According to Uber, Project Vigilant also played a role in Iran's Green Uprising last year, operating five Internet proxy servers that helped dissidents circumvent government spying and move information out of Iran and into the hands of dissident groups.
So when does the US get some of this help to circumvent government^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H protective spying and allow the free transmission of information. Oh, wait. I see now.
On Sunday, Uber said he was the first person to call the federal government about the sensitive cache of documents allegedly leaked by U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Bradley Manning, and which was ultimately published on Wikileaks. Manning leaked the documents to Adrian Lamo, who does "adversary characterization" for the group, Uber said.
Yes, exploitation is an ecological process, but with humans, it carries a different connotation. There is no check to our exploitation, and it will be the end of us. Other populations have cycles, but our societies require a certain number of trained/intelligent people to continue to operate. Lack of food and fresh water will crash our population long before war does. Fresh water will especially become a commodity.
No one ever puts warning like that to instruct or protect consumers. It's purely CYA tactics. That's why plastic bags say they are a suffocation hazard...
Whoa. Did I just read "Marshall, TX" and "patents were invalid" in the same sentence? Someone should check that the earth's polarity just didn't go through a reversal.
Are they going to upload fake torrents, because that already happens, and thanks to ratings, the fakes are found and banned.
Are they going to pack viruses in torrents? That already happens, maybe not by them, but see above.
Are they going to upload fake articles (because this is where the leechers [seeders] get their material).
Are they going to troll irc and try to trade with people....Does this seriously happen still? It's not 1995.
I thought we'd already cleared up that the legal avenues that the **AAs pursue are scurrilous already, and anything of this nature would start to be illegal.
The intern could also learn a very valuable lesson that the studios would have no interest in hearing. The underground exists because you aren't doing anything to monetize on it. You put out an inferior product that is crippled, and what these people offer is what everyone wants. An easy to obtain, high quality media product, without all the garbage that you force people to accept (unskippable menus, DRM, non-digital stores). You'd still see people not willing to pay, but you'd see profits skyrocket if you'd just accept that this is what people want instead of fighting it, and pretending it's still 1991.
Sad that the editors of Slashdot had to claim it was a film that accompanied Empire Strikes Back when it was nothing even close to that. Crazy what they'll do for a few extra bucks in advertising views huh?
Que?
If you are old enough to have seen the original release of The Empire Strikes Back at the cinema in 1980, you almost certainly remember the extraordinary short film that preceded it. Otherwise you won't know a damn thing about it: with not one picture or accurate plot summary anywhere on the web, Black Angel has become a bit of an internet holy grail in itself.
I'll wait to read the paper to see what the findings are, but I'm not casting a doubt that it's a possibility that life could incorporate arsenic or phosphorus. There are bacteria out there that reduce nitrogen and sulfur for energy, Life is pretty resilient when it comes down to it, and will find a way to exist.
His writeup serves as a micro-tutorial ("use PdaNet's Android app") as well as an endorsement.
Yes it does, but that's it. It amounts to half a page of an anecdote about the guy having a hard time getting it working on his iPhone, but downloading an app and it working fine on his N1...
Have you not ever worked in an office setting? Walk by your sysadmin's dungeon and mention something about clicking a link in some email you got, and sit back and watch the fireworks.
I can pretty much guarantee you that even in a tech setting, there will even be a handful of those people who still lack common, and/or tech, sense. This is exactly why certain places prevent their employees from installing software, running as admin, running off of flashdrives, or even discs.
That sounds like a good distinction. I suppose my sig would also need that distinction, since either the corrupt or corruptible will eventually seek absolute power.
Same as the old boss. I'm getting sick of this constant push to roll back privacy. No matter what the government may say, 9/11 was the best thing to happen to give them such blanket authority.
For now, until one of them cedes, or make a competitive deal, even those of us who avoid Wally World like the plague. Then we all lose, but for now I'm at least entertained seeing Walmart with an adversary.
Like I said, parts of your credit info. Unlike you, not everyone feels as comfortable with everyone having all of the above information. Since you seem to be getting smug about it, I'll admit defeat and say you're right.
