We are constantly bombarded with radiation across the EM spectrum, from visible light to infra red (which we, ourselves, emit) to ultraviolet to radio. I think its fair for the judge to say "show me proof that we're all slowly getting cancer from radio waves".
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
India, North Korea, basically all of Africa, Russia, huge chunks of China, many other places in Asia. Id say we're a good chunk of the way to 90%. Certainly people in the US are among the top 5% in terms of quality of life and wealth.
* Left home voluntarily to speak with probation officials * Nakoula not under arrest and not handcuffed * Use of aliases, Internet may violate prison release terms
Try again, troll. Trying to conflate probation violation and theocratic laws was a good try tho.
To say that the individual has the right to decide on EACH law whether it should apply to them is an equally slippery slope that leads to anarchy. Common sense is required, and common sense is being lost when someone compares laws over wire fraud to the holocaust.
You raised us. We watched you speed, fail to yield.
Im part of the generation. Ive broken my share of laws "because I felt like it", and I think my attempts to justify it were weak.
You accuse me of a lot of vague things, and Im not clear how I could even pin those on my parent's generation. Having to sign a contract with an ISP is not some violation of rights. Not having good textbooks at school is perhaps a symptom of a system with weak competition.
Having to take out a large student loan is probably your fault; I got thru and am going thru school without an inkling of debt, because I didnt decide to go for an English Lit degree from Yale or Georgetown and saddle myself with 300k worth of debt. If you cared to make the effort, there are MANY states where establishing residency will get you incredibly good rates on school. Virgina, for one, has some of the best schools in the country at around $500 per credit hour (UVA, VA Tech, JMU, GMU, etc). This is another big gripe I have with my peers that seem so ready to blame everyone else for poor decisions. If you want to take a risk on huge debt for that law degree, thats your choice-- but when that risk falls thru, its not society that is the problem.
It isn't anarchy to reject institutionalized serfdom.
We live in a country with incredible opportunities and freedom. More than 90% of the world would give anything to live in a country where there is some semblance of the stability, freedom, and protections of law that we enjoy here. Ignoring the laws we have because "copyright sucks" doesnt increase that stability, it chips away at its corners. This attitude would throw everything away if it could because of a few insignificant bad laws on the books. I utterly reject that attitude as shortsighted and ignorant.
I don't care if I don't have to bake my bread in your oven and grind my grain on your mill anymore -- you've thoroughly enslaved the world to your dollar,
Im 28 years old, and I disagree in the strongest terms. You assume far too much.
and the 'civilization' you've built such that it isn't even economically viable to survive without partaking of the evils you've voted in.
Somehow Im surviving without partaking in the evils you seem to assume I am.
But I guess I'm free to move to Somalia if I don't like law right?
Or you could vote, like a responsible member of society.
Not if you do it by whitelist, and your network is set up properly. Wrong MAC address? The switch ignores all of your datagrams (including arp requests). MAC address is changing rapidly? Shut the port down and throw a warning.
Its primarily ineffective with Wifi, because IIRC you can see everyone else's MAC, and you can make a reasonable guess about who is authenticated against which SSID. The WAP doesnt control what data you can see, whereas with a wired connection the switch does (thats the entire point of a switch vs a hub).
On a network that has a moderate degree of security, thats sufficient to trigger IDS and block your network access. Its not exactly difficult for networking gear to notice that one port is cycling through MACs, and cut you off.
Off topic, but one wonders why they werent using port-security if they intended to filter by MAC. Guy changes MAC a few times, boom-- switchport shuts down. Bonus: Now the head of IT knows youre spoofing MACs, and what switchport youre on.
I dont think thats a bad idea, but Im much more concerned with a generation that seems to favor some kind of anarchy where everyone decides for themselves which of the laws are worth following.
In before someone claims that this is civil disobedience against a corrupt, MPAA controlled government conspiracy.
When the American government heap charges after ridiculous charges on a guy
Anyone can heap charge after ridiculous charge on someone. The question is what the courts will have to say about it, and thats where the difference between the US and Russia is.
