Iran has been building up nuclear infrastructure. It's been doing it for years, usually in defiance of UN attempts to regulate said development. I can't think of anyone who has been developing nuclear weapons for years, in defiance of UN attempts to regulate said development.
Surely no one that's openly hostile to its entire region. Then again, we know Iran is going to attack the U.S. unprovoked if they have the chance. Surely no one else in the Middle East has attacked and invaded its neighbors with no provocation. If anyone it's probably Arabs who love to do evil things like displace native peoples and commit large-scale atrocities.
The fact that Wikipedia can be constantly and immediately updated doesn't change the fact that Wikipedia has a shitload of information already.
If they were shutting down the Wikipedia website and moving to an offline model distributing successive editions of the encyclopedia on disc, then your comment might make sense.
Given that there is apparently no website for this company, and the PCMag article links to a.jpg advertisement, and the service itself seems completely implausible, I'd say it's clearly an April Fool's joke.
That's because sex offenders are unholy merchants of sin, corrupting our children with the devil's ways.
Next you'll want notification when a priest moves into your neighborhood.
"It means that computers are not safe," said Jeannie Bandy. "I don't want to have one in my house. Under even under the strictest rules and the strictest security, your computer is vulnerable."
The "internet expert" isn't much better:
"If you have an Internet connection, high speed, through, let's say, your cable company, or through the phone company, that computer is always on, and basically you have an open doorway to the outside," said Tammi Loehrs. "So the home user has no idea who's coming into their computer."
Or you could secure your wireless router and stop installing Top 100 Mouse Pointers!!!!.jpg.exe.
Oh here's my personal favorite quote from TFA:
...toss innocents into a living hell intended solely for sexual predators.
Admittedly the prosecution's behavior in this case is excessive, especially the part about pleading to an obscenity charge for a Playboy magazine, but it doesn't have to be another excuse to spread FUD about the evil "here there be dragons" internets.
FTA:
The chip industry is racing to find a replacement for flash memory, because the technology is expected to leak electrical current unacceptably when manufacturers shrink chip circuitry beyond certain dimensions. This is the important part. Good to see someone addressing the oft-ignored failures of flash.
I can't see how this is going to help the average gamer that the company is clearly targeting:
"Whether you have an hour to play at night or you are a dedicated pro gamer: the Killer NIC is for anyone that cherishes their online gaming time." I'm a little skeptical about this proprietary Lag and Latency Reduction (LLR(TM)) Technology. Lag and Latency reduction seems a little redundant?
I went to this "gaming addiction rehab clinic" and they told me that it doesn't matter if I'm addicted to World of Warcraft and sacrifice my relationships with family, friends, co-workers, fellow denizens of planet earth, as long as I think about Jesus all 24 hours of playtime per day.
As is explained every time this topic comes up, "most gamers" don't think they need $500 video cards. Cards are priced based on supply/demand, and eventually there will be a more advanced card for $500 and the old $500 card will be in a price range that we find reasonable. If they only made $80 video cards because they're "good enough" then what is the incentive to spend on R&D for better technology?
I guess I was blinded with indignation and didn't notice you were just quoting what some retard posted on another website. I feel a about this bad . Still, the inaccuracies deserve to be highlighted.
Next is SIPRNET. SIPRNET is ok for traffic up to 'TS'. SIPRNET is not physically connected to the civilian Internet. Anywhere. At all. You can't "hack into it" because there are no systems with both connections. That is verboten. They audit you to make sure you didn't do some dorky multihomed system with links to both. All the time. There's even rules about how close you can put a NIPRNET and a SIPRNET machine in the same room.
Okay, let's see. SIPRNet packets are (often, not always) transmitted over civilian internet routers. Otherwise there'd be damn near no connectivity. There is no "secret internet" setup parallel to the internet backbone we all know and love. The only difference is you can only send/receive encrypted packets on SIPRNet. I'm not saying SIPRNet isn't secure, but it's a far cry from "totally separate."
By the way, the laptop I'm on right now is sitting roughly 6-12 inches away from another laptop which is connected to the SIPRnet. There's nothing in 380-5 that mandates a physical separation between classified and unclassified systems.
