What a shame, the whole thing. Just awful, depressing, and demoralizing.
Innocent woman murdered, a bright (and fellow tribe member to boot - yes, I still consider him a fellow tribe member in spite of what he did) man's life down the drain, two kids with no parents . . .
I hope she rests in peace, I hope he gets help for his problems (and to anyone who wishes him worse still, YOU go and live in a fucking California State Penitentiary, specially as a white man . . . he will pay for his crime for sure - I hope he has it in him to fight like an animal) and I hope the kids are and remain in good hands.
How awful. It might happen everyday, but this one gets to me. At least, at least, he WAS guilty, thus he was not wrongly convicted owing to his being an arrogant, abrasive geek. No logic to my relief of course, but part of me feels relieved. The thought of him being innocent and spending the better part of the remainder of his life in the pen straight fucking haunted me.
The people behind that ABSOLUTE POS of a site ought to be SHOT.
That has got to be the BIGGEST POS I have EVER seen.
First, yeah, run an illegal torrent site, but bend over and spread them as soon as a textbook publisher says "boo" (read their front page, what a bunch of pussies)
Then, one must sign up to see the subject index. The sign up form is a piece of trash -*horrid. Then, after you sign up, you go to the subject index and find that it is "temporarily disabled".
If you read the bottom of the thing, what do you see? One of the dickhead fucktards says he won't make the same mistake of using the script they are using again, well, if it is that bad QUIT FUCKING USING IT.
I hope one of them reads this.
And how pathetic, placing ads, offering ads, and begging for donations all over the place . . . those fucks are scammers is what they are, and brainless incompetent pussies to boot.
That woman needs to have her head examined.
I just (thankfully) finished working on a small team that included a woman, and she was THE most ignorant, illiterate, incompetent, clueless, arrogant, lazy, backstabbing, lying, trash talking, rude, and cheating sack of slime IMAGINABLE . . .
Yet will I assert that this applies across the board to women?
NO
Only a sexist idiot would do that.
I dual boot Ubuntu Feisty and Win XP SP2. About a year or so ago, while on XP, I noticed that my ISP had began to throttle bittorrent . . . I tried a few techniques, and nothing worked, so, I immediately rebooted into Feisty and . . . ta-ra! I was pleasantly surprised to find that their throttling is completely nullified when on Ubuntu Feisty. Has been that way since, also noticed that switching to a better router (from a Dlink to a Huawei) made no difference. I use the default client on GNOME . . . yet another reason why I only boot into Windows about once every two weeks.
. . . I can't believe that the SOB thinks he will simply get away with perjuring himself in that manner . . . shows complete contempt and disdain for the court and the legal system . . . I'd have him hung high and short if it were up to me . . .
I about fell out of my chair the second I read the word "terrorist" next to "open source" . . . I hope I am not the only one alarmed at this . ..JUST WHAT WE FN NEED, THE WORD "TERRORIST" BECOMING ASSOCIATED WITH "OPEN SOURCE" IN THE SHEEPLE CONSCIOUSNESS . . . NO!
Something needs to be done about this . . . boycott anyone? I am willing to devote time and effort toward doing something about this. Anyone interested please private message me . . .
I am dead serious. Down here, you are more likely to not EVER imagine that some TOTAL hottie like wants to jump your bones FOR REAL . . .
In Tropical Colombia, the mujeres chase YOU!
Every time I hear about one getting his or her head blown off, it just makes my day.
Why do I say this do you ask?
Because I have been a WITNESS to not police brutality but Police ATROCITY.
They are half the problem most of the time:
Wasting taxpayer money, or causing it to be wasted.
Eroding people's respect for the justice system.
Planting evidence.
Murdering suspects.
Bullying law abiding citizens.
Taking bribes.
Stealing drugs and/or cash from suspects.
Perjuring themselves in court, on the stand.
Lying on affidavits.
Fucking up cases for the prosecution thereby causing the GUILTY to go free.
Fabricating evidence, thereby causing the INNOCENT to end up in prison, or executed.
Biggest criminals in any ghetto are the police themselves.
Being plain little punk ass bitches hiding behind their uniform and badge and gun . . . you don't see guys and "women" like them acting like that minus the uniform/badge/gun . . .
