to oppression, both parties are on the same side -- they're both the Authoritarian party. Actually they're both the Authoritarian-Capitalist party...we could use any sort of Libertarian-* or *-Socialist.
Our major-party 'choices' really aren't
I have been arguing the same point for years and have yet to see someone else express it so well.
Thank you.