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Comment Re:Warrant? No. (Score 1) 137

The spyware was installed on a computer in Iran. If installing spyware is illegal in Iran (as it would have been in the USA absent a warrant), then the FBI has commited a crime.

if war is a necessity, it will be because of crazy leaders in Iran more then anything else.

What does that say about the leaders in the USA that they went to war with Afghanistan because of a crime commited in the USA?

Installing software that exposes the location of a computer used in violation of a country's laws should not be an act of war under any sane interpretation of any country's sovereignty.

As long as the interpretation is sane: In 2011, the USA have declared that they might retaliate against cyberattacks with a nuclear strike (though to be fair the cyberattack would have to be on the scale of Stuxnet).

Comment Re:Warrant? No. (Score 0) 137

The FBI is a police organisation, not a spy organisation (though catching spies is also part of their duties). So everything you said about spying is not relevant in this context.

You have a point in that they first needed to find out what country the person of interest was in. When they found out it was Iran, it should have become the responsibility of Iranian police.

Whether Iran would have to hand over one of their citizens for crimes comitted in the USA depends on whether Iran and the USA have a mutual extradition agreement.
It is possible (IANAL) that the FBI violated Iranian laws by installing spyware on someone elses computer in Iran. (They didn't have a warrant from an Iranian judge.) Would the USA be willing to deliver those responsible, or would they rather harbour criminals within their borders and make war "a necessity"?

Comment Re:Another Ministry of Propaganda piece. (Score 0) 137

The point of the article is that if you are not American, you have no rights. Even if you did nothing illegal in your own country, the FBI will still get you. If you are American, don't leave the motherland if you know what's good for you.

The other point is that having to get a warrant hampers police investigations, so let police do whatever they want to whoever they want whereever they want already.

Comment Re:treason, too. (Score 0) 282

You'll find it harder to drop a nuke on the accessible part of the Pentagon
than targeting Shub-Internet, somewhere deep within the bowels of the Pentagon's basement, with a Low Orbit Ion Cannon or two.

Nowhere does it say that the attack needs to be successful to be considered an act of war.

(DO NOT wake the Beast That Must Not Be Pinged, Eater Of Packets, from its slumber! It is said that it will launch an ICBM towards the location of whoever dared disturb it. Or it might eat your internet connection. Either way, don't.)

shub-internet.ims.disa.mil

Comment Re:Expectation (Score 0) 224

I know quite a few girls who get turned on by "gay action". But I guess it's not the same reason a lot of guys enjoy "lesbo" flicks, it's simply that she could be part of it without having to really participate.

Sound exactly like the reason why guys enjoy lesbo flicks.
No icky phallus to disturb the picture of beauty of women in love.

(Be the stallion for women who don't want or need a stallion is appealing? Well, some people seem to enjoy rape fantasies; people like Pauline Reage.)
(Threesomes are a different beast. Girl getting it on with two straight men is a frequent women's fantasy, completely unlike men's threesome fantasies involving two women.)

Rarely do I meet a woman who talks to men she doesn't want to sleep with. And if one does, her peers have usually branded her a slut - while men enjoy her company for completely non-sexual reasons.

Likewise, rarely do men talk to women they wouldn't want to sleep with. And if one does, he has usually a reputation of being gay - among his peers, not necessarily among the women.

Comment Re:Recently? (Score 0) 729

what the nature of [conscious experience] actually is.

It is an illusion. It doesn't exist.

People flatter themselves thinking they have a property they call "consciousness", that sets them apart from lesser things like rocks and machines and animals. They use this concept to obscure the fact that they only react to external stimuli, like everything else.

Brains keep an internal state that allows people to make predictions about themselves and their environment, including other people. This state is built - informed - from external stimuli, and modified by external stimuli, and just because it informes their actions, some which they observe, further modifying their brain's state, some people think they are somehow special.

The machina carnis is just that. There is no helmsman driving it. Consciousness is a myth, a convenient lie.

Comment Re:Americans are worse (Score 0) 220

With all DNS root servers under US jurisdiction,
any domain can be modified by the US.
The system can not reliably determine automatically if a domain or hostname was revoked/redirected because of cencorship or anything else, and the changes affect the entire net per default.

In addition, most web content is hosted in the US, and therefore subject to US law as well as the users' local law(s). Most people that post on Facebook or have a site at Yahoo (in their own native language) don't realize that. When such content is taken offline at US discretion (which may be perfectly legal), people might perceive this as cencorship by a foreign power.

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