Well if nothing else, you may have posted Techdirt's longest comment ever.
Eeyaaaaa! That's some screed. I can't imagine anyone actually reading it. Any one care to attempt a distillation? Assuming you're uncontrollably bored with life ...
If Stalin & Lenin were resuscitated they would likely agree that it's communist, and a wonderful thing to behold. I'm not sure that Marx would though.
The Libertarians have a nice x & y axis graph which shows totalitarian communists lay right beside totalitarian fascists. Stalin and Hitler proved it so.
Although "overwhelming anecdotal evidence" suggests that the late-1960s crime explosion was overwhelmingly perpetrated by one particular minority group (which shall remain nameless).
Oh, look at that. "Serpico" came out in '73. What a coincidence.
in my limited infosec experience, people are stupid and above all lazy
I'd say they're ignorant (lacking knowledge) and lazy. Stupidity is just what keeps them ignorant. Not understanding that "social media" is talking to the world plus dog? That's pretty ignorant of what their tools are really doing, and their laziness leverages their stupidity to not bother to rectify this. This guy's a classic case of shooting oneself in the foot.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Point of order, Mr. Speaker. Query from a grammar Nazi.
Some people have been confused by my italicized scare quotes ...
I've seen complaints from people who say they can't even see italics when using a cellphone. I've no sympathy. I assume they bought the wrong cellphone. They should have done better pre-purchase testing. Better luck next time, or spring for a cheap tablet or laptop. User error. PEBKAC.
Offhand, I'd say because the perception of a threat related to these drones is just paranoia. It's silly for the gov't to want to regulate the things. As long as they stay away from aircraft and the White House lawn, they should be fine. Stray over private property and it's toast. This is like regulating helium balloons which would be ridiculous. It's not the sort of thing I'd want my government or regulators wasting time and effort on when they could be fixing far more worrying brokenness.
When it's the politicians being spied upon, suddenly spying is a terrible thing, and needs to be stopped immediately.
I'd quibble with that. This is Britain. They've had an oppressive caste system in place for as long as Britain's existed, long before anyone on this side of the world knew about India's. The Magna Carta wasn't written with the intention of securing the rights of Joe Sixpack. It was to spread the king's wealth around to the rest of his gang of fellow nobles.
This's just like that Magna Carta moment where the "upper classes" are demanding their gawd given privileges back, only this time from a supposedly democratically elected parliament. Joe Sixpack can continue to get stuffed, bloody stinking rabble.
Does this set precedent for the minimum an able attorney should be expected to charge for a successful defence against asset forfeiture, or even only "aggressive and often specious litigation arguments?"
Asset forfeiture == armed robbery. It's especially galling that this little part of the story is after having won against the bigger battle of a warrantless search, something that never would've even come up if the cops had bothered to think to get a warrant. I wonder how many decades it'll take for the cops to clue into this simple fact.
The IRS should have left Windows in its read-view mirror over a decade ago.
Yes, they should've, however given their masters' (Congress) vulnerability to (or dependence on) corporate lobbyists, can anyone really be surprised it isn't an option? Oracle Corp. alone could get them all crucified easily with a few FUD doom and gloom press releases. Corporate IT is rabidly pro-proprietary. It took massive amounts of begging for years just to convince them to try it on servers. That, and a lot of do it and don't tell 'em until you can prove to them it works.
Add to this biting the bullet and migrating to a new system like this is a huge leap for these people. They're convinced that (eg.) migrating from MS-Office to LibreOffice would mean completely throwing away whole skillsets requiring complete (and horrifically expensive) retraining for users. The cost of retraining users to go from one version of Windows to another is already massive. I've never understood why users shouldn't be expected to retrain themselves, but I've never worked in HR or management.
It's too bad none of them can even consider getting ahold of Munich Germany's Linux distro and running a pilot program through the many iterations it would take to get it into use. This isn't the way managers like to do things though. They want to be in the herd, not leading it.
Money talks, obviously. Judges have seen the writing on the wall and understand their new marching orders. Taxpayers and voters are the new peons, and corporations are the new citizens for whom the gov't works. "The business of America is business", and all that. They suffer our existence only as long as we're useful to them.
After all, have you seen the crap that the peons write and fight about in on-line fora? They're foaming at the mouth ignorant imbeciles. They invent crap like Occupy Wall St. and the Tea Party, ffs. Who can take anyone like that seriously?
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Re: Re:
Eeyaaaaa! That's some screed. I can't imagine anyone actually reading it. Any one care to attempt a distillation? Assuming you're uncontrollably bored with life ...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Be a good neighbor and solve the IPv4 address shortage
Still nothing Joe Sixpack (me) needs to worry about.
