streetnigga

"does anyone seriously have a problem with this?"

Yes.

"there isn't really a domestic/whistleblower angle"

As if Chinese goods don't get sold within the US[0].

[0] http://www.huaweideviceusa.com/

I just don't recall anything official regarding that line of thought. Direct PR or otherwise. Is there any examples off the top of your head?

Murdering people is technically feasible as well. If entities are given essentially no legal oversight then the correct response would be to act on the incentives they were given to murder freely.

The problem is with the legislature (and the judiciary), voters, and the media.

(underpowered device, need to squeeze every last drop from battery)

Really now? Is that the official reasoning for not using HTTPS?

One of the reasons I expressed bother that ZH didn't link to the report they cited was my lack of view into the China. Heck my best metric is valuation of US stock of a company registered in the US, not it's sister/brother in a different nation. Typically though there is no major divide in reaction to core stability across markets. Not much of a comment on China just Citi, ZH, parent article.

Well thanks for the inquiry.

I think the take on ZH's reporting seems rather correct. If the controls only apply to Citibank then the phrasing of the the article's headliner is a bit much. As for the meat of the subject Citibank has been a laggard[0] entity for some years, after the great recession and all.

[0] http://www.google.com/finance?cid=662713

"whether or not people were burned by using ZH for trading tips"

I never said anything about "trading tips," just that ZH has proven itself to be built upon a pile of rumor mill excrete.

I saw the article for a brief moment, then it redirected to a blank page. Don't really care anymore.

edit: Really, no comment on why a story about _friggin space_ would be dis-interesting to a consumer due to NYTimes-like article handling that can fail on edge cases?

Consider the Apollo missions if a CJ[0] portal failed in delivering promised content, what the user clicks a link for. Maybe I care too bloody much about every nation's space program than to give time to a probable advertising redirect.

In the end the search engine content shell game really annoys users, don't expect positive results from it.

[0] http://www.cj.com/

In diplomacy this is to be viewed as a reminder that Assad and his regime is really rubbish at upholding reforms or truces.

In hackeracy this is to be viewed in the light of the BlueCoat[1] surveillance log leaks from hardware the regime was using at ISP level to monitor sexual, religious, political users during what was now considered relatively peaceful times. Street level gestures matter little to the surveillance state or it's monitoring of you and your family.

[1] http://bluesmote.com/

Citibank is singled out as a weak performer in China then eh? Weak to the point of bringing up the specter of default at least. Then again ZH didn't exactly link to China Compass as far as I can see, and ZH has a really shit track record overall so I give no benefit of the doubt for quotes.

The real story here is a small segment of productive coders rightfully feel themselves focus of nation sized actors that threaten their work.

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Also the large segment around them that still feel dismissive about their now confirmed fears.

When the bread-winner imprisons his/her partner that is considered a crime. Lets not start with crappy analogies.

edit: Bring a response instead of a down-vote. This community's weak point is when discussion is put to the wayside in favor of a quick and easy up or down vote. More to the point: Eff off anonymous down-voters, a prison guard is not a bread winner in a sexual assault relationship. This is just a really bad analogy that shouldn't be given support.

Keep in who is doing the monitoring, guards who look to be often involved sexual assault. See comment on consent I responded to in this article's thread. The situation of the victim is one of imprisonment, nearly every variable of their life is defined by the (sometimes rapist) guards.

Correctional facility is what they call them, yep.

This brings up the question, how can a relationship be considered willing when the person is imprisoned against their will?

Let's see the numbers for those released that continue the relationship, call THAT consensual instead. What the article speaks of is sexual assault.

Considering the negative connotations of the word "hacker" in the justice system, what with the federal penitentiaries and all, this news is relevant.

It's almost as if I meant something making that distinction, thanks for noticing. :)

I feel like this article is half a decade late. Mobile payments, plethora of instant messaging options, VOIP to save on minutes? South Africa and others were way ahead of the curve. Often reminds me of how Japanese tech is bleeding edge but in a more functional way.

Now penetration overall is a bit of a different story, Africa's remote areas are still rather remote.

Yes I am sure that they never figured other nations exist and that the US imports from them when making this article.

Way to respond with a comment that is contextual with what I said.

You really didn't conflate my detailing mass murder with support for other murderers at all there. If you did one could say it would be highly detrimental to discussion. Good thing you didn't though.

edit: I do love me tried and true tactics like what inanov and throwaway display. Anything said against a subject they feel strongly about is means to deny what is said then distort who is speaking. At the very least a lot of accusations and insinuations not relating to the original subject being discussed will be brought up adding noise to the signal. For a very topical example here is the regime's Syrian State TV split screening opposition talking at Geneva2 with stock footage of bombing carnage[0].

