Time for a good ol' streisand effect. Lookee here:---
Pirate Bay #1
Pirate Bay #2 (720p)
Pirate Bay #3 (640x360)
Personally I always thought this movie was just racist/Islamophobic dreck, but now with the government finally finding a convenient excuse to censor it, I'm downloading all three of these copies and will be seeding them indefinitely once downloaded.
"Maybe the U.S. Dollar isn't so bad after all."
Because the regulated financial institutions that deal in U.S. dollars are so much more trustworthy. Perhaps I should keep my money with these guys. Or this company. Or them perhaps? This guy looks trustworthy, doesn't he?
Here is what government-backed currency banks, lenders, investment firms, and the like have been up to recently. And here is what they're up to now.
The head of a government-run transit monopoly is upset someone else is providing a competing service.
People get into accidents all the time because they were messing with their radio when they should have had their eyes on the road. So why don't we ban car radios?
And if that seems absurd, why are we talking about banning things like texting, cell phone use, or Google Glass while driving?
Maybe their hardware is crap because they're more about abusing their customers than providing quality products.
Remember when this company did this to their routers?
The insurance companies most likely put a subrogation clause in their contracts. Now that they know the oil companies received additional payouts from a third party, they can come in and claim that money.
Of course. And using made-up answers is exactly what I do. But the vast majority of people don't think about this. They create a halfway-decent password then protect that password with "New York City" and "Fido."
This is the kind of thing made possible by the absolutely stupid policy of protecting unobtainable information (one's login password) with easily obtainable information (those "secret questions" to reset one's password, such as the city in which one was born, one's first pet, or the last four digits of one's CC or SSN).
If you choose a password that is strong enough, and you're careful enough not to leak it yourself somehow, your password is unobtainable and unguessable. It's as secure as possible. But it requires only a modicum of effort, perhaps a simple public records search, to figure out the answers to most "secret questions" that big companies like GoDaddy use to protect people's passwords. And yet this is how these companies protect your password. And now we see the results.
GoDaddy here is no more insane than any company that uses "secret questions" to guard users' passwords. I've pointed out to people for years that the idea of protecting a piece of information that is unobtainable (your password, if you're careful enough not to leak it yourself, and it's strong enough to not be guessable) with information that is easily obtainable with just a modicum of effort (e.g., your mother's maiden name, the city in which you were born, your first pet,
Maybe if word of this attack gets around other companies will switch to something more secure than easily-answerable "secret questions" to reset someone's password.
Regardless, it took 23-year-old Magnus Carlsen, a "grandmaster" Chess player since the age of 13 and new world Chess champion, just 71 seconds to defeat Gates in a friendly game of Chess on a Norwegian television show. It takes longer to heat up a cup of water in the microwave.
Thanks for that helpful comparison---without it, I would have had no clue how long 71 seconds actually is.
Three out of five PCLOB board members are in agreement: The NSA spy programs are illegal.
... Could this be the start of change to come?
Indeed. Expect the government to replace one PCLOB member.
Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight
Well that's news to me. We have quality control here?
"They don't want to endanger the space-farers or the public, and they can't let the industry get started and then have a Titanic-like scenario that puts an end to it all in the eyes of the public."
Right, because after the Titanic, there's never been another cruise ship. The very idea of sea travel came to an end in the eyes of the public!
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
