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One of Snowden's revelations was that we were hacking China as much or possibly more. Iran started up their hacking program as a response to our stuxnet attack. Cyberwar is just the latest boogeyman for the military industrial complex. The threat is overblown and the threat that is there is...

There is a big difference between seeking evidence of wrongdoing that he already knew was going on, and going there not knowing what he would find just to obtain more classified information to release to the public for... what? lulz? I don't much care how the lawyers weasel their way around...

Kerry's response to the bugging was amusing. 'It's not unusual, everybody does it!' 1) just because something is commonly done, doesn't make it right, and 2) not everybody does it. You think Luxembourg bugs embassies? England and the US have a history of clandestine...

New players: check out post #3 in this thread for some cash farming ideas. I just added probably the best farming spot (shades in shadeweaver's) to the list. Hopefully the estimated prices haven't dropped too much since I last played in February.

I'm somewhat amazed (ok not really) that both the NSA and the diplomats are so incompetent when it comes to their own security. OpenVPN on a private fully disk encrypted laptop is cheap, effective, and not very difficult to set up and use. Internet cafes? lol. My router firmware bundles in...

That's just it, they can't decrypt it. At least not yet. That's why they are storing it all, so they can decrypt it later when (if) technology allows for it. The public adopting mass encryption would be like a DDoS against the NSA. At some point it becomes impractical to just build more...

They have no way to know what kind of data it is when I tunnel it through a VPN. I originally got the VPN to avoid those extortion civil suits, but now that is becoming the secondary benefit. If enough people encrypted all of their data, it would make many of the NSA's domestic spying...

Now I feel even better for encrypting all my p2p downloads. A mere $40/year for unlimited use VPN, payable via bitcoin so you give them no personal information. Connect to the Switzerland node because of their privacy laws. Performance is great. When I don't torrent over that, it's SSL/TLS...

Ironically Snowden the whistleblower becomes an example of why this conspiracy is unrealistic. It's just such a leap above the worst I've seen done from this government. If they started making a habit of doing that level of evil, it'd get out sooner rather than later. Being a liberal though...

Well I'll be devil's advocate again and say that the Manhatten Project was rather successful. Of course the elite class back then wasn't nearly as stupid. Also the number of people involved in murdering a single journalist could be pretty small. It's not as if the entire government would be...

Here's a guess: Hastings was meeting his source in the middle of the night, notices he was being followed by the FBI who wanted to know his source, he gunned it to try and lose them, and lost control at high speed.

Drive-by-wire steering is a very new thing though; cars with that are just coming out this summer. So unless the supposed assassins used a very sophisticated device, they would have had to of settled for hacking the electronic throttle control, and merely speed the car up and hoped he would...

I'll play devil's advocate here and mention that the yottabytes claim is almost certainly false. You would need literally billions harddrives to have enough storage for one yottabyte. I googled a lot of articles mentioning the yottabyte claim, but it's simple math. So unless they have area-51...

I didn't mean that Snowden would face the exact same abuses and in a military trial, I meant that he could expect harsh treatment and abuse of the law in a more general sense from an angry administration as Manning did. Both of these guys are competing for biggest leaker ever, after all...

We have Manning's case as an example of what would happen to Snowden. "The Rules for Courts Martial (RCM) 707 states that under normal circumstances the accused should be brought to trial within 120 days of charges having been brought."It took them over 1,000 days to start his trial after...

Neither China, Russia, or Cuba are his ultimate destination. Ecuador is a democratic republic with a popular president. Their official currency is actually the USD. Snowden also made past statements of preferring asylum in Iceland. Basically his options are limited because most countries...

So if Snowden is a traitor-- a spy giving secrets to our enemies, namely China and Russia-- then why should we expect them to give Snowden up? To give their spy back? Why would they send that message to all their other agents? It's ridiculous to want it both ways. So by trumping up charges...

The ACLU does God's work. They remind me that some lawyers are heroes and not all scumbags, like the soulless sociopaths in Obama's DoJ that abuse the law and bully people to suicide by threatening 3+ decades of prison for a victimless crime, just so they can make examples of people and further...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...ng?INTCMP=SRCH Cops could solve more crimes if they could ignore the 4th amendment and enter any home they wanted to at any time; that doesn't mean it's a good idea to repeal it. In a police state, you trade fear of crime and terrorism for fear of the...

I double checked that statement before I wrote that. I found it in several articles that did not specifically apply it to whistleblowers. Seems a lot of reporters are 'making a point'. Regardless, even only applying to whistleblowers, it is still abusive and quite indicative of an...

