Came here to say exactly this. It seems that people need to be reminded of what François Marie Arouet (it's often attributed to Voltair) said:
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Whilst the violent reaction of fundamental muslims is disgraceful, I fully support their ability to sprout their views. If I didn't, then I couldn't support Charlie Hebdo et al to mock islam (along with judaism and christianity and everyone else). Take a positive look at it - by allowing them to air their views, we're making sure the world sees how pathetic they are, and allows us [with clear conscience] to say "they are utter disgraces as human beings".
Not really, he sounds like somebody who's realised that people will continue to flaunt the rules until there are consequences. He also sounds like he's decided that if people are going to ignore their supervisor about home routers, then you might as well fuck with them.
I do something similar in our office - we're essentially serviced offices, so underwriters bring in their own laptops. We don't block anything, apart from Bittorrent, not only because it's *my* name on our subnet whois, but also because it spams our firewall logs, which means tracing *actual* issues is a bitch. If I detect torrenting, I send out an email saying "someobody is torrenting, I don't know who it is yet, but rest assured, I will find you", their traffic then gets throttled to 128kb/s
Another time we had a guy who kept on setting up a static IP, after being told not to. My solution was to implement upside-down internet - transparent proxy that connection and flip all the images. Nowadays I'd be tempted to just inject "transform: rotate(180deg)" into the body tag's style.
What I would really like to see is muslim leaders publicly announcing that these and future terrorists will not be buried according to islam* - effectively telling fanatics "you terrorise people in the name of our religion - you are not a muslim, and you will not be allowed to enter paradise". Not that it will ever happen, but it's nice to dream sometimes.
I have to say that I would have preferred them alive. Had a discussion in work about this, a couple of guys said they didn't want them locked up as it would make martyrs of them (I think they got it the wrong way round). I argued that allowing them to die is giving them what they want* and that locking them up means that they'll spend the rest of their lives in prison looking over their shoulder. Quite frankly, I like the idea of terrorists living in fear and paranoia for the rest of their lives.
* It was argued that it was unlikely they wanted to die - that the desire to survive would take over - but what I've realised is that you simply cannot make the assumption that these fanatics think logically.
You can make the exact same argument about the varying factions including ISIS in Syria right now, so I'm not really sure what your point is unless you're implying we should apply double standards against Muslim conflicts as compared to Christian conflicts.
Yes, you could make the same argument about ISIS in Syria, but that's not what I was saying. Yesterday was about factions, it was about radical muslims killing infidels. What I'm saying is that when there are men killing journalists in cold blood and executing policemen in the street, while being heard to say "Allahu Akbar" and "we have avenged the prophet", then I think it's pretty safe to say that what happened in Paris yesterday was done in the name of religion.
He continues: “Why in this case did the French government allow the magazine Charlie Hebdo to continue to provoke Muslims, thereby placing the sanctity of its citizens at risk?”
It's a common mistake to look at the IRA murders, bombing, etc in a religious light - as you said, the sides were largely drawn across Catholic/Protestant lines, but what the IRA did was never in the name of religion, it was in the name of nationalism. Not that I'm defending what the IRA - as an Irishman, I never supported their methods, nor anyone else's violence.
The problem we have is that it's always pretty easy to find a Imam in the UK condoning and rationalising the methods used by Al Quada, ISIL (or whatever they want to call themselves). You'll struggle to find a priest or vicar in the UK rationalising the christian led cleansings that you've described.
I don't see many people claiming the christianity cleaned itself up perfectly since the crusades, but just compare these - List of Islamic terrorist attacks vs. Christian terrorism. The difference is that while christian terrorism is tapering off (you mentioned Guy Fawkes & the KKK), islamic terrorism is showing no such signs of slowing down (that list is just from the 1980s). I constantly hear christians whinging of how their views are being sidelined, so what, you're allowed to believe what you want. Likewise we're constantly told by bleeding hearts that young muslims are feeling oppressed because of criticism of islam - everyone's beliefs are criticised, it just that muslims appear to believe they're special and that they should be exempt.
