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Living Room / Re: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

« Last post by wraith808 on June 09, 2010, 10:33 AM »

Whistle-blowers should be protected if by releasing classified documents they prove that somebody has done something wrong (from the law point of view). I know this is the law in some countries.

-bgd77 (June 09, 2010, 02:18 AM)

I don't think so.  This puts too much of a nebulous status on the word classified.  There should be some process (which I think there is) for shedding light on classified documents.  Someone with the classification to see them that these things can be reported to.  And I think that does exist (especially in this age of senate oversight).

How do you allow someone in an analyst position to make the call that something is wrong enough to make classified documents public?  And what about the collateral damage if what they release isn't sanitized enough to protect the identities of those peripherally involved?

When something is marked classified, it should be black and white IMO... especially considering operational security for those who put their lives on the line based on the fact that this is so.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: All AutoHotkey (AHK) coders read: No more upx packing of compiled ahk utils

« Last post by wraith808 on June 08, 2010, 06:10 PM »

I'm a sarcopath)

-Target (June 07, 2010, 05:03 AM)

Please, get off the path and back  to your phagus!

-cranioscopical (June 07, 2010, 03:35 PM)

You *really* want to make sure you keep that turkey badge, don't you? 

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Living Room / Re: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

« Last post by wraith808 on June 08, 2010, 04:26 PM »

But I'm not talking about the nebulous "Issues of National Security."  It's more the classified tag.  Some things are declared issues of national security after the fact or that's just an excuse used not to comment on something.  But if something is labeled classified, that's pretty unequivocal IMO... and you signed an agreement when you took the job that says you will behave in a certain way toward that data, no matter what it is.

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Living Room / More anti-apple fodder

« Last post by wraith808 on June 08, 2010, 12:52 PM »

You know, I try to retain a reasoned approach to apple and its practices, then they do something douchebaggy like this.

*sigh*

Apple blocks non-Safari browsers from HTML5 demo
http://www.tgdaily.c...sers-from-html5-demo

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Living Room / U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

« Last post by wraith808 on June 08, 2010, 12:47 PM »

http://www.wired.com...leak/?intcid=postnav

While unpopular, I know that my view is that classified information is just that- classified.  And if you release it for *whatever* reason outside of the correct procedures, you should be prosecuted.  That's the only way to ensure that intelligence remains actionable and assets that are in place for our security remain safe.  National security is not a pass to violate the rule of law, but there is a definite procedure to bring such things to prosecution- and one Specialist can't decide that information needs to be made public just because he thinks so.

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Living Room / Re: The digital age comes to comics...

« Last post by wraith808 on June 08, 2010, 11:39 AM »

The price actually seems to drop faster on digital games, though.  I bought Supreme Commander 2 for $11 this weekend- and it just came out a little bit ago.

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Living Room / The digital age comes to comics...

« Last post by wraith808 on June 08, 2010, 08:27 AM »

...and it's priced too high!

http://www.newsarama...iron-man-100607.html

And a reaction that I agree with...

http://www.pvponline...-man-annual-digital/

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Living Room / Re: Why do we always wait for apple's stuff before making a i[blank]-killer??

« Last post by wraith808 on June 06, 2010, 04:35 PM »

e.g. Apple can polish a turd and their drove of fawning accolades will flock in mass (like lemming) to buy the silly POS. While the rest of the industry is stuck doing things the old fashioned way - Trying to come up with a useful product that people actually need.

-Stoic Joker (June 06, 2010, 12:13 AM)

I think that there is a fundamental difference between companies like Apple and Sony.

Sony is a consumer electronics company.

Apple is a religion cult.

Seriously.

Apple is very far from being the innovator that the fanboys tout it to be. Apple is good at 1 thing, and 1 thing only. It takes good ideas that failed, repackages them in a super-sexy outfit, then pimps them out to its followers.

The tablet isn't new. The iPad is just a tablet with better marketing to the Cult of Apple followers, and those that are wannabe cult members.

