Ultimately the DoJ is lead by the President as the head of the executive branch. And only some sort of right wing nut job would describe him as an ideologue of any sort. Given the degree he's been willing to bend over backwards to compromise with those ideologues on the right. You know the ones that have been arrogantly behaving like they won an election. Not the most recent one mind you, but the one in 2008 where they won basically nothing.
I guess that's around here, I definitely could be wrong about that. It might just be that we don't have much of anything below ground. The main reason why we need to call before we dig is gas lines.
I'd be a bit skeptical of those photos personally. For one thing, the bodies wouldn't likely still be lying like that next to the source of the power and definitely not neatly either. Even with just household currents you often times get folks being thrown back when their body convulses in what is essentially a massive seizure. I know of at least one case where an apprentice electrician got shocked, then died promptly of a head injury sustained when he was thrown off his ladder.
If you've ever seen video of an old school ECT you'd notice that they convulse significantly, and that's with a relatively small amount of current. Also, even in dead bodies that applies. Back in the 19th century about the time that Frankenstein was written there were experiments being done on ape arms where they applied a current and the thing seemed to go back to life briefly.
Additionally, it's not normal to have an electrical pole with underground wiring right next to it. It might happen in some places, but I doubt it.
The point of it is that the thieves are going after low voltage stuff because there's much less risk. The overhead transmission wires are known by basically everybody to be dangerous to screw around with. Phone lines do carry enough power to fry a person, but the situation is pretty specific, you pretty much have to be taking a bath and dump the phone in before it's a problem.
Won't help. I've never clicked on that button and yet I had to remove the Facebook cookie earlier. Normally I'd have it completely blocked, because of this sort of thing.
The issue is that it presents itself as only applying to people that have agreed to the terms when in fact it applies to everybody that visits the page whether or not they've agreed.
That aspect bothers me. I think a lot of us assumed that since we haven't agreed to let them do it that they shouldn't be allowed to do it. The main reason being that while doubleclick and Google Analytics don't have a particular agreement involved, Facebook does, and if you don't like their terms you don't create an account.
That makes it fundamentally different as Facebook advertises itself as a social network site. Most people would tend to assume that if they don't have an account that the button doesn't do anything.
Can't help but notice that you didn't include any actual citations. If you're going to bother quoting, then the least you could do is provide links.
And for your information, pretty much everybody knows the degree to which China stinks in terms of corruption, human rights abuse, but that doesn't really mean that there's the interest there to leak the information. Nothing you've claimed they said deals with that at all. Wouldn't a far simpler explanation be that most of their efforts have been focused on the US lately because of the volume of materials involved? And that perhaps the older material was pulled because they needed to tighten up their archive for when somebody came to pull it down?
Seems completely reasonable to me. But then again I'm not a right wing nutjob.
He offered them the opportunity to question him before he left Sweden, and inquired as to whether or not he was free to leave the country. They allowed him to leave the country and avoid being questioned.
They have apparently subsequently changed their minds, and I can't blame him for fighting it. He made a good faith offer to come in for questioning, now they're wanting him to fly back on his own dime to do it. Something about this appears to be very, very wrong, beyond the initial charges looking like complete bunk. There is no ex post facto rape, either it was rape at the time or it isn't rape, you can't change your mind after the fact. Or at least you can't in civilized countries.
This, however, ie *far* beyond his level of ability - revealing him to be just yet another script kiddie claiming credit for something he had nothing to do with.
What makes you say that? You're defining his skill level without knowing whether he really wrote it or not. Then you go on to beg the question defining him as unskilled and referring back to that as evidence that he lacks the skills.
Admittedly, I don't know this individual, but I'm not so sure that one can be so sure that he isn't able to do it. Sure you're likely correct, I just don't think you can say that based upon the available evidence.
Unless of course you're the Jester and are just trying to confuse us.
A DDoS seems unlikely primarily because it's just going to get sympathy for the people involved with Wikileaks.
Now, having an associate meet and greet them and perhaps arrange for an unfortunate accident, would be far more effective. Do it right and people dismiss it as paranoia and an amazing coincidence outside Wikileaks, while scaring the crap out of the people in it.
Assange isn't the problem. As some of the more astute members of the US government have figured out, the material was leaked by some of their personnel, individuals who have clearance to access the materials.