Quite frankly, I don't care if people believe in god(s), just as long as they don't try making me live my life to conform with their views. I don't like my politicians talking about religion when it comes to policy, and I certainly don't like the idea of being killed because I drew a cartoon of a prophet.
It's like suing Toyota because Toyota used a Hilux in a ram raid.
FTFY
In this case the "artist" was the creator and operator, so yes they should be liable. They created the script to buy items in an area where it's possible to purchase illegal goods. They then proceeded to run it without verifying whether each item should actually be paid for (probably because it wouldn't be art if they did, or something).
If they had created the script, and somebody else (the operator) had decided to run it, then [like you said], the operator should be liable, not the creator.
Same here. Another thing to note is that the $5 I'm willing to pay unblock-us every month could go to Hollywood, but it turns out they don't want my money.
Nope - an annoyance that is minor because the problem is so temporary. Soon enough we'll use IPv6, and every virtual host will have its own address
I really wish that was true, but seeing as BT had to install a parallel leased line to provide IPv6 - luckily we didn't have to pay for it - I can't see consumer providers bothering their arses to upgrade anytime soon.
I use unblock-us, as suggested by a friend who in turn was directed to it by Netflix staff. The stupid thing is that I would be willing to pay Netflix an extra $5 a month to view [US only] programmes, which would in turn go to Hollywood. Instead I'm giving the money to a completely separate entity. It's another case of "I'm throwing money at my monitor, why won't you take it"
Oops, had meant to say that in my comment - that very few people will need the "endurance" - I completely agree. I have to admit that I got suckered into buying zero-oxygen-copper cables (it sounds good, doesn't it), until I decided to check what it actually meant - zilch!
If you're using IIS 7.5/8 there's this script for securing* it. Though it may lock out XP users (which probably isn't a bad thing) due to disabling RC4.
My office is on an old Halifax (WW2 bomber) airfield and we get RAF Pumas and Chinooks doing low (shakes the building low) level training over it. So when I built my quadcopter and was testing/tuning it, I double checked whether we are in a MATZ - it ends on pretty much over our office (though the chart is a small scale, so it' difficult to be precise), so I can fly up to a thousand feet (if I was stupid enough).
The problem is that I know what to lookup to work out if I'm flying safe or not, but most people wouldn't even have heard of a MATZ, even if they're aware that flying at the end of a runway at the word's busiest international airport is monumentally stupid.
What effect would that really have? http://www.northkoreatech.org/... It would screw up the rulers, and possibly the military. However, seeing as most of the aircraft they "fly" are still using vacuum tubes, they're fairly well EMP hardened. It's probably safe to say that a lot of their military equipment is EMP hardened by virtue of using obsolete* technologies.
* I'm sure somebody will say that vacuum tubes aren't obsolete.
That's an outrageous accusation - how dare you suggest that he's not supporting the organisation he's a director for (the Motion Picture Licensing Co - MPLC)
During cold weather the ignition timing on my car is out and makes is idle rough until I "reboot" it. I've replaced the cam and crank sensors, but it hasn't made a difference. It's not the MAF sensor, and when it's running rough my ODB reader says the ignition is retarded by about 10deg. I'm thinking of replacing the VANOS solenoids next, is this the correct course of action.
Well, lets see: 1. The title is "Severe crash on motorway in Belgium - E40 Bruges" - so, not in Germany, not unless you count a brief period 70 years ago. 2. Unsure of nationality of car - can't see the number plate, and the resolution isn't high enough to see if there are the distinctive German discs (emissions and state seal) 3. Even if the driver was German, you're expanding one instance to encompass an entire population. Every country has idiot drivers, I've seen some horrific driving in Germany, and their traffic jams (Stau) are second to none. As a child on holiday in Germany, we used to dread seeing a banner saying "Stau" hanging on an autobahn bridge. In fact, I've seen horrific driving in every country I've driven in.
However, according to this, 11.6 people per 100,000 in the USA were a road fatality, compared to Germany's 4.3 per 100,000. UK & Ireland were slightly lower (both 3.5 per 100,000).
Shit, I didn't think of it like that - I've gone from laughing at these idiots to realising that part of my country's* population are a punch line. Next time I hear somebody over here talk about "Stupid Americans" - I'm going to point them to this article.