... with a bad economy, with money tight, most businesses are looking for a way to trim a buck. Just because your particular firm isn't willing to spend the (minimal, in most cases) effort on a migration that will literally save your company tons of money, don't think that all of us think that way. We certainly don't.
The last few times I tried that, apparently the users got sufficiently pissed with OpenOffice's oddities that they just went out and purchased Office 2007 anyways. Being a technical guy, I can put up with a fair bit of grief before I loose my cool at my computer; apparently your average accounting / legal employee tends to be much less tolerant of that kind of change.
So the best of luck to you, but dont be surprised when those savings turn out not to be worth it to the CEO.
Its pretty irritating if youre used to office, but the pricetag goes a long way to easing the pain. And actually its been a lot better in recent versions-- I often forget im using it.
False. Google requires you to whitelist sites that want to use Java, and also has click-to-play for java on top of that. Both (IIRC) can be managed by the above mentioned ADM templates, as can which plugins are allowed, what extensions are mandatory, etc.
Physical qwerty keyboards seem to be afterthoughts on Android-- be warned. Things like thumbs brushing and activating the touchscreen while typing, and keys failing to register come to mind. Another big gripe-- a lot of the keyboards have the numbers across the top rather than arranged as a dialer. They really do want you dialing with the touchscreen, which is as awful as youd expect.
You get numerous prompts before you can run an ActiveX control. By default, "activeX filtering" is turned on which basically prevents any controls from running till you allow it-- kind of like flashblock or Chrome's java controls.
And really, theres not much difference between an NPAPI plugin and an ActiveX control that Im aware of; when antivirus products use NPAPI for filtering and antivirus (WebRep), it tells me that theres not much a firefox plugin DOESNT have access to.
All of this really misses the forest for the trees tho, ActiveX is not the gigantic, glaring security hole to be worried about. Java and any of the Adobe products are-- something like 80% of exploits target those.
The problem is that IE9 doesnt do a rapid-release cycle like Firefox does, so all of its 9 point releases since 9.0 in May 2011 are considered the same product. That total of 60 vulns you see spans a year and a half. Firefox 14s spans about 8 weeks (July 17)-- which makes that "32" a LOT scarier. To boil it down, Firefox 14 had ~4 vulns per week since release, while IE9 has had less than 1 per week.
To do a more fair comparison you would need to total up the number of unique vulnerabilities for Firefox 5.0-15, and compare it to IE9.0 - 9.09 (which we already know is 60). For the record, Firefox 10 alone (released less than a year ago) had 60 vulnerabilities, all of which were patched-- and then Firefox 14 had another 32.
So no, things havent gotten better for firefox, and its still a ton easier to hack than IE or chrome (no sandboxing, no process-per-tab, no privilege dropping, no plugin filtering, etc etc etc). Firefox is a fine browser, but recommending it for security reasons is boneheaded as technically IE and chrome are superior. And up until version 14 of firefox (with silent auto update), you were FAR more likely to be stuck with an old firefox than you were with an old IE.
Obviously my post was not referring to "on linux". But even there, my understanding is that, security-wise, Firefox is in second or third place (not really sure where Opera stands...).
Android with Swype + Touchdown beats BlackBerry, physical keyboard or not.
Having to devote full time attention to a touch screen to make a phone call is superior to 4 button calling for basically any contact? (phone - first initial - last initial - phone)? An utter lack of any keyboard shortcuts or physical button remapping is somehow better than what blackberry has? No full contact search, terrible phone extension support in contacts (only supports semicolon, when most programs use "###-###-#### x###"), no hardware call start and end buttons (great when the UI lags and you cant answer your call), terrible text editing (touch screen is vastly inferior to trackpad for precision)....
As for swype, Ill bet that anyone reasonably familiar with a Blackberry could be competitive without having to look down at the keyboard or screen; Id like to see you do ANYTHING on your android without looking at it.
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Ill take that test. I just need 9 eager-to-help volunteers standing by.
