To be honest, I consider wanting anyone dead for more than a passing moment to be a warning sign.
Sure, you may find yourself in a situation that requires you to take a life - but in such cases that implies necessity for some concrete goal (for example, keeping yourself un-perforated by a knife). Desiring someone's death for the end result of simply that is... not something I want in my public servants.
Re: Re: No one can be trusted with power. You're tacitly implying: gov't bad / corporations good.
Having government as a check against privately-controlled centers of power (generally in the form of corporations these days) is of critical importance to liberty.
Yes, the government is almost always the greatest locus of power around in a society, so should be regulated the strongest... but it's by far not the only such loci.
Nah... pass the news along to the Russians; they'll take care of him *real* good...
And really? The **greatest traitor**? Not only overly dramatic, that line alone indicates someone who I want nowhere near my country's intelligence mechanisms.
Citizens who reveal abuses of governmental power to the public are practically the diametric *opposite* of traitors in my mind; in my books doing so is a heroic act... particularly considering the extremely grave consequences of putting egg on governmental faces in such a manner.
In Snowden's case, he's almost certainly sacrificed a life in the country both he and I was born and raised in and (if quotes like these are any indicator) quite possibly his *life* for the public good. It's quite unlikely that he'll be able to spend time with friends and family any time soon.
Depends on the field; Computer Science is a relatively newer field with a lot of practical applications, so I feel we get a solid amount of new material in our literature.
Admittedly, we have a larger percentage of conferences over publish-only journals than is the norm in other fields, so our work tends to be geared towards not making us look like fools live in front of our peers.
Perhaps these people need some one with more skin in the have to report these security flaws to. Who has more skin in the game than the credit card companies who would end up eating the cost of the fraud. The credit card companies are powerful enough to get noticed and to powerful to be ridden rough shod over. Simply promise to cut off companies who fail to repair flaws in a timely manor.
... now this I like. CC companies would be the perfect foil.
Yeah, no - nobody owns a creative work; after all, they make money by duplicating the original in some medium and selling the copies. You could argue that something with a single copy is indeed owned just like anything else.
Instead, copyright was an effort to encourage trends perceived as beneficial in those early days of the US over the much more traditional "patronage" model. Terms of the rights given have *been limited from the first*; you can hardly argue that duration is a restraint when (a) before copyright there was no such ownership and (b) from the very first copyright was limited in duration.
To my mind, the ideal threshold for security (in most arenas) is "the idiot with a plan"; don't bother making an effort to screen out the truly committed - they'll do something else. Ask the French how the Maginot Line worked in the early 20th century :-p
You want enough to stop someone who thinks they'll gain something from it, goes postal, etc; they're unlikely to rationally plan out what the best target to hit would be (as terrorists generally do).
The single change in security after 9/11 that I feel is useful is having the cockpit sealed upon takeoff. Threats to blow up the plane/kill hostages we can deal with and have in the past.
I suppose that's the question. I mean, if someone can make a solid argument that I can follow that it'll not result in that kind of outcome, then I'd be all for it.
Most preferred would be a nice variety of demonstrations; I'm always wary of theoretical economics...
Sorry, still don't believe you, AC. Perhaps there's a bunch of history I wasn't around for, but it seems like the only thing you do is bitch about being blocked... in posts that I, for one, always seem to be able to read.
(To anyone else: mind explaining why AC claims he's being blocked?).
So what do idiots like this yoyo think is going to happen when they start filtering the net for what they think shouldn't be allowed?
Time will turn back and the world will be an idealized 1950s TV show?
As opposed to more and more people going to darknets, leading to increased darknet infrastructure and population and a increasing general disdain for him and his ilk?
Re: Google is a permitted regulated entity, NOT a person.
Silly OotB. Because Google isn't hosting the sites in question?
I really continue to be baffled at your hate-boner for Google. It's pathological and frankly tediously predictable (no, really, the kind of obsession you appear to have with both Google and the writers at Techdirt suggests you perhaps need some therapy).
Sure, they don't have a recording of the contents, but a quick subpoena to the phone company (the proper way to do things, NSA) would show that the call was made...
Kudos to the judge who went out of his way in order to better understand the case before making their decision; that's the kind of thing I like to see in my judges.
I'd say it was about damn time, but that time has already passed long ago.
