Also, one has to wonder what happens to the quality of music the labels offer when their incentive to produce quality work - profit - is removed. Anyone care to bet that even with this music tax the RIAA will have a loophole to still charge for 'premium content' not licensed under the tax? In effect, they'll get to charge you for the crap you don't listen to and charge you again for the music you actually want. It seems they want to have their cake and eat it too.
It's called subscription music services - like Rhapsody and Napster. Keep it voluntary. I don't like the idea of having to pay the RIAA protection money to access the internet.
One drug they have me on makes it impossible for me to get upset about anything. If we could isolate what it is that makes the brain do that, put it into an airborne form and spray it over an enemy, then we could simply march in and say "We are taking your land, your government and your freedom", and their response would be (in a semi-zombie state) "Oh. Okay. I hope you enjoy it".
All without firing a shot.
Just because you're lucky enough to have an Rx for sweet mary jane doesn't mean you have to rub it in our faces... sheesh ~
Today you voted to destroy the Constitution. You betrayed millions of supporters like myself when you voted away the 4th Amendment today. No amount of spin on your part is going to change the fact that you and your fellow Congressmen stabbed every American in the back today. You and the rest of your compatriots in the Senate and House have lost all claims to legitimacy. You have betrayed your oath of office, the Constitution and the People.
I cannot begin to express how violated, molested and utterly betrayed I feel by what you have done. I feel duped, suckered, hoodwinked and bamboozled. I feel like I have been robbed, raped and left bleeding in a dark alley.
Goodbye, Senator. This is a deal breaker. I will not be voting in November. You have destroyed what little hope I had left for my country. I now know without doubt that absolutely nobody in my government can be trusted. You and all your fellow traitors inside the beltway can go to hell. There is no excuse for what you have done and no possible explanation or apology will right this wrong.
In closing, Senator, I leave you with a reminder and fair warning from our founders.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
I feel no shame for having taken a chance that you might be different, Senator. However, knowing now that you have taken ranks with the most vile among us, to remain in your camp would bring enduring shame and dishonor upon my soul.
In the meantime, we will have wasted our time, and ceded any moral high ground, by lowering ourselves to the level of 5-year-old "ha ha told you so ha ha ha!" nonsense.
You don't need any moral high ground when the facts and evidence support your claim and destroy the claims of the opposition - an opposition, by the way, that has been disparaging, threatening, ostracizing, maligning, torturing and murdering us 'godless heathens' for millenia. Screw them and their feelings.
In my opinion, moves like this have less to do with protecting corporate profits than with locking down the only truly open media outlet left to us. Governments and corporations are much more interested in controlling and restricting the flow of information to the masses.
The internet threatens their control over our minds because it allows the people to easily counter the propaganda of the newspapers, radio and television. Any and every excuse is being used, from stopping piracy to protecting innocent children from the supposed hordes of online predators lying in wait to corrupt every youth who mistakenly looks at a display screen.
Governments and corporations don't need the power to physically enforce their will if they control what we see and hear and, by extension, what we think.
Of course companies are going to monitor information being sent out over their internet connections. They would be crazy not to. Want privacy? Email on your own time and your own dime.
I was in the Loma Prieta earthquake that happened during the World Series back in 1989. I was stationed at the Presidio of Monterey and standing on the 2nd floor balcony of my barracks smoking a cigarette when it happened. It was the first and hopefully last earthquake I'll ever experience. It was a frightening and unnerving experience that seemed to last forever. The earthquake in China was almost 10 times more powerful and lasted 6 times longer than the one I went through - it must have been terrifying.
I wonder which of these two conclusions the students will come to.
Before or after they've received their state-mandated Soma®?
This is nothing more than the slow creep into the police state. They are selling tracking technology as a means to safeguard our children, safeguard the elderly suffering from dementia or alzheimer's, safeguard us from sexual offenders and now as a means to keep troubled youths on the straight and narrow. It won't be long before we all wake up with electronic leashes jammed up our asses.
It seems you guys did a pretty good job given how badly the NSA kneecapped you from the start. It would be interesting to know what the rules and goals of the exercise were. It almost seems as if the NSA wanted to test your ability to respond to an attack on a compromised network moreso that your ability to prevent it being compromised in the first place.
Thanks for the info! Out of curiosity, were the machines with the rootkits compromised prior to the beginning of the exercise or during the course of the exercise? It would be interesting to know just what level of handicap you guys were forced to work with.
