It's my opinion that you're ugly. Downmodding will be considered interference, and I'll go complain to the UN.
There's a reason the UN can be allowed to make all of its rules and grandiose statements, and that's precisely because it is toothless. If the UN had any ability to force its rules on anyone, it would cease to be. It is only valuable as an organization of hopeless ideals, to point out problems in the hope that someone with ability will fix them.
I know I sound like a troll here, but bear with me. If the UN was both making rules and enforcing them, then what happens when some UN member undergoes a coup or revolution? Does the UN step in on behalf of the government, or not? If not, does it step in to help the rebels? If yes to government, no to rebels, what happens when it helps some tyrannous dictator stay in power? If yes to rebels, no to government, how long will it take before it's actively trying to topple governments it doesn't agree with? If no to both, then what's the point of having it? And even if you say that it depends on the situation, then you're causing the UN to force some arbitrary morality on other nations. Not everyone believes the same things, and you can't always say that one person is right and one person is wrong. In America, there is the oft-quoted 2nd Amendment: The Right to Bear Arms. In Britain, there is no such thing. In Britain, the rules regarding nudity are quite a bit more lax than the rules in America, where the rules are quite a bit more lax than the rules in Iran.
The UN is best as it is. If they could force things to change, they would, and then they'd be useless, or worse.
'Hellsing' also had good dubbing. First time I heard it, I was just cringing during 'Sword Dancer' waiting for a lame Alexander Anderson. I had no reason to.
Are you talking about ethical ways, or "Let's short stock in Company X then spread FUD about it!" ways? There are plenty of ways to make money off of controlling spin.
It's all about timing. This isn't a traditional Canary Trap, where a bunch of possible leaks all get slightly different stories, and you see which one gets out. It's a Timed Canary Trap. You take a possible leak, and you give him a fake story. Couple months later, you do the same thing with a different leak. Now, you keep track of how long it took to get out after you baited the trap, and the shortest one is probably it. If there are a few short ones, find out who those people talk to, and you're probably going to find one person they all connect to. It's like Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon, but it's Six Degrees to the Press instead.
Did you happen to see that article a while back, that stated that close to 50% of the time, people could not pick up on the tone of emails? Something about nonverbal cues not being present. Now, do you happen to realize where you are? This is Slashdot, where there is a greater than average subset of wackos and nutjobs, especially on the Anonymous Coward front.
Maybe you picked up on tone that the GP missed. At 50-50 odds, that's not absurd enough for you to start flinging insults at his reading comprehension. Maybe, you missed the tone. You think that the GGP is being sarcastic, and the GP correctly picked him out as a moron/troll. Who knows? One thing's for certain, we didn't need the vitriol displayed in that post.
I agree. I suppose I wasn't clear enough on the light sensors not being a every chip thing, just a fairly common way to protect chips with sensitive stuff, like crypto keys. I seem to remember hearing about using pockets of reactive material in the chips to ruin disassembly. Start opening up the chip to get a look around (generic, includes oscilloscope measurements, etc.) and the chip burns. Don't know where that one came from, though.
Pity. This could be a social engineers dream. Walk into an ISP, look official, and get all the packets to and from addresses assigned to the US government. Something about a counterspy program or something ought to get you in. Now, start posting things on random forums that us regular citizens aren't supposed to know about. It'd be a bitch to try and catch all of it.
There's still a difference. Firmware is much more difficult to reverse engineer. If you can get your hands on a binary and a system that runs it, you can capture every bit of code. If you've got a ROM chip, then you can only see what goes in, and what goes out. There are ways to prevent it from being opened and examined, photosensitivity being the big one.
Crypto on a chip is more secure than crypto in a binary.
Changes are actually fairly swift. Look again at the second link I provided. We just happen to live during a 'growth spurt' for temperatures. Same thing happened at the end of the last Ice Age.
A fast scan of the articles shows nothing to dispute the validity of the Vostok ice core, or the conclusion I drew from it.