FUCK THE POLICE
What is this doing on the front page? The story is biased, offensive, and inflammatory.
An attempt at debating a subject that cannot be quantified is a FOOL'S ERRAND.
Even the VATICAN has stated that one thing is faith and one thing is science.
This kind of discussion is ridiculous . . .
What if I told everyone that I know a programmer, a white, educated, and very logical geek who - at the same time - practices HAITIAN VODOU as his religion?
If I did that, people would totally start flaming and humilliating, and it is NOT COOL - WTF?
The topic is similar to sexuality. It requires tolerance and respect. It does not lend itself to logical debate, as the individual's experience cannot be QUANTIFIED.
You are looking at it from a strategic point of view, and your take on it falls in line with conventional military thought, which is exactly the type of thinking that leads to defeat in an irregular warfare scenario - which is what would happen in Cuba. The Cubans would not attempt a conventional defense to an American invasion, because they know that they would lose, the don't have the resources for that. They would defend in an irregular manner, and would have every advantage in that scenario: defending their own territory (moral advantage) on terrain they know well, a territory that happens to be HOT, HUMID, JUNGLE (which they are used to, as opposed to US troops) where most US armored vehicles cannot travel (and with enough natural cover that air power cannot be as effective as it otherwise would be, enough cover to where no matter how much you bomb an area, there are still places for defenders to hide after the bombing stops) with the added advantages that their troops are motivated, well-trained, disciplined, and well led - and they do have PLENTY of small arms (and even heavy weapons) and ammunition, which is all they would really need . . .
I am not inclined to delve deeply into the factors that would be to their advantage in this post, as what I have made reference to is pretty clear to someone who has read up on what I am talking about. I do, however, see your logic and find this exchange agreeable to a certain extent.
You bring up the Soviets, yet any agreements reached with the old Soviet government are no longer in place, if I am not mistaken, owing to the fact that the Soviet government no longer exists.
You bring up logistics. Well, in Vietnam the US forces had all the logistic support any Armed Force could ever hope for, and that did not make much difference. They had control of the sea and air, and could concentrate more offensive power in any one place than their opponents. Total material superiority. Did that make a difference in the end?
You bring up Cuban resistance having a supply problem. I would agree, in a protracted scenario, yet the thing is, that would not be a major factor in the first few weeks, which is all the time they would need for US casualties to skyrocket, the UN to be brought in as a "peacekeeping" force to basically hold the cities, and for US forces to be withdrawn.
And yes, the US did invade Cuba before, and sustained many casualties, fighting an enemy that was not determined to fight to the last man, the way the Cubans would in this hypothetical scenario.
I would suggest (and this is in a friendly tone) reading some of the WWII Pacific combat accounts. The parallels that can be drawn between both scenarios are plentiful and awful direct.
The comparison with Iraq is a purely tactical one.
If a comparative handful of malnourished, under equipped, underarmed, under trained, and under led insurgents can hold their own against US troops, I would bet my computer that Cuban troops, defending their own territory, could indeed inflict 10k+ casualties in the first month. As I stated in my previous post, I read military history, and have read firsthand accounts of the Spanish-American War including accounts of combat operations in Cuba, and I have spoken at lenght to a few American WWII Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam combat Veterans (and I also watch the news) so that conclusion is not based on speculation . . . 10k+ would happen the same way that tens of thousands of casualties happened in Vietnam, the same way they happen in any other theater.
Would you have ever thought that 3,201 (and counting) US troops would fall to hostile fire in Iraq? Ever? How did that EVER happen?
Well, the insurgents in Iraq, armed and equipped with VERY little and without much training under their belt, are definitely holding their own against US troops . . . I think that the highly motivated, Soviet trained (as in the people who train Cuban troops were in turn trained by the Soviets, thus Cuban training consists of Soviet military doctrine) and comparatively (better than those who are holding their own against US troops right this second) well armed and equipped Cuban troops would - particularly on their own terrain - be able to effectively defend their island, because the number of casualties they would inflict are not the type of losses modern US commanders or the US public are willing to accept - and the Government knows this, so after the first couple of weeks, once US casualties reach 10,000+, it would be over. This is not the 1940's, when 12,000 US troops at a time could be lost in an action against the Japanese without many repercussions at all. And that is not counting the casualties that the weather and terrain would inflict.
