When technology is ubiquitous enough, the reason will be "because we can do so cheaply". If the FBI had the means to monitor the entire country 24/7 (and a belief that they wouldn't face legal consequences for it -- whether due to it being legal, being declared "reasonable" search, or just that no one will prosecute them), I'm pretty sure they would do so.
When resources are scarce, the threshold is relatively high before you're considered enough of a threat to monitor, track, and compile reports on. When computers can do that, the threshold of suspicion can be much lower, all in the name of efficiency.
God as portrayed in the bible is represented as having killed off nearly all of humanity for worshipping the wrong god, and told the Israelites to go slaughter various people in order to take their lands. The Old Testament God is a wrathful, vengeful god, and frankly is a bit scary (and a jerk). Not all Christians subscribe to those teachings, and see the New Testament portrayal of God's message as more meaningful guidance for today's life. I imagine that many muslims feel similarly about the Quran: Yes, it calls for this and that, but no, we're not going to behead people or stone our daughters.
Of course, there are also crazy people that use their book of choice as justification for being crazy. I don't know enough about the Muslim religion to feel comfortable blaming the religion for this, rather than crazy zealots. After all, Christians have their own share of zealots, and many Christians think those people set a poor example.
Also, it seems very much to be more a story of political, interpersonal, and family relations that happens to be set in medieval fantasy than it is about fantasy with some personal drama on the side. I've only read 80% of one of the books, but it was very good. (:
Seriously, though: http://cygwin.com/ has windows binaries of common GNU tools, like wget, and can automagically add itself to your path when you install it. (I think? Maybe you have to do that part manually.) Then, you can wget to your heart's content.
Do they really strip the meta-information? I was under the impression that if you didn't strip it yourself before uploading, everyone could see where you were when you took the photos.
Your grandkids may like to see the photos of you having fun on your trip, or finger-painting with pasta sauce, or cleaning a dog that is covered in mud, or anything. Video is even more precious. Combined, they're a way for your future descendents (or future self) to remember what life was like for you at this moment in time.
I realize that you're railing about video game characters as not notable, but in the process you mentioned some of the most iconic female characters (outside perhaps of Princess Toadstool?;)) in gaming history.
The Tifa/Aeris characters, and more importantly the death of Aeris, was something which influenced many gamers very strongly. This was one of the first times we had such a pivotal character ripped away from us, permanently. It affected a massive audience. Saying that Aeris isn't notable would be (for gamers) similar to claiming that Princess Leia isn't notable -- absolute rubbish. Similarly, Bayonetta (though I haven't played it) was notable as being a main-title character who was overtly sexual. Lara Croft was one of the early ones, but she wasn't overtly so -- Bayonetta as a character was designed to challenge a lot of the stereotypes that many games seem to portray about women. Like Lara Croft, she is one of the very few strong female leads in video games. Unlike Lara, she doesn't do it by trying to be a tomboy, but rather goes the opposite direction. I'd say that's worthy of a Wikipedia page.
I agree, though, that OMM's page should not have been deleted. Just as comedy or musical acts from before I was born have pages, I think it's reasonable for OMM to have a page.
On the other hand, look at the infrastructure difference between the US and other countries. Sure, we have rural areas, but in urban areas we aren't getting the level of service that happens in Japan or Korea or even (I think?) some European countries. This is after having "loaned" telecom companies massive amounts of money to build infrastructure, and they (mostly) did not.
When you consider that everyone and their mom is now using Youtube, and wanting to do video phone calls, Skype, streaming Netflix, etc, it's hard to argue with Cisco's conclusions (at least, as the summary stated them;)). In five or ten years, demand for streaming video will likely be even higher, and that's just the most obvious one.
That was insightful, but brings up an interesting question: How can you tell when you're too fatigued to drive safely? Clearly there are signs, at which point you are FAR too tired to drive safely, but how do you know where the line is? I'd hate to be driving tired and not realize it.
I think you're being excessively pedantic (and know it). You're right: it's not called urine until it's filtered by the kidneys. However, the originaly post's point was that all of the toxins and water that are filtered out (to become urine) are present in the blood. I don't think any of us disagree on any of those points, unless we are doing so just tobe contrary.:-)
Were they actually delivered, or were they merely advertised? I know that often what marketing sells as feasible is far from what is actually delivered.
