Comment Re:Criminals (Score 1) 78
When developing FOSS is a crime, only criminals will develop FOSS.
Only a good guy with FOSS can stop a bad guy with a FOSS.
When developing FOSS is a crime, only criminals will develop FOSS.
Only a good guy with FOSS can stop a bad guy with a FOSS.
And not one of those secret court ones this time around!
Pretty much this.
They built a GUI using visual basic and tracked the hackers' IP address.
It's a Unix system, I know this
Dude, he was able to beat up Superman because he had brains. Superman was like the lifter on the beach, always showing off.
That and Batman had that Kyptonight ring....
LOL
Nope it was all hacking. It clearly ranks up there with super strength and speed.
Uh, it's a spy agency. Spying on the rest of the world is their mission.
Spying on American citizens however........
No it is not
Yeah but in the US you can.
By reading this post you waive all rights to disagree with me.
I support traditional marriages....
Does anyone not support traditional marriages, or is that a code phrase for "I don't support gay marriages." I don't see many protesting against marriage between a man and a woman.
Spend enough time on the internet and you will.
I find it fascinating that "The Giver" rates #11 (1990-1999) and #23 (2000-2009) on the ALAs 'Most Frequently Challenged' lists (for (very mildly) discussing sexual arousal in adolescents) and yet, when it gets made into a movie, it gets championed by some as advancing conservative values. (I've read the book but not seen the movie, so I can't comment on how reasonable this view is.)
I'm thinking they wouldn't like my take on the story.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
I interpret it as an allegory for the Garden of Eden story. The Community (with its absence of pain and want) can only maintain itself by evil means (e.g. infanticide and involuntary euthanasia) but to have citizens performing evil acts would also destroy its 'idealness'. The way they reconcile these contradictory requirements is by denying their citizens knowledge of good and evil. Jonas attempts to give them this knowledge, which, if he succeeded, would effectively expel The Community from their Eden, hence he is playing the role of the serpent.
There's two reasons no one complains about the movie. 1.) It wasn't remotely sexual. That part of the book was summed up in about two lines of G rated dialog. 2.) Only one person bothered to see it and is burdened with the memories of it.
Memory fault - where am I?