But wait, SIPRNET is TS at best. It has its very own web program called Intelink-S. SIPRNET has all SORTS of cool stuff on it, but it's been described as tactical instead of strategic and while I don't go surfing around just to see what I can get into (bad form) that's probably true.
Actually, Secret is the highest level of classification authorized on SIPRNet. While just "surfing around" does violate the letter of the law as far as having a "need to know" to access classified information, I wouldn't say it's regarded as "bad form" by most. Actually, that's pretty much what I do all day. It's ridiculous to classify SIPRNet as "tactical" as it depends on what information you're trying to access. There's plenty of information at tactical and operational levels that are highly classified. Just because a unit is at the "strategic" echelon doesn't mean they're all cooking up ultra-top-secret plans for invading China.
Then you have JWICS. JWICS is top level. It has SCI level stuff. You use Intelink-SCI. It has battle plan type crap, strategic level info. On JWICS the elder gods of They® reside, like Zeus on Olympus. You thought DISA was a biatch about SIPRNET. JWICS isn't the sort of thing you want due to the asspain level it brings you.
Actually, most people use JWICS to make free phone calls from their Trojan Spirit truck. I guess I should have joined #mountolympus and talked to @[lol]HaDeZ aka Donald Rumsfeld. You're making it sound like you might accidentally open Bush's furry porn folder on the share drive but your ethernet cable (which has to be made of tinfoil to connect to JWICS, right?) will unplug itself and strangle you before you can watch any of the videos.
Now, for the sort of thing our young Brit is discussing, data for SCI projects, that would be on JWICS, if it were stored on ANY accessible server. You would not be getting into JWICS. I can't imagine a more classified project. Hell, it's probably OVER SCI, whatever's up there in the security stratosphere. But it couldn't be less than SCI.
Yea it's probably COSMIC TOP SECRET right cause it's about aliens! Aliens are way too cool just to be "Top Secret" right, that's boooorinng. PROTIP: Top Secret is the highest level of classification the U.S. Government uses. If they have some special project that needs to be more restricted, such as Project Alienware then they'll classify it "Top Secret/Alienware" and limit the project to a certain number of TS clearance holders. That's it. A lot more modular than a bunch of escalating clearance levels like "Ultra Top Secret" "Ridiculously Top Secret" "G14 Classified" and so on (discounting modifiers such as NOFORN, REL NATO, etc.)
Like SIPRNET, JWICS is totally separate, it has NO physical connections to ANYTHING civilian. It's the sort of thing where they might monitor the
What happen ?
Somebody set us up the bomb.
Rain drops signal.
What !
Cell phones turn on.
It's you !!
How are you gentlemen !!
All your calls are belong to us.
You are on the way to distortion.
What you say !!
You have no chance to survive make your call.
From TFA: "The goal is to build a humanoid 2-year-old child," explains Metta. This will have all of Babybot's abilities and the researchers hope it may eventually even learn how to walk. "It will definitely crawl," says Metta, "and is designed so that walking is mechanically possible."
Not a bad goal at all, and if it's open source they can't cheat by promoting a specific goal such as walking in the software. Reminds me of Prey where they couldn't figure out how to get the nanomachine swarm to fly so they let its AI "learn" how to do it on its own.
"Defendant is willing to accede to the demands of the Chinese autocrats to block the search term 'democracy,'" the complaint states, "but when it comes to the protection and well-being of our nation's innocent children, Defendant refuses to spend a dime's worth of resources to block child pornography from reaching children."
Well it only makes sense that children would want to see child pornography, not adult pornography.
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The fact that Wikipedia can be constantly and immediately updated doesn't change the fact that Wikipedia has a shitload of information already. If they were shutting down the Wikipedia website and moving to an offline model distributing successive editions of the encyclopedia on disc, then your comment might make sense.
Stop being silly. Everyone knows we can't trust the Arabs to run a nuclear power plant - they're not even white.
You should read Ivan Illich.
Given that there is apparently no website for this company, and the PCMag article links to a .jpg advertisement, and the service itself seems completely implausible, I'd say it's clearly an April Fool's joke.
How many civilizations have you used to standardize your test?
That's because sex offenders are unholy merchants of sin, corrupting our children with the devil's ways. Next you'll want notification when a priest moves into your neighborhood.