Yes, SysInternals was sucked up by the collective...err...Microsoft. From reading the article it is fairly obvious that the only serious security challenge came from a Windows box compromised by a rootkit. It seems the LAMP server they were running (I assume it was LAMP - they mentioned Fedora 8, MySQL and Apache... I assume it also had PHP, Perl and Python) easily handled the SQL injection attacks. I wonder if having a windows box in your network was part of the requirements insisted upon by the NSA when the cadets set up their network? NSA-Key, anyone?
Sometimes it amazes me how dense people can be. Governments ALWAYS stand or fall at the pleasure of the people. Why? Because the people ALWAYS outnumber the government. If 1.2 billion Chinese stood up tomorrow and told the government to get bent, what could the government honestly do about it? Nothing!
The Chinese people do not need access to the internet to know whether or not they are satisfied with their government. I am also confident they are fully aware that they live in a society where censorship is the norm - how could they not be? Also, the history of the communist revolution itself is enough to show the Chinese people that the government stands or falls at their pleasure. More to the point, speaking as an American, it is none of our business - unless of course you agree with the Bush doctrine of delivering democracy at gunpoint.
The Chinese people are responsible for pushing back against their government. It isn't Google's responsibility to stand up for the rights of the Chinese. There are over 1.2 billion people living in China - the Chinese government stands or falls at their pleasure. Apparently they are content with the government they have. When they decide otherwise then it is their responsibility and no one else's to change things.
It may not be the same as annealing, but it does seem very similar in that you are adding enrgy to the material in the form of laser light and allowing the atoms on the chip to move and in the process correct defects in the material structure.
Am I the only person who read this submission and immediately thought to myself "Why in hell is this trolling shite making the cut on/.?" I see absolutely nothing newsworthy about the submission and certainly nothing meriting any discussion.
Ben Stein's pseudo documentary has nothing to do with fact and reason. It is all about maintaining control over the ignorant masses by means of religion. People who believe in invisible sky faeries can be easily maneuvered using the lever of the pulpit. People who embrace empirical evidence, logic and reason are much more difficult to control.
Does anyone think it coincedence that this movie comes out just in time to stir up mindless, knee-jerk religious animosity towards 'godless liberals' when the republican candidate is not well liked by the religious right?
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Also, one has to wonder what happens to the quality of music the labels offer when their incentive to produce quality work - profit - is removed. Anyone care to bet that even with this music tax the RIAA will have a loophole to still charge for 'premium content' not licensed under the tax? In effect, they'll get to charge you for the crap you don't listen to and charge you again for the music you actually want. It seems they want to have their cake and eat it too.
It's called subscription music services - like Rhapsody and Napster. Keep it voluntary. I don't like the idea of having to pay the RIAA protection money to access the internet.
One drug they have me on makes it impossible for me to get upset about anything. If we could isolate what it is that makes the brain do that, put it into an airborne form and spray it over an enemy, then we could simply march in and say "We are taking your land, your government and your freedom", and their response would be (in a semi-zombie state) "Oh. Okay. I hope you enjoy it".
All without firing a shot.
Just because you're lucky enough to have an Rx for sweet mary jane doesn't mean you have to rub it in our faces... sheesh ~
Have you heard the tale of William "Tux" Miller and the Second Advent of the Linux Desktop?~
Senator Obama,
Today you voted to destroy the Constitution. You betrayed millions of supporters like myself when you voted away the 4th Amendment today. No amount of spin on your part is going to change the fact that you and your fellow Congressmen stabbed every American in the back today. You and the rest of your compatriots in the Senate and House have lost all claims to legitimacy. You have betrayed your oath of office, the Constitution and the People.
I cannot begin to express how violated, molested and utterly betrayed I feel by what you have done. I feel duped, suckered, hoodwinked and bamboozled. I feel like I have been robbed, raped and left bleeding in a dark alley.
Goodbye, Senator. This is a deal breaker. I will not be voting in November. You have destroyed what little hope I had left for my country. I now know without doubt that absolutely nobody in my government can be trusted. You and all your fellow traitors inside the beltway can go to hell. There is no excuse for what you have done and no possible explanation or apology will right this wrong.
In closing, Senator, I leave you with a reminder and fair warning from our founders.
I feel no shame for having taken a chance that you might be different, Senator. However, knowing now that you have taken ranks with the most vile among us, to remain in your camp would bring enduring shame and dishonor upon my soul.
Goodbye and God Save the People!
You don't need any moral high ground when the facts and evidence support your claim and destroy the claims of the opposition - an opposition, by the way, that has been disparaging, threatening, ostracizing, maligning, torturing and murdering us 'godless heathens' for millenia. Screw them and their feelings.
Suck it, Jesus!In my opinion, moves like this have less to do with protecting corporate profits than with locking down the only truly open media outlet left to us. Governments and corporations are much more interested in controlling and restricting the flow of information to the masses.