It's true. If you set out to behave ethically in all your endeavours, and are honest and forthright with people, the only attacks people can make against you will be lies. Sure, you'll face attacks, but you don't have anything that you would need to be actively hiding to stay "safe".
I think that what he meant was, the result was what some might term "karmatically appropriate" (even if we don't properly understand a true meaning of karma). Here's how:
- Many people see Anonymous as posing a threat of illegal stuff. (or Stuff we don't like, depending on who you ask.) - HBGary Federal positions themselves as someone who can identify who Anonymous are, so that we can punish them for illegal stuff. - Anonymous retaliates, and exposes all of HBGary Federal's communications. - Apparently, HBGary Federal was engaging in shady stuff, and we'd never have known had they not targeted Anonymous.
Did anything illegal happen? The letter suggests that forgery, wire fraud, and computer fraud might have taken place and that Congress should investigate the ways that private contractors turn their military contracting experience on private targets.
(quoting Ars.) It's most interesting that the questionably-legal things that they were pursuing would likely never have been known, had they not attempted to "bring down" Anonymous. The company was probably small enough that a whistleblower would be unlikely to be involved, and they were generally under Anonymous' radar until they pissed them off.
It's fascinating: most of us dislike the idea of vigilante justice. However, in this case, it was directly responsible for uncovering something which might be wrongdoing (hence the call for an investigation). Wow.
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When technology is ubiquitous enough, the reason will be "because we can do so cheaply". If the FBI had the means to monitor the entire country 24/7 (and a belief that they wouldn't face legal consequences for it -- whether due to it being legal, being declared "reasonable" search, or just that no one will prosecute them), I'm pretty sure they would do so.
When resources are scarce, the threshold is relatively high before you're considered enough of a threat to monitor, track, and compile reports on. When computers can do that, the threshold of suspicion can be much lower, all in the name of efficiency.
God as portrayed in the bible is represented as having killed off nearly all of humanity for worshipping the wrong god, and told the Israelites to go slaughter various people in order to take their lands. The Old Testament God is a wrathful, vengeful god, and frankly is a bit scary (and a jerk). Not all Christians subscribe to those teachings, and see the New Testament portrayal of God's message as more meaningful guidance for today's life. I imagine that many muslims feel similarly about the Quran: Yes, it calls for this and that, but no, we're not going to behead people or stone our daughters.
Of course, there are also crazy people that use their book of choice as justification for being crazy. I don't know enough about the Muslim religion to feel comfortable blaming the religion for this, rather than crazy zealots. After all, Christians have their own share of zealots, and many Christians think those people set a poor example.
Also, it seems very much to be more a story of political, interpersonal, and family relations that happens to be set in medieval fantasy than it is about fantasy with some personal drama on the side. I've only read 80% of one of the books, but it was very good. (:
I thought optical discs suffered from bit rot?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
http://www.pcmech.com/article/how-to-avoid-bit-rot/
http://martik-scorp.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-is-bit-rot.html
(I'm not affiliated with any of these sites, they're just what showed up on Google.)
I'd trust data written to magnetic media more than I would that written to a DVD or CD, and the larger capacity is just a bonus.
apt-get install cygwin
;)
Seriously, though: http://cygwin.com/ has windows binaries of common GNU tools, like wget, and can automagically add itself to your path when you install it. (I think? Maybe you have to do that part manually.) Then, you can wget to your heart's content.
Do they really strip the meta-information? I was under the impression that if you didn't strip it yourself before uploading, everyone could see where you were when you took the photos.
Many people upload directly from their phone, and then might delete stuff on the phone to make room for new ones.
Your grandkids may like to see the photos of you having fun on your trip, or finger-painting with pasta sauce, or cleaning a dog that is covered in mud, or anything. Video is even more precious. Combined, they're a way for your future descendents (or future self) to remember what life was like for you at this moment in time.
One would imagine that the gravity differences would make it clear, too, but they're also welcome to keep walking until they find the walls.
Maybe someone can find some clues as to where it went.
