2) Protect Soldiers who under orders committed torture from retaliation
They deserve no protection, nor would any be provided by any law, that I know of, world-wide.
I saw a documentary where they interviewed the "soldiers" who actually did the dirty. They spent over an hour an half playing the victim. Telling us, teary eyed, how THEY were exploited, how it's affected THEM, and most importantly how it's everybody else's fault but theirs.
They reminded me of 8 year olds. Malicious 8 year olds.
"It is indeed an historical moment. Yet again another peaceful revolution right on schedule."
Yes because Obamarama is going to kiss it all better. Everything will be fine again in a few hours; the economy, healthcare, whatever! It's all going to be sorted by teatime.
The Keynesian route is a dangerous one. In my humble opinion we need to take a monetarist route out of this hole...
As Keynes' system says, it's fine to create deficits during an economic downturn, in fact it's encouraged to stimulate growth, but it can't work without paying off those deficits when times are good and saving.
Most 8 year olds understand this concept.
We're (UK, US, most of the western world) carrying around an almost unprecedented level of debt, debt which we have made no real effort to pay off. Even during the 90s and early 00s when business was booming, we continued to borrow.
We have to stop spending money like we're afraid of it.
Newsflash: You are not going to be hired into an Ultra-Cool Managerial role at some NASA-come game-studio straight out of college and with no experiance.
Given the chance get into a good development role bite their hand off to accept, if you pass these up you'll only end up doing some crappy support role, and thats a few years wasted.
Once you've proved your metal as the best god damned programmer in the place (great personality too!) then you'll find yourself in a position to go in whatever direction you want, only now with the respect of your peers and the experiance needed to really do the job well.
During your year or two as a programmer, you can decide what you want to do next based on the first hand experiance you'll gain of each respective role, it is a win win.
People crack CAPTCHAs for profit. They either sell the algorithms to spammers or spam themselves.
The thing is, if you managed to reliably crack RECAPTCHA, then you've succeeded where all the best OCR software on the market has failed (All Recaptcha's are words that couldn't be deciphered by existing software). At which point there's big bucks to be made legally selling the software.
and now China is putting our beloved leaders in a position where they HAVE to regulate the internet. If we don't act now, (preferably by turning the intetrnet off at 10pm and raising taxes), it's only a matter of time before the baby-murdering commies come over here and take our jobs/eat our children/drink our oil/make us look bad.
In all seriousness, no, there is no "Cyberwar", if there was I'm fairly sure the US would lose rather quickly.
Dispite popular opinion, I'm not sure the human race is quite ready/foolish enough to just throw in the towel and blast one and other into the beyond.
The idea that the people in power are somehow "stoopid" is a silly liberal concept wheeled out whenever they don't understand the true motives of said leaders, granted they may not reflect out interests, but it's in nobodies interest for Fallout to become a reality tomorrow.
My vote? Something shitty, environmental and globally insignificant will happen and we'll all die within a few years (of the event, not writing this) in a rather dull, unaviodable and unglamorous fashion.
The first thing I'm going to do when this gets put in place, is buy myself 5-10 VERY fast dedicated servers.
The second thing I am going to do is write a nice, easy to use, one-click-fits-all SSH and proxy client.
The third thing I am going to do is make a pretty website selling this wonderful solution, aimed at paranoid numbskulls (unlike every other proxy service out there).
The forth thing involves a brief walk to the bank, laughing aaaalllll the way.
I'm a professional programmer, have been since I dropped out of school at 16. Read: I have NO qualifications (including the UK version of the GED), and no extra certification of any sort. I came into this game totally naked.
I started out doing IT Support, quickly moved into PHP development, and now 4 years on I work for a small but very profitable company who write software for the insurance industry. We use a wide range of languages, from Python to C#.
Personally, I have NEVER felt held back by my lack of qualifications, it just hasn't been an issue for my previous employers. I've found all that matters is you're easy to get on with, and really know your stuff.
