So after someones been killed, and the killer found. Prosecuting him will return the victim to life?
Want to get rid of any chance that someone will kill you violently? Well, for that we're gonna need a police state, with surveillance cameras on every corner and RFID chips in every person.
Otherwise, deal with the fact that laws were designed to discourage crime, and provide an after-the-fact penalty for those who commit crimes anyways.
Since when does slashdot have enemies? Here I thought it was a news aggregation / discussion board site, but come to find out theres a list of those to be shunned?
This mentality illustrates how digg went down the drain, and why slashdot could easily end up there.
Seriously, his system is 13 years old. Either A) decide you can live with wine and get on a linux distro that still gets updates, or B) decide you really do need Windows and pony up the $100 so that we dont have to deal with your spambot infested box.
Seriously, he comes from a time when anyone posting to slashdot would know how to avoid malware vectors regardless of the system he runs. I'm sure he knows all of this..
Antivirus, firewalls, and "being clueful" will not protect you from viruses. There was a time when it would, and GP seems to be stuck in that time. These days, no-click 0-day exploits are all the rage, but lesser hacking rings rely on older exploits in the hope that people (like GP) neglect to patch regularly.
As for the internet being "dangerous" in 1998, no, not in the same way. You can find exploits straight off of Google depending on the day and query; ive had the top results for things like "frame relay cisco 1700" take me to attack sites. Big name sites like Facebook can infect you through their ad system. The days where you could just "stick to sites you know" are long, long gone, and the idea that you can just be clever and not run binaries off the web to stay safe is likewise outdated.
Its very hard to stop Windows form using IE in one way or another. Every now and then it pops up when hardcoded in some applications. But I've blocked it at the firewall so it's effectively neutered (I hope).
No, its not. Office and help files both use IE in varying capacities. But regardless, it would help if you were actually running a version of IE that wasnt horribly broken, slow, and vulnerable to viruses.
You think youre being clever and that somehow newer versions of windows are better, but as an IT consultant who deals with all too many virus issues, please just accept that out of date software is a really bad idea for anyone browsing the web. More than anything you might be protected by the fact that viruses are broken on Win2k.
For the record, infections tend to be quite rare on Win7, a bit more common on Vista, and quite common on XP. The infections ive seen tend to be INCREDIBLY hard to notice-- unless youre lucky and it happens to be one that does search redirection or something equally obvious. Things like creating hidden partitions in NTFS free space and patching the NTFS or ATAPI drivers, and modifying the bootsector to boot off of that hidden partition, which basically no antivirus is going to pick up if you install it post-infection.
Maybe having been online for over 20 years and never having a malware infection implies I actually have a clue
The fact that you think being "savvy" has anything to do with getting a virus-- as opposed to running woefully out of date, known vulnerable software-- shows that you do not.
Protip: 90% of virus attacks require no user interaction-- just out of date software.
As others have suggested, its probably a really really good idea for you to remove that plugin and just download the pdfs manually. The internet would collectively appreciate it if you didnt join the botnet.
Baloney, and doubly so that they picked silverlight over Java. Silverlight is used for precisely one website, and is updated (IIRC) through windows update. Java has its own BS updater, and is probably the most widely used malware vector.
I challenge you to find anyone on ANY end of the political spectrum who is opposed to the government caring for its military or NASA staff when they are injured on-duty. I seem to recall that the right stereotypically likes the military, so I think youll have no luck there.
Before attempting rocket propulsion, it is helpful to learn to walk. This research isnt dead-end, its just part of a very long path that gets us further into space.
Its already illegal to laser people in the face. His objection is pretty clearly to the idea that law abiding citizens should have fewer freedoms because we are for some bizarre reason unwilling to enforce the laws we have.
The solution to murder isnt to make going outside illegal, its to prosecute murder. The solution to pilots getting lasered isnt some ridiculous attempt to control every class 3 laser out there, its to prosecute people who insist on lasering pilots.
I have terrible news for you. Someone could walk into a room where you are on any particular day and kill you with a constitutionally protected firearm.
This is a free country. A free society has dangers inherent in it. Deal with it.
The light is already diffuse once it reaches the aircraft (one video claimed up to a foot diameter), so only a small amount of the original light would be reflected. That would further diffuse before getting back to the original target, which wouldnt be terribly effective.
Take a look a map of virginia (population density etc), and tell me exactly how you would put high speed rail in. All well and good in the NoVA area, but are you gonna lay tracks to Troutsville or Roanoke or Gloucester?
Sorry, high speed rail isnt the hammer for every nail.
I'm not convinced that such a freedom is constructive.
