anon114

"This Film Is Not Yet Rated" talks about some of the American film propaganda machine. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/

Want to shoot a war movie? Need access to military assets? You're going to have to run the movie by the Pentagon first to make sure it portrays "The Right Side of the Story".

Also the US has tax credits for scripts which incorporate messages in support of the war on drugs. This is why you see ridiculous bullshit on CSI like kids dying after falling off a roof while high on.. GASP.. MARIJUANA!

Land of the free, home of the brainwashed. This is why I try not to consume very much mainstream media. It's not exactly on the level with denial of historical events - people wouldn't stand for that. It has to be more subtle, and it is, and it works.

You are confusing the difference between approaching the process of becoming a hacker for-profit and approaching the path to hackerdom because you seek enlightenment. When you are primarily seeking promised riches at the end of the path, you aren't following the path.

This should be called The Coder's Path for the same reason this site should be called Coder News. A whole section on "Gettin’ Paid, Makin’ Money"? Fucking please.

I regretted it.

It was worth doing (at least once).

I have not tried it.

I have tried it.

http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/contests/past_contests.html#cc...

P2P twitter is absolutely necessary but it has to be done right.

First of all, ensure privacy with public key cryptography. Sign tweets for authenticity. Retweets can just be additional signatures.

If a distributed microblogging protocol was interoperable with twitter and user friendly, it would probably be able to siphon people off of twitter proper. Certainly it would be an attractive alternative to anyone who NEEDED the service, and that's the important thing, right? Hopefully work out a way so that tweets on twitter.com can be captured and distributed in this P2P network. These tweets could be unsigned since if you include a link to the original tweet they can be verified.

Defining protocols instead of providing services democratizes a layer of the OSI model. We need to think deeper than that, though. We need to democratize the physical layer as well. Luckily we've proven that you don't need a high bandwidth link to be useful in a crisis situation. Twitter will do. To that end, I suggest that this project make an even more lofty goal:

Create a small embedded device interoperable with this P2P microblogging network. The device can communicate with peers over a Software Defined Radio. The device should be capable of bridging to a wi-fi or 3g network. This would accomplish the democratization of the physical layer which is so important to combat censorship and oppression.

You can't monetize democracy. This is why these projects will only happen on a volunteer/charity basis.

So Caron talks about the top 10% which is fine, but I think the really interesting numbers are higher in the distribution.

Top: 1%: In 2004, the top 1% controlled 50.3% of the financial assets while the bottom 90% only held 14.4% of the total US financial assets.

([6] at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States)

The Forbes 400 would be the top 0.00013%. They own 1.54 trillion in assets. The US M2 Money Supply is only 8.36 Trillion dollars.

It's also been suggested that the general population are optimists about this situation.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/more-on-...

Or, maybe this will cause users to take Jabber/XMPP more seriously and stop using proprietary technology for corporate IM.

I've worked at places where management is completely gaga over Skype and would push me to support it despite the fact that I had no ability to block spam, troubleshoot messaging problems or integrate our IM system into existing Asterisk, SSO, monitoring and collaboration solutions.

IMHO, Openfire is far more flexible, extensible, secure, reliable and most importantly - manageable as a service.

http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/

disclaimer: I do not work for Ignite and have no vested interest in their business.

Another problem with recruiters is conflict of interest. They likely can't be seen to poach one client's employees for another.

If the recruiter is large and they represent many clients, the pool of talent you can pull from via the recruiter may not include someone very qualified and presently employed somewhere with no room for advancement they deserve.

If you had just advertised the job on LinkedIn and done some cursory research yourself before going to a headhunter, you might be able to access that resource. At a cheaper price, even.

I'll just leave this here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain

Maybe you missed the official acknowledgment that a priority of the US Government is to continue widespread extrajudicial "detention, transfer and interrogation" of "suspects", with the valued co-operation of foreign allies - without any kind of reciprocal agreements, of course.

I love working late, but my health suffers a massive decline with sleep deprivation. My immune system takes a beating and I invariably get sick after an all-nighter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

It's probably safe to assume he dealt.

People have a bizarre sense of price vs value. This guy's self-serving article on human capital and economic growth is perverted because:

- America isn't the world, and it is becoming less important in the world as time goes on. A country with 100% debt:GDP is the last place I'd look for insight into the relationship between intelligence and economics. I'd be more inclined to look for valid relationships between intelligence and economics on a global scale. Better sample size. Less systemic errors.

- "Smart people of the highly educated sort" wouldn't have the resources to participate in the Information Society without cheap Microsoft Optical mice made on the backs of near-slave labour in other countries.

- Equating the density of human capital solely to educational attainment density is weak. Do all those MBAs on the walls belonging to High Frequency Traders on Wall Street really prove they're creating wealth? How about if they're just promoting and profiting from an economic system that reinforces the "value" they create until the next bubble bursts?

- Sustainable growth is more important than growth. You know what else I think of when I read "San Francisco, NYC, Boston"? Bubbles. Check out the unsustainable home price appreciation levels in those areas from 198*-2006. Yeah. Smart/educated.

Remember: You do not need postage to write your MP or the PMO a paper letter! It's free!

http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2010/let_100420_e.pdf Canada and other nations sent this to Google regarding the Buzz fiasco, for reference.

Assuming this is accurate, you should watch your mouth, Zuck, or priv.gc.ca might bring the hammer down. Again.

Other users in other countries can resign themselves whenever they like, but Canadians aren't willing to just give up on privacy because it's a challenge for service providers. It's a duty if you want to do business here.

Too much XBOX, Facebook. No attention to rising social costs due to aging demographic. They don't vote. Terrible with money.

Ignorance is bliss?