There isn't anything in public records I'm embarrassed of. What made you so sure there would be?
I didn't say anything embarrassing. You do know what's considered public right? Birth/marriage/divore/vital/tax/address/phone # listed or unlisted/mobile #/military records/property deeds/parts of your credit info. My point is that just because it's public information doesn't mean everyone you know should have it.
If they really want to know, they can pay and find out, but I'd personally no want to be in any kind of a relationship, professional or otherwise, with someone who would violate common decency to dig into my background instead of asking me, and even then I'm not going to answer anyone who asks me, it's personal. And, I may or may not have a misdemeanor on my record, but it's not something I include in my introduction or put on my resume. People I'm close with know about it (if I in fact have one), from me, not from their own digging. I'm sure there is public information about you that you'd rather not have in the hands of every single person with whom you're in a relationship. I find your hyperbole and/or statement annoying, but not so much the part about murderers finding jobs.
An interior ministry source accused him of working for foreign agents and hinted that the format of Dymovsky's complaint was a problem, using a medium that remains largely free of government control.
Isn't it a running joke about how bad the Russian police force is? Seems like any interior or exterior complaint through the expected media doesn't do a damn thing.
No particular group has a monopoly on the skills needed to be a capable identity thief.
Being a successful identity thief, however, is a different story, I believe. Measuring that success by remaining uncaught. It's ridiculous how much of the information necessary to "steal" someone's identity is easily available, without needing to dig very deep. The hardest part would be SS#, but even then it's not that hard to get, considering how often someone asks for mine, and refuses to take anything else.Having lost my entire wallet once, I called the 3 credit monitoring groups and put a fraud watch on it, or whatever it is they called it, and I really think it should be standard. It requires that they contact you personally to verify any new openings of credit cards.
battery life is not the deciding factor in which browser I use. I've also heard that using Windows has better battery life than using any Linux distro. That still won't decide it for me.
While that is partially true, I think the main point is the illusion of control. When a manager or exec, who doesn't fully understand DRM, is approached by two people, one of whom says "This game is impossible to pirate, it has the newest security measures built into the software and the disc." and the second says "DRM doesn't do jack, you're only losing money by assuming a large base of your consumers are criminals, I'd like to treat them with respect, so my title doesn't have any DRM." Who do you think they are going to listen to? The one who makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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What are these unskippable intros you speak of?
So when does the US get some of this help to circumvent government^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H protective spying and allow the free transmission of information. Oh, wait. I see now.
Yes, exploitation is an ecological process, but with humans, it carries a different connotation. There is no check to our exploitation, and it will be the end of us. Other populations have cycles, but our societies require a certain number of trained/intelligent people to continue to operate. Lack of food and fresh water will crash our population long before war does. Fresh water will especially become a commodity.
No one ever puts warning like that to instruct or protect consumers. It's purely CYA tactics. That's why plastic bags say they are a suffocation hazard...
Whoa. Did I just read "Marshall, TX" and "patents were invalid" in the same sentence? Someone should check that the earth's polarity just didn't go through a reversal.
I'm on my droid and flash isn't working. Well played though.
It's especially sad that this is the most likely to be a joke, out of all the articles today. Thankfully, it isn't.
Are they going to upload fake torrents, because that already happens, and thanks to ratings, the fakes are found and banned.
Are they going to pack viruses in torrents? That already happens, maybe not by them, but see above.
Are they going to upload fake articles (because this is where the leechers [seeders] get their material).
Are they going to troll irc and try to trade with people....Does this seriously happen still? It's not 1995.
I thought we'd already cleared up that the legal avenues that the **AAs pursue are scurrilous already, and anything of this nature would start to be illegal.
The intern could also learn a very valuable lesson that the studios would have no interest in hearing. The underground exists because you aren't doing anything to monetize on it. You put out an inferior product that is crippled, and what these people offer is what everyone wants. An easy to obtain, high quality media product, without all the garbage that you force people to accept (unskippable menus, DRM, non-digital stores). You'd still see people not willing to pay, but you'd see profits skyrocket if you'd just accept that this is what people want instead of fighting it, and pretending it's still 1991.
