"You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike."
The police, of course and for the benefit of society is more like Pokemon, "Gotta catch 'em all!"
Imagine this for a second. 6 people are able to do massive hacks around the world. Remove one or all of them, and expecting at least 6 more to pop up in a world population of 7 billion is quite nearly inevitable.
But this is different than terrorism. In terrorism, you have to have access to money, IDs, explosive equipment, and be willing to die for your crazy cause. All a hacker needs is a PC, a net connection, and time.
I'm convinced that police could theoretically arrest every single terrorist that does or could exist (that isn't blowing themselves up before arrest) given enough time. But I don't believe they'd catch every hacker even if they worked the entire age of the universe given current technology and trends. And one day, someone is going to pull off the mother of all hacks that will have devastating consequences... but...
It won't be a lone wolf. As many hackers as may exist in the wild, far more work for governments. Why? Not on principle, but because what could be better for a hacker than to hack all day, being paid, and having complete immunity for your actions. No, you can't go bragging on Twitter. But I doubt the hackers that took the Iranian centrifuges cared about bragging, because the entire world saw their work already.
As children, we're scared of the boogeyman. I would think that as adults, we would stop being afraid of imaginary beings. Then again, people still talk about defeating Satan every Sunday. For me, the only thing bread and wine beats is a bad Caesar salad.
But, go ahead, pass your laws. We don't want any Satyrs running around. We might worship freaks, and that's idolatry.
Then again, if you know diddly squat about how DNA actually works, there is no realistic worry about actually creating a human animal hybrid beyond move a gene here or there between very genetically close species. The fact that we even worry I think shows species egotism. Like we're going to become hideous mole people or something.
This is the same line of thinking that leads to outlawing cloning, which ironically, happens every time twins are born.
Boycott? Who the hell uses Aaron's for computer equipment or any rent-to-own? They make Best Buy look like like a bargain basement. Paying $1200 for a $300 computer isn't very bright in the first place. Asking people sharp enough to avoid the scam in the first place to boycott doesn't really work.
We're already doomed... I hear the next hot show out is Let's Make a Survivor So You Think America's Got Idol. It's starring Carrot Top and a walrus as the host.;)
No one there? Forgetting the tech people, there are some big name celebrities on G+, ones who are on the cutting edge, like Ashton Kutcher. There are other celebs on their, like Kanye and Soulja Boy (though they are not big posters).
Am I the only person on Earth that could give two shits about what celebrities are doing?
If it wasn't for them, Twitter would still be a little techy hang out and not the go to place for things like middle east protests and breaking news of such real time that it's completely transformed the speed at which the entire wired world operates. Celebs bring fans, fans bring audience, and audiences bring ecosystem.
A total geek hangout is fine, but I wouldn't call/. a social network. Big fish, big pond, little fish, little pond. So, for all the social media developper geeks, it matters not if you give a shit about them, but if they give a shit about your platform. And people who are developing the really big ideas that are changing the world do give a shit, because an otherwise brilliant idea or piece a code isn't worth shit if its shunned by high profile people.
It's a numbers game with certain people carrying higher numbers than others. And any forward looking geek that says they don't give a shit about the numbers is either a get off my lawn text gopher user or lying. Even Torvalds gives a shit about the user numbers, and that's pretty arcane shit that Lady Gaga probably knows nothing about.
Unless you are just throwing up that smug middle finger at celebs just cause you are geeking out and being an anti-social rebel... in which case, carry on and keep up the good work, Rebel Without a Social Graph.:P
Refueling... Even with the best drive, you don't want to carry all your fuel with you. A quick circling stop there could boost speed and pick up more fuel, not to mention much needed gravity vacation.
Yeah, one percent of Caucasians are immune to HIV. Not 1% of people, just 1% of caucasians. HIV goes airborne, bye bye human race that can't afford drugs, which is 99.9% of them once demand goes to 100%.
Adaptability rarely happens over a short period with slowly reproducing creatures. Virii, reproducing at an unimaginably faster rate can adapt faster. It's a race we can never win.