As far as difficulty adapting to the temperature changes goes, I'm going to say "Good." People innovate to increase luxury, but nearly so well as they innovate to prevent discomfort. Besides, nature's going to keep adjusting to changing conditions. All the other crap environmentalists worry about global warming for is a non-issue. The only real issue is how it will affect people, and people are really good at keeping the status quo from dropping. We'll figure out whatever we need to.
I have one simple question about this whole 'Global Warming will kill us all and is the work of the devil' debate.
What's the right temperature?
Was it when we had sheets of ice covering 50% of the earth's surface? Was it when Vikings were setting up farming communities on Iceland?
The Vostok ice core seems to show a cyclical C02 level, with spikes at approximately 400 thousand years ago, 325 thousand years ago, 225 thousand years ago, 125 thousand years ago, and one that we're in the middle of. When compared with these time scales, looking at levels in times we can directly measure is as useless as picking a random 1 minute period to watch the stock market, and using that to predict market trends for the next 20 years. We cannot demonstrate that industry is causing this 'problem' because, not only do we have no direct readings from before industry, we don't actually know that there's a problem. This could easily be all natural.
"...wasting their childhood fighting Nazi Germany..."
What the hell, man? I know all war is supposed to be bad these days, but I had a grandfather who fought Nazi Germany. My other grandfather was in the Pacific. Neither of them have ever stated that that wasn't the right place for them to be.
If 'they can't fix bugs fast enough,' more pressure will not help. It will hurt.
Fixing bugs costs money. Saying 'Company X has all these exploitable bugs' will cost Company X money, in stock price dropping, fewer consumers, etc. Thus, exposing exploits can slow down the bug correction process by moving resources away from doing bug corrections. Bonus points if they lose enough money that they have to fire one of the code guys, and he takes a list of unpatched bugs with him when he goes.
Now, you're pushing users to a more secure platform, which sounds like a good thing until you realize that you're creating a monoculture. There is no perfect code, so every platform, regardless of security level, will be vulnerable. Now, they're all vulnerable to the same thing, and you're one 0-day away from tech-hell.
Generally, the accused but innocent don't take off. They stay in the state like they're supposed to, they show up to their trial, and then they most often get acquitted. Violating bail is, in fact, a crime, so a bail jumper is a criminal, regardless of whether or not he's guilty of the crime he put up bail for.
Hey, remember hearing about those sonic bandages that can cause clotting? Those'll show up in the civilian market too. Of course the DoD isn't going to care about cancer, but there's plenty of stuff related to saving a soldier's life or getting said soldier back on the field faster that we can use on the outside too.
As far as more accurate rifles go, I wasn't trying to call that a major benefit, I was trying to show that there is very little that won't trickle down, even weapons will. My father has a 30.06 for deer, and that's the rifle used by army and marines snipers in Vietnam.
Again, I'm for the increase in R&D spending, not cranking out tanks and guns. The Manhattan Project are pretty much the only ones to deserve credit for nuclear power plants. Why shouldn't another one figure out that pesky fusion problem that's been plaguing the Navy? There are a lot of advances in R&D that will be made faster by the application of unimaginable resources.
Personally, I'd rather see nearly out of control spending in defense R&D. Pretty much everything Defense has will trickle down. More accurate rifles go to hunters, better communications goes to everyone, better explosive compounds go to industry, better vehicles go to everyone, and the raw science developed makes all sorts of awesome stuff possible. Medicine, power, the works.
Defense has the money to spend and the motivation to spend it. I'd personally like to see more government sponsored think tanks like the Manhattan Project.
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Don't forget this. Last panel in particular.
"Looking for Bat in Central Wisconsin Region."
I like it.
It's my opinion that you're ugly. Downmodding will be considered interference, and I'll go complain to the UN.
There's a reason the UN can be allowed to make all of its rules and grandiose statements, and that's precisely because it is toothless. If the UN had any ability to force its rules on anyone, it would cease to be. It is only valuable as an organization of hopeless ideals, to point out problems in the hope that someone with ability will fix them.