-Renegade (June 06, 2010, 03:01 AM)

If so, then why do so many non Apple people that I personally know 'get it' as far as the iPad is concerned?  It's not a cult thing- it's a usability thing.  I know a guy who already has a Kindle, a Zune, a non iPhone, a netbook... and was not going to get an iPad.  He had no intentions.

Then he used it.  Now he has one.

And I've seen that story over and over again.  Indeed, as I said, I plan to get one myself.

There are cult-ish Apple afficionados just as there are cult-ish windows people, etc.  But if you can market to the non-cult members, doesn't that say that there might be something more than you're seeing from the surface?

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Living Room / Re: Honestly, who here actually owns an iPad? be honest!

« Last post by wraith808 on June 06, 2010, 03:28 PM »

It's a tool... if it works for your workflow and you can see it being a boon, then why let the naysayers dissuade you?  And if you don't see it working for you, why let the hype persuade you?  Some people will see a use for it, some won't.  Personally, after looking at it and truthfully evaluating it, it will really help.

So it's not about courage, it's about pragmatism.

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Living Room / Re: Honestly, who here actually owns an iPad? be honest!

« Last post by wraith808 on June 06, 2010, 12:23 PM »

As I said in another thread, I plan to get one- just don't have the funds yet.

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter

« Last post by wraith808 on June 05, 2010, 09:17 PM »

I've supported several projects there... some really good stuff if you're into RPGs, as a couple of my favorite authors regularly put projects there.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sins of a Solar Empire - 80% off

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2010, 04:02 PM »

I think that's because of the sale this weekend.

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Living Room / Re: Watch out for your Gaming Credentials

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2010, 09:32 PM »

That whole social values thing really is jagged at the moment. After all, it's just a *GAME*... Or it's taken on a new role/aspect/meaning now?

-Renegade (May 28, 2010, 05:37 PM)

From my perspective, there's two types of people that would want to buy gold/accounts for a serious amount of money.
1. Those looking to have a huge e-peen without the investment to actually progress in the games
2. Those who don't have the time to amass the money in game, but would rather enjoy the game, not as another job.

Those in category (1) are willing to pay exorbitant prices for the sake of bragging and pwning others.  Those in category (2) are willing to supplement their game with real money, because money=time.  When you break it down like that, it's easy to see that the monetization of such services would very easily make you a lot of money- that's one of the reason why the social games make so much money.

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Living Room / Re: Power corrupts... and absolute power...

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2010, 02:31 PM »

If you believe Google's explanation of events - and I have no reason not to since they *volunteered* this information <snip />

-JavaJones (May 28, 2010, 01:41 PM)

Volunteered under what pressures?  If there was no pressure for the incident to be known, then why would Google even say anything about the issue?  That doesn't seem very savvy for a company that's seen how these things play out.  Who wouldn't doubt that the release of such information would lead to the quagmire that currently exists?

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Living Room / Watch out for your Gaming Credentials

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2010, 10:49 AM »

An operation of this level is pretty scary.  Let's you know how profitable the gold seller/account seller enterprise is.

http://www.bluesnews...n-gaming-credentials

They say there are credentials for at least 18 gaming websites in the database, an inventory including about 210,000 World of Warcraft accounts, 60,000 Aion accounts, 2 million PlayNC accounts, and 16 million Wayi Entertainment accounts.

I wish more companies would go with an authenticator like Blizzard does.  I just got back into WoW, and the inconvenience of using their iPhone app to get a unique key is definitely more than made up for by the fact that it's quite harder to crack my account, even if you have my password.

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Living Room / Power corrupts... and absolute power...

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2010, 10:44 AM »

Maybe their power isn't absolute yet, but if it was, I shudder to see what they'd be like then.

Google faces German Street View data blunder deadline.

True, the people were idiots for having insecure wi-fi.  Or were they?  Do we know that these weren't HotSpots at cafe's an the like?  But no matter what, heads should roll over at google for this if the harvesting was truly unauthorised.  But, I think that's a CYA move.  What knucklehead gathers info over open wi-fi while taking video/pictures for a google initiative unless it's authorised at some level?

Of course, the EFF does have a point about the turning over of the data:

"To allow a government to investigate a privacy breach by further violating privacy is senseless."