Mr. Gygax's work certainly filled my childhood/early teens with a universe of wonder, into which my mind would retreat quite often . . . thank you Mr. Gygax, RIP.
You bet snekernet . . . while I realize that many might be very skeptical when it comes to anything related to suits and uniforms, I strongly believe that it is in our best interest to do our best to work with them. I would really hate for The Gov to be able to use incidents related to cyber attacks from foreign governments as justification for repressing more of our technological freedoms . . . how would any of you like it if the term "hacker" took a place next to the word "terrorist" . . . they have already it made it synonymous with "criminal" . . . would not be hard at all, and the only way that the powers that be are going to be able to defend the country is by obtaining the help of those that are QUALIFIED and COMPETENT in those matters . . . guys/gals could avert disasters earn medals, and swing public perception in our favor, thereby greatly reducing the likelihood that some suits succeed in curtailing our freedoms even more, in the name of "security" . . . and that is in addition to the very real likelihood that foreign governments cause some real damage through cyberattacks . . .
I am not one to become excited over stuff, yet I think this is probably one of the most important threads ever . . . am I the only one to realize this? This is THE MAN admitting that he needs us! And this is in everyone's best interest! You think our suits are bad? Try some Asian (and that was not racially motivated, trust me) or 3rd world suits . . . those people redefine the concept of the infliction of suffering . . . I know, I LIVE in a 3rd world hellhole (Colombia) . . .
I believe that in this instance, the interview guest should obtain a user ID and answer as many questions as he sees fit, as opposed to the limited selection passed on to him.
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What a shame, the whole thing. Just awful, depressing, and demoralizing.
Innocent woman murdered, a bright (and fellow tribe member to boot - yes, I still consider him a fellow tribe member in spite of what he did) man's life down the drain, two kids with no parents . . .
I hope she rests in peace, I hope he gets help for his problems (and to anyone who wishes him worse still, YOU go and live in a fucking California State Penitentiary, specially as a white man . . . he will pay for his crime for sure - I hope he has it in him to fight like an animal) and I hope the kids are and remain in good hands.
How awful. It might happen everyday, but this one gets to me. At least, at least, he WAS guilty, thus he was not wrongly convicted owing to his being an arrogant, abrasive geek. No logic to my relief of course, but part of me feels relieved. The thought of him being innocent and spending the better part of the remainder of his life in the pen straight fucking haunted me.
Sigh.
does it run Linux?
The people behind that ABSOLUTE POS of a site ought to be SHOT.
That has got to be the BIGGEST POS I have EVER seen.
First, yeah, run an illegal torrent site, but bend over and spread them as soon as a textbook publisher says "boo" (read their front page, what a bunch of pussies)
Then, one must sign up to see the subject index. The sign up form is a piece of trash -*horrid. Then, after you sign up, you go to the subject index and find that it is "temporarily disabled".
If you read the bottom of the thing, what do you see? One of the dickhead fucktards says he won't make the same mistake of using the script they are using again, well, if it is that bad QUIT FUCKING USING IT.
I hope one of them reads this.
And how pathetic, placing ads, offering ads, and begging for donations all over the place . . . those fucks are scammers is what they are, and brainless incompetent pussies to boot.
Shoot them I say.
That woman needs to have her head examined. I just (thankfully) finished working on a small team that included a woman, and she was THE most ignorant, illiterate, incompetent, clueless, arrogant, lazy, backstabbing, lying, trash talking, rude, and cheating sack of slime IMAGINABLE . . . Yet will I assert that this applies across the board to women? NO Only a sexist idiot would do that.
I dual boot Ubuntu Feisty and Win XP SP2. About a year or so ago, while on XP, I noticed that my ISP had began to throttle bittorrent . . . I tried a few techniques, and nothing worked, so, I immediately rebooted into Feisty and . . . ta-ra! I was pleasantly surprised to find that their throttling is completely nullified when on Ubuntu Feisty. Has been that way since, also noticed that switching to a better router (from a Dlink to a Huawei) made no difference. I use the default client on GNOME . . . yet another reason why I only boot into Windows about once every two weeks.
