wnight

6 ms·

1.
by wnight 13y ago
A good job of controlling something they incited? They didn't need to use violence on non-violent protestors. At this point they're lawless thugs with guns.
2.
by wnight 13y ago
> "caused muslims to hate us" Well, that's a few simultaneous fallacies. But, yes, your policies led to the 9/11 attackers deciding to attack you. Is this not blisteringly obvious? > and that therefor we should change them??????????
3.
by wnight 13y ago
Even in Canadian protests the police have been caught sneaking in trouble-makers with rocks and black ski-masks. If they didn't create the panic they wouldn't get paid for solving it. Considering that the Turkish government is trying to mak
4.
by wnight 13y ago
I helped a client write their own HN hiring letter. They'd originally had corp-speak in there like "5y PHP Developer". "Must have BS in ..." and we rewrote their requirements to things developers would have to know how to use (PHP OO, SQL w
5.
by wnight 13y ago
Especially with mobile, where the government parcels out the ability to play (spectrum) to the companies that cooperate with it. At least in areas without natural monopolies you can shop around.
6.
by wnight 13y ago
It's too bad they can choose to stop once they've started. Like the patent trolls new-egg is fighting. New-egg should essentially be able to take the trolls to court and part them out for sale, down to their CEO's organs, for trying this in
7.
by wnight 13y ago
> denying you access to the firmware was never their intent. Unlikely. With a new person or company it's sporting to give them the benefit of the doubt. With Microsoft if you're still ignoring everything illegal and anti-competitive the
8.
by wnight 13y ago
DMCA takedown. Expulsion. Streissand effect. Hilarity. They couldn't keep it online, but couldn't be seriously censured for trying, and they wouldn't be alone.
9.
by wnight 13y ago
Actually, software licenses aren't required to simply use a program - though you can certainly obtain a copy by licensing it. Essentially, copies made that are inherently required for the expected function of the work (to the HD if required
10.
by wnight 13y ago
> People accuse NATO soldiers of war crimes everyday without even realizing the legitimate war crimes we prevented every single place we went. Had we gone into Afghanistan in the 90s when various groups of locals were asking us to we mi
11.
by wnight 13y ago
Maybe it says that Afghanistan's border is a pile of western-motivated political crap and the country shouldn't be. Hell, Quebec wants out of Canada and we generally all get along fairly well. Imagine how we'd feel if all the provinces felt
12.
by wnight 13y ago
You mean you can send someone to "the hole" for sending them a questionable book? And Amazon will fulfill this for order for any prepaid credit card? Am I the only one seeing a problem? Not that a book on covert CIA tactics is really relate
13.
by wnight 13y ago
A couple thoughts, some more depressing than others. You could probably get three to six months off pretty easily. If just asking wouldn't work, you could hint a relative is on their last legs and make a firmer request? A few months would p
14.
by wnight 13y ago
It should be, but is not illegal for the government to ask for private data, or lean on companies to provide it, (see the NSA Warrantless Wiretapping affair, specifically Qwest - the only telco that refused the illegal orders.) You can be e
15.
by wnight 13y ago
Go out in the desert with one captive and torture them and we'd try to stop you. Enslave a few million and successfully arm yourself against potential rescuers and you meet all the accepted standards of a sovereign nation.
16.
by wnight 13y ago
You're pretty technically astute which leaves me thinking you're being obtuse for effect.
17.
by wnight 13y ago
> Nope. It is because he stole tons of private info from AT&T and then boasted about it and then said he would totally do it again and with worse consequences to the victim. Wrong. It wasn't private info, it was email addresses. The
18.
by wnight 13y ago
> But, Afghanistan was the base of the 9/11 attack on the US that killed 3000 innocent US civilians. No, it bloody was not . Many of those people hadn't even been in Afghanistan. The ones who were, and who "received training" had mostl
19.
by wnight 13y ago
> Our entire society seems premised on both population and economic growth. What exactly do we do when the population starts shrinking? Our population is shrinking because it's what happens when the education level (specifically of wome
20.
by wnight 13y ago
> You seem to have confused Afghanistan with Iraq. Afghanistan is not a major oil producer. It's about keeping oil flowing - at least being extracted if not sold. But yes in Afghanistan that is currently more pipelines than oil-wells. T
21.
by wnight 13y ago
You can't make the difficulty scale more than linearly by number of passwords. If you could you'd drop back to tackling the problem in pieces and be back to linear scaling with the number of pieces. What's making it hard for you to analyze
22.
by wnight 13y ago
Not even, it makes it easy for warlords to train militias, not for terrorists. Terrorists rarely need combat skills as we think about them. Terrorist training is more about pushing the button - which is all religious, or maybe playing fli
23.
by wnight 13y ago
> The reason it's taken so long to produce results is optimism on the part of western politicians. No. The reason it hasn't worked is because it's a total lie. Afghanistan wasn't invaded to help it, or to stop terrorists, it was invaded
24.
by wnight 13y ago
No, I meant you can't spot small knives from the air so you have no way of really knowing who you're killing - unlike bombing a missile convoy or a tank, obvious weapons. Your INTEL, that from the ground, is often - maybe usually - wrong, a
25.
by wnight 13y ago
> Then, facing that reality, we can look for how to get what we need, e.g., US national security, that is, to keep Afghanistan from being the base of operations of another 9/11 attack on the US. This is just vapid bullshit. 9/11 was guy
26.
by wnight 13y ago
No, this is the reasoning behind thinking someone is full of shit if they're pushing you to do something, supposedly for your sake.
27.
by wnight 13y ago
Let's let this proceed, then take anyone who supported it or voted for it and send them to the listed countries. When do we treat this sort of nonsense as a threat, ala the Boston rapper. If I announced a business model of selling something
28.
by wnight 13y ago
We don't. That's just more crazy rhetoric. It's almost as if he doesn't actually have anything compelling to say and has to try to misrepresent what everyone else is saying. It goes to show who we're talking to, and the level of discussion
29.
by wnight 13y ago
> Weev didn't try to responsibly/ethically disclose his findings. Going to a journalist is the ethical answer. Sending phishing emails or extorting people would be the unethical answer. > Bugs happen all the time, and no one wants t
30.
by wnight 13y ago
Is a hammer a weapon or a tool? Is a military mortar a tool when ski patrols use it to save lives by safely triggering avalanches?

More ›