* A non-card carrying British resident, but my English brother-in-law described me as being more English than he is.
Frustrated with not being able to buy a Blaupunkt 40” TV reduced from £299.99 to £149.99, Haggerty rushed to pick up a Dyson Animal Vac, down from £319.99 to £159.99. “I don’t even know how much it costs, I don’t know even know if I’m going to buy it. I just wanted something,” she said. “There are lads in there three, four, five tellies. It’s not fair.”
One of those lads was Andy Blackett, 30, an estate agent, who had two trolleys full of bargains. “I got two coffee makers, two tablets, two TVs and a stereo,” he said. “I couldn’t tell you the prices, but I know they’re bargains.”
There was one model of car in Europe that was completely drive-by-wire. Of course, when the computer on that glitched, it caused wrecks, and there was nothing the driver could do, as steering was physically disconnected from the wheel, same with brakes.
Try is - Infiniti Q50 - a friend had one as loaner for his FX30d and I got to take it for a spin. Fantastic car to drive, and insanely quick acceleration. The other nice thing was that when you hit a bump you got just enough feedback to tell you that you've hit a bump. You get the responsive steering without any annoying juddering (the roads where I am are horrific, and it feels like my run-flats are flat).
Not sure what car you're alluding to, or even if you're just making it up - which I guess you are - as I can find no mention of wrecks caused by a fly-by-wire car. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
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Came here to say exactly this. It seems that people need to be reminded of what François Marie Arouet (it's often attributed to Voltair) said:
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Whilst the violent reaction of fundamental muslims is disgraceful, I fully support their ability to sprout their views. If I didn't, then I couldn't support Charlie Hebdo et al to mock islam (along with judaism and christianity and everyone else). Take a positive look at it - by allowing them to air their views, we're making sure the world sees how pathetic they are, and allows us [with clear conscience] to say "they are utter disgraces as human beings".
Come on, a WRT54g apparently supports up to 253 clients, they'd need at least two or three.
Not really, he sounds like somebody who's realised that people will continue to flaunt the rules until there are consequences. He also sounds like he's decided that if people are going to ignore their supervisor about home routers, then you might as well fuck with them.
I do something similar in our office - we're essentially serviced offices, so underwriters bring in their own laptops. We don't block anything, apart from Bittorrent, not only because it's *my* name on our subnet whois, but also because it spams our firewall logs, which means tracing *actual* issues is a bitch. If I detect torrenting, I send out an email saying "someobody is torrenting, I don't know who it is yet, but rest assured, I will find you", their traffic then gets throttled to 128kb/s
Another time we had a guy who kept on setting up a static IP, after being told not to. My solution was to implement upside-down internet - transparent proxy that connection and flip all the images. Nowadays I'd be tempted to just inject "transform: rotate(180deg)" into the body tag's style.
Being a sysadmin doesn't mean you can't have fun.
What I would really like to see is muslim leaders publicly announcing that these and future terrorists will not be buried according to islam* - effectively telling fanatics "you terrorise people in the name of our religion - you are not a muslim, and you will not be allowed to enter paradise". Not that it will ever happen, but it's nice to dream sometimes.
* Cremation would probably be the ultimate insult
You know, I wouldn't have believed it unless I'd seen it with my own eyes - an AC quote mining!
I have to say that I would have preferred them alive. Had a discussion in work about this, a couple of guys said they didn't want them locked up as it would make martyrs of them (I think they got it the wrong way round). I argued that allowing them to die is giving them what they want* and that locking them up means that they'll spend the rest of their lives in prison looking over their shoulder. Quite frankly, I like the idea of terrorists living in fear and paranoia for the rest of their lives.
* It was argued that it was unlikely they wanted to die - that the desire to survive would take over - but what I've realised is that you simply cannot make the assumption that these fanatics think logically.
Damn it, that should have read
Yesterday was not about factions
You can make the exact same argument about the varying factions including ISIS in Syria right now, so I'm not really sure what your point is unless you're implying we should apply double standards against Muslim conflicts as compared to Christian conflicts.
