even contemplating that ssns could be used to identify people uniquely online was stupid from the start. think - its just a number. its not something encrypted or else. its a plain number that is constructed according to a particular algorithm. any half decent person intent on abusing it could eventually discover that algorithm by running tests and trials with crappy software. this goes for all kinds of such number schemes.
actually, anything that can be read in a digital environment, can easily be faked/duped in the same digital environment. there is no remedying this. think - even the paper documents were faked at large before digital age.
no way in hell you can prevent online gaming. see, an example service :
your-freedom.net is a great proxy that works good with many games, including wow. i had had used it to reduce my ping actually - it halved my ping, since my crappy (then) isp was having huge ping to wow eu servers.
I am trying to weed out the fucking donation link amongst ~*8 links (and maybe ones i dont see) sprinkled and 'beautifully' embedded in the sentences as part of sentences in the summary and articles.
why are people doing this ? is it 'cool' when you embed the links with their link texts being parts of sentences ? what about usability, user friendliness ?
holy cow.
if someone can link the donation link in an non hipster, uncool, plain way, i will be grateful.
A servant of public, appointed by representatives of people, selected by people, complains to those representatives of people that the servants working with him/her are not having an easy time SPYING on the public that had had put them in service.....
and this is not only legal, but apparently, also 'ethical' and 'normal'.
I just decided to get a new IDE for web development. im a web professional, you see. and, while viewing IDEs, i had had dwelt on Eclipse.
i decided not to use it, in order not to put my beans and time on something that is that intertwined with Java, only because of Oracle's bad reputation with this control freak/closed ip business.
see. bad reputation hampers something that runs on your platform. in turn, that hampers your platform. reputation counts a lot.
incorrect. in the world of finance, there is no such thing. if china decides to sell all those bonds, and u.s. declines, that will cause u.s. bonds to become worthless. and hamper the ability of borrowing for govt.
Despite recent government reports that China’s holdings of U.S. Treasury debt declined during the second half of last year, the Asian economic giant almost certainly owns far more Treasury securities than official statistics indicate.
After peaking at $801.5 billion, China’s holdings of U.S. Treasury securities declined to $755.4 billion at the year’s end, dropping the communist power into the position of second-largest holder of Treasury debt after Japan’s $768.8 billion, official government data reveal.
china is the country basically funding u.s. govt. debt. leave aside 'assets'. the entire borrowing capability of u.s. now depends on china. if china sells the u.s. govt bonds it holds, their value will drop so low that us govt wont be able to borrow by selling new bonds. not to mention that dollar will sink to bottom and get replaced by another currency as the trade currency.
you are talking about a pathetic amount of 2.5 b worth of prc assets .
"it will stifle innovation and investment in broadband"
wait. it did NOT. it was de facto rule of internet up till this day, until you corporate whores had been instructed to kill it.
land of the !free! *rich... give me !freedom! *dollars or give me death...
when microsoft has made various moves towards 'open source friendly' stance in the past 2 years, some of us have always been wary and critical of their moves, saying that microsoft was not a bunch to be trusted, based on their record. there were others who were slapping us with labels ranging from zealots to morons this, that. with numerous justifications.
so, then. what's the justification this time ? im sure microsoft is doing this in good faith, and what they are doing is open source friendly.
doubling up one's attitude regarding ANYthing, does not make that thing right, or wrong. something that is wrong, stays wrong, something that was right, stays still right.
In the cases where that thing was wrong, all that 'doubling up' accomplishes is to show the stubbornness and bastardry of the one doubling up the stance.
basically its doing wrong, and then insisting on being indignant.
it isnt difficult to answer. everything must be publicly available. even if a witness protection programme is in question, it can be exploited to do underhanded things due to the secrecy i provides. everything must be public.
you mean just pulling parts of the content that is served by the remote webserver, and presenting it as if it was something separate from a website ? the fact that i can push a few form buttons there does not make it any different from a website.
basically you separate widgets and page-specific functions from a website, and call that an app.
oh boy go fuck off. in an 'app' fashion if you will - piecemeal.
me knowing what my government is doing with my money : good.
anyone trying to prevent me from knowing what my government is doing with my money, for ANY reason : evil
anyone helping me know what my government is doing : good.
anyone defending those who are helping me know what my government is doing : good.
at our time and age, with the point our societal corruption has hit, unfortunately things are as black & white as this.
...............
and talking about fascism and lack of freedom - dont worry. fascists already have taken over your country long ago - you are just being repressed willingly, living only in proportion to your material wealth, while the rich has cornered the economy before you and controlling you through their bigger wealth, and you think that as freedom. you have nothing to fear - you are already willingly participating in what you fear.
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even contemplating that ssns could be used to identify people uniquely online was stupid from the start. think - its just a number. its not something encrypted or else. its a plain number that is constructed according to a particular algorithm. any half decent person intent on abusing it could eventually discover that algorithm by running tests and trials with crappy software. this goes for all kinds of such number schemes.
actually, anything that can be read in a digital environment, can easily be faked/duped in the same digital environment. there is no remedying this. think - even the paper documents were faked at large before digital age.
isnt this why sergei and larry sacked schmidt recently ? because he was taking google away from the principles, and causing anti-consumer scandals ?
why should we take the opinion of someone who utters such a sentence ?
yea. civilization would be FAR less advanced than we are now, like .... aaah, how, exactly ? as in electrical energy ? or solar ?
which, we are trying to make a transition to, at this time and age, a whole 100 years late ?
as long as there are people who are buying bullshit, like you, these kind of thing does not end.
he is not complaining about clutter. he is troubled due to a misperception of a letter that come up as different than what he was desired.
