Comment Spending cuts = job cuts (Score 1) 639
And with the population increasing we can't afford either spending or job cuts.
And with the population increasing we can't afford either spending or job cuts.
It's great that McAfee Labs has published this report on Anonymous, but isn't this only a distraction from the search for better bath salts and pills to seduce young women?
That is an ad hominem attack. Shame on you.
How many of these claims Mcaffee corporation's professional prognosticators have actually been remotely true? Tabloid psychics run the same routine every year too.
McAffee is right about Anon. Anon does have major structure problems, a leadership vacuum, and a brain drain situation. It's not hard to predict that Anon is losing popularity.
Meanwhile, patriot groups self-organized into cyberarmies and spreading their extremist views will flourish.
Love the juxtaposition of "patriot" and "extremist".
Because clearly, not wanting to live in a corporate dystopia is an "extremist" viewpoint.
But even if that is the case, if they are more well organized and better designed than Anon was then they'll probably last a bit longer. They wont last but they'll last longer because they at least pretend to follow the Constitution while breaking the law.
I'm surprised McAfee's argument for its decline has no mention of five of the anonymous core group being busted by the feds after one turned informant.
And does this not display a flaw in their design? The fact that by design they allow for "Core Members" to be arrested and by design allow themselves to be treated as a criminal organization. They fucked themselves. How would an informant get you arrested if you're truly Anon? How would you get busted if you don't break the law? It seems fairly obvious that if you're a criminal then you're not really a core member of Anon.
The problem with Anon is that criminals have become the leadership. When criminals run the organization then no one who is truly an intellectual and who doesn't want to go to prison will be bothered to associate with Anon. Why not just join a local street gang if one wants to associate with that?
Thats kinda the point of Anon. It has never been this is the leader and here is what we are gonna do. It was more of a bunch of angry people, or stupid, or bored, or someone just looking to hide behind the mask of anon, trying to do something. Good? Bad? Logical? Every time its something different. Its not a collective as much as a revolving door to a community room.
If that is the point of Anon then it's time to replace it. Autopoeitic symbiosis within and between social systems can be achieved but the main thing Anon in particularly has to do is decentralization. Also the Anon banner has been in my opinion permanently diminished as a resource as it's now associated with hackers, with thugs, with criminals.
Anon itself isn't bad conceptually but the implementation was like giving a bunch of children rocks and baseball bats and sending them to go against the mafia and other bigger older thugs with guns. These children weren't even the best and brightest in many cases, creating the perception among the best and brightest that Anon is populated by people who are incompetent. Conceptually if you understand what Anon is on a philosophical level then you understand it's a collective autopoeitic system with the intent of PROMOTING security and symbiosis between systems. The problem is it doesn't do this.
Anon ultimately breaks down to moralist cock shuffling. Those who think their morality is better than the morality of another so they have the exclusive right to break the law to enforce their feelings, afterall they believe their feelings are right simply because they feel more passionately than everyone else or they are louder or more willing to break the law. But that does not mean their feelings are any more correct or are of any more value than anyone elses.
Anon is at this point in time too adapted to moral realism and has not yet adapted itself to the more accurate yet more complex which is moral anti-realism (More can be found here on the problem of moral bigotry in Greene's Dissertation). Moral realism is the problem with Anon in it's current form and in my opinion if Anon is ever going to be effective as an organization it has go under a different banner as Anon is now toxic due to FBI arrests etc, and it would have to adopt moral anti-realism. This way it could actually promote security for everyone or at least the vast majority of people rather than worry about niche issues like West Baptist.
I'm not against Anon conceptually, but I do not like Anon as it is today. The solution for Anon is to get rid of all "principles" and "list" based ethics. There should be no list of right and wrong. Anon should instead decide on a case by case basis and utilize applied ethics to determine their actions based on the pros and cons.
What they should however avoid doing for the best interest of the Anon public image is avoid criminal activity, remain non-violent, avoid anything which can make Anon look like the bad guys, but do everything possible to make Anon look like the good guys. If Anon were a corporation they suck at public relations. They also suck at philosophy, ethics, math and science, where are their apps? Why aren't they generating source code? Why isn't there a consequentialist philosophy or a methodology for deciding on the ethics of ops? Why isn't there Anon blogs everywhere studying the actual results of ops so that lessons can be learned or promoting best practices?
As Anon exists today, they just suck. They got involved with guys like Julian Assange which was a bad move, as Julian Assange should never have been allowed to use Anon as a personal army. They also messed up by not having level headed smart people to explain what their function is. You're telling me there isn't a single professor in the United States or in the world who can explain Anon in a scholarly and academic manner to the erudites and luddites?
Anon has a function. The technology landscape is becoming dangerously oppressive and it makes perfect sense to maintain the ability of dissent, but their method of dissent is often misguided or unintelligent and I hope my post explained why.
Right now they have a huge hard on for the west baptist church hate group and rightly so. They've already doxed their senior membership as an appetizer. I'm sure we'll be hearing more and more...these people hiding behind 'god' are pure scum of the earth.
Like I said. There are no standards for what ops are permitted. West Baptist has freedom of speech, I thought Anon stood for freedom of speech? Wtf? F--- ANON.
