Come on guys....install gaim-encrypt, use SSL on IRC, and fire up TOR...this really isn't THAT big of a problem for us.
Also, you know this will never ACTUALLY happen.
how many other famous hackers can you name? (i'm talking first and last name, not handle). The guy has got name recognition, if you hear the name kevin mitnick, even if you aren't a geek, you KNOW he was 'that one hacker guy'. You hear about woz and you think 'uhh, that guy that co-founded apple computers?'
If the people of this world really thought that each man and woman is so damned important, they wouldn't routinely put them in situations where they're ordered to try slaughter each other. Duh. Throughout human history, those men and women's lives have never been as important as the egos and hubris of their leaders, which is to say, not very important at all.
when was the last war you know about where both sides looked at each other and said...'huh, lets go kill a bunch of our people!!'
that isn't how war works (well maybe in the lead singer of Green Day's head it does).
The reality is that for the most part people believe that at the end of war, life will be drastically better than it was. Sacrificing a few to save the lives of MANY in the long run is justifiable.
Also, do you think that a whale, or any other marine life for that matter, would think to itself....huh, maybe eating this fish is going to HURT a human being some time down the road. HEY HEY MR SHARK!!! stop eating that surfer! The fact is that given the chance, just about any animal that had the means would rip you apart while you were still alive and eat you while you were still warm..not very warm and fuzzy huh?
In certain magazines ads can actually be a good thing IMHO. I used to subscribe to a magazine called 'super-street', it contained a lot of good automotive-related articles and how-to's, as well as quite a few ads. The thing that was good about the majority of these ads is that they were miniaturized catalogs......This was great because i could be reading a story about differant headers, or pistons, or heads, or valves or whatever, then flip a page and see what one of each of those things look like, how much they cost, etc etc (reading an article i had no IDEA what a fuel rail was, however, turn the page and see a picture of one and it is immediately appearant that a fuel rail is what your fuel-injectors are connected to, go out in the garage, locate your fuel rail on your car, and start looking at how the thing works!). In FACT, i often spent a lot of time JUST looking at some of the ads fantasizing about what ad-ons i could affort to put on my motor. (unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) i could not afford much of anything:/)...Internet ads don't share the same quality. A website that is some xbox 360 scam has absolutely NOTHING to do with an article about installing linux (or anything else for that matter). Theres always exceptions though, lets say i'm browsing forums.gentoo.org and i see an ad for some great dedicated hosting on linux servers. This is informative to me, i like this because it pertains to what i am reading about. I click it, now i understand how much XYZ costs etc etc.
I guess it all boils down wether or not the ads you are looking at have anything to do with the page/tv show/movie/etc that you are viewing. This is why google ads are as successful as they are.
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Every inhabitant will be given a number + letter designation such as THX 1138. George Lucas to sue in 3....2...
Appearantly this thing was designed by the people at myspace.
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I'm down.....seriously.
Come on guys....install gaim-encrypt, use SSL on IRC, and fire up TOR...this really isn't THAT big of a problem for us. Also, you know this will never ACTUALLY happen.
how many other famous hackers can you name? (i'm talking first and last name, not handle). The guy has got name recognition, if you hear the name kevin mitnick, even if you aren't a geek, you KNOW he was 'that one hacker guy'. You hear about woz and you think 'uhh, that guy that co-founded apple computers?'
If the people of this world really thought that each man and woman is so damned important, they wouldn't routinely put them in situations where they're ordered to try slaughter each other. Duh. Throughout human history, those men and women's lives have never been as important as the egos and hubris of their leaders, which is to say, not very important at all.
when was the last war you know about where both sides looked at each other and said...'huh, lets go kill a bunch of our people!!'
that isn't how war works (well maybe in the lead singer of Green Day's head it does). The reality is that for the most part people believe that at the end of war, life will be drastically better than it was. Sacrificing a few to save the lives of MANY in the long run is justifiable.
Also, do you think that a whale, or any other marine life for that matter, would think to itself....huh, maybe eating this fish is going to HURT a human being some time down the road. HEY HEY MR SHARK!!! stop eating that surfer! The fact is that given the chance, just about any animal that had the means would rip you apart while you were still alive and eat you while you were still warm..not very warm and fuzzy huh?
In certain magazines ads can actually be a good thing IMHO. I used to subscribe to a magazine called 'super-street', it contained a lot of good automotive-related articles and how-to's, as well as quite a few ads. The thing that was good about the majority of these ads is that they were miniaturized catalogs......This was great because i could be reading a story about differant headers, or pistons, or heads, or valves or whatever, then flip a page and see what one of each of those things look like, how much they cost, etc etc (reading an article i had no IDEA what a fuel rail was, however, turn the page and see a picture of one and it is immediately appearant that a fuel rail is what your fuel-injectors are connected to, go out in the garage, locate your fuel rail on your car, and start looking at how the thing works!). In FACT, i often spent a lot of time JUST looking at some of the ads fantasizing about what ad-ons i could affort to put on my motor. (unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) i could not afford much of anything :/)...Internet ads don't share the same quality. A website that is some xbox 360 scam has absolutely NOTHING to do with an article about installing linux (or anything else for that matter). Theres always exceptions though, lets say i'm browsing forums.gentoo.org and i see an ad for some great dedicated hosting on linux servers. This is informative to me, i like this because it pertains to what i am reading about. I click it, now i understand how much XYZ costs etc etc.
I guess it all boils down wether or not the ads you are looking at have anything to do with the page/tv show/movie/etc that you are viewing. This is why google ads are as successful as they are.