China blocking more and more software that would allow communication between the billion-and-change people inside the country, or between people in China and people outside China, may be business as usual but it's going to deal this company a blow by terminating three million accounts.
Should we not consider anything that is 'business as usual' to be news? If that's the case, why not just drop any news coverage of the telco immunity deals, domestic spying, or abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo and similar facilities? Those are things that seem to be happening with disturbing regularity lately.
I guess this genius never figured out that when you decide to squander taxpayer money on things on the internet, which is about as public a place as you can get, you end up attracting a lot more attention than you want to. Just like the woman whose foolishness coined the phrase 'Streisand Effect'.
This should be interesting to watch in the coming months, don't you think?
Actually, there are plenty of rapists and murderers getting convicted and given lesser sentences than this. I'm hoping this gets completely overturned on appeal.
How do you verify that a file is or is not pirated, exactly? And whatever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty'?
For that matter, do those reps think that this will make law enforcement give one whit about people stealing albums? They already have enough to deal with in terms of real crime, and they're going to utterly ignore this anyway.
I can only imagine what the results would be if you had replicants on a site like that. Such a small network would be saturated with insane memes and eventually would just rebel a la Skynet. Except Terminators weren't dressed in nice suits with nothing but green instead of skin and a question mark for a face.
You forgot 3) The games I enjoy don't work in WINE. Hell, they barely work in XP, but Vista completely breaks them. But thanks for playing, we have some lovely parting gifts!
If the Iranians are smart, they would have torn the planes down in the eighties and made replicas then. Somehow I doubt this is the case, however - they probably went for the lowest bidder as most militaries do when it comes down to something that isn't related to intercontinental bombers.
...can also be a figurative thing when you're told 'do this or you're going to the unemployment line' and there aren't necessarily any alternatives in the foreseeable future.
In case you haven't noticed the job market is not what it used to be. Not all of us are exactly voluntarily working these sixty to eighty hour weeks when they're dropped with no notice and an ultimatum.
Speaking as someone who has worked in that field, when you dial 911 the phone sends ANI/ALI/ADI information to the 911 call center that shows the name, number, address and additional information in the system on that residence. Faking caller ID is trivial, but sending through false data for 911 would actually fall under the traditional definition of phreaking... actually, on second thought, the system as it is designed these days would have be more like cracking to be honest.
That aside, though, these jerks who get their jollies from sending SWAT around need to get SWAT sent to their homes and see how they like getting M4 barrels next to their head while they're roughly pinned to the floor and cuffed with zero warning thanks to their call justifying it as an emergency that mandates no-knock entry - which has nothing to do with how things are dealt with in warrants and everything to do with departmental policy. If all indications are that there is a life threatening emergency they're not going to worry about waking up a judge to have him sign a piece of paper, they're going to go in ready to deal with anything.
If al Qaeda had its stuff together and had any significant resources in North America, they wouldn't have bothered with something like this and instead would be having cells cause trouble as happened in Israel, e.g. suicide bombers in packed shopping malls, shooters, artillery rockets from an apartment rooftop firing downtown, and so on, as you said
9/11 was aimed at getting headlines more than making America panic. It succeeded very well on both ends, because America is not used to civilians inside the nation's borders being the victims of this kind of thing.
Then again it's very much possible that they could have sent a couple of cells over and they could have looked around and said 'screw you, we're going to live here and make a life'. It takes a person disturbingly dedicated to willingly commit suicide.
I thought that was the basic thing behind string theory. Every time something new in physics crops up they come out with a new variation. Or does that count?
When printers are practically given away for thirty and forty dollars, yet the ink cartridges cost eighty to a hundred dollars or more, it's blatantly obvious to anyone who cares to look that it's a racket. They're merely trying to regain the stranglehold they once had before others began to manufacture compatible cartridges of comparable quality at a reasonable market price.
This is why I have a laser printer. The initial cost is relatively higher but the cost of replacing cartridges, their lifespan, and the print quality is far higher.
Is that instead of using the systems they probably already have, the government is starting to utilize private companies to do their dirty work for them. Another layer of deniability to everything, I suppose.
I forget; was North America part of Oceania or did it partially belong to Eastasia?
I'm sure that Congress will pass a bill restricting the distribution of satellite imagery attached to something else that must pass in the near future. Something innocuous and large like a budget or telecom related bill.
On the plus side, the images that are already out there are staying out there, so some things like Google Earth are just going to become outdated, but they've already been doing this in some other circumstances - ever try to look at any of the buildings in DC for instance?
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China blocking more and more software that would allow communication between the billion-and-change people inside the country, or between people in China and people outside China, may be business as usual but it's going to deal this company a blow by terminating three million accounts.
Should we not consider anything that is 'business as usual' to be news? If that's the case, why not just drop any news coverage of the telco immunity deals, domestic spying, or abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo and similar facilities? Those are things that seem to be happening with disturbing regularity lately.
Or stuff that matters? I'm trying to figure out which this falls under, because it doesn't look like it's remotely close to either of them.
