While I do agree with you in that the privacy of a person should not be negotiable, people do it all the time! They're known as stars, primarily out of Hollywood, CA. Once a person makes it big on TV, film or in music, they have effectively 0% privacy. They know this going in - and some actually enjoy that and get famous because if their publicity. So, maybe for those accepting the ToS, it might be worthwhile to them. But for me? Not at all.
I am not a fan of FB or MS, and only have a fake MS account (set up in my friends honor). But G+ I like. Like I said before, the big G is getting an awful lot of our info together, but the tradeoff is having everything seamlessly connected.
They're still working out the bugs, but I'm getting the hang of it and really like it... I especially like that I can filter the incoming flow of spam some people throw up. 1 person was drowning out everyone else by the number of posts they had lol.
You're very right about that... I was interviewing at a place that does custom spas and kitchens.... and everything went great, they took me up to a board room and I met some more people. Was loving it! Sounded like a tight knit family operation... until they started asking what I liked to do on my "off time." I explained I like music and art etc etc and they kept pushing at "what else?" lol Eventually, I understood it to be what do you do on Sunday (they were very discrete). So after I got the hint, and I could say it's fairly obvious they were Christian, I didn't believe they had to know what I believed in, so of course I didn't share. And needless to say, I didn't get the job. My religious beliefs should not be the deciding factor for my employment.
While I was abroad, I found it very interesting that back in the U.S., I didn't hear about U.S. Solders being killed in "The Wars." But abroad I heard about it all the time on the news. Although I knew that the media in the U.S. is fairly "censored" (not comparable to other countries such as N. Korea or China), it was amazing how much they were really keeping from us (regarding the war).
More recently, the story about the ATF sending weapons to Latin America - though it is still a "developing story," trying to find images of the heavy weapons confiscated has seemed difficult to obtain! But on the Spanish speaking news mediums, they have plenty of footage of just this! Why don't we get to see the same thing? We get shown the "new rifles sold in mass quantities by legit stores" but not the heavy anti armor and vehicle mounted weapons that you just can not buy from stores.
So while this at a glance might not seem as a story for nerds, it is appreciated by nerds... soon enough we'll learn about the specific bomb type and mechanism that was used and we'll discuss many things about that. But don't disregard it just because on the front page news it's "only a human tragedy/act of terrorism."
I think the real appeal of iPods are to kids without phones yet. I know a few who have the touch because it has wifi and they think it's great! But I agree with OP, I have an HTC Evo 3D and why would I carry a dedicated mp3 player? 1) I've never owned an iPod (for many reasons), 2) I run sub sonic which does a lot more than any ipod/phone could ever do. So there's absolutely 0% need for an ipod. Also, I'm able to replace my battery, even buy an extended battery pack. Zero advantage to ipod/iphone.
You hit the nail on its head: "it isn't subsidising it either"
From my conversations with others and general internet reading, other countries have been reprocessing their 'spent fuel/waste' and using it over again. In some discussions the reasons for lack of space (for storage) has come up as a primary reason of why they do it. And why they don't do it here in the U.S.A. is because of cost - it's much cheaper to just set it and "forget it" than process it which costs money. It's such a shame that it has been like this in the U.S.A.
Definitely check out the book, it's great! Makes me wish I was in a position to do what he did (sure it took a lot of time and back then, a lot of physical effort (running around checking his equipment)) but would surely be satisfying to come to the end he did. I don't know about you guys, but one I finished reading the book, I started going through my logs! FreeBSD forever!
You're right, spam will come back once other avenues of attack are no longer of viable. There are still several ways I can think of that spam can easily get past the filters (I was inspired by the company I work for - they miss some spam that is very questionably border line legit). As long as the spammers don't know think of those things we're good! Spam filters have come a long way!
I like this idea. How do we suggest it to the powers that be? Really, everything should run in a sandbox as long as its from external media until moved onto the hdd. Then, most things there should be run in their own sandbox as well.
I foresee a little problem with your plan, that all USB drives would be banned lol. So lets not take it that way eh? But you're right to not even trust something new in packaging, since the factory could be the source of infections.
maybe we're going about this all wrong. Lets start dropping USB devices (not limited to flash memory sticks) that disable key functions of PCs. Some could disable video, others sound and keyboard. When users start calling IT because of problems, it'll quickly be found out that the cause is because someone plugged in something they shouldn't have. It's both non-destructive and a learning experience. What do you think?