Snowden is a patriot and a hero. Our corrupt government only validates his claims by charging him with espionage. This makes the 7th indictment brought under the controversial 1917 Espionage Act from this administration. It had been usedthree times previouslyin the entire history of the...

How to play WoW: Check off one of three roles. Teleport to dungeon. Run into pack of mobs. Whack-a-mole cooldown buttons until mobs die. Click food/water. Wait 20 seconds. Repeat until Boss. At boss, avoid fire. Buy gear with points. How to play EQ: Determine group class makeup...

PC users still have some limited search functionality. You can do searches for items, it just won't tell you who is selling it or for how much or direct you to them. However the search parameter inputs still function, so you can select individual sellers in the drop down and the item shows up...

In my guild, we were parsing damage from the early days. Not much in classic, but in Kunark we parsed enough to know that discing melee were outdamaging wizards even on 32k hp dragons. Of course in Velious using the bane spells, it was easy enough to count the number of spells that landed and...

Well as I was actually grinding AAs a few months ago, I can give you more accurate estimates. 1 AA/hr is about standard. I was doing crazy 7 box AoEing of the caller caves and getting 16 minute AAs in a 5 man group with level 60 characters on eqmac. Doing 6 man PBAoE with everybody in group...

Ykesha and LDoN didn't add AAs though, if I'm not mistaken. I recall some people in my guild not even buying Ykesha. Post-Omens EQ isn't 'early EQ' anymore. Mandatory AAs aren't a problem any more than mandatory levels are a problem. Either way it's a required exp grind. AAs just might...

Six months? EQ's early expacs were about a year apart, not six months. (SoV was like 9 months though) Luclin didn't add new levels either, so you had a full year to make your required AAs after having all of Kunark and Velious to make 60. PoP's 5 levels went by faster than Kunark's. I...

Actually EQ's simple log file allowed for some interesting third party applications. EQ's logging is a good example of something simple that enriched EQ yet is missing from later games, really. Being my guild's MT, I used to parse my guild's damage and type the top damage dealers in guild chat...

Yes, you are right. I thought of the ion drive when I wrote 'we have nothing better' but we still need traditional chemical rockets to take these things out of earth's gravity well, so I just kept it short. In fact the first ion engine we used for a probe was on the Dawn spacecraft that...

Well if you want to pick nits here, I'll clarify. Voyager 1 has the fastestheliocentric recessionspeed of any man-made object. It's a little easier to go fast when you're flying into the sun's gravity well instead of away from it. Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light years away. To get there in 25...

Water desalination and purification, generating fertilizer, and air purification are things we can do already. They just require energy. With the amount of energy required to send the seeds of civilization to another star system, you could just fix home instead. Of course by the time we could...

As I mentioned, there is no resource reason to colonize other stars. There are virtually unlimited resources in the solar system in the form of asteroids. Elements that are rare in the earth's crust are common in asteroids. (gold, platinum, iridium, etc) Escaping political oppression might...

You and Brad vastly overestimate mankind's current technological capabilities and/or underestimate the distances between stars. The fastest vehicle we have ever sent into space, Voyager 1, would take 72,000 years to reach the nearest star. The best idea for an interstellar vehicle that we...

Dyson spheres are ridiculously impractical. For one, it would require more matter than in all of the planets and asteroids in the solar system. And secondly, why build an enormous solar panel when you can just make your own fusion reactors? As for colonizing the entire galaxy, I have to ask...

Rift literally put me to sleep while playing the game. I couldn't wait to stop playing that game after forcing myself to play up to level 20 to give it a chance. I'm still amazed it did as well as it did. (retaining about 40% of its subs after a year) I guess a bug free client and polished UI...

I really want to like this game. I love the shit out of D2 and D3's engine is really nice, so I almost get an urge to play again. The #1 problem (of a long list) I have with this game is the huge fucking chore it is to evaluate and sell drops. I would have probably preferred a more...

The difference with a more traditional trial is not only losing access to the account, but when the trial is over they are faced with a box price + a sub price to continue; that's a pretty steep pay wall. Trials are also rather limited. My model would essentially be an unlimited trial giving...

Yeah but one of the reasons f2p works is because of the zero barrier to entry. Remove the box price and allow free play up to a point and you can gain that advantage while still requiring a subscription to enjoy the full game. This is also important because players who have no clue what might...

I also despise cash shops. I'm terrified Sony will fuck up a good game by implementing one into EQN. Exp potions are pay to win, period. Being one of the first to the level cap often grants players advantages in terms of lack of competition for camps/resources, and PvP wise it certainly...

So how long did those fungusbeast glands last you guys anyway