I live on Okinawa Japan and I would love to see the Japanese IP police actually go after their own people. There are so many rip-offs of American IP like bars called "American Idol" with the American Idol symbol on the bar (they are most definitely not paying royalties). There are fake DVD stores everywhere, the only IP they respect is God's by blurring out porn.
Newsflash: some words have multiple meanings, and humans are actually quite good at distinguishing between them. Ambiguity is more likely to lead to comedy than to confusion.
Yea but he is right in this context most humans wouldn't be able to distinguish them. Maybe most here but in general anything about hackers is thought of as the black hat kind.
3. No Exchange support, tethering, desktop sync, video or Skype. Some or all of these would be nice at launch but I assume they will be added fairly quickly by others though given it is an open-source platform.
Cool thing about an open platform is that any of these requests you can make or more likely someone else will provide to you.
Its the same with the Military. We write things 20080723 no dashes no spaces and goes big to small. Makes logical sense to me but then again so does the metric system and you see how much that has caught on in America.
I didn't think anyone with any self respect would post a picture like that on the internet. They look like a group of Child Molesting geeks sending child porn to the far reaches of space. Especially with a name like Bambi, i mean really...
Originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory, Tor became an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) project in late 2004. The EFF supported Tor financially until November 2005.
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Seeing as it was started originally as a government program i doubt it.
I could see someone wanting to buy this. They simply offer low bandwidth censored for the free access, then high bandwidth and non-censored at a monthly fee that you can go anywhere in the country with and get access. I could see people buying it that travel alot, or people that cannot get internet anywhere else.
This could be a great investment for Verizon or Comcast. Nation wide coverage with little competition.
The military is made up of its members, the military is executing illegal actions, every member of the military has a responsibility not to support illegal actions, therefore every member of the military is involved in illegal actions.
The very structure of the military is such that you are not supposed to know (unless you need to know) what you are doing, which makes it that much more difficult. But that does not detract from my point, only from the soldier's ability to exercise judgment. I laugh at people like you who haven't served in the military but claim to be an expert on it. I have been a Marines for 3 years, I have been all over the world and am currently typing this from a foreign country. So i do believe that i have the expertise to talk on this subject.
Not once in my career have i recived an order that i thought was illegal or against my moral beliefs. Not once have i given one of those orders either. I know it might be hard to believe but we do not go out and look to kill people for no reason. We do not care about oil or gold. That is not why we fight. We fight for the Marine next to us.
We are not this killing machine that you probably think we are. At a moments notice we would go into Burma right now and help to save those people, if they let us in. I have friends that when to Pakistan and pulled their dead out the mud after they had massive mud slides. Friends that were all over SE Asia after the tsunami of 2004. We help more people in a year that most aid agencies do.
We are not killers. We are not evil. And please dont speak on something you seem to have no idea what you are talking about... brainwashing my ass.
There is plenty of research that is paid for by the military (through taxes) and then comes around to benefit civilians in the long run.
I can think of a few off the top of my head...
1) The internet (ARPA)
2) Jet power and most anything involving aviation
3) Many types of cold weather gear
4) Alot of medical research was done to save people in uniform
5) Satellite technology
If it wasn't for the military alot of these things just would not have gotten the funding they deserved because they wouldn't have been needed at the time.
That's one school of thought and we can see how well it's worked with countries like Cuba, Iran, N. Korea, etc. It also the school of thought that came from the Munich Agreement and the appeasement of Nazi Germany. Giving into aggressive countries will just continue to show them they can do what they want. Giving Beijing the Olympics was a bad choice as we can see from the recent situation in Tibet. While the Olympics are more about money than anything else they also mean more that simple profit and the Olympic committee may have forgotten that.
Things have worked out in Cuba and NK and Iran to lesser extents. Why the people haven't revolted in those countries is beyond me but they haven't spread the doctrine of hate to neighboring countries it has been contained (much less with Iran but radical Islam is a different and bigger matter).
Of course countries like the US are not perfect and i think that Iraq has been a slap in the face of America that is finally waking us up that we are not the worlds police and we don't have to step in and impose our policies no matter how right we think they are.
It is undisputed that they've been setting fire to and looting Chinese businesses and targeting people of Han ethnicity, how would you feel if people of Japan sick of the US military presence did the same to American's and American business?
Apples to Oranges
There is a difference between Japan and Tibet. Japan attacked America when we won WWII we were going to leave until North Korea invaded South Korea. We are there to protect them and SE Asia from NK and others. We don't run the government in Japan or even the island of Okinawa where most of our troops are stationed. So yes we would be upset if the Japanese were to attack the bases here because we have a legitimate agreements with the sovereign nation of Japan.
I'm not trying to bait or anything but I am curious. Why does the internet community give so much energy to the liberation of Tibet but they don't do the same to the USA, South Africa, Australia etc that are overrun and controlled by accupying colonial powers. Yes they may be 'democracies' but if you go and speak to a native aborigony and ask them about it I think that their perspective would be different to that of some slashdotters. There are occupying forces all over the world and all throughout history - I just wonder why we choose to make a fuss over Tibet when there are injustices in our own backyard that we are choosing to ignore.
South Africa? I remember hearing alot of people during the late 80's pushing for the overthrow of the Apartheid white Government till it was overthrown.
USA and Australia are not colonial powers they are their own nation and the abuses that happened to the native people happened 100+ years ago and have since been apologized for and they have been both given a degree of autonomy which is what the Dalia Lama wants.
Why do you assume that it is political spam? Unless you are Chinese I doubt you know enough to judge what is happening in there. People have their own opinion, although it may be based upon great misinformation you cannot just assume that to be the case. Also, unfortunately there is no such thing as "The Truth".
That is like people saying they cannot comment on American government or policies if they aren't American. We know that doesn't happen. Plus the fact is Tibet is as far as many in the world are concerned Tibet isn't a part of China it has simply been occupied for 50+ years now.
I can also definitely see the Chinese government or hardliners going on YouTube and other sites to mod these videos down so no one sees them not just their people.
Well you do know that March 15th is St. Patty's day this year right? They might have wanted to pick a different day because i know i am going to be to drunk to protest. I guess there are better people in the world than me( see as not alcoholic:).
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http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends\ Wow hit number 2 in less than an hour
I live on Okinawa Japan and I would love to see the Japanese IP police actually go after their own people. There are so many rip-offs of American IP like bars called "American Idol" with the American Idol symbol on the bar (they are most definitely not paying royalties). There are fake DVD stores everywhere, the only IP they respect is God's by blurring out porn.
Yea but he is right in this context most humans wouldn't be able to distinguish them. Maybe most here but in general anything about hackers is thought of as the black hat kind.
I hope not as a Marine I want to know how I would check... the news?
3. No Exchange support, tethering, desktop sync, video or Skype. Some or all of these would be nice at launch but I assume they will be added fairly quickly by others though given it is an open-source platform.
Cool thing about an open platform is that any of these requests you can make or more likely someone else will provide to you.
Wow you took my thoughts and wrote them on /.
Where's the TIN FOIL MAA! I told you to get me more Tin Foil!
I bet Hitler would capitalize internet. You "Internet"er's disgust me.
The same reason they made all those pictures that prove the moon landing was a hoax... They want to get caught.
Pretty obvious if you ask me.
Its the same with the Military. We write things 20080723 no dashes no spaces and goes big to small. Makes logical sense to me but then again so does the metric system and you see how much that has caught on in America.
I didn't think anyone with any self respect would post a picture like that on the internet. They look like a group of Child Molesting geeks sending child porn to the far reaches of space. Especially with a name like Bambi, i mean really...
Maybe thats what they were going for though.
Tor was started by the US Navy why would that close it down?
Seeing as it was started originally as a government program i doubt it.
I could see someone wanting to buy this. They simply offer low bandwidth censored for the free access, then high bandwidth and non-censored at a monthly fee that you can go anywhere in the country with and get access. I could see people buying it that travel alot, or people that cannot get internet anywhere else.
This could be a great investment for Verizon or Comcast. Nation wide coverage with little competition.
Its not anymore... We need our crypto in safes and SIPR hard drives in locked boxes with a Marine with eyes on it at all times.
Then again i could get anyone in my Company's SS and what ever else i want so easily its ridiculous but whatever.
The very structure of the military is such that you are not supposed to know (unless you need to know) what you are doing, which makes it that much more difficult. But that does not detract from my point, only from the soldier's ability to exercise judgment. I laugh at people like you who haven't served in the military but claim to be an expert on it. I have been a Marines for 3 years, I have been all over the world and am currently typing this from a foreign country. So i do believe that i have the expertise to talk on this subject.
Not once in my career have i recived an order that i thought was illegal or against my moral beliefs. Not once have i given one of those orders either. I know it might be hard to believe but we do not go out and look to kill people for no reason. We do not care about oil or gold. That is not why we fight. We fight for the Marine next to us.
We are not this killing machine that you probably think we are. At a moments notice we would go into Burma right now and help to save those people, if they let us in. I have friends that when to Pakistan and pulled their dead out the mud after they had massive mud slides. Friends that were all over SE Asia after the tsunami of 2004. We help more people in a year that most aid agencies do.
We are not killers. We are not evil. And please dont speak on something you seem to have no idea what you are talking about... brainwashing my ass.
There is plenty of research that is paid for by the military (through taxes) and then comes around to benefit civilians in the long run.
I can think of a few off the top of my head...
1) The internet (ARPA)
2) Jet power and most anything involving aviation
3) Many types of cold weather gear
4) Alot of medical research was done to save people in uniform
5) Satellite technology
If it wasn't for the military alot of these things just would not have gotten the funding they deserved because they wouldn't have been needed at the time.
It also the school of thought that came from the Munich Agreement and the appeasement of Nazi Germany. Giving into aggressive countries will just continue to show them they can do what they want. Giving Beijing the Olympics was a bad choice as we can see from the recent situation in Tibet. While the Olympics are more about money than anything else they also mean more that simple profit and the Olympic committee may have forgotten that.
Things have worked out in Cuba and NK and Iran to lesser extents. Why the people haven't revolted in those countries is beyond me but they haven't spread the doctrine of hate to neighboring countries it has been contained (much less with Iran but radical Islam is a different and bigger matter).
Of course countries like the US are not perfect and i think that Iraq has been a slap in the face of America that is finally waking us up that we are not the worlds police and we don't have to step in and impose our policies no matter how right we think they are.
Apples to Oranges
There is a difference between Japan and Tibet. Japan attacked America when we won WWII we were going to leave until North Korea invaded South Korea. We are there to protect them and SE Asia from NK and others. We don't run the government in Japan or even the island of Okinawa where most of our troops are stationed. So yes we would be upset if the Japanese were to attack the bases here because we have a legitimate agreements with the sovereign nation of Japan.
South Africa? I remember hearing alot of people during the late 80's pushing for the overthrow of the Apartheid white Government till it was overthrown.
USA and Australia are not colonial powers they are their own nation and the abuses that happened to the native people happened 100+ years ago and have since been apologized for and they have been both given a degree of autonomy which is what the Dalia Lama wants.
That is like people saying they cannot comment on American government or policies if they aren't American. We know that doesn't happen. Plus the fact is Tibet is as far as many in the world are concerned Tibet isn't a part of China it has simply been occupied for 50+ years now.
I can also definitely see the Chinese government or hardliners going on YouTube and other sites to mod these videos down so no one sees them not just their people.
I saw that it was moved... But i will compromise by celebrating twice.
Well you do know that March 15th is St. Patty's day this year right? They might have wanted to pick a different day because i know i am going to be to drunk to protest. I guess there are better people in the world than me( see as not alcoholic :).
SciFi author's do speak truth look at Scientology.
Shit, i hate getting deployed and having to go more than 3 months. I can't even imagine getting to deploy to Iraq and having to go 7 to 14 months.