Cool Ranch is by far the greatest creation ever. Taco was a conspiracy brought on by the global banks investment in the Doritos brand. But they couldn't silence Cool Ranch freedom of choice! I mean, can you even eat Taco with Dr. Pepper and call yourself a lover of freedom? No, it's horrible and eats away at the mind! Cool Ranch and Dr. Pepper will lead to world peace and we will not be silenced!
As long as they PROVIDE the driver, I don't care either. The whole free driver thing started because they didn't provide, and we didn't have a choice. Either you hacked a driver together, or you were SOL.
Better yet, using a time code like Google Authenticator. Ok, you have my password and my timecode. You now have 60 seconds to use it, and diddly squat after that. (Of course, if you just use a HEX time code and no password with non-visible shared secret, you're even more secure.)
The best security is something you can do regardless of who is watching, for instance even a USB time-coded key generator. Of course, your concern then is to keep the key generator from being stolen.
Yes, but they can still finger print you and confirm if you are lying. That's the real issue here. You may not have to have a card at all anymore. What terrifies civil libertarians is what you do with a technology that is not 100% accurate. What happens with Joe Smoe's picture pulls up a 3 time rapist with a warrent out? What happens when the system sucks Joe in, and he has an uphill battle fighting a computer over his real identity. Yes, in all likelihood, Joe will get out... but when? Days, weeks, or months? After his face in on the front page, his wife leaves him, and he loses his job and gets death threats for the rest of his life?
No one there? Forgetting the tech people, there are some big name celebrities on G+, ones who are on the cutting edge, like Ashton Kutcher. There are other celebs on their, like Kanye and Soulja Boy (though they are not big posters).
The question is, what happens with someone like Lady Gaga joins? For Twitter, it was Oprah. Facebook is different, though, because it's more of a friend-to-friend. And I think G+ is more Twitter-ish (start putting big names in your Following circle, and it is a VERY busy place), and so yes, it may be small now, but it will explode.
10 million users in 2 weeks for an invite only service is crazy growth! And the moment a Lady Gaga or Obama goes on there, private or public, that will be acknowledgement that this phenom is real.
I personally use it like an addict, though more like Twitter than Facebook. It has enough friend-to-friend, though, that I don't need Facebook and can still post to family and friends without switching networks. As the noise grows in public, I'll back off a bit, just like I did on twitter, and keep to a closer circle of followers and friends, but still engaging publicly.
The best thing I can say about G+ is that if you want to use it like Facebook, you can. Like Twitter, you can. Like neither, you can. It's really what you make of it.
Now that's pretty interesting. What happens when Facebook and/or Twitter decides they want to block Microsoft if it ever becomes a rival or a deal falls through?
I know, I know, Microsoft is courting both, Twitter for its firehose, and Facebook with Skype. But from the vantage of Facebook, for instance, doesn't really want Microsoft competing with them anymore than they want Google competing with them. Maybe Microsoft has assured them that it's a tie-in for Office 365 and/or Windows 7 media... but that's still overlapping Facebook in some areas, for instance, Facebook is working on music.
And at the end of the day, who trusts Microsoft and their embrace and extend strategy. Facebook and Twitter have shown a protective attitude too. Twitter bought up major 3rd party apps, and dropped support for any new ones, and the Google/Twitter firehose deal fell through. Facebook has shown even more aggression. They are a platform, NOT an API, in their minds.
Mod up parent, couldn't have said it better. Then again, this is China where having a smart phone means you're rich. They haven't gone through their MySpace phase. It's like when I went to Japan over a decade and a half ago and saw Doragon Bru (had to look that up to remember). All I could think was, oh for crying out loud, we're still stuck on freaking Power Rangers. I told a friend there that we'll enjoy it in America too years after I'd returned. That's where China is, round about 2004-2005.
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."
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"You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike."
The police, of course and for the benefit of society is more like Pokemon, "Gotta catch 'em all!"
Imagine this for a second. 6 people are able to do massive hacks around the world. Remove one or all of them, and expecting at least 6 more to pop up in a world population of 7 billion is quite nearly inevitable.
But this is different than terrorism. In terrorism, you have to have access to money, IDs, explosive equipment, and be willing to die for your crazy cause. All a hacker needs is a PC, a net connection, and time.