As I've said before, this only hurts their image with morons that think that the US government would never be engaged in secret dealings of dubious moral character. The materials themselves were hardly earth shattering, very little of it wasn't publicly known previously or at least suspected.
No, it's trolling. Wikileaks is a leaks site, not an investigative site. Therefore they can't leak what they don't have, and oddly enough, what people are leaking to them is primarily dealing with US intelligence.
That has been brought up quite a few times and it's just not true. It's something that apologist trolls say to divert attention from the fact that the material wouldn't have been made available by wikileaks had nobody chosen to leak it. Wikileaks does not now nor will it ever have security clearance to get that material directly.
True, but how much has wikileaks dealt with Ecuador? It's a relatively small and unimportant nation in general, and when it comes down to it the host nation is never going to be as open minded about leaks involving itself than it is about leaks involving other countries.
It could also be a bid to artificially boost it's position.
Indeed. The summary fails to mention whether or not the servers are even bothering with a proper response. If they know what they're doing, the server admins are probably stuttering the responses from the machines that are engaged in the DDoS. Which would be a smart move as it takes up little of their resources while using a great deal of the resources that the attacker has available.
Indeed. When TD Ameritrade lost my information form their database, all they had to pay was a paltry number of free trades and were allowed to settle without admitting any wrongdoing. Which as far as I can tell is largely the status quo. The people actually harmed by the behavior rarely if ever get anything substantial out of it and the company rarely if ever has to pay much.
As far as I can tell that's more or less the status quo.
Not going to happen. They'll release something which might be comparable, but before long the PC will be ahead again. It's the nature of the beast, the main advantages that consoles have are specialized hardware and a unified platform. Neither of those strengths handle upgrades very well.
The biggest advantage that the console makers have had lately is the willingness of game developers to dumb down their games for console and then port them to the PC or vice versa.
To be honest, I'm wondering when somebody is going to have the bright idea to offer an upgraded video card as part of the console. I suspect that would be the line, they can offer that and the ability to upgrade the disk and no more. Anymore than that and you start confusing the people that are buying the consoles. And lets face it, most people that console game rather than play the same game on PC do it because it's less complicated.
Personally, I prefer the PC, but since most games seem to be dumbed down these days, it's a bit easier to just pick up the console version and not have to worry a whole lot about compatibility.
You might think that about the Wii, but I'm guessing that they're going to take their time bringing the next gen to market. And with good reason, neither the Xbox nor the PS3 have managed to make much of a dent in Wii sales and the units themselves are still selling well. I doubt very much that the licensing revenue has dipped either.
It's smarter for them to hold back and take advantage of the time they've got to develop something that's even better. Graphics aren't everything, as I think the Wii has adequately demonstrated.
He was a dramatic actor prior to "Airplane," but I don't think that's why he was able to be so funny. I think that movie just revealed it. Comedic timing is something that a person has, one can develop it, but those of us that have it don't just wake up one day with it.
Dead pan is a lot harder to do than a lot of folks realize. Getting the timing right and having all that stuff going on around you is definitely a challenge.
Personally, I'll miss him. His work definitely helped me out when I was seriously ill from a bad infection. Pretty much the only thing that allowed me to get any food down at all was his films.
That probably explains the shitty record that USPS has at my parents house. It's rather routine for the mail to arrive at somebody else's house completely or be beaten up. There've been times when things would take an entire month to show up there, if they ever did at all.
That's not typical from my experience. Neither UPS nor Fed Ex typically operate like that. Sure it probably does happen, but not often and they'll likely get dealt with. The problem though is that UPS is strongly union and getting rid of a driver is really difficult they'll quite literally stop delivering to the building if the driver isn't being taken care of.
But, in my experience I used to run a loading dock at a highrise, and none of the drivers for UPS, Fed Ex or any of the major delivery companies ever did that sort of thing. And it was rare for me to see any of the boxes they were carrying more than a little bit crunched up.
I'd suspect that with a larger sample size that the results would turn out to be largely bunk. At my previous employers I saw literally hundreds of boxes being delivered and very, very few of them looked at all damaged. Sure it's not scientific, but it's a much larger sample size and more likely to indicate the true quality of service.
