Marijuana can also cause vivid recollection of forgotten memories. In my experience it's closer to reliving a moment than remembering; overall a very interesting experience.
From what we've been told, Greenwald has a giant cache of classified documents, and the people who actually know say this is the tip of the iceberg. I highly doubt he's shown all his cards yet, if only to milk this story as long as possible. Personally, my money is on another bombshell this Friday.
So what if you use something like a Russian VPN or Tor? It seems like that would only be vulnerable to attacks based on exact connection times and to traffic volume analysis, both of which could be avoided by generating fake traffic.
"White middle/upper class" are statistically much less likely to be personally affected by these prison policies. Nothing about Weev's treatment is unusual; it's just that nobody cares when it happens to "normal criminals" who are disproportionately not white or rich.
Humans are likely to ignore a problem that doesn't affect anyone they know or identify with.
| Humans are likely to ignore a problem that
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That's what I was trying to hit on with 'one of us.' That we (the HN crowd) care mostly because he's part of the 'techno elite' so to speak. Less so because he's white/middle-class. It just happens that the 'techno elite' is (seemingly) disproportionately white (not sure about middle-class). It also doesn't hurt that we see him as a bit of a martyr because he got a prison sentence that we don't feel fit the crime (and therefore feel that he's drawn the ire of 'the man' so to speak).
I believe the differentiation is that Skype routes calls p2p by default, so wiretapping them is hard. It may be possible for Skype to record calls, but only when it's routed through Supernodes - a mode usually reserved for when firewalls prevent a p2p connection.
Call metadata like to/from, time, and call length are stored - as is all text.
It seems pretty clear that this guy was running a dime-a-dozen "buy a ddos" service and was caught by the FBI due to very lax security - like openly posting name/work/age/city. According to a post on webhostingtalk [1] on Dec 10 2013, he may also control the hosting for viphackforums.net.
His story ("now working for the FBI") superficially checks out - there is a Special Agent Stephen Lies who works at the Memphis, TN FBI branch. Here is a similar op this agent took part in: https://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/oct/10/predators-...
Wifi authentication frames aren't encrypted, so you can craft bogus de-auth packets to disconnect clients. This has a lot of uses - you can DoS a client indefinitely, force them to reveal a hidden access point when reconnecting, or force them to disconnect and then reconnect to a rogue access point.
FTA: 'Loneliness “is not synonymous with being alone, nor does being with others guarantee protection from feelings of loneliness,” writes John Cacioppo, the leading psychologist on the subject. Cacioppo privileges the emotion over the social fact because—remarkably—he’s sure that it’s the feeling that wreaks havoc on the body and brain. Not everyone agrees with him, of course. Another school of thought insists that loneliness is a failure of social networks. The lonely get sicker than the non-lonely, because they don’t have people to take care of them; they don’t have social support.'
From experience I definitely agree that having very little/no social interaction is not synonymous with loneliness.
I'm curious whether the social interaction/suicide relation is correlation or causation.
This kind of loneliness has as much to do with rejecting oneself as it is being rejected by other people.
Each of us have emotional wounds inside that are sensitive. We typically wrap layers and layers of personality, activities, and rationalizations to protect it. And if it gets through that, it triggers some protective emotional outbursts or behaviors. Or we shut down, like the woman in catatonia.
It is usually painful enough that the mind does not want to be aware of it, and when hitting upon that, will naturally veer away from it.
You can be fundamentally lonely in a crowd of millions. You can be the meditating sage in some isolated cave for years, because you know at the core you are not alone.
I got my ass kicked several times by a goddess. ;-) Each time, I saw a lot of things about myself I didn't want to see. I got inundated with feelings I didn't want to feel. I've felt what love feels like, and I know it's there even in the most painful and horrible places. I know we're never truly alone or abandoned; I've wept for the people still wandering lost, not knowing what they seek is right there with them. I've learned how to meditate and have been practicing it for a while. This is all still an ongoing transformation. Feel free to email if you want details.
> The culture doesn't encourage innovation and curiosity is shunned in most of the schools. Kids get into this rat race of scoring high grades without even realizing it.
I'm not trying to take anything from what you're saying, but my experience is that applies just as well to US school (high school, at least.)
Having been to both places - the similarity may be there, but America has just started on the path of wiping out the ability to think from its children.
We've been 'teaching the test' for decades now. No child left behind has just started for you in comparison.
The Indian education system is busy creating mental athletes who are literate, but incapable of actually working outside of their experience set - essentially training fencers instead of fighters.
If we continue slashing arts, music, woodshop etc. in favor of more AP classes you'd end up being somewhat right, but still, you have no idea the difference in education quality