On the flip side, the number of graduates who don't know the first thing about REAL development or the business world is quite staggering. I'm often left wondering what the fuck they spent the last 4 years doing.
As far as I can tell they spend 2 years learning buzzwords and the rest trying to master procedural syntax. They're vaguely aware of silly little things like object orientation, functional specs, version control, coding standards, and the kind of robustness you need in the enterprise, but often can't seem to understand why they're useful.
This may seem harsh, and of course there are some excellent graduates, but I have been quite surprised, time and time again, at the general quality of candidates.
When it boils down to it, a prospective employer wants to know two things: Can you do the job? Can you integrate well with the group?
Personally, I'll take the professional and passionate enthusiast over the wet behind the ears cocky young graduate any day.
...and that my friend is when laywers in the employ of the big companies turn up at your door to explain why you owe them "unspecified damages"
Deliberatly rendering Workstations/Servers inactive via a botnet you managed to hack, contravenes pretty much every anti-Hacking law I can think of (IANAL).
Thats not even mentioning the Damage to property, Loss of business and all the other inventive Civil suits you'd have brought against you.
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2) Protect Soldiers who under orders committed torture from retaliation
They deserve no protection, nor would any be provided by any law, that I know of, world-wide.
I saw a documentary where they interviewed the "soldiers" who actually did the dirty. They spent over an hour an half playing the victim. Telling us, teary eyed, how THEY were exploited, how it's affected THEM, and most importantly how it's everybody else's fault but theirs.
They reminded me of 8 year olds. Malicious 8 year olds.
"It is indeed an historical moment. Yet again another peaceful revolution right on schedule."
Yes because Obamarama is going to kiss it all better. Everything will be fine again in a few hours; the economy, healthcare, whatever! It's all going to be sorted by teatime.
Some revolution! Meet the new boss...
Where might I find one of these ruthes?
They sound fun.
The Keynesian route is a dangerous one. In my humble opinion we need to take a monetarist route out of this hole...
As Keynes' system says, it's fine to create deficits during an economic downturn, in fact it's encouraged to stimulate growth, but it can't work without paying off those deficits when times are good and saving.
Most 8 year olds understand this concept.
We're (UK, US, most of the western world) carrying around an almost unprecedented level of debt, debt which we have made no real effort to pay off. Even during the 90s and early 00s when business was booming, we continued to borrow.
We have to stop spending money like we're afraid of it.
Funny:
http://consumerist.com/consumer/clips/snl-skit-dont-buy-stuff-you-cant-afford-252491.php
Mod parent up. True slashdotter.
Newsflash: You are not going to be hired into an Ultra-Cool Managerial role at some NASA-come game-studio straight out of college and with no experiance.
Given the chance get into a good development role bite their hand off to accept, if you pass these up you'll only end up doing some crappy support role, and thats a few years wasted.
Once you've proved your metal as the best god damned programmer in the place (great personality too!) then you'll find yourself in a position to go in whatever direction you want, only now with the respect of your peers and the experiance needed to really do the job well.
During your year or two as a programmer, you can decide what you want to do next based on the first hand experiance you'll gain of each respective role, it is a win win.
IDCLIP is for terrorists and software pirates.
IDDQD!!! God Mode!!!
IDKFA!!! All Weapons!!
# Written and maintained by Michal Zalewski .
Couldn't have chosen a better person in my opinion. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/
Oh how terrible, but somehow, I just can't bring myself to give a shit.
Google makes money off ads, I make software. We all gotta get paid.
If Google's aparently sinister attempt to kill IE6 succeeds, it means I get cut back on CSS related headaches. It's a win win.
On a more general note, fuck my data, it's not that special, Google are welcome to it in exchange for the excellent FREE search service they provide.
So it supports and insane number of filesystems just not the two most popular ones?
Insane's the word...
...there is to be a regulatory body set up to curtail the prevalence of children's laughter in society today.