I guess this genius never figured out that when you decide to squander taxpayer money on things on the internet, which is about as public a place as you can get, you end up attracting a lot more attention than you want to. Just like the woman whose foolishness coined the phrase 'Streisand Effect'.
This should be interesting to watch in the coming months, don't you think?
Actually, there are plenty of rapists and murderers getting convicted and given lesser sentences than this. I'm hoping this gets completely overturned on appeal.
I don't suppose you would be willing to tell us WHICH ONE IT IS, now, would you?
If you knew how to use the three seashells I don't think you'd be laughing anymore. I'm sticking to toilet paper, thanks.
How do you verify that a file is or is not pirated, exactly? And whatever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty'?
For that matter, do those reps think that this will make law enforcement give one whit about people stealing albums? They already have enough to deal with in terms of real crime, and they're going to utterly ignore this anyway.
I can only imagine what the results would be if you had replicants on a site like that. Such a small network would be saturated with insane memes and eventually would just rebel a la Skynet. Except Terminators weren't dressed in nice suits with nothing but green instead of skin and a question mark for a face.
You forgot 3) The games I enjoy don't work in WINE. Hell, they barely work in XP, but Vista completely breaks them. But thanks for playing, we have some lovely parting gifts!
Hey, that's how the Soviets did it.
If the Iranians are smart, they would have torn the planes down in the eighties and made replicas then. Somehow I doubt this is the case, however - they probably went for the lowest bidder as most militaries do when it comes down to something that isn't related to intercontinental bombers.
Among the items purchased include two components from F-14 fighter jets ...
I think someone wasn't paying attention down at eBay, but the summary would imply these things were in fact bought.
...can also be a figurative thing when you're told 'do this or you're going to the unemployment line' and there aren't necessarily any alternatives in the foreseeable future. In case you haven't noticed the job market is not what it used to be. Not all of us are exactly voluntarily working these sixty to eighty hour weeks when they're dropped with no notice and an ultimatum.
Now I know why they call them anonymous cowards.
Speaking as someone who has worked in that field, when you dial 911 the phone sends ANI/ALI/ADI information to the 911 call center that shows the name, number, address and additional information in the system on that residence. Faking caller ID is trivial, but sending through false data for 911 would actually fall under the traditional definition of phreaking... actually, on second thought, the system as it is designed these days would have be more like cracking to be honest.
That aside, though, these jerks who get their jollies from sending SWAT around need to get SWAT sent to their homes and see how they like getting M4 barrels next to their head while they're roughly pinned to the floor and cuffed with zero warning thanks to their call justifying it as an emergency that mandates no-knock entry - which has nothing to do with how things are dealt with in warrants and everything to do with departmental policy. If all indications are that there is a life threatening emergency they're not going to worry about waking up a judge to have him sign a piece of paper, they're going to go in ready to deal with anything.
>A caveat: there is no external confirmation that Amazon did what is claimed here. Then why is it on the front page?
Yes, there is no text here.
If al Qaeda had its stuff together and had any significant resources in North America, they wouldn't have bothered with something like this and instead would be having cells cause trouble as happened in Israel, e.g. suicide bombers in packed shopping malls, shooters, artillery rockets from an apartment rooftop firing downtown, and so on, as you said 9/11 was aimed at getting headlines more than making America panic. It succeeded very well on both ends, because America is not used to civilians inside the nation's borders being the victims of this kind of thing. Then again it's very much possible that they could have sent a couple of cells over and they could have looked around and said 'screw you, we're going to live here and make a life'. It takes a person disturbingly dedicated to willingly commit suicide.
I think you're a few decades late, but then, they can always go out to the countryside.
I thought that was the basic thing behind string theory. Every time something new in physics crops up they come out with a new variation. Or does that count?
What the heck do you do for a living that makes them think they have the right to do THAT?
When printers are practically given away for thirty and forty dollars, yet the ink cartridges cost eighty to a hundred dollars or more, it's blatantly obvious to anyone who cares to look that it's a racket. They're merely trying to regain the stranglehold they once had before others began to manufacture compatible cartridges of comparable quality at a reasonable market price. This is why I have a laser printer. The initial cost is relatively higher but the cost of replacing cartridges, their lifespan, and the print quality is far higher.
And now we know why this man is a former mathematician. This is just bad math.
Is that instead of using the systems they probably already have, the government is starting to utilize private companies to do their dirty work for them. Another layer of deniability to everything, I suppose. I forget; was North America part of Oceania or did it partially belong to Eastasia?
I'm sure that Congress will pass a bill restricting the distribution of satellite imagery attached to something else that must pass in the near future. Something innocuous and large like a budget or telecom related bill.
On the plus side, the images that are already out there are staying out there, so some things like Google Earth are just going to become outdated, but they've already been doing this in some other circumstances - ever try to look at any of the buildings in DC for instance?
...the RIAA has its next round of lawsuits scaled to the amount of shelf space they're given.