I fail to see how it could be freedom if you didnt have the option to choose "wrong". If in every situation you take the "wrong" choice away, what, exactly, do you have freedom to do?
Why? What's it to you? Good for the other guy if that's what he wants to do, but why do you care?
Because he was making a bad decision for years, and now hes not. But heres the thing-- one of the most important aspects of freedom is that it applies to good decisions AND bad decisions. If it didnt-- if you only had the "freedom" to make the "right decision", well, thats not freedom at all. It truly becomes a false dichotomy, because you really only have one choice (the Right Choice).
Thats because, as stupid as I think smoking is, part of "freedom" is someone's right to make ridiculously bad decisions for themselves.
I mean, if you want to remove all bad decisions from society, why, I think there are several dystopian novels and movies you can check out which show you what that looks like.
We are spending trillions on a war effort, instead of fixing the poor and starving problem
There basically isnt a "starving problem" in the US on any scale that could be remotely affected by a government problem. I think just shy of 20,000 people die of "exposure" or "malnutrition" per year in the US, and IIRC a good number of those die because they are old and unable to care for themselves. Its sad, but it also means they wouldnt be capable of requesting help from the government either.
Id also point that at 20,000, its a really really bad candidate for federal aid-- this is exactly the sort of thing you handle on a local level, so the areas that need it can handle it well rather than having a mediocre program across the nation.
And regardless, we ALREADY have programs in place for such situations. There are reasons people starve or die of exposure in the us, but "not enough government help" isnt one, not to mention the zillions of charity organizations which provide food and shelter.
Yes, it absolutely does with flash memory. This is a known issue-- just google the write endurance of 25nm flash vs 34nm.
Whether or not it is a sufficient difference to worry about is another issue-- but absolutely a 1GB flash stick will last longer on 34nm process than it would on 25nm process. Of course, that also ignores that smaller processes will generally have higher capacities, which causes the endurance of a particular cell to be less important.
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So after someones been killed, and the killer found. Prosecuting him will return the victim to life?
Want to get rid of any chance that someone will kill you violently? Well, for that we're gonna need a police state, with surveillance cameras on every corner and RFID chips in every person.
Otherwise, deal with the fact that laws were designed to discourage crime, and provide an after-the-fact penalty for those who commit crimes anyways.
TPB wasn't supposed to be making lots of money, right?
Are you for real? What do you think all of those zillions of ads on the site were for?
Since when does slashdot have enemies? Here I thought it was a news aggregation / discussion board site, but come to find out theres a list of those to be shunned?
This mentality illustrates how digg went down the drain, and why slashdot could easily end up there.
...And this is why we have a botnet problem.
Seriously, his system is 13 years old. Either A) decide you can live with wine and get on a linux distro that still gets updates, or B) decide you really do need Windows and pony up the $100 so that we dont have to deal with your spambot infested box.
Seriously, he comes from a time when anyone posting to slashdot would know how to avoid malware vectors regardless of the system he runs. I'm sure he knows all of this..
Antivirus, firewalls, and "being clueful" will not protect you from viruses. There was a time when it would, and GP seems to be stuck in that time. These days, no-click 0-day exploits are all the rage, but lesser hacking rings rely on older exploits in the hope that people (like GP) neglect to patch regularly.
As for the internet being "dangerous" in 1998, no, not in the same way. You can find exploits straight off of Google depending on the day and query; ive had the top results for things like "frame relay cisco 1700" take me to attack sites. Big name sites like Facebook can infect you through their ad system. The days where you could just "stick to sites you know" are long, long gone, and the idea that you can just be clever and not run binaries off the web to stay safe is likewise outdated.
windows vista/7 are clunky and bloated,
Better than being rootkitted.
Its very hard to stop Windows form using IE in one way or another. Every now and then it pops up when hardcoded in some applications. But I've blocked it at the firewall so it's effectively neutered (I hope).
No, its not. Office and help files both use IE in varying capacities. But regardless, it would help if you were actually running a version of IE that wasnt horribly broken, slow, and vulnerable to viruses.
You think youre being clever and that somehow newer versions of windows are better, but as an IT consultant who deals with all too many virus issues, please just accept that out of date software is a really bad idea for anyone browsing the web. More than anything you might be protected by the fact that viruses are broken on Win2k.
For the record, infections tend to be quite rare on Win7, a bit more common on Vista, and quite common on XP. The infections ive seen tend to be INCREDIBLY hard to notice-- unless youre lucky and it happens to be one that does search redirection or something equally obvious. Things like creating hidden partitions in NTFS free space and patching the NTFS or ATAPI drivers, and modifying the bootsector to boot off of that hidden partition, which basically no antivirus is going to pick up if you install it post-infection.