Yes, you could make the same argument about ISIS in Syria, but that's not what I was saying. Yesterday was about factions, it was about radical muslims killing infidels. What I'm saying is that when there are men killing journalists in cold blood and executing policemen in the street, while being heard to say "Allahu Akbar" and "we have avenged the prophet", then I think it's pretty safe to say that what happened in Paris yesterday was done in the name of religion.
In fact, to support my comment that "the problem we have is that it's always pretty easy to find a Imam in the UK condoning and rationalising the methods used..." I present to you Anjem Choudary on Paris shooting: 'Muslims do not believe in freedom of expression':
He continues: “Why in this case did the French government allow the magazine Charlie Hebdo to continue to provoke Muslims, thereby placing the sanctity of its citizens at risk?”
It's a common mistake to look at the IRA murders, bombing, etc in a religious light - as you said, the sides were largely drawn across Catholic/Protestant lines, but what the IRA did was never in the name of religion, it was in the name of nationalism. Not that I'm defending what the IRA - as an Irishman, I never supported their methods, nor anyone else's violence.
The problem we have is that it's always pretty easy to find a Imam in the UK condoning and rationalising the methods used by Al Quada, ISIL (or whatever they want to call themselves). You'll struggle to find a priest or vicar in the UK rationalising the christian led cleansings that you've described.
I don't see many people claiming the christianity cleaned itself up perfectly since the crusades, but just compare these - List of Islamic terrorist attacks vs. Christian terrorism. The difference is that while christian terrorism is tapering off (you mentioned Guy Fawkes & the KKK), islamic terrorism is showing no such signs of slowing down (that list is just from the 1980s). I constantly hear christians whinging of how their views are being sidelined, so what, you're allowed to believe what you want. Likewise we're constantly told by bleeding hearts that young muslims are feeling oppressed because of criticism of islam - everyone's beliefs are criticised, it just that muslims appear to believe they're special and that they should be exempt.
Quite frankly, I don't care if people believe in god(s), just as long as they don't try making me live my life to conform with their views. I don't like my politicians talking about religion when it comes to policy, and I certainly don't like the idea of being killed because I drew a cartoon of a prophet.
It's like suing Toyota because Toyota used a Hilux in a ram raid.
FTFY
In this case the "artist" was the creator and operator, so yes they should be liable. They created the script to buy items in an area where it's possible to purchase illegal goods. They then proceeded to run it without verifying whether each item should actually be paid for (probably because it wouldn't be art if they did, or something).
If they had created the script, and somebody else (the operator) had decided to run it, then [like you said], the operator should be liable, not the creator.
Same here. Another thing to note is that the $5 I'm willing to pay unblock-us every month could go to Hollywood, but it turns out they don't want my money.
Nope - an annoyance that is minor because the problem is so temporary. Soon enough we'll use IPv6, and every virtual host will have its own address
I really wish that was true, but seeing as BT had to install a parallel leased line to provide IPv6 - luckily we didn't have to pay for it - I can't see consumer providers bothering their arses to upgrade anytime soon.
I use unblock-us, as suggested by a friend who in turn was directed to it by Netflix staff. The stupid thing is that I would be willing to pay Netflix an extra $5 a month to view [US only] programmes, which would in turn go to Hollywood. Instead I'm giving the money to a completely separate entity. It's another case of "I'm throwing money at my monitor, why won't you take it"
Oops, had meant to say that in my comment - that very few people will need the "endurance" - I completely agree. I have to admit that I got suckered into buying zero-oxygen-copper cables (it sounds good, doesn't it), until I decided to check what it actually meant - zilch!
My understanding was that oxygen free copper is supposed to more fatigue tolerant so that it gives better plug-unplug endurance, not better sound.
+1 Depressing
If you're using IIS 7.5/8 there's this script for securing* it. Though it may lock out XP users (which probably isn't a bad thing) due to disabling RC4.
* You there in the back, stop laughing.
... just because some juvenile asshat gets his kicks playing with his toy near a flight path.
Like this dickhead - literally over the road from a London Heathrow runway.
