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Post by asiaticdarkperson on Jul 25, 2012 3:15:28 GMT -5
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on Jul 25, 2012 4:23:22 GMT -5
And I've got a really bad feeling about what's going on in Syria. This could easily escalate and spillover across the region.
I really didn't think the Syrian government would let things get to where they are now. How is it that someone who has been ruling a country for decades hasn't achieved a degree of control and stability is beyond me.. unless the west's been seriously undermining their efforts, sponsoring discontent and rebellion all this time.
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Post by karlsie on Jul 27, 2012 9:57:05 GMT -5
I was reading some of the comments at the end of the article. One person said if you're poor, the virus runs away like you have the plague. The only thing you have to worry about is government surveillance. I'm unspeakably poor, so the only thing i have to worry about is surveillance, and the government is, admittedly, a very nasty creature. I wonder if those are real humans that are making all these global affected decisions? Maybe the machine are revolting against us and simply putting up androids that look like humans.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on Dec 25, 2012 17:36:01 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/world/middleeast/iran-says-hackers-targeted-power-plant-and-culture-ministry.html?_r=0Regarding the OP, just in case you guys missed it, Microsoft's digital certificates were not actually compromised; they were bestowed upon the virus. This is my opinion, of course. Obviously, if the US government requests Microsoft's assistance in fighting a rogue state, Microsoft cannot refuse. IMO computers are Iran's biggest weakness. It seems to me like there isn't a single person who really understands computers and digital technology in all of Iran, because they're all gathered in Silicon Valley etc. Sure Iranians know how to use Windows and cell-phones but that's about it. If anyone in Iran has any talent programming with ASM, C/C++, etc. or if they know what UNIX is, chances are they have already left Iran and are working in a country where an IT industry exists. All hardware and software being used in Iran is made in the west. (or Japan--same thing) Is it just me or is this a really dangerous situation for Iran?
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on Dec 26, 2012 4:03:15 GMT -5
karlsie, how exactly do you define unspeakably poor? Do you make less than 200 dollars a month? Taking into account the new conversion rate, that's just about what I made this year; ~2000 dollars.
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Post by grainnerhuad on Jan 4, 2013 16:13:05 GMT -5
While I am not unspeakably poor, I can speak about it  what one needs to understand is while many of us have what amounts to Monopoly money to pay our bills and keep us in houses, we have no real value. Credit value that can be built on. This is what it seems this virus and others like it are built on. To that end it may be an anarchists' tool. Who knows? Yes, we are instead vulnerable to the powers that be, but I think that anyone waking up in a technological society should be awake to the fact that they are beyond being able to slip under the wire at this point. |
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what one needs to understand is while many of us have what amounts to Monopoly money to pay our bills and keep us in houses, we have no real value. Credit value that can be built on. This is what it seems this virus and others like it are built on. To that end it may be an anarchists' tool. Who knows?