I'm convinced that police could theoretically arrest every single terrorist that does or could exist (that isn't blowing themselves up before arrest) given enough time. But I don't believe they'd catch every hacker even if they worked the entire age of the universe given current technology and trends. And one day, someone is going to pull off the mother of all hacks that will have devastating consequences... but...
It won't be a lone wolf. As many hackers as may exist in the wild, far more work for governments. Why? Not on principle, but because what could be better for a hacker than to hack all day, being paid, and having complete immunity for your actions. No, you can't go bragging on Twitter. But I doubt the hackers that took the Iranian centrifuges cared about bragging, because the entire world saw their work already.
... the airport.
M-M-M-M-Monster douche!
Great idea, in reverse. I'll set up an email auto-responder that if you want to talk to me, message me on Google+.
I can tell you and I will be great pen pals... sorry you'll be the only one of us getting all the spam.
"Google was at the top of the search portals and the search engines industry with a score of 80 out of 100, although that is down from 86 last year."
... Slashdot is populated by geeks, story at 11.
Thank you captain obvious and your team of common sense avengers.
As children, we're scared of the boogeyman. I would think that as adults, we would stop being afraid of imaginary beings. Then again, people still talk about defeating Satan every Sunday. For me, the only thing bread and wine beats is a bad Caesar salad.
But, go ahead, pass your laws. We don't want any Satyrs running around. We might worship freaks, and that's idolatry.
Then again, if you know diddly squat about how DNA actually works, there is no realistic worry about actually creating a human animal hybrid beyond move a gene here or there between very genetically close species. The fact that we even worry I think shows species egotism. Like we're going to become hideous mole people or something.
This is the same line of thinking that leads to outlawing cloning, which ironically, happens every time twins are born.
Boycott? Who the hell uses Aaron's for computer equipment or any rent-to-own? They make Best Buy look like like a bargain basement. Paying $1200 for a $300 computer isn't very bright in the first place. Asking people sharp enough to avoid the scam in the first place to boycott doesn't really work.
We're already doomed... I hear the next hot show out is Let's Make a Survivor So You Think America's Got Idol. It's starring Carrot Top and a walrus as the host. ;)
Am I the only person on Earth that could give two shits about what celebrities are doing?
If it wasn't for them, Twitter would still be a little techy hang out and not the go to place for things like middle east protests and breaking news of such real time that it's completely transformed the speed at which the entire wired world operates. Celebs bring fans, fans bring audience, and audiences bring ecosystem.
A total geek hangout is fine, but I wouldn't call /. a social network. Big fish, big pond, little fish, little pond. So, for all the social media developper geeks, it matters not if you give a shit about them, but if they give a shit about your platform. And people who are developing the really big ideas that are changing the world do give a shit, because an otherwise brilliant idea or piece a code isn't worth shit if its shunned by high profile people.
It's a numbers game with certain people carrying higher numbers than others. And any forward looking geek that says they don't give a shit about the numbers is either a get off my lawn text gopher user or lying. Even Torvalds gives a shit about the user numbers, and that's pretty arcane shit that Lady Gaga probably knows nothing about.
Unless you are just throwing up that smug middle finger at celebs just cause you are geeking out and being an anti-social rebel... in which case, carry on and keep up the good work, Rebel Without a Social Graph. :P
I never got past level 3 in Q-bert! First Pacman, then Donkey Kong, now Q-bert. This is getting serious.
What's the freaking point of all this just to avoid using proxy? At least you can mask the purpose of a proxy. This is advertising only 1 purpose.
Refueling... Even with the best drive, you don't want to carry all your fuel with you. A quick circling stop there could boost speed and pick up more fuel, not to mention much needed gravity vacation.
Yeah, one percent of Caucasians are immune to HIV. Not 1% of people, just 1% of caucasians. HIV goes airborne, bye bye human race that can't afford drugs, which is 99.9% of them once demand goes to 100%.
Adaptability rarely happens over a short period with slowly reproducing creatures. Virii, reproducing at an unimaginably faster rate can adapt faster. It's a race we can never win.