I look forward to (minimum) DNS-SEC ubiquity, and that's not looking good, which is really annoying.
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Re: Re: Be a good neighbor and solve the IPv4 address shortage
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Re: Re:
The Libertarians have a nice x & y axis graph which shows totalitarian communists lay right beside totalitarian fascists. Stalin and Hitler proved it so.
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Re: Re: Hmm
Oh, look at that. "Serpico" came out in '73. What a coincidence.
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Re:
Your "all men are pigs" is balanced out by my "all women are crazy." We're even. That's what we've got to work with so go from there.
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Re: "SNIPPET VIEW" IS WORTHLESS
So, don't use Google. I don't. Why bitch about something that's so easily avoidable?
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Awesome idea! Thanks for the list, too. It's entertaining.
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Re: infosec
I'd say they're ignorant (lacking knowledge) and lazy. Stupidity is just what keeps them ignorant. Not understanding that "social media" is talking to the world plus dog? That's pretty ignorant of what their tools are really doing, and their laziness leverages their stupidity to not bother to rectify this. This guy's a classic case of shooting oneself in the foot.
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Re: Torture?
Or, just typical prosecutorial piling on of ancillary charges suggesting you'll be locked away forever if you resist.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Point of order, Mr. Speaker. Query from a grammar Nazi.
I've seen complaints from people who say they can't even see italics when using a cellphone. I've no sympathy. I assume they bought the wrong cellphone. They should have done better pre-purchase testing. Better luck next time, or spring for a cheap tablet or laptop. User error. PEBKAC.
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Aii, yi yi!
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Re:
Offhand, I'd say because the perception of a threat related to these drones is just paranoia. It's silly for the gov't to want to regulate the things. As long as they stay away from aircraft and the White House lawn, they should be fine. Stray over private property and it's toast. This is like regulating helium balloons which would be ridiculous. It's not the sort of thing I'd want my government or regulators wasting time and effort on when they could be fixing far more worrying brokenness.
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Re: Ah blatant hypocrisy...
I'd quibble with that. This is Britain. They've had an oppressive caste system in place for as long as Britain's existed, long before anyone on this side of the world knew about India's. The Magna Carta wasn't written with the intention of securing the rights of Joe Sixpack. It was to spread the king's wealth around to the rest of his gang of fellow nobles.
This's just like that Magna Carta moment where the "upper classes" are demanding their gawd given privileges back, only this time from a supposedly democratically elected parliament. Joe Sixpack can continue to get stuffed, bloody stinking rabble.
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Asset forfeiture == armed robbery. It's especially galling that this little part of the story is after having won against the bigger battle of a warrantless search, something that never would've even come up if the cops had bothered to think to get a warrant. I wonder how many decades it'll take for the cops to clue into this simple fact.
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Re: Propaganda-in-propaganda-out
I expect the professors' department heads are on the same mailing list. That'll be the carrot, or stick, you're wondering about.
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I prefer to think of it as poking them with a stick, or LARTing them with a clue-by-four. YMMV.
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Re: Re: Why not go GNU?
Yes, they should've, however given their masters' (Congress) vulnerability to (or dependence on) corporate lobbyists, can anyone really be surprised it isn't an option? Oracle Corp. alone could get them all crucified easily with a few FUD doom and gloom press releases. Corporate IT is rabidly pro-proprietary. It took massive amounts of begging for years just to convince them to try it on servers. That, and a lot of do it and don't tell 'em until you can prove to them it works.
Add to this biting the bullet and migrating to a new system like this is a huge leap for these people. They're convinced that (eg.) migrating from MS-Office to LibreOffice would mean completely throwing away whole skillsets requiring complete (and horrifically expensive) retraining for users. The cost of retraining users to go from one version of Windows to another is already massive. I've never understood why users shouldn't be expected to retrain themselves, but I've never worked in HR or management.
It's too bad none of them can even consider getting ahold of Munich Germany's Linux distro and running a pilot program through the many iterations it would take to get it into use. This isn't the way managers like to do things though. They want to be in the herd, not leading it.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Why not go GNU?
Add to that, "Who do I phone (or sue) when it breaks?!?"
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Re: Wrong question
Money talks, obviously. Judges have seen the writing on the wall and understand their new marching orders. Taxpayers and voters are the new peons, and corporations are the new citizens for whom the gov't works. "The business of America is business", and all that. They suffer our existence only as long as we're useful to them.
After all, have you seen the crap that the peons write and fight about in on-line fora? They're foaming at the mouth ignorant imbeciles. They invent crap like Occupy Wall St. and the Tea Party, ffs. Who can take anyone like that seriously?
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