I know I sound like a troll here, but bear with me. If the UN was both making rules and enforcing them, then what happens when some UN member undergoes a coup or revolution? Does the UN step in on behalf of the government, or not? If not, does it step in to help the rebels? If yes to government, no to rebels, what happens when it helps some tyrannous dictator stay in power? If yes to rebels, no to government, how long will it take before it's actively trying to topple governments it doesn't agree with? If no to both, then what's the point of having it? And even if you say that it depends on the situation, then you're causing the UN to force some arbitrary morality on other nations. Not everyone believes the same things, and you can't always say that one person is right and one person is wrong. In America, there is the oft-quoted 2nd Amendment: The Right to Bear Arms. In Britain, there is no such thing. In Britain, the rules regarding nudity are quite a bit more lax than the rules in America, where the rules are quite a bit more lax than the rules in Iran.
The UN is best as it is. If they could force things to change, they would, and then they'd be useless, or worse.
Wisconsin is the same way. I just got mine renewed, and there's no bar code.
'Hellsing' also had good dubbing. First time I heard it, I was just cringing during 'Sword Dancer' waiting for a lame Alexander Anderson. I had no reason to.
Are you talking about ethical ways, or "Let's short stock in Company X then spread FUD about it!" ways? There are plenty of ways to make money off of controlling spin.
It's all about timing. This isn't a traditional Canary Trap, where a bunch of possible leaks all get slightly different stories, and you see which one gets out. It's a Timed Canary Trap. You take a possible leak, and you give him a fake story. Couple months later, you do the same thing with a different leak. Now, you keep track of how long it took to get out after you baited the trap, and the shortest one is probably it. If there are a few short ones, find out who those people talk to, and you're probably going to find one person they all connect to. It's like Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon, but it's Six Degrees to the Press instead.
Did you happen to see that article a while back, that stated that close to 50% of the time, people could not pick up on the tone of emails? Something about nonverbal cues not being present. Now, do you happen to realize where you are? This is Slashdot, where there is a greater than average subset of wackos and nutjobs, especially on the Anonymous Coward front.
Maybe you picked up on tone that the GP missed. At 50-50 odds, that's not absurd enough for you to start flinging insults at his reading comprehension. Maybe, you missed the tone. You think that the GGP is being sarcastic, and the GP correctly picked him out as a moron/troll. Who knows? One thing's for certain, we didn't need the vitriol displayed in that post.
Now go log in before you reply.
...And you missed my favorite example, Godwin though it is.
Belgium. WWII. German Tanks.
If you want to be secure in any of your rights, you need to be able to keep them. In the US, we've got the Second Amendment helping with that.
And if only you were Denny Crane, you would have had guns right there.
I agree. I suppose I wasn't clear enough on the light sensors not being a every chip thing, just a fairly common way to protect chips with sensitive stuff, like crypto keys. I seem to remember hearing about using pockets of reactive material in the chips to ruin disassembly. Start opening up the chip to get a look around (generic, includes oscilloscope measurements, etc.) and the chip burns. Don't know where that one came from, though.
Pity. This could be a social engineers dream. Walk into an ISP, look official, and get all the packets to and from addresses assigned to the US government. Something about a counterspy program or something ought to get you in. Now, start posting things on random forums that us regular citizens aren't supposed to know about. It'd be a bitch to try and catch all of it.
There's still a difference. Firmware is much more difficult to reverse engineer. If you can get your hands on a binary and a system that runs it, you can capture every bit of code. If you've got a ROM chip, then you can only see what goes in, and what goes out. There are ways to prevent it from being opened and examined, photosensitivity being the big one.
Crypto on a chip is more secure than crypto in a binary.
Changes are actually fairly swift. Look again at the second link I provided. We just happen to live during a 'growth spurt' for temperatures. Same thing happened at the end of the last Ice Age.
A fast scan of the articles shows nothing to dispute the validity of the Vostok ice core, or the conclusion I drew from it.