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Ultimately the DoJ is lead by the President as the head of the executive branch. And only some sort of right wing nut job would describe him as an ideologue of any sort. Given the degree he's been willing to bend over backwards to compromise with those ideologues on the right. You know the ones that have been arrogantly behaving like they won an election. Not the most recent one mind you, but the one in 2008 where they won basically nothing.
I guess that's around here, I definitely could be wrong about that. It might just be that we don't have much of anything below ground. The main reason why we need to call before we dig is gas lines.
Somehow I find that hard to swallow.
Well, we must all resist the urge.
I'd be a bit skeptical of those photos personally. For one thing, the bodies wouldn't likely still be lying like that next to the source of the power and definitely not neatly either. Even with just household currents you often times get folks being thrown back when their body convulses in what is essentially a massive seizure. I know of at least one case where an apprentice electrician got shocked, then died promptly of a head injury sustained when he was thrown off his ladder.
If you've ever seen video of an old school ECT you'd notice that they convulse significantly, and that's with a relatively small amount of current. Also, even in dead bodies that applies. Back in the 19th century about the time that Frankenstein was written there were experiments being done on ape arms where they applied a current and the thing seemed to go back to life briefly.
Additionally, it's not normal to have an electrical pole with underground wiring right next to it. It might happen in some places, but I doubt it.
The point of it is that the thieves are going after low voltage stuff because there's much less risk. The overhead transmission wires are known by basically everybody to be dangerous to screw around with. Phone lines do carry enough power to fry a person, but the situation is pretty specific, you pretty much have to be taking a bath and dump the phone in before it's a problem.
Won't help. I've never clicked on that button and yet I had to remove the Facebook cookie earlier. Normally I'd have it completely blocked, because of this sort of thing.
The issue is that it presents itself as only applying to people that have agreed to the terms when in fact it applies to everybody that visits the page whether or not they've agreed.
That aspect bothers me. I think a lot of us assumed that since we haven't agreed to let them do it that they shouldn't be allowed to do it. The main reason being that while doubleclick and Google Analytics don't have a particular agreement involved, Facebook does, and if you don't like their terms you don't create an account.
That makes it fundamentally different as Facebook advertises itself as a social network site. Most people would tend to assume that if they don't have an account that the button doesn't do anything.
Can't help but notice that you didn't include any actual citations. If you're going to bother quoting, then the least you could do is provide links.
And for your information, pretty much everybody knows the degree to which China stinks in terms of corruption, human rights abuse, but that doesn't really mean that there's the interest there to leak the information. Nothing you've claimed they said deals with that at all. Wouldn't a far simpler explanation be that most of their efforts have been focused on the US lately because of the volume of materials involved? And that perhaps the older material was pulled because they needed to tighten up their archive for when somebody came to pull it down?
Seems completely reasonable to me. But then again I'm not a right wing nutjob.
He offered them the opportunity to question him before he left Sweden, and inquired as to whether or not he was free to leave the country. They allowed him to leave the country and avoid being questioned.
They have apparently subsequently changed their minds, and I can't blame him for fighting it. He made a good faith offer to come in for questioning, now they're wanting him to fly back on his own dime to do it. Something about this appears to be very, very wrong, beyond the initial charges looking like complete bunk. There is no ex post facto rape, either it was rape at the time or it isn't rape, you can't change your mind after the fact. Or at least you can't in civilized countries.
This, however, ie *far* beyond his level of ability - revealing him to be just yet another script kiddie claiming credit for something he had nothing to do with.
What makes you say that? You're defining his skill level without knowing whether he really wrote it or not. Then you go on to beg the question defining him as unskilled and referring back to that as evidence that he lacks the skills.
Admittedly, I don't know this individual, but I'm not so sure that one can be so sure that he isn't able to do it. Sure you're likely correct, I just don't think you can say that based upon the available evidence.
Unless of course you're the Jester and are just trying to confuse us.
A DDoS seems unlikely primarily because it's just going to get sympathy for the people involved with Wikileaks.
Now, having an associate meet and greet them and perhaps arrange for an unfortunate accident, would be far more effective. Do it right and people dismiss it as paranoia and an amazing coincidence outside Wikileaks, while scaring the crap out of the people in it.
Assange isn't the problem. As some of the more astute members of the US government have figured out, the material was leaked by some of their personnel, individuals who have clearance to access the materials.