Oh here's my personal favorite quote from TFA:
Admittedly the prosecution's behavior in this case is excessive, especially the part about pleading to an obscenity charge for a Playboy magazine, but it doesn't have to be another excuse to spread FUD about the evil "here there be dragons" internets.
Yea, because we all know 'race' is genetic. Please look up the word "Race" before you embarass yourself any further.
This is an absolute waste of time and money, the fact that jack has all this time on his hands is disturbing. Just think about your breathing.
I'm pretty sure it was unintentional but you may have just coined a great new word: "crucifiction"
I went to this "gaming addiction rehab clinic" and they told me that it doesn't matter if I'm addicted to World of Warcraft and sacrifice my relationships with family, friends, co-workers, fellow denizens of planet earth, as long as I think about Jesus all 24 hours of playtime per day.
As is explained every time this topic comes up, "most gamers" don't think they need $500 video cards. Cards are priced based on supply/demand, and eventually there will be a more advanced card for $500 and the old $500 card will be in a price range that we find reasonable. If they only made $80 video cards because they're "good enough" then what is the incentive to spend on R&D for better technology?
This article took all of what, 5 minutes using Google Image Search to throw together? Brilliant!
Gee willikers! Remember when cars looked like this?? Wacky! Or remember when the earth looked like this?!!? Times sure are a changin'!
I guess I was blinded with indignation and didn't notice you were just quoting what some retard posted on another website. I feel a about this bad . Still, the inaccuracies deserve to be highlighted.
Okay, let's see. SIPRNet packets are (often, not always) transmitted over civilian internet routers. Otherwise there'd be damn near no connectivity. There is no "secret internet" setup parallel to the internet backbone we all know and love. The only difference is you can only send/receive encrypted packets on SIPRNet. I'm not saying SIPRNet isn't secure, but it's a far cry from "totally separate." By the way, the laptop I'm on right now is sitting roughly 6-12 inches away from another laptop which is connected to the SIPRnet. There's nothing in 380-5 that mandates a physical separation between classified and unclassified systems.
Actually, Secret is the highest level of classification authorized on SIPRNet. While just "surfing around" does violate the letter of the law as far as having a "need to know" to access classified information, I wouldn't say it's regarded as "bad form" by most. Actually, that's pretty much what I do all day. It's ridiculous to classify SIPRNet as "tactical" as it depends on what information you're trying to access. There's plenty of information at tactical and operational levels that are highly classified. Just because a unit is at the "strategic" echelon doesn't mean they're all cooking up ultra-top-secret plans for invading China.
Actually, most people use JWICS to make free phone calls from their Trojan Spirit truck. I guess I should have joined #mountolympus and talked to @[lol]HaDeZ aka Donald Rumsfeld. You're making it sound like you might accidentally open Bush's furry porn folder on the share drive but your ethernet cable (which has to be made of tinfoil to connect to JWICS, right?) will unplug itself and strangle you before you can watch any of the videos.
Yea it's probably COSMIC TOP SECRET right cause it's about aliens! Aliens are way too cool just to be "Top Secret" right, that's boooorinng. PROTIP: Top Secret is the highest level of classification the U.S. Government uses. If they have some special project that needs to be more restricted, such as Project Alienware then they'll classify it "Top Secret/Alienware" and limit the project to a certain number of TS clearance holders. That's it. A lot more modular than a bunch of escalating clearance levels like "Ultra Top Secret" "Ridiculously Top Secret" "G14 Classified" and so on (discounting modifiers such as NOFORN, REL NATO, etc.)
What happen ? Somebody set us up the bomb. Rain drops signal. What ! Cell phones turn on. It's you !! How are you gentlemen !! All your calls are belong to us. You are on the way to distortion. What you say !! You have no chance to survive make your call.
From TFA: "The goal is to build a humanoid 2-year-old child," explains Metta. This will have all of Babybot's abilities and the researchers hope it may eventually even learn how to walk. "It will definitely crawl," says Metta, "and is designed so that walking is mechanically possible." Not a bad goal at all, and if it's open source they can't cheat by promoting a specific goal such as walking in the software. Reminds me of Prey where they couldn't figure out how to get the nanomachine swarm to fly so they let its AI "learn" how to do it on its own.
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