People crack CAPTCHAs for profit. They either sell the algorithms to spammers or spam themselves.
The thing is, if you managed to reliably crack RECAPTCHA, then you've succeeded where all the best OCR software on the market has failed (All Recaptcha's are words that couldn't be deciphered by existing software). At which point there's big bucks to be made legally selling the software.
and now China is putting our beloved leaders in a position where they HAVE to regulate the internet. If we don't act now, (preferably by turning the intetrnet off at 10pm and raising taxes), it's only a matter of time before the baby-murdering commies come over here and take our jobs/eat our children/drink our oil/make us look bad.
In all seriousness, no, there is no "Cyberwar", if there was I'm fairly sure the US would lose rather quickly.
...soon there'll be two women for every man.
For the unlucky ones, the poor men (us) must learn to cope with this as best we can.
Take that feminism!
Dispite popular opinion, I'm not sure the human race is quite ready/foolish enough to just throw in the towel and blast one and other into the beyond.
The idea that the people in power are somehow "stoopid" is a silly liberal concept wheeled out whenever they don't understand the true motives of said leaders, granted they may not reflect out interests, but it's in nobodies interest for Fallout to become a reality tomorrow.
My vote? Something shitty, environmental and globally insignificant will happen and we'll all die within a few years (of the event, not writing this) in a rather dull, unaviodable and unglamorous fashion.
So the number of users has skyrocketed from 4 to a whopping 12.
The first thing I'm going to do when this gets put in place, is buy myself 5-10 VERY fast dedicated servers.
The second thing I am going to do is write a nice, easy to use, one-click-fits-all SSH and proxy client.
The third thing I am going to do is make a pretty website selling this wonderful solution, aimed at paranoid numbskulls (unlike every other proxy service out there).
The forth thing involves a brief walk to the bank, laughing aaaalllll the way.
I'm a professional programmer, have been since I dropped out of school at 16. Read: I have NO qualifications (including the UK version of the GED), and no extra certification of any sort. I came into this game totally naked.
I started out doing IT Support, quickly moved into PHP development, and now 4 years on I work for a small but very profitable company who write software for the insurance industry. We use a wide range of languages, from Python to C#.
Personally, I have NEVER felt held back by my lack of qualifications, it just hasn't been an issue for my previous employers. I've found all that matters is you're easy to get on with, and really know your stuff.
On the flip side, the number of graduates who don't know the first thing about REAL development or the business world is quite staggering. I'm often left wondering what the fuck they spent the last 4 years doing.
As far as I can tell they spend 2 years learning buzzwords and the rest trying to master procedural syntax. They're vaguely aware of silly little things like object orientation, functional specs, version control, coding standards, and the kind of robustness you need in the enterprise, but often can't seem to understand why they're useful.
This may seem harsh, and of course there are some excellent graduates, but I have been quite surprised, time and time again, at the general quality of candidates.
When it boils down to it, a prospective employer wants to know two things:
Can you do the job?
Can you integrate well with the group?
Personally, I'll take the professional and passionate enthusiast over the wet behind the ears cocky young graduate any day.
/.'d
...and that my friend is when laywers in the employ of the big companies turn up at your door to explain why you owe them "unspecified damages"
Deliberatly rendering Workstations/Servers inactive via a botnet you managed to hack, contravenes pretty much every anti-Hacking law I can think of (IANAL).
Thats not even mentioning the Damage to property, Loss of business and all the other inventive Civil suits you'd have brought against you.
You'd be bankrupt within 2 months, jailed in 4.
Yeah, because what the world needs now is more fast track patents...
Did Monsanto ever get their patent on the Pig?
Thats's EXACTLY what they're designed to do. How do you expect them to make money? Tell us the truth? Pfff, subjective...
Shit, statistically you have a MUCH better chance of being killed by a falling vending machine than terrorism.
Unfortunatly /. don't make up the majority of the UK. Average Joe over here does what he's told by the Daily Mail.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.