Sad that the editors of Slashdot had to claim it was a film that accompanied Empire Strikes Back when it was nothing even close to that. Crazy what they'll do for a few extra bucks in advertising views huh?
Que?
FTFA
I'll wait to read the paper to see what the findings are, but I'm not casting a doubt that it's a possibility that life could incorporate arsenic or phosphorus. There are bacteria out there that reduce nitrogen and sulfur for energy, Life is pretty resilient when it comes down to it, and will find a way to exist.
Yes it does, but that's it.
It amounts to half a page of an anecdote about the guy having a hard time getting it working on his iPhone, but downloading an app and it working fine on his N1...
Have you not ever worked in an office setting? Walk by your sysadmin's dungeon and mention something about clicking a link in some email you got, and sit back and watch the fireworks.
I can pretty much guarantee you that even in a tech setting, there will even be a handful of those people who still lack common, and/or tech, sense. This is exactly why certain places prevent their employees from installing software, running as admin, running off of flashdrives, or even discs.
That sounds like a good distinction. I suppose my sig would also need that distinction, since either the corrupt or corruptible will eventually seek absolute power.
Same as the old boss. I'm getting sick of this constant push to roll back privacy. No matter what the government may say, 9/11 was the best thing to happen to give them such blanket authority.
Flagged as Enemy of The State.
You can even make a 404 error out of it!
For now, until one of them cedes, or make a competitive deal, even those of us who avoid Wally World like the plague. Then we all lose, but for now I'm at least entertained seeing Walmart with an adversary.
Like I said, parts of your credit info. Unlike you, not everyone feels as comfortable with everyone having all of the above information. Since you seem to be getting smug about it, I'll admit defeat and say you're right.
There isn't anything in public records I'm embarrassed of. What made you so sure there would be?
I didn't say anything embarrassing. You do know what's considered public right? Birth/marriage/divore/vital/tax/address/phone # listed or unlisted/mobile #/military records/property deeds/parts of your credit info.
My point is that just because it's public information doesn't mean everyone you know should have it.
If they really want to know, they can pay and find out, but I'd personally no want to be in any kind of a relationship, professional or otherwise, with someone who would violate common decency to dig into my background instead of asking me, and even then I'm not going to answer anyone who asks me, it's personal. And, I may or may not have a misdemeanor on my record, but it's not something I include in my introduction or put on my resume. People I'm close with know about it (if I in fact have one), from me, not from their own digging. I'm sure there is public information about you that you'd rather not have in the hands of every single person with whom you're in a relationship. I find your hyperbole and/or statement annoying, but not so much the part about murderers finding jobs.
Isn't it a running joke about how bad the Russian police force is? Seems like any interior or exterior complaint through the expected media doesn't do a damn thing.
Oh yeah, preface that with "In Soviet Russia."
They and ATT got away with price fixing SMS charges, what makes you think they can't do whatever the hell they please?
Being a successful identity thief, however, is a different story, I believe. Measuring that success by remaining uncaught. It's ridiculous how much of the information necessary to "steal" someone's identity is easily available, without needing to dig very deep. The hardest part would be SS#, but even then it's not that hard to get, considering how often someone asks for mine, and refuses to take anything else.Having lost my entire wallet once, I called the 3 credit monitoring groups and put a fraud watch on it, or whatever it is they called it, and I really think it should be standard. It requires that they contact you personally to verify any new openings of credit cards.
battery life is not the deciding factor in which browser I use. I've also heard that using Windows has better battery life than using any Linux distro. That still won't decide it for me.
While that is partially true, I think the main point is the illusion of control. When a manager or exec, who doesn't fully understand DRM, is approached by two people, one of whom says "This game is impossible to pirate, it has the newest security measures built into the software and the disc." and the second says "DRM doesn't do jack, you're only losing money by assuming a large base of your consumers are criminals, I'd like to treat them with respect, so my title doesn't have any DRM."
Who do you think they are going to listen to? The one who makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside.