You talking about America or Saddam? Two wrongs don't make it right, but he was a cruel SOB, and he deserved what he got.
Well, Noriega and Blagojevich got what they deserved, too. You're missing the bigger picture, though: This is what happens to you when you cross organized crime.
Building structures that won't collapse and crush everybody inside isn't trivial; but it is doable now
It was doable 600 years ago.
Just go visit Machu Picchu, and you'll see.
It lays abandoned for half a millennium in a land of frequent earthquakes, and it's walls are still intact.
I normally don't care about privacy issues. The government can tap my phone if they feel like it, they can look into my purchasing records, they can stake out my house. They can look into my past work history. I really don't care.
But this is ridiculous. There were many levels of non-thinking going into this one. It's a move you might make if you were a dictator and wanted to remind people to stay in line. In fact, it is similar to things that happen in China. But.......this is the USA.
s/USA/USSA/
And it's folks like you, who have "nothing to hide" and don't care how far the gummint crawls up your anus, who are helping to make it that way.
Oh, please. Tell that to the Nisei (the Japanese-Americans locked up during World War II), the slaves of the USA's first 100 years of existence, women without the vote or property rights, the victim's of the McCarthy era witch hunt against Communists, the hippies of the 1960's, and various people whose have rights have been trammeled since the beginning of the USA.
We're a nation of laws on good days: on bad days, we've been nationalistic thungs.
You left out the original inhabitants of North America.
Steve Jackson Games STILL hasn't gotten back all their stuff from the FBI raid 1 March 1990, and the FBI even issued and apology for f-ing up!
Screw one month, that's over NINETEEN YEARS !!!!
Basically, if the Federal Bureau of Idiots confiscates your stuff, be happy if you ever get it back.
No, trust me, the freakin' programmers and IT people make it impossible. All us MBAs want to do is output a freakin graph, and you put us through all kinds of process steps, and gates and usability testing, and then decide it will cost $1Million just to make a simple change. No wonder nothing gets done without a multi million dollar budget.
This is modded insightful, but it is rather funny.
Seriously, are MBA's considered nerds? Even W had an MBA...
the abstract mentions that the attack was done using malwares. Firstly, I expected Chinese hackers (read govt.) smarter than this.
The bulk of Chinese intel is heavily distributed. The world's largest families don't need to rely on 007 agents; they can aggregate huge quantities of data by getting observant volunteers from the chinese diaspora to send bits of info back home through regular channels, like aunt Ping or even uncle James. It's so distributed it doesn't look like spying, and it isn't really, in the traditional sense.
This has driven counterintelligence agencies in 'western' democracies and republics to distraction. There are hardly any spooks to catch, mainly just a giant global gossamer net of informers, and enormous compiling and analysis operations in China. The 'agents', who are barely agents if at all, have strong deniability and can always fall back on complaints of harassment due to ethnic targeting. (Google the issue, it's amusing.)
I think it's brilliant, even if wholly dependent on the chinese sense of family ties. A malware attack is a similar approach: it doesn't look like the work of spies, at first, and it's broadly distributed. So, it's plausible that it could be a chinese intel operation, just from the M.O.
Indeed! The worlds most effective intelligence organization, the Mossad, uses an informal network of "sayanim" located everywhere on the globe who will do anything to help Israel.
How can you be sure your computer is 100% secure, and not infiltrated? Even in a fresh-installed, never-connected OS (any OS), how to be sure all executables on the CD don't have some hidden code in them, even when first released, that was somehow slipped in?
What OS do they use in embassies, military, etc? What security measures, products, procedures?
I feel far, far more secure running an OS that I downloaded with a MD5 checksum, whose code is open for all to see, rather than black box software produced by a corporation whose disregard for human rights is at least as great as its slavering subservience to government.
The only place where people will gleefully ignore the fact that we torture innocent people in secret prisons without a trial, but froth at the mouth at the idea that you can be sued for copyright infringement.
Yes, clearly, THIS is the biggest issue of the year. Forget the economy, and health care, and two wars, and terrorism, and a weak government in the nuclear-armed Pakistan, and global warming, and the torture of people who never even received a trial. This issue, right here, is what matters. Obama was elected because "big media" bought the election, and now he's gonna come down hard on all us poor innocents.
I think it may be time to invest in Reynold's Wrap.
Just why is this a troll???? You over-educated morons need to get some perspective. Try living in Gaza.
If you're going to say that you didn't vote for him and you don't like what he's doing, don't tacitly approve of him by saying you don't want him to fail.
I didn't vote for him. I don't like what he's doing. I also don't like seeing this country going down the shitter. It has absolutely nothing to do with approval for Obama. If he mends his ways and does succeed in snatching the US from the jaws of death he'll earn my respect and my vote. Unfortunately I'm quite aware that this isn't going to happen.
I guess I should toss in the point that I have nothing but the utmost respect for the office of the President. It's just that occasionally we elect clowns to fill it.
There's no "occasionally" about it. Sometimes the addled electorate chooses a smart clown like Clinton and sometimes a dumb one like Bush. So long as the monied interests have control of the media and therefore of the idiot majority things will stay that way. I have respect for the office of the president as it is defined in the Constitution. I have no respect for the faux office-holders who defile it. I love my country. All the more reason to remove the foul cancer that's been eating away at it for the last 50+ years.
I've done some C/C++ programming on Windows PCs, but not in years. Now I use Macs mostly though I also have a Linux PC and may install Ubuntu on my Mac. Objective-C is the mainstay language on Macs but I don't know if it can be programmed on Linux or Windows PCs. Anyway I want to start programming again but I want to be able to program cross platform so I'm wondering if I should stick with C/C++ or try Objective-C. Currently I'm trying to learn Java.
Falcon
I've been writing Objective-C/Cocoa apps for mac for the last 3 years. I just installed gentoo on my new laptop and have installed gnustep, which is designed to work like the Cocoa framework. I haven't had much time to play around with it but I'm hopefull I can soon do linux versions of my apps RSN.
So by the time we burn more electricity to filter out the bullshit and gross errors we'll be well seated to look at a data set that say we've done too little too late.
Sounds just like everything else on the net if you ask me.
people are TERRIBLE witnesses to events. ask 2 people what they thought happened and you will get 2 different stories. just look at how crap the mainsteam media is at reporting on science subjects, and your telling me you want to use this as a data feed to determine the state of the planet? the red light for "everything is fucked" will be flashing constantly no matter what because no one ever writes stories about stuff that's fine.
That's an excellent point, but weather stations (and other sensors) and cellphone cameras are not people and are pretty good witnesses.
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Ok, Dave, roll under your con on a d20.
Dave: Why?
DM: It's a saving throw against cancer.
Dave (rolls die): Hey! It's cocked!
DM: Yeah, it sure is. Sorry.
I think the 9/11 Bombers should be let go
:|
No, it doesn't make any sense, but not for the ostensible reason: There is a lot of evidence that many of the hijackers are still alive and free.
The fucker's dead because everybody wanted him dead...who cares about anything else.
Not everybody. And I believe lot's of us want Dubya to step down his throne before his time is due. Did that happen?
Yeah, I thought it was convenient that he died before being able to spill is guts about his collaboration with the Bush family from waaaay back.
In the same vein, I don't want to see W or Cheney (or Obama) strung up by a lynch mob. I want to see them testify on TV.
Please all of you guys look up "ostensibly/ostensible" in the dictionary. You're using it in the opposite sense of what it means. Geez.
You talking about America or Saddam? Two wrongs don't make it right, but he was a cruel SOB, and he deserved what he got.
Well, Noriega and Blagojevich got what they deserved, too. You're missing the bigger picture, though: This is what happens to you when you cross organized crime.
Do you get extra points for incinerating women and children with white phosphorus?
Just because your iMac G3 couldn't run 10.4 doesn't exactly make it a "Tiger Repelling Rock"
C'mon mods, that's pretty funny (if a little insulting.)
Building structures that won't collapse and crush everybody inside isn't trivial; but it is doable now
It was doable 600 years ago. Just go visit Machu Picchu, and you'll see. It lays abandoned for half a millennium in a land of frequent earthquakes, and it's walls are still intact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incan_architecture
I think I agree, but "it is walls are still intact" doesn't make any sense.
There are 4 basic types of people in the world: Bean-counters, arm-wavers, geeks and outlaws. This piece was obviously written by an arm-waver.
I normally don't care about privacy issues. The government can tap my phone if they feel like it, they can look into my purchasing records, they can stake out my house. They can look into my past work history. I really don't care. But this is ridiculous. There were many levels of non-thinking going into this one. It's a move you might make if you were a dictator and wanted to remind people to stay in line. In fact, it is similar to things that happen in China. But.......this is the USA.
s/USA/USSA/
And it's folks like you, who have "nothing to hide" and don't care how far the gummint crawls up your anus, who are helping to make it that way.
Oh, please. Tell that to the Nisei (the Japanese-Americans locked up during World War II), the slaves of the USA's first 100 years of existence, women without the vote or property rights, the victim's of the McCarthy era witch hunt against Communists, the hippies of the 1960's, and various people whose have rights have been trammeled since the beginning of the USA. We're a nation of laws on good days: on bad days, we've been nationalistic thungs.
You left out the original inhabitants of North America.
Nope, afraid there isn't.
There used to be one, but he got shot while riding in his car with his wife, twice from a distance and once by his personal bodyguard.
Then it was blamed on some loser-ish twit named "Harvey" and swept under the rug.
News at 11.
His "name" was Oswald.
Steve Jackson Games STILL hasn't gotten back all their stuff from the FBI raid 1 March 1990, and the FBI even issued and apology for f-ing up! Screw one month, that's over NINETEEN YEARS !!!! Basically, if the Federal Bureau of Idiots confiscates your stuff, be happy if you ever get it back.
I suspect most ./ers have never heard of Operation Sundevil.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- George Santayana
That didn't take long at all.
No, trust me, the freakin' programmers and IT people make it impossible. All us MBAs want to do is output a freakin graph, and you put us through all kinds of process steps, and gates and usability testing, and then decide it will cost $1Million just to make a simple change. No wonder nothing gets done without a multi million dollar budget.
This is modded insightful, but it is rather funny.
Seriously, are MBA's considered nerds? Even W had an MBA...
You are worfless, Alec Baldwin!
the abstract mentions that the attack was done using malwares. Firstly, I expected Chinese hackers (read govt.) smarter than this.
The bulk of Chinese intel is heavily distributed. The world's largest families don't need to rely on 007 agents; they can aggregate huge quantities of data by getting observant volunteers from the chinese diaspora to send bits of info back home through regular channels, like aunt Ping or even uncle James. It's so distributed it doesn't look like spying, and it isn't really, in the traditional sense.
This has driven counterintelligence agencies in 'western' democracies and republics to distraction. There are hardly any spooks to catch, mainly just a giant global gossamer net of informers, and enormous compiling and analysis operations in China. The 'agents', who are barely agents if at all, have strong deniability and can always fall back on complaints of harassment due to ethnic targeting. (Google the issue, it's amusing.)
I think it's brilliant, even if wholly dependent on the chinese sense of family ties. A malware attack is a similar approach: it doesn't look like the work of spies, at first, and it's broadly distributed. So, it's plausible that it could be a chinese intel operation, just from the M.O.
Indeed! The worlds most effective intelligence organization, the Mossad, uses an informal network of "sayanim" located everywhere on the globe who will do anything to help Israel.
How can you be sure your computer is 100% secure, and not infiltrated? Even in a fresh-installed, never-connected OS (any OS), how to be sure all executables on the CD don't have some hidden code in them, even when first released, that was somehow slipped in? What OS do they use in embassies, military, etc? What security measures, products, procedures?
I feel far, far more secure running an OS that I downloaded with a MD5 checksum, whose code is open for all to see, rather than black box software produced by a corporation whose disregard for human rights is at least as great as its slavering subservience to government.
The only place where people will gleefully ignore the fact that we torture innocent people in secret prisons without a trial, but froth at the mouth at the idea that you can be sued for copyright infringement.
Yes, clearly, THIS is the biggest issue of the year. Forget the economy, and health care, and two wars, and terrorism, and a weak government in the nuclear-armed Pakistan, and global warming, and the torture of people who never even received a trial. This issue, right here, is what matters. Obama was elected because "big media" bought the election, and now he's gonna come down hard on all us poor innocents.
I think it may be time to invest in Reynold's Wrap.
Just why is this a troll???? You over-educated morons need to get some perspective. Try living in Gaza.
If you're going to say that you didn't vote for him and you don't like what he's doing, don't tacitly approve of him by saying you don't want him to fail.
I didn't vote for him. I don't like what he's doing. I also don't like seeing this country going down the shitter. It has absolutely nothing to do with approval for Obama. If he mends his ways and does succeed in snatching the US from the jaws of death he'll earn my respect and my vote. Unfortunately I'm quite aware that this isn't going to happen.
I guess I should toss in the point that I have nothing but the utmost respect for the office of the President. It's just that occasionally we elect clowns to fill it.
There's no "occasionally" about it. Sometimes the addled electorate chooses a smart clown like Clinton and sometimes a dumb one like Bush. So long as the monied interests have control of the media and therefore of the idiot majority things will stay that way. I have respect for the office of the president as it is defined in the Constitution. I have no respect for the faux office-holders who defile it. I love my country. All the more reason to remove the foul cancer that's been eating away at it for the last 50+ years.
I've done some C/C++ programming on Windows PCs, but not in years. Now I use Macs mostly though I also have a Linux PC and may install Ubuntu on my Mac. Objective-C is the mainstay language on Macs but I don't know if it can be programmed on Linux or Windows PCs. Anyway I want to start programming again but I want to be able to program cross platform so I'm wondering if I should stick with C/C++ or try Objective-C. Currently I'm trying to learn Java.
Falcon
I've been writing Objective-C/Cocoa apps for mac for the last 3 years. I just installed gentoo on my new laptop and have installed gnustep, which is designed to work like the Cocoa framework. I haven't had much time to play around with it but I'm hopefull I can soon do linux versions of my apps RSN.
..., and the price of food is declining. ...
You just can't be living in the same U.S. where I live.
So by the time we burn more electricity to filter out the bullshit and gross errors we'll be well seated to look at a data set that say we've done too little too late. Sounds just like everything else on the net if you ask me.
Geez, I just can't refute that. Sad but true.
people are TERRIBLE witnesses to events. ask 2 people what they thought happened and you will get 2 different stories. just look at how crap the mainsteam media is at reporting on science subjects, and your telling me you want to use this as a data feed to determine the state of the planet? the red light for "everything is fucked" will be flashing constantly no matter what because no one ever writes stories about stuff that's fine.
That's an excellent point, but weather stations (and other sensors) and cellphone cameras are not people and are pretty good witnesses.
According to wiki, there are about 1200 american crocodiles living in Florida. TFA says 2000.