Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code | Threat Level from Wired.com
Does anyone proofread this crap?
Vietnamese Users it says. NOT their computers. The Vietnamese are now infectable AND via Firefox according to that headline.
Damn, first really comfortable black pajamas you can work or play in equally well with low chance of fashion faux pas because let's face it black is always cool, and now they can connect to Firefox natively.
I guess it's a good thing we lost that war.
Gee, what a great idea. Let's hit some guys who probably never made more than a few hundred to a few thousand dollars off the site, for "facilitating" infringement of copyrighted works. And, we're doing this because they caused people wealthy enough to buy small towns outright to lose out on an extra gold toilet seat this year on some crappy movie that otherwise the facilitated individuals would have had to nearly sign for a second mortgage to afford the drinks and snacks to see it at a movie theater miles from home costing them an amount of gas that in real dollar terms if invested conservatively would in a few years allow them to buy ten more gallons?
A federal judge is hitting the shuttered TorrentSpy service with a $111 million penalty for facilitating the infringement of thousands of copyrighted works.
Torrentspy Dinged $111 Million in MPAA Lawsuit | Threat Level from Wired.com
Yet another example of the punishment not remotely fitting the crime, and the punishment being done through the civil court system because the criminal court system is not yet fully corrupted to allow the MPAA to sponsor their enemies' executions and get the exclusive rights to the DVD recording thereof.
People of America, time to start using the system the way they use it. FILE LAWSUITS AGAINST THE RIAA AND MPAA FOR YEARS OF CRAPPY MUSIC AND MOVIES, FOR DAMAGE TO THIS COUNTRY'S SOCIAL FABRIC, TO YOUR POCKETBOOKS, FOR BAD INFLUENCE ON YOUR CHILDREN, AND KEEP FILING THEM TILL THE GOVERNMENT CRIES UNCLE AND THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH DOES SOMETHING TO CORRECT THIS IMBALANCE.
Wake up and get angry people. The big three networks' line-up between 1970 and 1980 ALONE deserves war crimes level trials, never mind movies like Starship Invasions or Yentl, or every single double-live album done by any pop group ever. Do I really need to mention Lambada and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo? My Mother the Car? The Backstreet Boys?
If we can throw drug dealers in prison DESPITE the fact that they only sell what their buyers really and truly want of their own free will, WHY NOT THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT US BEANS BAXTER?
I want reparations for my last thirty years of popular media exposure, I want my brain cells back, I want my psyche unfucked, and I want it now. I'm mad as hell, and I'm not watching Network anymore!*
*Thank you Peter Finch.
Los Angeles Says Piracy 'Detrimental to the Public Health, Safety' | Threat Level from Wired.com
The regulation was crafted at the urging of the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America.
The county retains the right to shutter a property for up to a year for violating ordinance 13.90.010 and also gives local authorities the right to bring a civil action to "temporarily restrain, preliminarily enjoin, and/or permanently enjoin the person or persons intentionally conducting, or knowingly maintaining or permitting the public nuisance from further conducting, maintaining, or permitting such a public nuisance.
Emphasis mine as usual.
That's right. You pirate scum are now on the same level as CRACK HOUSES.
Is anyone else seeing the opening sequence of the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie where all those people were lined up to be hung assembly-line style?
Nice to see the California government returning from its dangerous foray into being responsive to the public and electorate to the new tradition of being a tool of corporate interests.
YES!!!
One for the US Constitution and the idea that end-runs, and police-state tactics are NOT an acceptable replacement for old-fashioned rules and laws respecting gumshoe investigation.
For fucks' sake you twits in federal law enforcement, THINK! You're on the way to becoming a sordid mix of Keystone Cops, SS, and Pinkerton men. Does the flag on everything around you mean NOTHING? Did you guys all sleep through history segments of grade school? Did nothing stir in you when you heard of the Boston Tea Party?
Though FBI guidelines on using NSLs warned of overusing them, two Congressionally ordered audits revealed that the FBI had issued hundreds of illegal requests for student health records, telephone records and credit reports. The reports also found that the FBI had issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs since 2001, but failed to track their use. In a letter to Congress last week, the FBI admitted it can only estimate how many NSLs it has issued.
What is it with you people? Does the American public's general disgust with federal law enforcement, the federal government and the entire concept of governance in general not unnerve you? How can you be a patriotic loyal American and NOT be disturbed by how things are going? Wake up, grow up, and live up to the responsibilities we the people handed you. Please, you're bringing disrepute on the organization.
Those arrested included a student who was about to receive a criminal justice degree and another who was to receive a master's degree in homeland security. Some defendants were scheduled to appear in state court to face charges Tuesday.
Nearly 100 arrested in drug investigation at San Diego State - Yahoo! News
Well, with a drug background they can always get the job of President of the USA, or at the very least, be the next Iron Man.
I want you to stop looking down and look up.
I want you to stop thinking the worst and think the best.
I want you to listen to that little voice in the light in your heart.
I want you to stop fighting it.
I want you to stop running from it.
I want you to run to it.
I want you to embrace it.
You are not evil.
You are good.
You have boundless capacity for greatness.
The smallest one of you can be the biggest difference and forever unknown but without you the world would falter.
Someone never took Adolph Hitler aside and mentored him and made a better impact on him than his abusive father.
The result was one small man in one small critical place and millions dead.
You could be the one small person in one small critical place and millions alive and happy more than ever would have been.
Practically... stop going through life asleep at the switch. Use your mind, exercise it, take it for long walks through beautiful books, conceive of silly things, make up your own mind for yourself and remember that like your bed you must sleep in it. Put in some throw pillows and a new comforter. Get a reading light for it. Pay attention. Think.
A terrible thing is coming in our sleep. Something wants us to sleep. Nothing you've ever heard of but always feared. It's that little thing in the corner of your eye when you look at yourself in the mirror. The part of you that scares you. The part farthest from the bright light in your heart. Can't you hear the darkness? Can't you hear the rush of that static hiss of the very air in a silent dead room? It's coming. The static is coming. Don't let yourself go silent inside.
Think.
Did we truly expect different?
Solution: install code on a Windows machine which detects it and bans it from being installed. All that is needed is for just one to fall into the hands of the opposition, the electronic specifics of it identified, and that preliminary fingerprint to be spread in an otherwise harmless virus which when it gets installed on a machine causes that machine to look for it and refuse to allow it to be used.
On Linux, all future Linux distros could have code to refuse to work with this by default or made open source to be easily compiled and installed on most versions.
Why do I suggest this? Because a government which presently shows contempt for its own laws, and its own court orders, and holds itself immune to lawsuit or criminal prosecution for those contempts, and allows corporations like WalMart to flaunt the laws and court orders at will, and has historically shown a pattern of contempt for its own founders' will in their construction of the government's founding blueprint, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, should be opposed this way by the people at large.
Not to help criminals, but because the government has shown absolute and total contempt for its people, thus in a very real way putting the safety, stability, and peace of its people into jeopardy in direct contravention of the will of those people and the entire reason for founding that government.
Granted this is largely the fault of a gullible, greedy, self-deceiving and morally deficient populace that constantly allows itself to be used against itself until brother fights brother, but until we get a grip on ourselves, start getting sane, and start doing better with that government of we the people, the people need to re-balance the imbalance of power they themselves have created. Sure, it's a little like self-flagellation for inability to stop eating sweets after every cupcake, but the alternative is to ignore the waistline altogether.
Maybe we'll someday call a truce between our desire for security and our desire for freedom and re-establish ourselves as reasonably stable and not seeming like we're going steadily schizo, but I give you these wise words:
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom."
Dwight Eisenhower
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
They are on the front page of www.somethingawful.com from which I source many of these stories. Strange how supposedly upright people on both sides of the political spectrum will try to teach you otherwise than Eisenhower and Franklin had it and a fringe kooky site will tell the truth you know in your heart.
My grandfather didn't fight in Europe for this country to slowly slide into the cold cynical grip of fascism. I don't mean Bush or Clinton. I mean the fascism of us ALL. I mean the fascism of not even trusting ourselves. Any of ourselves. When we stop believing in better, well, that's how we got headed down this road.
The recorded flash lit up an area the size of a football field. Based on shadows, police believe the light source was in the air about 30 feet above the ground near the Beth Tfiloh Community School.
Police in Md. town puzzled by middle-of-night noise, lights
I don't think it is Fourth Meal aftermath, because the nearest Taco Bell is almost two and a half miles away.
For the mystical, I note that running off that street nearby is Torah Drive and off of that is Stonehenge Circle.
And the answer is: Mysterious Maryland Blasts Turn Out to Be Fireworks
Those of you hoping for a spiritual answer will have to wait a little longer.
Exclusive: Half man, half chimp - should we beware the apeman's coming? - The Scotsman
Dr MacKellar said the resulting creature could raise ethical dilemmas, such as whether it would be treated as human or animal, and what rights it would have.
"If it was never able to be self-aware or self-conscious it would probably be considered an animal," he said. "However, if there was a possibility of humanzees developing a conscience, you have a far more difficult dilemma on your hands."
I'm pretty sure certain people at 30 Rock are now quaking in their boots at the possibility of their replacements being bred, working for peanuts, and no one noticing the difference.
Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust medical director Dr John Orton told the Herald that ketamine superseded morphine in many situations.
"Certain pains are fairly easily manageable with morphine-type drugs, but the excruciating acute pain of acute injury is extremely hard to get on top of with morphine," Dr Orton said.
Rescue medics discover good use for notorious drug - 02 May 2008 - Topic
What a neat discovery. Caution though, some example accidents sound kind of gruesome.
This is about character, Parrish said, when reached by telephone afterward. And in a moment of intemperance, he called his wife the most despicable name a person can call a woman.
"Old lady"?
(insert frying pan striking cranium sound here)
Seriously, any man who doesn't at least consider using the C word once in a marriage either doesn't speak English or might as well hand his testicles over.
At least 40 young men who drowned may have died by far more sinister means — serial killings at the hands of a national gang that revels in murdering young men and leaving smiley-face markings at the scene, a team of retired New York City police detectives and criminal justice investigators said Monday.
I think this is a new level of bad. Sociopaths who can organize.
I mean, other than furries, middle management, and tax assessors.
...to believe that one must live simply that others may simply live.
...to believe that the world is a zero-sum game.
...to believe that those in poverty should settle for lowered expectations.
...to believe that those in prosperity should do with less.
...to accept anything less than the glorious opportunity for prosperity for all as the birthright of humanity.
You who read this, please, I beg of you, refuse these things too.
We can all be prosperous and comfortable and advance. Our dreams of planet wide peace and plenty we once had were not delusions. Stop listening to the dubiousness and cynicism of the moment. Stop believing the worst.
To the tune of My Hero:
Almost too shocking now to talk about
Take your vacation plans, toss them out
Hypocrites have consequence, messing around
Use my paystubs now, use as a shroud
There goes my paycheck
Watch it as it goes
There goes my paycheck
It's illusionary
Everyone's a creditor, as I bleed out
Through the window my buying power goes out
Games have consequence, fooling around
Out of gas so I, can't race it around
There goes my paycheck
Watch it as it goes
There goes my paycheck
It's illusionary
Kudos my paycheck you really tried your best
You know my paycheck, the one that's gone
There goes my paycheck
Watch me as I'm hosed
There goes my paycheck
It's illusionary
There goes my paycheck
Oh my G-d it's gross
There goes my paycheck
It's illusionary
...a crystalline matrice through which Boron and protons can be accelerated and forced to fuse as they pass through the far end like that previously mentioned merge-down of too-fast moving cars on a narrowing highway.
Then we merely have Helium and x-rays/gammas to deal with, and the first can be used directly as a charge potential generator and the second through photoelectric effect.
Remember that other power about using metal crystals to get gradients of 1GeV in a single cm. We need only 500-600KeV for the proton against a Boron nucleus at rest. So how little would it take to do that and how efficient could we be? Generating particle collider potentials is astoundingly easy. The average cathode ray tube power supply is close to it as it is. What matters is efficiency from end to end.
Think of what it would be to bring the sun's reactions millions of miles closer to the photovoltaic systems we use, as in finely divide the reactions right down to the ion-ion single reaction level. A one to one relationship. Instead of an inefficient hot plasma, we micromanage them right down.
Across an array, of just a small size, the fusion power pack might be what, the size of an air tank for a scuba? We can deal with the efficiencies by micromanaging them.
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron#11.C2.A0B_depleted_boron
11B is also a candidate as a fuel for aneutronic fusion. When struck by a proton of about 500 Kev, it produces three alpha particles and 8.7 Mev of energy. Most other fusion reactions involving hydrogen and helium produce penetrating neutron radiation. This induces long term radioactivity in reactor structures and weakens them, as well as endangering operating personnel. The alpha particles from 11B fusion can be turned directly into electric power and all radiation stops as soon as the reactor is turned off.
Search for this term, and check out the PDF from the SLAC people at Sanford: CHANNELED PARTICLE ACCELERATION BY PLASMA WAVES IN METALS
You'll get this link.
I obviously am not the first to think along these lines.
And people say I'm just crazy.
The fields inside solid materials are to charged particles inside their structures very very strong compared to the fields we make in accelerators. In fact, what that paper describes is actually far stronger than is necessary to fuse protium, deuterium, or tritium, or even boron and protium.
See the Wiki entry on aneutronic fusion.
Anyhow, it should be possible to create a system that easily drives an ionized fuel source to fuse and release energy. The trick then is to immediately capture said energy and transfer some back to the generator and use the rest across a load. Going beyond break-even should be relatively simple if we can figure out the absorption method properly. I'm thinking something like a solar cell, but for higher energy radiation.
You know, you can channel and even bend gamma rays like light and they do this for astrophysics. Perhaps a metallic crystalline matrix for intercepting and moderating gamma rays and x-rays down to more manageable wavelengths and then knocking electrons loose creating a potential. We'd have to be able to get rid of the charged ions in an aneutronic system, or allow neutron scattering but I think the proper beryllium compounds might work there too.
This is going to require quite an amount of calculations for some very enterprising people across a dozen disciplines starting with molecular mechanical physics to design the appropriate matrices and then chemical engineers to consider how to make those compounds and grow the crystals and perhaps engineers to figure out how to do molecular compositing...
But... a solid-state fusion battery pack should be possible.
At relativistic speeds, particles traveling through a crystalline lattice would due to dilation appear compressed. A lattice that was open at rest would appear to be dense, closed, impenetrable. Paths through would appear to be holes.
Any charged particles traveling through if diverted marginally laterally off an otherwise straight axis alongside others similarly diverted, all of them into collision would be like trying to jam four lanes of highway traffic at 2,000mph into one lane and none of the cars have working brakes and the highway is bounded on the sides by impenetrable walls. Crash. Or fusion.
Now further imagine that this crystal is also a dielectric, that is non-conductive but which can allow the pass-through of electric fields between two conductive surfaces to create a potential between them. Should one side, say the positive side, be connected to a pressurized hydrogen source, then the positive side would draw electrons away from the atoms and render them positively charged. As in bare protons or a proton-neutron pair. Which would then of course be free to pass through the crystalline lattice structure towards the attraction of the negatively charged side.
The ions all move from one side to the other functioning like a breakdown in the dielectric except the dielectric is not actually breaking down. The charge leakage is carried through the dielectric by the ions. Except, the ions are converging on each other. More can fit through at once than can get out at once like four lanes of traffic necking down to one.
So some of them will fuse as they exit because it's either fuse or not go through, but more are coming from behind and those will want to get out and they all cram up and some will fuse.
Now imagine that the crystalline solid is vibrating with a wave whose frequency was chosen because it was most compatible with the physical makeup of the crystalline lattice such as its distance between atoms.
So the electric fields inside the crystals as pulsing like a wake-field accelerator. Granted the fields of the atomic shells are electron fields thus negative but if the fields of the atoms ahead keep rhythmically pulling the ions forward toward the negatively charged side of the dielectric, then they serve to group the ions like tight clumps of cars way too close to divert in time to avoid collision.
Furthermore, we're talking spaces which might conceivably function like the Casimir experiment and by their nature and dimensions rule out certain fundamental frequency groups forcing certain states to be viable and others not.
Just throwing together a bunch of ideas and imagining a solid-state fusion battery.
...that the crux of the very nature of the problems with the system being revolted against is that they are systems. How do you revolt against political parties without having another political party without said party working for its own interests which of course it logically must to remain in any competition with any other party, or even just to survive as a coherent organization?
How can you have a partyless party?
The partyless party can only be the whole of the people, acting in concert without conspiracy or organization in the way of the stand alone complex.
So I suggest first that all people interested in revolt do the following:
Revolt without revolting. Change our world by changing your mind. Turn the switches and change the channels of the system. Turn on the lights of the nation which once promised to burn so brightly. Be a party of one. Be.