As I've said before, this only hurts their image with morons that think that the US government would never be engaged in secret dealings of dubious moral character. The materials themselves were hardly earth shattering, very little of it wasn't publicly known previously or at least suspected.
No, it's trolling. Wikileaks is a leaks site, not an investigative site. Therefore they can't leak what they don't have, and oddly enough, what people are leaking to them is primarily dealing with US intelligence.
That has been brought up quite a few times and it's just not true. It's something that apologist trolls say to divert attention from the fact that the material wouldn't have been made available by wikileaks had nobody chosen to leak it. Wikileaks does not now nor will it ever have security clearance to get that material directly.
True, but how much has wikileaks dealt with Ecuador? It's a relatively small and unimportant nation in general, and when it comes down to it the host nation is never going to be as open minded about leaks involving itself than it is about leaks involving other countries.
It could also be a bid to artificially boost it's position.
Indeed. The summary fails to mention whether or not the servers are even bothering with a proper response. If they know what they're doing, the server admins are probably stuttering the responses from the machines that are engaged in the DDoS. Which would be a smart move as it takes up little of their resources while using a great deal of the resources that the attacker has available.
Indeed. When TD Ameritrade lost my information form their database, all they had to pay was a paltry number of free trades and were allowed to settle without admitting any wrongdoing. Which as far as I can tell is largely the status quo. The people actually harmed by the behavior rarely if ever get anything substantial out of it and the company rarely if ever has to pay much.
As far as I can tell that's more or less the status quo.
Not going to happen. They'll release something which might be comparable, but before long the PC will be ahead again. It's the nature of the beast, the main advantages that consoles have are specialized hardware and a unified platform. Neither of those strengths handle upgrades very well.
The biggest advantage that the console makers have had lately is the willingness of game developers to dumb down their games for console and then port them to the PC or vice versa.
I still play those games regularly, you insensitive clod!
To be honest, I'm wondering when somebody is going to have the bright idea to offer an upgraded video card as part of the console. I suspect that would be the line, they can offer that and the ability to upgrade the disk and no more. Anymore than that and you start confusing the people that are buying the consoles. And lets face it, most people that console game rather than play the same game on PC do it because it's less complicated.
Personally, I prefer the PC, but since most games seem to be dumbed down these days, it's a bit easier to just pick up the console version and not have to worry a whole lot about compatibility.
You might think that about the Wii, but I'm guessing that they're going to take their time bringing the next gen to market. And with good reason, neither the Xbox nor the PS3 have managed to make much of a dent in Wii sales and the units themselves are still selling well. I doubt very much that the licensing revenue has dipped either.
It's smarter for them to hold back and take advantage of the time they've got to develop something that's even better. Graphics aren't everything, as I think the Wii has adequately demonstrated.
He was a dramatic actor prior to "Airplane," but I don't think that's why he was able to be so funny. I think that movie just revealed it. Comedic timing is something that a person has, one can develop it, but those of us that have it don't just wake up one day with it.
Dead pan is a lot harder to do than a lot of folks realize. Getting the timing right and having all that stuff going on around you is definitely a challenge.
Personally, I'll miss him. His work definitely helped me out when I was seriously ill from a bad infection. Pretty much the only thing that allowed me to get any food down at all was his films.
That probably explains the shitty record that USPS has at my parents house. It's rather routine for the mail to arrive at somebody else's house completely or be beaten up. There've been times when things would take an entire month to show up there, if they ever did at all.
That's not typical from my experience. Neither UPS nor Fed Ex typically operate like that. Sure it probably does happen, but not often and they'll likely get dealt with. The problem though is that UPS is strongly union and getting rid of a driver is really difficult they'll quite literally stop delivering to the building if the driver isn't being taken care of.
But, in my experience I used to run a loading dock at a highrise, and none of the drivers for UPS, Fed Ex or any of the major delivery companies ever did that sort of thing. And it was rare for me to see any of the boxes they were carrying more than a little bit crunched up.
I'd suspect that with a larger sample size that the results would turn out to be largely bunk. At my previous employers I saw literally hundreds of boxes being delivered and very, very few of them looked at all damaged. Sure it's not scientific, but it's a much larger sample size and more likely to indicate the true quality of service.