... welcome our new human killing viral monkey overlords. Better than those DAMN DIRTY APES!
Cool Ranch is by far the greatest creation ever. Taco was a conspiracy brought on by the global banks investment in the Doritos brand. But they couldn't silence Cool Ranch freedom of choice! I mean, can you even eat Taco with Dr. Pepper and call yourself a lover of freedom? No, it's horrible and eats away at the mind! Cool Ranch and Dr. Pepper will lead to world peace and we will not be silenced!
Down with the Taco Conspiracy!
As long as they PROVIDE the driver, I don't care either. The whole free driver thing started because they didn't provide, and we didn't have a choice. Either you hacked a driver together, or you were SOL.
Today, companies do much better.
Better yet, using a time code like Google Authenticator. Ok, you have my password and my timecode. You now have 60 seconds to use it, and diddly squat after that. (Of course, if you just use a HEX time code and no password with non-visible shared secret, you're even more secure.)
The best security is something you can do regardless of who is watching, for instance even a USB time-coded key generator. Of course, your concern then is to keep the key generator from being stolen.
Yes, but they can still finger print you and confirm if you are lying. That's the real issue here. You may not have to have a card at all anymore. What terrifies civil libertarians is what you do with a technology that is not 100% accurate. What happens with Joe Smoe's picture pulls up a 3 time rapist with a warrent out? What happens when the system sucks Joe in, and he has an uphill battle fighting a computer over his real identity. Yes, in all likelihood, Joe will get out... but when? Days, weeks, or months? After his face in on the front page, his wife leaves him, and he loses his job and gets death threats for the rest of his life?
Ok, this is like 20 questions... um, I'll take the first guess. Are you a poll dancer?
No one there? Forgetting the tech people, there are some big name celebrities on G+, ones who are on the cutting edge, like Ashton Kutcher. There are other celebs on their, like Kanye and Soulja Boy (though they are not big posters).
The question is, what happens with someone like Lady Gaga joins? For Twitter, it was Oprah. Facebook is different, though, because it's more of a friend-to-friend. And I think G+ is more Twitter-ish (start putting big names in your Following circle, and it is a VERY busy place), and so yes, it may be small now, but it will explode.
10 million users in 2 weeks for an invite only service is crazy growth! And the moment a Lady Gaga or Obama goes on there, private or public, that will be acknowledgement that this phenom is real.
I personally use it like an addict, though more like Twitter than Facebook. It has enough friend-to-friend, though, that I don't need Facebook and can still post to family and friends without switching networks. As the noise grows in public, I'll back off a bit, just like I did on twitter, and keep to a closer circle of followers and friends, but still engaging publicly.
The best thing I can say about G+ is that if you want to use it like Facebook, you can. Like Twitter, you can. Like neither, you can. It's really what you make of it.
Now that's pretty interesting. What happens when Facebook and/or Twitter decides they want to block Microsoft if it ever becomes a rival or a deal falls through?
I know, I know, Microsoft is courting both, Twitter for its firehose, and Facebook with Skype. But from the vantage of Facebook, for instance, doesn't really want Microsoft competing with them anymore than they want Google competing with them. Maybe Microsoft has assured them that it's a tie-in for Office 365 and/or Windows 7 media... but that's still overlapping Facebook in some areas, for instance, Facebook is working on music.
And at the end of the day, who trusts Microsoft and their embrace and extend strategy. Facebook and Twitter have shown a protective attitude too. Twitter bought up major 3rd party apps, and dropped support for any new ones, and the Google/Twitter firehose deal fell through. Facebook has shown even more aggression. They are a platform, NOT an API, in their minds.
Mod up parent, couldn't have said it better. Then again, this is China where having a smart phone means you're rich. They haven't gone through their MySpace phase. It's like when I went to Japan over a decade and a half ago and saw Doragon Bru (had to look that up to remember). All I could think was, oh for crying out loud, we're still stuck on freaking Power Rangers. I told a friend there that we'll enjoy it in America too years after I'd returned. That's where China is, round about 2004-2005.
Just wait for the DVD content lockers just like the MP3 content lockers. MPAA will shit itself, then lose. Netflix will be fighting for its life then.
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."