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Living Room / American Express Might Not Be Encrypting Your Credit Card Number Online

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2010, 10:38 AM »

Are you kidding me?  I'm so glad I don't have an AmEx card...

http://thenextweb.co...mal-online-security/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Name your own price on Caster until Monday 5/31

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2010, 10:38 AM »

I'd heard of it, but wasn't really interested.  Actually, I'm still only mildly interested, but I like to support developers when they take a chance on this model.

http://www.elecorn.com/caster3d/

Only until Monday, so if you're interested, check it out.

UPDATE: I hate case sensitivity on urls...

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What's the Best? / Re: What's the best: Wiki Host?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2010, 09:22 AM »

You could also look at standard hosting- many of them include a package that installs more than one, and then you have a bit more control without having to pigeonhole yourself for the future.

I use liquidweb for my linux hosting, and they use Fantastico, which has options to install TikiWiki or PhpWiki automatically, along with several other options.


I use PmWiki personally, and a couple of sites that have that as a wiki hosting option:
http://www.sitegroun...m/pmwiki-hosting.htm
http://www.maiahost..../PmWiki_Hosting.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you know a free HTML editor with real time preview in adjacent pane?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2010, 09:15 AM »

good to see that you've found an editor that suits your needs. got to bookmark CoffeeCup myself. btw, i didn't know about Trellian's bad reputation, i wonder why it got flagged at WOT.

-lanux128 (May 25, 2010, 08:42 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I replace .NET with Mono (or anything)?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2010, 01:08 PM »

I don't believe this is exactly correct, and I didn't see anywhere in the link that would change my mind.  However, I am open to more information proving me wrong if this is indeed the case.

From my understanding, if you use Mono, SOME .Net developed applications *Should* work, though compatability is far from complete.  Moreover, as an OSS implimentation, it is by design at least a generation behind .Net development. 

-steeladept (May 27, 2010, 12:22 PM)

They soft shoe what's required.

Read http://mono-project.com/FAQ:_General

Then go to the link that leads to the Mono Migration Analyzer (http://mono-project.com/Moma)

Look at this part explicitly:

The Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) tool helps you identify issues you may have when porting your .Net application to Mono.

If it will truly run compiled binaries (which would require that it usurp the linkings between the code and the .NET libraries) then why the word port?  I haven't tested it, but from everything I understand, they have the libraries to allow applications to utilize Mono, but it isn't merely a swap of the frameworks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I replace .NET with Mono (or anything)?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2010, 12:09 PM »

Mono is an OSS implementation of the .NET framework, so that developers can develop applications using .NET architecture without the .NET framework (and so that they can be cross platform).  If a developer uses mono to develop, then mono will be the framework that you have to deploy.  If a developer uses .net to develop, then .net will be the framework that you have to deploy.

For more information, see http://en.wikipedia..../Mono_%28software%29

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve: "Mac is 5 times more stable than windows running games"

« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2010, 10:37 AM »

5 times more stable?  Not 4 or 6?  Or maybe 4.997?  I hate statements that try to apply an obviously subjective number to a non-empirical statement.

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Found Deals and Discounts / ShopperPress on BitsDuJour

« Last post by wraith808 on May 26, 2010, 08:15 AM »

http://www.bitsdujou...press-shopping-cart/

I was really impressed with the overview and the responsiveness of the developer.  I haven't actually tried it yet, but did jump on the discount.  I know some people here have some commercial interests, and this seems like it would be a boon in the laborious details of setting up a store...

Now I wish I had purchased that box shot editor when it was available- all of this software towards getting in gear with my MiniISV motivates me...

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General Software Discussion / Re: church song software

« Last post by wraith808 on May 26, 2010, 08:12 AM »

Oh, I realize that Cpilot.  But out of 215,000 members and I am the only one who has an interest in something like this?  This forum gets a lot of posts for many different types of software, why not some church software too.  Besides its not like it is related to a certain denomination. 

-techidave (May 26, 2010, 05:46 AM)

No, not the only one.   Thanks for the heads-up!