My office is on an old Halifax (WW2 bomber) airfield and we get RAF Pumas and Chinooks doing low (shakes the building low) level training over it. So when I built my quadcopter and was testing/tuning it, I double checked whether we are in a MATZ - it ends on pretty much over our office (though the chart is a small scale, so it' difficult to be precise), so I can fly up to a thousand feet (if I was stupid enough).
The problem is that I know what to lookup to work out if I'm flying safe or not, but most people wouldn't even have heard of a MATZ, even if they're aware that flying at the end of a runway at the word's busiest international airport is monumentally stupid.
What effect would that really have? http://www.northkoreatech.org/...
It would screw up the rulers, and possibly the military. However, seeing as most of the aircraft they "fly" are still using vacuum tubes, they're fairly well EMP hardened. It's probably safe to say that a lot of their military equipment is EMP hardened by virtue of using obsolete* technologies.
* I'm sure somebody will say that vacuum tubes aren't obsolete.
That's an outrageous accusation - how dare you suggest that he's not supporting the organisation he's a director for (the Motion Picture Licensing Co - MPLC)
Dear BMW,
During cold weather the ignition timing on my car is out and makes is idle rough until I "reboot" it. I've replaced the cam and crank sensors, but it hasn't made a difference. It's not the MAF sensor, and when it's running rough my ODB reader says the ignition is retarded by about 10deg. I'm thinking of replacing the VANOS solenoids next, is this the correct course of action.
ps. I also asked this question on http://forum.kerbalspaceprogra... but didn't get a reply, why not?
Well, lets see:
1. The title is "Severe crash on motorway in Belgium - E40 Bruges" - so, not in Germany, not unless you count a brief period 70 years ago.
2. Unsure of nationality of car - can't see the number plate, and the resolution isn't high enough to see if there are the distinctive German discs (emissions and state seal)
3. Even if the driver was German, you're expanding one instance to encompass an entire population. Every country has idiot drivers, I've seen some horrific driving in Germany, and their traffic jams (Stau) are second to none. As a child on holiday in Germany, we used to dread seeing a banner saying "Stau" hanging on an autobahn bridge. In fact, I've seen horrific driving in every country I've driven in.
However, according to this, 11.6 people per 100,000 in the USA were a road fatality, compared to Germany's 4.3 per 100,000. UK & Ireland were slightly lower (both 3.5 per 100,000).
Shit, I didn't think of it like that - I've gone from laughing at these idiots to realising that part of my country's* population are a punch line. Next time I hear somebody over here talk about "Stupid Americans" - I'm going to point them to this article.
* A non-card carrying British resident, but my English brother-in-law described me as being more English than he is.
It's only a bargain if you actually need it - not my words, but I did think along the same lines when I was watching the mayhem.
Black Friday scuffles: 'I got a Dyson but I don’t even know if I want it'
Frustrated with not being able to buy a Blaupunkt 40” TV reduced from £299.99 to £149.99, Haggerty rushed to pick up a Dyson Animal Vac, down from £319.99 to £159.99. “I don’t even know how much it costs, I don’t know even know if I’m going to buy it. I just wanted something,” she said. “There are lads in there three, four, five tellies. It’s not fair.”
One of those lads was Andy Blackett, 30, an estate agent, who had two trolleys full of bargains. “I got two coffee makers, two tablets, two TVs and a stereo,” he said. “I couldn’t tell you the prices, but I know they’re bargains.”
Makes me proud of the country I live in.
There was one model of car in Europe that was completely drive-by-wire. Of course, when the computer on that glitched, it caused wrecks, and there was nothing the driver could do, as steering was physically disconnected from the wheel, same with brakes.
Try is - Infiniti Q50 - a friend had one as loaner for his FX30d and I got to take it for a spin. Fantastic car to drive, and insanely quick acceleration. The other nice thing was that when you hit a bump you got just enough feedback to tell you that you've hit a bump. You get the responsive steering without any annoying juddering (the roads where I am are horrific, and it feels like my run-flats are flat).
Not sure what car you're alluding to, or even if you're just making it up - which I guess you are - as I can find no mention of wrecks caused by a fly-by-wire car. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.