I realize that you're railing about video game characters as not notable, but in the process you mentioned some of the most iconic female characters (outside perhaps of Princess Toadstool? ;)) in gaming history.
The Tifa/Aeris characters, and more importantly the death of Aeris, was something which influenced many gamers very strongly. This was one of the first times we had such a pivotal character ripped away from us, permanently. It affected a massive audience. Saying that Aeris isn't notable would be (for gamers) similar to claiming that Princess Leia isn't notable -- absolute rubbish. Similarly, Bayonetta (though I haven't played it) was notable as being a main-title character who was overtly sexual. Lara Croft was one of the early ones, but she wasn't overtly so -- Bayonetta as a character was designed to challenge a lot of the stereotypes that many games seem to portray about women. Like Lara Croft, she is one of the very few strong female leads in video games. Unlike Lara, she doesn't do it by trying to be a tomboy, but rather goes the opposite direction. I'd say that's worthy of a Wikipedia page.
I agree, though, that OMM's page should not have been deleted. Just as comedy or musical acts from before I was born have pages, I think it's reasonable for OMM to have a page.
Well, at least take your shoes off, then.
Oh great, now he's going to kick your packages!
On the other hand, look at the infrastructure difference between the US and other countries. Sure, we have rural areas, but in urban areas we aren't getting the level of service that happens in Japan or Korea or even (I think?) some European countries. This is after having "loaned" telecom companies massive amounts of money to build infrastructure, and they (mostly) did not.
When you consider that everyone and their mom is now using Youtube, and wanting to do video phone calls, Skype, streaming Netflix, etc, it's hard to argue with Cisco's conclusions (at least, as the summary stated them ;)). In five or ten years, demand for streaming video will likely be even higher, and that's just the most obvious one.
If we stopped being individuals, would we still be us? Would they be human? Their cultural values sound like they might be totally alien.
That was insightful, but brings up an interesting question: How can you tell when you're too fatigued to drive safely? Clearly there are signs, at which point you are FAR too tired to drive safely, but how do you know where the line is? I'd hate to be driving tired and not realize it.
I think you're being excessively pedantic (and know it). You're right: it's not called urine until it's filtered by the kidneys. However, the originaly post's point was that all of the toxins and water that are filtered out (to become urine) are present in the blood. I don't think any of us disagree on any of those points, unless we are doing so just tobe contrary. :-)
And if you don't yet, consider it training in being a geek, How To Avoid NSFW Links. :)
Were they actually delivered, or were they merely advertised? I know that often what marketing sells as feasible is far from what is actually delivered.
Better to swim with the debris than get carried under by a large (flooded) container that used to float.
Not only that, they (in theory) did it all while staying anonymous. I wouldn't even begin to know how to do that part of it.
Yes, but the former is ethical and the latter is decidedly NOT.
It's true. If you set out to behave ethically in all your endeavours, and are honest and forthright with people, the only attacks people can make against you will be lies. Sure, you'll face attacks, but you don't have anything that you would need to be actively hiding to stay "safe".
I think that what he meant was, the result was what some might term "karmatically appropriate" (even if we don't properly understand a true meaning of karma). Here's how:
- Many people see Anonymous as posing a threat of illegal stuff. (or Stuff we don't like, depending on who you ask.)
- HBGary Federal positions themselves as someone who can identify who Anonymous are, so that we can punish them for illegal stuff.
- Anonymous retaliates, and exposes all of HBGary Federal's communications.
- Apparently, HBGary Federal was engaging in shady stuff, and we'd never have known had they not targeted Anonymous.
Did anything illegal happen? The letter suggests that forgery, wire fraud, and computer fraud might have taken place and that Congress should investigate the ways that private contractors turn their military contracting experience on private targets.
(quoting Ars.) It's most interesting that the questionably-legal things that they were pursuing would likely never have been known, had they not attempted to "bring down" Anonymous. The company was probably small enough that a whistleblower would be unlikely to be involved, and they were generally under Anonymous' radar until they pissed them off.
It's fascinating: most of us dislike the idea of vigilante justice. However, in this case, it was directly responsible for uncovering something which might be wrongdoing (hence the call for an investigation). Wow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage_in_the_United_States
You might want to be careful all the same, if avoiding marriage and divorce risks is your goal.