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BekwsuACIAA2gQr.jpg:large

Pretty shitty. Can't think of a theater of operation where the consensus for deployment is done with the support of the host nation's public. That is excluding the secret laws often shrouding the justification for the programs themselves.

Sure thing hoss. Here is the story[0] associated with the photos.

"Syrian government officials could face war crimes charges in the light of a huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the "systematic killing" of about 11,000 detainees, according to three eminent international lawyers.

The three, former prosecutors at the criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, examined thousands of Syrian government photographs and files recording deaths in the custody of regime security forces from March 2011 to last August."

OK so you are adamant that it was not the regime who tortured and executed people, that the photos were due to those nasty Islamists. How about a report pre-dating the previous on the Assad regime's Raid Brigade, amongst others in the Damascus area. Was the industrious kidnapping and murder of detainees by military also a false flag? Branch 215, Raid Brigade - Military Intelligence Division - Damascus[1].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/evidence-indust...

[1] http://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/reports/1380463510#.UuIv...

From CNN[0].

[0] http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/tech/cnn-accounts-hacked/

There is a special place in hell for SEA (Syrian Electronic Army) members. In addition to hacking sites as to spew propaganda, they have been reporting nonviolent activist pages while promoting terrorist (ISIS) pages. Running a plethora of personas[0] that harass and attack while disseminating horse-shit like the Adra massacre. That Adra event saw Russia Times relaying false reports[1]. Of course phishing pretty much anyone that mentions Syria/Sham. Gotta get those admin credentials somehow right?

All this while their regime goes about talking peace at Geneva2 and dropping crude air dropped improvised explosives (ADIED) onto residential neighborhoods. From two days ago, one of the happier videos to report from these strikes, a child being pulled alive from concrete rubble[2]. In addition to the regular munitons dropped on a daily basis the rocket system used to launch chemical weapon attacks is parked at the regime's Mezzeh military airport in Damascus[3] yet SEA and company have been trying to co-opt and seed disinformation on the subject such as focusing on nosecones[4].

This "cyberwar" mess has very real ramifications, and those are heaps of tortured/executed prisoners stacked up wrapped in plastic[5] with death certificates fraudulently made by the state. Real A level war crimes stuff. I have great hatred for these electronic shills and the murder they help further.

[0] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Persona_Management

[1] http://www.interpretermag.com/the-massacre-in-syria-that-was...

[2] http://youtu.be/-m_IgNakiXc

[3] http://imgur.com/gallery/C45Cw

[4] http://whoghouta.blogspot.com/2013/09/umlaca-simulation.html

[5] https://twitter.com/anadoluagency/status/426287533689815040

edit: See helpful comment regarding naming below.

The tools of war coming home.

"Oh, and please, share the federal law that prohibits carrying a camera into a theater?"

I did not say that it was, just that the property owner has much incentive to be proactive about not having cameras facing the projector screen. Why? There are federal laws against the act of filming copyrighted media in such a manner.

Get it? When federal laws come into play, on private property?

I mean tanks have been deployed, not just APCs. Military[1].

[1] http://youtu.be/NSQ989fCrbU

The fatal flaw is that you have to believe they would stop trying to make money in order to partake in a profitless operation that has military attention.

Aside from that, sure why not? Prank.

It was a post-notification that used historical geo-information like who was in a particular cell tower's coverage area. It only came out before the law enacted to counter what is going on kicked in. A man was shot and killed a few hours ago by Kiev police[1]. Now an APC is deployed[2] while both police[3] and protestors[4] trade Molotovs.

Here is a live feed of the scene, which is essentially an on-going street battle now[5].

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BelRC9RCUAAbRNZ.png [2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BelT6nzCcAAWytp.jpg [3] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeljSy1CMAANJFo.jpg [4] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BelVNWSCQAAr1l-.jpg [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrZcAsPKK74

edit: Video of the police scuffling with citizens in the street during the man's shooting then dragging his body away, along with an interview with the man that filmed it was submitted and published by the BBC[1].

[1] http://youtu.be/MvC6-OzVM_I

"This guy got away with it previously and I didn't see anything about shoulder mounted cameras on AMC's web site so your argument is invalid."

OK buddy, you got me. Go wear cameras into prohibited areas on private property, specially those where federal law comes into play.

I think that would be frowned upon for the same reasons cell/gps jammers are. Creates a potential for lack of prompt emergency response during unexpected situations that often occur when people gather.

I recall the patent[1] by Apple that was aimed at turning off recording functionality at events, with a concert being used as an example. Cell service left intact while your device's sensors refuse to cooperate with recording a video.

Of course that creates a whole other set of potential problems now doesn't it? :)

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...