I would agree, except for the fact that I personally can't reward dishonesty . . .
Congrats!
That, Sir, is called beating them at their own game.
My hat's off to you.
. . . I can't believe that the SOB thinks he will simply get away with perjuring himself in that manner . . . shows complete contempt and disdain for the court and the legal system . . . I'd have him hung high and short if it were up to me . . .
I am sorry to hear about your daughter.
I agree wholeheartedly.
As far as his personality, let the geek/nerd/hacker with the super pleasant personality cast the first stone.
I admire him and his work a great deal, and find that it speaks for itself.
Moe
I about fell out of my chair the second I read the word "terrorist" next to "open source" . . . I hope I am not the only one alarmed at this . . .JUST WHAT WE FN NEED, THE WORD "TERRORIST" BECOMING ASSOCIATED WITH "OPEN SOURCE" IN THE SHEEPLE CONSCIOUSNESS . . . NO!
Something needs to be done about this . . . boycott anyone? I am willing to devote time and effort toward doing something about this. Anyone interested please private message me . . .
I am dead serious. Down here, you are more likely to not EVER imagine that some TOTAL hottie like wants to jump your bones FOR REAL . . . In Tropical Colombia, the mujeres chase YOU!
LOL
Yet, at least, he lived to finish that last novel. At least, he lived a full life. I hope that, wherever he is, he finds it wonderful. RIP Mr. Clarke
That is what I want to know fellows . . . how do these compare to what we currently have in terms of failures?
Every time I hear about one getting his or her head blown off, it just makes my day. Why do I say this do you ask? Because I have been a WITNESS to not police brutality but Police ATROCITY. They are half the problem most of the time: Wasting taxpayer money, or causing it to be wasted. Eroding people's respect for the justice system. Planting evidence. Murdering suspects. Bullying law abiding citizens. Taking bribes. Stealing drugs and/or cash from suspects. Perjuring themselves in court, on the stand. Lying on affidavits. Fucking up cases for the prosecution thereby causing the GUILTY to go free. Fabricating evidence, thereby causing the INNOCENT to end up in prison, or executed. Biggest criminals in any ghetto are the police themselves. Being plain little punk ass bitches hiding behind their uniform and badge and gun . . . you don't see guys and "women" like them acting like that minus the uniform/badge/gun . . . FUCK THE POLICE
What is this doing on the front page? The story is biased, offensive, and inflammatory.
An attempt at debating a subject that cannot be quantified is a FOOL'S ERRAND.
Even the VATICAN has stated that one thing is faith and one thing is science.
This kind of discussion is ridiculous . . .
What if I told everyone that I know a programmer, a white, educated, and very logical geek who - at the same time - practices HAITIAN VODOU as his religion?
If I did that, people would totally start flaming and humilliating, and it is NOT COOL - WTF?
The topic is similar to sexuality. It requires tolerance and respect. It does not lend itself to logical debate, as the individual's experience cannot be QUANTIFIED.
Bah. I am going to Hacker News now.
You are looking at it from a strategic point of view, and your take on it falls in line with conventional military thought, which is exactly the type of thinking that leads to defeat in an irregular warfare scenario - which is what would happen in Cuba. The Cubans would not attempt a conventional defense to an American invasion, because they know that they would lose, the don't have the resources for that. They would defend in an irregular manner, and would have every advantage in that scenario: defending their own territory (moral advantage) on terrain they know well, a territory that happens to be HOT, HUMID, JUNGLE (which they are used to, as opposed to US troops) where most US armored vehicles cannot travel (and with enough natural cover that air power cannot be as effective as it otherwise would be, enough cover to where no matter how much you bomb an area, there are still places for defenders to hide after the bombing stops) with the added advantages that their troops are motivated, well-trained, disciplined, and well led - and they do have PLENTY of small arms (and even heavy weapons) and ammunition, which is all they would really need . . .
I am not inclined to delve deeply into the factors that would be to their advantage in this post, as what I have made reference to is pretty clear to someone who has read up on what I am talking about. I do, however, see your logic and find this exchange agreeable to a certain extent.
You bring up the Soviets, yet any agreements reached with the old Soviet government are no longer in place, if I am not mistaken, owing to the fact that the Soviet government no longer exists.
