Comment Re:The unseen enemy (Score 2) 510
A better question is why do people in California keep re-electing her over and over. She's been there for over 20 years.
Because it doesn't matter who you vote for.
A better question is why do people in California keep re-electing her over and over. She's been there for over 20 years.
Because it doesn't matter who you vote for.
As an EE who is a pack rat, I can tell you that's absolutely wrong. If I could hoard jobs the way I hoard junk, I'd have at least half-a-dozen in the basement.
Ah so the jobs will turn up, eventually by chance, when you aren't actually looking for them?
How about my proposed execution method that's more likely to be painless than all other "popular" methods:
Nice method. However what is the purpose of this method? If murder means you get to die instantly and painlessly, then it's a better exit than most people get who die naturally. It will deter no one.
Actually it's not cruel at all, at least not to the subject. He would not have been conscious of his death at all
And you know this how?
'Substantial risk'? Quantify that. The guy would have felt punch drunk after 30 seconds, or even less if he was anxious, and at peace by a minute, then pretty much unable to process any meaningful thought after that, let alone lay down any memories. The appearance of his death is everybody else's problem and not his.
The 25 minute saga is because they got the opiate dose wrong. That has little to do with consciousness.
I suppose if you have a really uncommon and specific fetish, maybe? Or maybe it's a 'support the artists' thing? Show them their work is appreciated, and they'll make more.
That's an interesting fetish... maybe there should be porn where the artists are spending money on porn whilst watching porn of people spending money on porn (recurring).
At some level everybody is a "moron". Most people confuse ignorance and stupidity, and everybody is ignorant of something.
More than that; Everybody is ignorant of most everything, especially of that.
...Morons!
No crueler that what he did to his victim.
Actually it's not cruel at all, at least not to the subject. He would not have been conscious of his death at all. It was cruel to the audience, yet that was also not cruel since anyone who voluntarily attended the execution went there to satisfy a perversion.
Does anyone have any speculation about why this is happening?
Well from all the electrical engineers I know, they like to collect stuff and as a result of the clutter they invariably lose stuff. So for them to collectively lose 35,000 jobs is frankly unsurprising.
Exactly this version of Tor was installed in a non-obvious and non-trivial location to get to and as a service. Microsoft asked the Tor developers "Anybody actually do this?", Answer: "Nope.". Microsoft then nuked the rogue Tor apps either through Microsoft Security Essentials or through Malicious Software Tool removal app.
Was the botnet doing anything bad? Or was it just making Tor faster for everyone?
If you paid attention during the Cold War you know that the problem was active oppression engaged in by the communist governments, not just the listening. Vote the wrong way - go to jail. Tell a joke about the party leader - go to jail for 10 years. Want to leave the country - go to jail.
The only difference is that in the current day, and in the U.S. Such things are not as public, this oppresion is happening in our country. We just have a better illusion that these violations do not happen.
No, not even close. Great troll though.
There is oppression, however the US has until now used a different way of doing this. The Soviet Union was in-your-face brutal about it but the West does this instead by degrees, through social / financial / legal ruination and then by physical means when the above are not useful. If fear is overused in statecraft it results in loss of productivity through reduced innovation and motivation. The intelligence gathering system is for picking the victims. If this is thwarted, the oppression cannot occur.
Both regimes (US and USSR) had no inhibitions on learning about the limits of the human psyche and testing methods of manipulating the population, and both regimes would employ whatever means each thought necessary and feasible to achieve whatever the aims are.
The only thing preventing outright oppression in the US is that people's stomachs are still full and apathy is rife, in contrast to what was the case in the USSR.
I think they'll even lose their government contracts, as they know there's no honour among thieves. As for SSL and most of the rest of RSA's business, there are better open solutions. Not packaged as nicely, but available.
I bed they don't. They (the NSA) will instead get funding boost to "make reforms".
Microsoft Windows hosts 99.999% of malware.
Windows is malware.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.