The internet threatens their control over our minds because it allows the people to easily counter the propaganda of the newspapers, radio and television. Any and every excuse is being used, from stopping piracy to protecting innocent children from the supposed hordes of online predators lying in wait to corrupt every youth who mistakenly looks at a display screen.
Governments and corporations don't need the power to physically enforce their will if they control what we see and hear and, by extension, what we think.
I hope this wasn't off topic.
Of course companies are going to monitor information being sent out over their internet connections. They would be crazy not to. Want privacy? Email on your own time and your own dime.
The Loma Prieta quake had a magnitude of 6.9 and the quake in Sichuan, China had a magnitude of 7.9. This means that the Sichuan quake was ten times more powerful than the Loma Prieta quake.
I was in the Loma Prieta earthquake that happened during the World Series back in 1989. I was stationed at the Presidio of Monterey and standing on the 2nd floor balcony of my barracks smoking a cigarette when it happened. It was the first and hopefully last earthquake I'll ever experience. It was a frightening and unnerving experience that seemed to last forever. The earthquake in China was almost 10 times more powerful and lasted 6 times longer than the one I went through - it must have been terrifying.
Before or after they've received their state-mandated Soma®?
This is nothing more than the slow creep into the police state. They are selling tracking technology as a means to safeguard our children, safeguard the elderly suffering from dementia or alzheimer's, safeguard us from sexual offenders and now as a means to keep troubled youths on the straight and narrow. It won't be long before we all wake up with electronic leashes jammed up our asses.
It seems you guys did a pretty good job given how badly the NSA kneecapped you from the start. It would be interesting to know what the rules and goals of the exercise were. It almost seems as if the NSA wanted to test your ability to respond to an attack on a compromised network moreso that your ability to prevent it being compromised in the first place.
Thanks for the info! Out of curiosity, were the machines with the rootkits compromised prior to the beginning of the exercise or during the course of the exercise? It would be interesting to know just what level of handicap you guys were forced to work with.
Yeah, and you can't make proper use of HTML either. :)
Yes, SysInternals was sucked up by the collective...err...Microsoft. From reading the article it is fairly obvious that the only serious security challenge came from a Windows box compromised by a rootkit. It seems the LAMP server they were running (I assume it was LAMP - they mentioned Fedora 8, MySQL and Apache... I assume it also had PHP, Perl and Python) easily handled the SQL injection attacks. I wonder if having a windows box in your network was part of the requirements insisted upon by the NSA when the cadets set up their network? NSA-Key, anyone?
Sometimes it amazes me how dense people can be. Governments ALWAYS stand or fall at the pleasure of the people. Why? Because the people ALWAYS outnumber the government. If 1.2 billion Chinese stood up tomorrow and told the government to get bent, what could the government honestly do about it? Nothing!
I wonder how long before nVidia sues TechARP for screwing them out of the ability to screw their customers?
The Chinese people do not need access to the internet to know whether or not they are satisfied with their government. I am also confident they are fully aware that they live in a society where censorship is the norm - how could they not be? Also, the history of the communist revolution itself is enough to show the Chinese people that the government stands or falls at their pleasure. More to the point, speaking as an American, it is none of our business - unless of course you agree with the Bush doctrine of delivering democracy at gunpoint.
The Chinese people are responsible for pushing back against their government. It isn't Google's responsibility to stand up for the rights of the Chinese. There are over 1.2 billion people living in China - the Chinese government stands or falls at their pleasure. Apparently they are content with the government they have. When they decide otherwise then it is their responsibility and no one else's to change things.
cook my hot pockets?
It may not be the same as annealing, but it does seem very similar in that you are adding enrgy to the material in the form of laser light and allowing the atoms on the chip to move and in the process correct defects in the material structure.
Am I the only person who read this submission and immediately thought to myself "Why in hell is this trolling shite making the cut on /.?" I see absolutely nothing newsworthy about the submission and certainly nothing meriting any discussion.
how it was he had come to live in his mother's basement, existing on hot pockets, energy drinks and anime pr0n...
Ben Stein's pseudo documentary has nothing to do with fact and reason. It is all about maintaining control over the ignorant masses by means of religion. People who believe in invisible sky faeries can be easily maneuvered using the lever of the pulpit. People who embrace empirical evidence, logic and reason are much more difficult to control.
Does anyone think it coincedence that this movie comes out just in time to stir up mindless, knee-jerk religious animosity towards 'godless liberals' when the republican candidate is not well liked by the religious right?
or else they might start shipping us lead tainted toys, poison pet food and contaminated medicines... oh, wait.
Xenophobes being xenophobic - why is this news?