....
one wonders, what would something GirlGirlPHP, be like
Proxies.
no way in hell you can prevent online gaming. see, an example service :
your-freedom.net is a great proxy that works good with many games, including wow. i had had used it to reduce my ping actually - it halved my ping, since my crappy (then) isp was having huge ping to wow eu servers.
kids will just use such services, free or paid.
tiny social democrat country. big innovation. thank you.
is there any possibility of oracle closing down or limiting JVM ?
I am trying to weed out the fucking donation link amongst ~*8 links (and maybe ones i dont see) sprinkled and 'beautifully' embedded in the sentences as part of sentences in the summary and articles.
why are people doing this ? is it 'cool' when you embed the links with their link texts being parts of sentences ? what about usability, user friendliness ?
holy cow.
if someone can link the donation link in an non hipster, uncool, plain way, i will be grateful.
basically, is any part of what eclipse runs on, owned by oracle or not ?
A servant of public, appointed by representatives of people, selected by people, complains to those representatives of people that the servants working with him/her are not having an easy time SPYING on the public that had had put them in service .....
...
and this is not only legal, but apparently, also 'ethical' and 'normal'.
corporate democracy, youre one of a kind
I just decided to get a new IDE for web development. im a web professional, you see. and, while viewing IDEs, i had had dwelt on Eclipse.
i decided not to use it, in order not to put my beans and time on something that is that intertwined with Java, only because of Oracle's bad reputation with this control freak/closed ip business.
see. bad reputation hampers something that runs on your platform. in turn, that hampers your platform. reputation counts a lot.
incorrect. in the world of finance, there is no such thing. if china decides to sell all those bonds, and u.s. declines, that will cause u.s. bonds to become worthless. and hamper the ability of borrowing for govt.
Despite recent government reports that China’s holdings of U.S. Treasury debt declined during the second half of last year, the Asian economic giant almost certainly owns far more Treasury securities than official statistics indicate. After peaking at $801.5 billion, China’s holdings of U.S. Treasury securities declined to $755.4 billion at the year’s end, dropping the communist power into the position of second-largest holder of Treasury debt after Japan’s $768.8 billion, official government data reveal.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/02/chinas-debt-to-us-treasury-more-than-indicated/
china is the country basically funding u.s. govt. debt. leave aside 'assets'. the entire borrowing capability of u.s. now depends on china. if china sells the u.s. govt bonds it holds, their value will drop so low that us govt wont be able to borrow by selling new bonds. not to mention that dollar will sink to bottom and get replaced by another currency as the trade currency.
you are talking about a pathetic amount of 2.5 b worth of prc assets .
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/02/chinas-debt-to-us-treasury-more-than-indicated/
china holds more than $801.5 billion worth of u.s. govt bonds. go figure.
A system which allows a moron to become a prosecutor, fails.
they say they are quite scared of an american court passing judgment on them.
"it will stifle innovation and investment in broadband"
... give me !freedom! *dollars or give me death ...
wait. it did NOT. it was de facto rule of internet up till this day, until you corporate whores had been instructed to kill it.
land of the !free! *rich
when microsoft has made various moves towards 'open source friendly' stance in the past 2 years, some of us have always been wary and critical of their moves, saying that microsoft was not a bunch to be trusted, based on their record. there were others who were slapping us with labels ranging from zealots to morons this, that. with numerous justifications.
so, then. what's the justification this time ? im sure microsoft is doing this in good faith, and what they are doing is open source friendly.
doubling up one's attitude regarding ANYthing, does not make that thing right, or wrong. something that is wrong, stays wrong, something that was right, stays still right.
In the cases where that thing was wrong, all that 'doubling up' accomplishes is to show the stubbornness and bastardry of the one doubling up the stance.
basically its doing wrong, and then insisting on being indignant.
it isnt difficult to answer. everything must be publicly available. even if a witness protection programme is in question, it can be exploited to do underhanded things due to the secrecy i provides. everything must be public.
yeah yeah. you exaggerated it so nicely that all my points are void now ................ not. get a clue.
one would think so until s/he tried to modify drupal in a non standard way.
you mean just pulling parts of the content that is served by the remote webserver, and presenting it as if it was something separate from a website ? the fact that i can push a few form buttons there does not make it any different from a website.
basically you separate widgets and page-specific functions from a website, and call that an app.
oh boy go fuck off. in an 'app' fashion if you will - piecemeal.
me knowing what my government is doing with my money : good.
...............
anyone trying to prevent me from knowing what my government is doing with my money, for ANY reason : evil
anyone helping me know what my government is doing : good.
anyone defending those who are helping me know what my government is doing : good.
at our time and age, with the point our societal corruption has hit, unfortunately things are as black & white as this.
and talking about fascism and lack of freedom - dont worry. fascists already have taken over your country long ago - you are just being repressed willingly, living only in proportion to your material wealth, while the rich has cornered the economy before you and controlling you through their bigger wealth, and you think that as freedom. you have nothing to fear - you are already willingly participating in what you fear.