Fuck those people who thought the Broken Window Theory was anything but a completely unsupported silly idea and decided it should be applied to kids in schools.
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Re: Protip:
Sure, you may find yourself in a situation that requires you to take a life - but in such cases that implies necessity for some concrete goal (for example, keeping yourself un-perforated by a knife). Desiring someone's death for the end result of simply that is... not something I want in my public servants.
On the post: The Fact That The US Intelligence Community So Readily Admits To Fantasies Of Killing Ed Snowden Shows Why They Can't Be Trusted
Re: Re: No one can be trusted with power. You're tacitly implying: gov't bad / corporations good.
Yes, the government is almost always the greatest locus of power around in a society, so should be regulated the strongest... but it's by far not the only such loci.
On the post: The Fact That The US Intelligence Community So Readily Admits To Fantasies Of Killing Ed Snowden Shows Why They Can't Be Trusted
Re: Wow
And really? The **greatest traitor**? Not only overly dramatic, that line alone indicates someone who I want nowhere near my country's intelligence mechanisms.
Citizens who reveal abuses of governmental power to the public are practically the diametric *opposite* of traitors in my mind; in my books doing so is a heroic act... particularly considering the extremely grave consequences of putting egg on governmental faces in such a manner.
In Snowden's case, he's almost certainly sacrificed a life in the country both he and I was born and raised in and (if quotes like these are any indicator) quite possibly his *life* for the public good. It's quite unlikely that he'll be able to spend time with friends and family any time soon.
On the post: Copyright Week: Open Access As The Antidote To Privatizing Knowledge And Learning
Re: Solution
Admittedly, we have a larger percentage of conferences over publish-only journals than is the norm in other fields, so our work tends to be geared towards not making us look like fools live in front of our peers.
Which cuts out a reasonable amount of the BS.
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Re: Yeah, and...
And, hell, the Republicans would *love* to have Clapper outright defy Congress.
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MPHJ, please... continue.
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Re:
... now this I like. CC companies would be the perfect foil.
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Re: An NSA whistleblower already told us...
Granted, that could be wishful thinking by me of course.
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Re: Rights in Property
Instead, copyright was an effort to encourage trends perceived as beneficial in those early days of the US over the much more traditional "patronage" model. Terms of the rights given have *been limited from the first*; you can hardly argue that duration is a restraint when (a) before copyright there was no such ownership and (b) from the very first copyright was limited in duration.
On the post: Cost-Benefit Analysis On Why We Should Just Do Away With The TSA Completely
You want enough to stop someone who thinks they'll gain something from it, goes postal, etc; they're unlikely to rationally plan out what the best target to hit would be (as terrorists generally do).
The single change in security after 9/11 that I feel is useful is having the cockpit sealed upon takeoff. Threats to blow up the plane/kill hostages we can deal with and have in the past.
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Re: Mighty Buzzard
Most preferred would be a nice variety of demonstrations; I'm always wary of theoretical economics...
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(To anyone else: mind explaining why AC claims he's being blocked?).
On the post: TSA Agent: Give Me That Toy Monkey Gun Or I'm Calling The Real Cops
Re: They do make real pistols that small in that style...
On the post: Norway To Digitize All Norwegian Books, Allowing Domestic IP Addresses To Read All Of Them, Irrespective Of Copyright Status
Re: If Norwegian were popular, every book would be torrented worldwide.
Eheheh... ah, you always give me a smirk, it seems.
On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood Thinks Google Is To Blame For Infringement On The Web
Time will turn back and the world will be an idealized 1950s TV show?
As opposed to more and more people going to darknets, leading to increased darknet infrastructure and population and a increasing general disdain for him and his ilk?
On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood Thinks Google Is To Blame For Infringement On The Web
Re: Google is a permitted regulated entity, NOT a person.
I really continue to be baffled at your hate-boner for Google. It's pathological and frankly tediously predictable (no, really, the kind of obsession you appear to have with both Google and the writers at Techdirt suggests you perhaps need some therapy).
On the post: USTR Says TPP Must Be Kept Secret, Because The Public Is Too Stupid To Understand It
Misunderstand? No, I think the problem you have is that we won't misunderstand your positions.
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Fuck those people who thought the Broken Window Theory was anything but a completely unsupported silly idea and decided it should be applied to kids in schools.
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