You bring up logistics. Well, in Vietnam the US forces had all the logistic support any Armed Force could ever hope for, and that did not make much difference. They had control of the sea and air, and could concentrate more offensive power in any one place than their opponents. Total material superiority. Did that make a difference in the end?
You bring up Cuban resistance having a supply problem. I would agree, in a protracted scenario, yet the thing is, that would not be a major factor in the first few weeks, which is all the time they would need for US casualties to skyrocket, the UN to be brought in as a "peacekeeping" force to basically hold the cities, and for US forces to be withdrawn.
And yes, the US did invade Cuba before, and sustained many casualties, fighting an enemy that was not determined to fight to the last man, the way the Cubans would in this hypothetical scenario.
I would suggest (and this is in a friendly tone) reading some of the WWII Pacific combat accounts. The parallels that can be drawn between both scenarios are plentiful and awful direct.
The comparison with Iraq is a purely tactical one.
If a comparative handful of malnourished, under equipped, underarmed, under trained, and under led insurgents can hold their own against US troops, I would bet my computer that Cuban troops, defending their own territory, could indeed inflict 10k+ casualties in the first month. As I stated in my previous post, I read military history, and have read firsthand accounts of the Spanish-American War including accounts of combat operations in Cuba, and I have spoken at lenght to a few American WWII Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam combat Veterans (and I also watch the news) so that conclusion is not based on speculation . . . 10k+ would happen the same way that tens of thousands of casualties happened in Vietnam, the same way they happen in any other theater.
Would you have ever thought that 3,201 (and counting) US troops would fall to hostile fire in Iraq? Ever? How did that EVER happen?
Well, the insurgents in Iraq, armed and equipped with VERY little and without much training under their belt, are definitely holding their own against US troops . . . I think that the highly motivated, Soviet trained (as in the people who train Cuban troops were in turn trained by the Soviets, thus Cuban training consists of Soviet military doctrine) and comparatively (better than those who are holding their own against US troops right this second) well armed and equipped Cuban troops would - particularly on their own terrain - be able to effectively defend their island, because the number of casualties they would inflict are not the type of losses modern US commanders or the US public are willing to accept - and the Government knows this, so after the first couple of weeks, once US casualties reach 10,000+, it would be over.
This is not the 1940's, when 12,000 US troops at a time could be lost in an action against the Japanese without many repercussions at all. And that is not counting the casualties that the weather and terrain would inflict.
I read Military history.
Mr. Gygax's work certainly filled my childhood/early teens with a universe of wonder, into which my mind would retreat quite often . . . thank you Mr. Gygax, RIP.
You bet snekernet . . . while I realize that many might be very skeptical when it comes to anything related to suits and uniforms, I strongly believe that it is in our best interest to do our best to work with them.
I would really hate for The Gov to be able to use incidents related to cyber attacks from foreign governments as justification for repressing more of our technological freedoms . . . how would any of you like it if the term "hacker" took a place next to the word "terrorist" . . . they have already it made it synonymous with "criminal" . . . would not be hard at all, and the only way that the powers that be are going to be able to defend the country is by obtaining the help of those that are QUALIFIED and COMPETENT in those matters . . . guys/gals could avert disasters earn medals, and swing public perception in our favor, thereby greatly reducing the likelihood that some suits succeed in curtailing our freedoms even more, in the name of "security" . . . and that is in addition to the very real likelihood that foreign governments cause some real damage through cyberattacks . . .
First time I WISH I HAD MOD POINTS!
So what if he/she is anon . . .
I could not agree more.
I am not one to become excited over stuff, yet I think this is probably one of the most important threads ever . . . am I the only one to realize this? This is THE MAN admitting that he needs us! And this is in everyone's best interest! You think our suits are bad? Try some Asian (and that was not racially motivated, trust me) or 3rd world suits . . . those people redefine the concept of the infliction of suffering . . . I know, I LIVE in a 3rd world hellhole (Colombia) . . .
I believe that in this instance, the interview guest should obtain a user ID and answer as many questions as he sees fit, as opposed to the limited selection passed on to him.
This is that important.
General,
Do you believe that the combined arms concept exists within the cyber theater?