As far as difficulty adapting to the temperature changes goes, I'm going to say "Good." People innovate to increase luxury, but nearly so well as they innovate to prevent discomfort. Besides, nature's going to keep adjusting to changing conditions. All the other crap environmentalists worry about global warming for is a non-issue. The only real issue is how it will affect people, and people are really good at keeping the status quo from dropping. We'll figure out whatever we need to.
I have one simple question about this whole 'Global Warming will kill us all and is the work of the devil' debate.
/ vostok/vostok_data.htmlc o2.gif
What's the right temperature?
Was it when we had sheets of ice covering 50% of the earth's surface? Was it when Vikings were setting up farming communities on Iceland?
The Vostok ice core seems to show a cyclical C02 level, with spikes at approximately 400 thousand years ago, 325 thousand years ago, 225 thousand years ago, 125 thousand years ago, and one that we're in the middle of. When compared with these time scales, looking at levels in times we can directly measure is as useless as picking a random 1 minute period to watch the stock market, and using that to predict market trends for the next 20 years. We cannot demonstrate that industry is causing this 'problem' because, not only do we have no direct readings from before industry, we don't actually know that there's a problem. This could easily be all natural.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/graphics/vostok.
Or a Bratislavian.
"A nickle! Now I'll start my own hotel chain!"
I recently learned that a penis at least 2 standard deviations shorter than the average is called a micropenis. How cruel is that?
"...wasting their childhood fighting Nazi Germany..."
What the hell, man? I know all war is supposed to be bad these days, but I had a grandfather who fought Nazi Germany. My other grandfather was in the Pacific. Neither of them have ever stated that that wasn't the right place for them to be.
Wasting is the wrong word there.
If 'they can't fix bugs fast enough,' more pressure will not help. It will hurt.
Fixing bugs costs money.
Saying 'Company X has all these exploitable bugs' will cost Company X money, in stock price dropping, fewer consumers, etc.
Thus, exposing exploits can slow down the bug correction process by moving resources away from doing bug corrections. Bonus points if they lose enough money that they have to fire one of the code guys, and he takes a list of unpatched bugs with him when he goes.
Now, you're pushing users to a more secure platform, which sounds like a good thing until you realize that you're creating a monoculture. There is no perfect code, so every platform, regardless of security level, will be vulnerable. Now, they're all vulnerable to the same thing, and you're one 0-day away from tech-hell.
Generally, the accused but innocent don't take off. They stay in the state like they're supposed to, they show up to their trial, and then they most often get acquitted. Violating bail is, in fact, a crime, so a bail jumper is a criminal, regardless of whether or not he's guilty of the crime he put up bail for.
How many numbers are there between 3 and 4?
Now, how many of those numbers are 7?
Infinite possibilities and all possibilities are very different things.
Hey, remember hearing about those sonic bandages that can cause clotting? Those'll show up in the civilian market too. Of course the DoD isn't going to care about cancer, but there's plenty of stuff related to saving a soldier's life or getting said soldier back on the field faster that we can use on the outside too.
As far as more accurate rifles go, I wasn't trying to call that a major benefit, I was trying to show that there is very little that won't trickle down, even weapons will. My father has a 30.06 for deer, and that's the rifle used by army and marines snipers in Vietnam.
Again, I'm for the increase in R&D spending, not cranking out tanks and guns. The Manhattan Project are pretty much the only ones to deserve credit for nuclear power plants. Why shouldn't another one figure out that pesky fusion problem that's been plaguing the Navy? There are a lot of advances in R&D that will be made faster by the application of unimaginable resources.
In Rodina, names take you!
Personally, I'd rather see nearly out of control spending in defense R&D. Pretty much everything Defense has will trickle down. More accurate rifles go to hunters, better communications goes to everyone, better explosive compounds go to industry, better vehicles go to everyone, and the raw science developed makes all sorts of awesome stuff possible. Medicine, power, the works.
Defense has the money to spend and the motivation to spend it. I'd personally like to see more government sponsored think tanks like the Manhattan Project.