Maybe having been online for over 20 years and never having a malware infection implies I actually have a clue
The fact that you think being "savvy" has anything to do with getting a virus-- as opposed to running woefully out of date, known vulnerable software-- shows that you do not.
Protip: 90% of virus attacks require no user interaction-- just out of date software.
Enjoy your viruses.
As others have suggested, its probably a really really good idea for you to remove that plugin and just download the pdfs manually. The internet would collectively appreciate it if you didnt join the botnet.
Baloney, and doubly so that they picked silverlight over Java. Silverlight is used for precisely one website, and is updated (IIRC) through windows update. Java has its own BS updater, and is probably the most widely used malware vector.
Man, slashdot sure does like its strawmen.
I challenge you to find anyone on ANY end of the political spectrum who is opposed to the government caring for its military or NASA staff when they are injured on-duty. I seem to recall that the right stereotypically likes the military, so I think youll have no luck there.
Before attempting rocket propulsion, it is helpful to learn to walk. This research isnt dead-end, its just part of a very long path that gets us further into space.
Its already illegal to laser people in the face. His objection is pretty clearly to the idea that law abiding citizens should have fewer freedoms because we are for some bizarre reason unwilling to enforce the laws we have.
The solution to murder isnt to make going outside illegal, its to prosecute murder. The solution to pilots getting lasered isnt some ridiculous attempt to control every class 3 laser out there, its to prosecute people who insist on lasering pilots.
I have terrible news for you. Someone could walk into a room where you are on any particular day and kill you with a constitutionally protected firearm.
This is a free country. A free society has dangers inherent in it. Deal with it.
The light is already diffuse once it reaches the aircraft (one video claimed up to a foot diameter), so only a small amount of the original light would be reflected. That would further diffuse before getting back to the original target, which wouldnt be terribly effective.
Ok. Great. But we still need highways, contrary to what the article seems to think.
Take a look a map of virginia (population density etc), and tell me exactly how you would put high speed rail in. All well and good in the NoVA area, but are you gonna lay tracks to Troutsville or Roanoke or Gloucester?
Sorry, high speed rail isnt the hammer for every nail.
I don't need anyone to protect me from myself, thanks.
If you read my post, that was my entire point. But clearly GP agrees that it was a bad decision, because he quit.
I'm not convinced that such a freedom is constructive.
I fail to see how it could be freedom if you didnt have the option to choose "wrong". If in every situation you take the "wrong" choice away, what, exactly, do you have freedom to do?
The theory of spending for much of the past decade has been that giving money away is wrong,
Its not wrong, its just an incredibly bad idea to do charity at governmental level on a large scale. You generally just make the problem worse.
Why? What's it to you? Good for the other guy if that's what he wants to do, but why do you care?
Because he was making a bad decision for years, and now hes not. But heres the thing-- one of the most important aspects of freedom is that it applies to good decisions AND bad decisions. If it didnt-- if you only had the "freedom" to make the "right decision", well, thats not freedom at all. It truly becomes a false dichotomy, because you really only have one choice (the Right Choice).
Thats because, as stupid as I think smoking is, part of "freedom" is someone's right to make ridiculously bad decisions for themselves.
I mean, if you want to remove all bad decisions from society, why, I think there are several dystopian novels and movies you can check out which show you what that looks like.
We are spending trillions on a war effort, instead of fixing the poor and starving problem
There basically isnt a "starving problem" in the US on any scale that could be remotely affected by a government problem. I think just shy of 20,000 people die of "exposure" or "malnutrition" per year in the US, and IIRC a good number of those die because they are old and unable to care for themselves. Its sad, but it also means they wouldnt be capable of requesting help from the government either.
Id also point that at 20,000, its a really really bad candidate for federal aid-- this is exactly the sort of thing you handle on a local level, so the areas that need it can handle it well rather than having a mediocre program across the nation.
And regardless, we ALREADY have programs in place for such situations. There are reasons people starve or die of exposure in the us, but "not enough government help" isnt one, not to mention the zillions of charity organizations which provide food and shelter.
Yes, it absolutely does with flash memory. This is a known issue-- just google the write endurance of 25nm flash vs 34nm.
Whether or not it is a sufficient difference to worry about is another issue-- but absolutely a 1GB flash stick will last longer on 34nm process than it would on 25nm process. Of course, that also ignores that smaller processes will generally have higher capacities, which causes the endurance of a particular cell to be less important.
Can you show me where that republican candidate was doing that? If not, cut the non sequiturs, please.
Calling those nincompoops "teabaggers" is polite.
Here I had been taught name calling in general was puerile, immature, and generally not appropriate to the highest legislative body in the country.
I also recall that its considered a fallacy, but what do I know.