That is right, America is the land of the free... to be capitalists! Take your communist ideas of "sharing your netflix with people within your immediate family (social network)" and rightfully place them under the Patriot Act, where they belong, you terrorist! First you just want to "share your movies and music" like when VHS and cassette tapes existed, ultimately you'll want to spread your communist manifesto! Please take these "radical ideas" of freedom = equality, because WE believe that you only deserve what you work for, and if that means you have to pay for each song you listen to on the radio, then that's the way *it should be*.
You would crash it in a suburb, or near a city. And, even so, the panic wouldn't last very long--because a quick autopsy would reveal the "alien" pilots to be human almost immediately.
I think crashing it into a big city would cause an undesired side affect - setting off an entire nation and gaining further support for mass armament.
So here's what I would do, besides using a font straight out of predator for everything, I would basically finish the job on the inside that was started on the outside of the 'freaky pilots.' Throw in some komodo dragon parts, maybe an ostrich gizzard or two, and for good measure, an elephant's trunk. That'll do something! (oh and take out all of the human body parts). Sure, there are other things to take into consideration - how to get the 'ufo' there in the first place. But i'm sure that's easy when compared to the 'rest of the mission.'
Don't forget that both they and us had no limits to stop whatever crazy ideas we had to one up each other. And remember, Area 51 'officially, doesn't exist.'
hey, i'm a PC and check the md5 of every file i download against that posted on the software page. I learned that from a little problem with irssi a while back http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4831/discuss
You said it, "International." It doesn't belong to any one entity. So if the Russians were to refuse shuttling for us, we could always go with someone else. That's the idea, so no one country and shut it down for their strategic use.
I agree. Why couldn't we? We don't need to build a huge 'space port,' we can build something that is sufficiently large enough to get it done. We can ship up parts and assemble while docked or in a 'port.' It'd be lego assembly easy.
@wyatt
Everything has to be sent up anyways, but why try to send anything up in its entirety every time? That's where the station could really shine!
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While I do agree with you in that the privacy of a person should not be negotiable, people do it all the time! They're known as stars, primarily out of Hollywood, CA. Once a person makes it big on TV, film or in music, they have effectively 0% privacy. They know this going in - and some actually enjoy that and get famous because if their publicity. So, maybe for those accepting the ToS, it might be worthwhile to them. But for me? Not at all.
I am not a fan of FB or MS, and only have a fake MS account (set up in my friends honor). But G+ I like. Like I said before, the big G is getting an awful lot of our info together, but the tradeoff is having everything seamlessly connected.
They're still working out the bugs, but I'm getting the hang of it and really like it... I especially like that I can filter the incoming flow of spam some people throw up. 1 person was drowning out everyone else by the number of posts they had lol.
i don't think it's very common... lol but it was south of Rancho Cucamonga.
Yeah I don't know where these guys are at, but just taking a look at the "nearby" entries, there are some hotties (chicks) on there!
You're very right about that... I was interviewing at a place that does custom spas and kitchens.... and everything went great, they took me up to a board room and I met some more people. Was loving it! Sounded like a tight knit family operation... until they started asking what I liked to do on my "off time." I explained I like music and art etc etc and they kept pushing at "what else?" lol Eventually, I understood it to be what do you do on Sunday (they were very discrete). So after I got the hint, and I could say it's fairly obvious they were Christian, I didn't believe they had to know what I believed in, so of course I didn't share. And needless to say, I didn't get the job. My religious beliefs should not be the deciding factor for my employment.
While I was abroad, I found it very interesting that back in the U.S., I didn't hear about U.S. Solders being killed in "The Wars." But abroad I heard about it all the time on the news. Although I knew that the media in the U.S. is fairly "censored" (not comparable to other countries such as N. Korea or China), it was amazing how much they were really keeping from us (regarding the war).
More recently, the story about the ATF sending weapons to Latin America - though it is still a "developing story," trying to find images of the heavy weapons confiscated has seemed difficult to obtain! But on the Spanish speaking news mediums, they have plenty of footage of just this! Why don't we get to see the same thing? We get shown the "new rifles sold in mass quantities by legit stores" but not the heavy anti armor and vehicle mounted weapons that you just can not buy from stores.
So while this at a glance might not seem as a story for nerds, it is appreciated by nerds... soon enough we'll learn about the specific bomb type and mechanism that was used and we'll discuss many things about that. But don't disregard it just because on the front page news it's "only a human tragedy/act of terrorism."
1up! I know I fall at least into 2 of those categories!
Oh, I thought THIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuqV1EaM8TE was the way to go... it even comes with "life like sounds!"