Anon at this time needs to determine not a list of principles to fight for as I believe this is short sighted but instead list a style of decision making or ethics to use to determine it's actions. Anon are currently what? Act Utilitarians? Rule Utilitarians? Consequentialist? What ethical philosophy guides Anon? If they can't even determine this then they need to get some deep high powered brains involved. I think what went wrong with Anon is the script kiddie teenage criminal element scared aware the deep thinkers and caused a brain drain. No one who is serious wants to be directly involved with Anon.
The design of the current Anon is structurally and organizationally flawed. There aren't any Anon ethics think tanks to actually guide Anon philosophically. There aren't any professionals to advise or consult Anon on the potential global consequences of their actions. As a result they are a blind politically oriented umbrella organization. This is fine if you're a teenager or young adult in the early 20s range but by the time you reach your 30s and 40s you'll see that Anon isn't the way to go and wont really lead to the results they desire due to how they go about it.
Anon has a function and a reason to exist if it were used intelligently but as it is now it's not used intelligently, it's not a self aware collective. An unaware collective is worse than no collective.
Traditional game consoles will not be able to keep up with the pace of innovation now that a Kickstarter project can come along and do this.
Sony and Microsoft are going to have their work cut out for them. If their console is not significantly more powerful than the average PC then Google or any third party company can come along and take their asses to the bank. The linux, steam and android combination really is a game changer and with truly state of the art hardware they could get the hardcore gamers this way.
If a console were released for $1000 but it had massive graphics and computer power I would seriously consider buying it over the traditional $300 console. I think the reason people would be willing to pay is people now want gaming super computers and not just consoles. The first company to offer a true gaming supercomputer will get my money. They say graphics don't matter but obviously they do if people are always trying to buy the latest PC and latest graphics card.
What someone needs to do is create a console which somehow links up multiple graphics cards for under $1000. Call it a gaming supercomputer, and target hardcore gamers via Kickstarter. See how much funds can be raised. See if a custom chip can be designed for the project if enough funds can be raised to be used along side the Nvidia GeForce GTX 590. Allow for upgrading the card or cards and you have it.
There's no way to know because he's dead, but there's certainly a body of evidence suggesting neurological differences between genius level mathemetic prodigies to suggest that a poor young man from an Indian village who literally taught himself 100 years worth of mathematics was in possession of cognitive abilities beyond the average person's.
The amount of grey matter is an obscenely crude way to measure intelligence. What I find interesting is your need to make the man average and ordinary. Does the possibility that some have greater cognitive capacity than others bother you?
Or maybe he was just more motivated than average. How many people would want to spend all their best moments in life on math?
What I know, Good Citizen, is that this government is assembling an engine of tyranny, literally a thousand times bigger than that of any absolute dictatorship mankind has ever known. And if things work the way you suggest, it would also be the first time a government assembled such a system without any interest in using it.
It's people like you who insist "but they're only *building* internment camps! They're not *using* them!" 40.427277 -111.934485
It's always been the same system. Nothing new is being assembled.
Speaking of pulling things out of their ass.... NSA presenting itself as the covert white knight of America's domestic computer systems. HooBOY.
So, Good Citizen, you must think that free men should be stopped from overthrowing an unjust government. You can think what you want, but when you sputter "NSA? Possess surveillance software?!?! Ridiculous!!", you only look like an idiot.
You look like an even bigger idiot when you're like "Revolution! Free men!". You have no clue how things work.
..for CIA to operate on US soil. And the FBI is very much capable of spreading lies and disinformation on their own. Then there are present and former members of the armed forces who can always be counted on to play the thugs in a dirty game. They are accustomed to believe the lies they are told by their former COs and their buddies. All very informal, no paperwork generated at all.
Does not include physical violence in Pax Americana Land, as that would bring police into picture. But most people can be "effected" with other means such as rumors, lies, slander, sex, marriage and some dark tricks you cannot find in any textbook. It works mostly optically and there is not more than a eyeglasses involved. It is called MK1 eyeball. If you are interested, start training with a cat and learn what effects you can get on the cat just using your eyes.
That is one reason some people wear windshield-class glasses; it protects against optical attack by opposing eyes.
If something is clandestine then the law simply does not apply. You cannot arrest what doesn't exist and didn't happen.
You're right about most of what you say.And the tactics are terrible and destroy lives, but what alternative is there really in warfare?
The unanswered questions are; if, and how does the NSA inform critical domestic utilities of their vulnerabilities, and what power might they have to compel those utilities to secure their systems appropriately? The problem being that the NSA would probably prefer to quietly catalog and study vulnerabilities, to help quell revolts or secessions in the future, rather than send out emails full of advice for patching bugs. Thus, they're no help to anyone, and at a high price. On the other extreme, the NSA's solution to every problem would likely be the compulsory installation of their own home-grown monitoring software, you know, to be "extra secure". Certainly, you can trust them. Their entire history is proof of the advantages of cooperation.
If they help quell revolts and secession in the future then they are a help to everyone. That is the least I would expect from them.
Also what monitoring software does the NSA have or did you pull that one out of your ass?
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