I run 7 on an 2003 sony POS vaio with a p4 2.4ghz 512MB ram and 16MB video. Only upgrade possible is HDD, and it has a 7200. It runs ok! No lie!
I think the real appeal of iPods are to kids without phones yet. I know a few who have the touch because it has wifi and they think it's great! But I agree with OP, I have an HTC Evo 3D and why would I carry a dedicated mp3 player? 1) I've never owned an iPod (for many reasons), 2) I run sub sonic which does a lot more than any ipod/phone could ever do. So there's absolutely 0% need for an ipod. Also, I'm able to replace my battery, even buy an extended battery pack. Zero advantage to ipod/iphone.
You hit the nail on its head: "it isn't subsidising it either"
From my conversations with others and general internet reading, other countries have been reprocessing their 'spent fuel/waste' and using it over again. In some discussions the reasons for lack of space (for storage) has come up as a primary reason of why they do it. And why they don't do it here in the U.S.A. is because of cost - it's much cheaper to just set it and "forget it" than process it which costs money. It's such a shame that it has been like this in the U.S.A.
Definitely check out the book, it's great! Makes me wish I was in a position to do what he did (sure it took a lot of time and back then, a lot of physical effort (running around checking his equipment)) but would surely be satisfying to come to the end he did. I don't know about you guys, but one I finished reading the book, I started going through my logs! FreeBSD forever!
You're right, spam will come back once other avenues of attack are no longer of viable. There are still several ways I can think of that spam can easily get past the filters (I was inspired by the company I work for - they miss some spam that is very questionably border line legit). As long as the spammers don't know think of those things we're good! Spam filters have come a long way!
I like this idea. How do we suggest it to the powers that be? Really, everything should run in a sandbox as long as its from external media until moved onto the hdd. Then, most things there should be run in their own sandbox as well.
I foresee a little problem with your plan, that all USB drives would be banned lol. So lets not take it that way eh? But you're right to not even trust something new in packaging, since the factory could be the source of infections.
maybe we're going about this all wrong. Lets start dropping USB devices (not limited to flash memory sticks) that disable key functions of PCs. Some could disable video, others sound and keyboard. When users start calling IT because of problems, it'll quickly be found out that the cause is because someone plugged in something they shouldn't have. It's both non-destructive and a learning experience. What do you think?
1up! I just started playing super mario sunshine (on the wii) and i'm at the part where she was kidnapped! So extra funny to me
my error page IS my homepage! check it out http://ghettobsd.org/slashdot
Now that's Top Fun!
That is right, America is the land of the free... to be capitalists! Take your communist ideas of "sharing your netflix with people within your immediate family (social network)" and rightfully place them under the Patriot Act, where they belong, you terrorist! First you just want to "share your movies and music" like when VHS and cassette tapes existed, ultimately you'll want to spread your communist manifesto! Please take these "radical ideas" of freedom = equality, because WE believe that you only deserve what you work for, and if that means you have to pay for each song you listen to on the radio, then that's the way *it should be*.
You know, you make a very valid point:
You would crash it in a suburb, or near a city. And, even so, the panic wouldn't last very long--because a quick autopsy would reveal the "alien" pilots to be human almost immediately.
I think crashing it into a big city would cause an undesired side affect - setting off an entire nation and gaining further support for mass armament.
So here's what I would do, besides using a font straight out of predator for everything, I would basically finish the job on the inside that was started on the outside of the 'freaky pilots.' Throw in some komodo dragon parts, maybe an ostrich gizzard or two, and for good measure, an elephant's trunk. That'll do something! (oh and take out all of the human body parts). Sure, there are other things to take into consideration - how to get the 'ufo' there in the first place. But i'm sure that's easy when compared to the 'rest of the mission.'
Don't forget that both they and us had no limits to stop whatever crazy ideas we had to one up each other. And remember, Area 51 'officially, doesn't exist.'
hey, i'm a PC and check the md5 of every file i download against that posted on the software page. I learned that from a little problem with irssi a while back http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4831/discuss
ladyboy keeps on going and going and going... i still laugh!
You said it, "International." It doesn't belong to any one entity. So if the Russians were to refuse shuttling for us, we could always go with someone else. That's the idea, so no one country and shut it down for their strategic use.
I agree. Why couldn't we? We don't need to build a huge 'space port,' we can build something that is sufficiently large enough to get it done. We can ship up parts and assemble while docked or in a 'port.' It'd be lego assembly easy.
@wyatt
Everything has to be sent up anyways, but why try to send anything up in its entirety every time? That's where the station could really shine!