We are constantly bombarded with radiation across the EM spectrum, from visible light to infra red (which we, ourselves, emit) to ultraviolet to radio. I think its fair for the judge to say "show me proof that we're all slowly getting cancer from radio waves".
He was talking about "my generation" being responsible for things that I simply wasnt born to witness. I was GP, and he responded to my post.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
India, North Korea, basically all of Africa, Russia, huge chunks of China, many other places in Asia. Id say we're a good chunk of the way to 90%. Certainly people in the US are among the top 5% in terms of quality of life and wealth.
And will it still grill my food?
* Left home voluntarily to speak with probation officials
* Nakoula not under arrest and not handcuffed
* Use of aliases, Internet may violate prison release terms
Try again, troll. Trying to conflate probation violation and theocratic laws was a good try tho.
To say that the individual has the right to decide on EACH law whether it should apply to them is an equally slippery slope that leads to anarchy. Common sense is required, and common sense is being lost when someone compares laws over wire fraud to the holocaust.
You raised us. We watched you speed, fail to yield.
Im part of the generation. Ive broken my share of laws "because I felt like it", and I think my attempts to justify it were weak.
You accuse me of a lot of vague things, and Im not clear how I could even pin those on my parent's generation. Having to sign a contract with an ISP is not some violation of rights. Not having good textbooks at school is perhaps a symptom of a system with weak competition.
Having to take out a large student loan is probably your fault; I got thru and am going thru school without an inkling of debt, because I didnt decide to go for an English Lit degree from Yale or Georgetown and saddle myself with 300k worth of debt. If you cared to make the effort, there are MANY states where establishing residency will get you incredibly good rates on school. Virgina, for one, has some of the best schools in the country at around $500 per credit hour (UVA, VA Tech, JMU, GMU, etc). This is another big gripe I have with my peers that seem so ready to blame everyone else for poor decisions. If you want to take a risk on huge debt for that law degree, thats your choice-- but when that risk falls thru, its not society that is the problem.
It isn't anarchy to reject institutionalized serfdom.
We live in a country with incredible opportunities and freedom. More than 90% of the world would give anything to live in a country where there is some semblance of the stability, freedom, and protections of law that we enjoy here. Ignoring the laws we have because "copyright sucks" doesnt increase that stability, it chips away at its corners. This attitude would throw everything away if it could because of a few insignificant bad laws on the books. I utterly reject that attitude as shortsighted and ignorant.
I don't care if I don't have to bake my bread in your oven and grind my grain on your mill anymore -- you've thoroughly enslaved the world to your dollar,
Im 28 years old, and I disagree in the strongest terms. You assume far too much.
and the 'civilization' you've built such that it isn't even economically viable to survive without partaking of the evils you've voted in.
Somehow Im surviving without partaking in the evils you seem to assume I am.
But I guess I'm free to move to Somalia if I don't like law right?
Or you could vote, like a responsible member of society.
Everyone knows that MAC filtering is ineffective,
Not if you do it by whitelist, and your network is set up properly. Wrong MAC address? The switch ignores all of your datagrams (including arp requests). MAC address is changing rapidly? Shut the port down and throw a warning.
Its primarily ineffective with Wifi, because IIRC you can see everyone else's MAC, and you can make a reasonable guess about who is authenticated against which SSID. The WAP doesnt control what data you can see, whereas with a wired connection the switch does (thats the entire point of a switch vs a hub).
On a network that has a moderate degree of security, thats sufficient to trigger IDS and block your network access. Its not exactly difficult for networking gear to notice that one port is cycling through MACs, and cut you off.
Off topic, but one wonders why they werent using port-security if they intended to filter by MAC. Guy changes MAC a few times, boom-- switchport shuts down. Bonus: Now the head of IT knows youre spoofing MACs, and what switchport youre on.
I dont think thats a bad idea, but Im much more concerned with a generation that seems to favor some kind of anarchy where everyone decides for themselves which of the laws are worth following.
In before someone claims that this is civil disobedience against a corrupt, MPAA controlled government conspiracy.
When the American government heap charges after ridiculous charges on a guy
Anyone can heap charge after ridiculous charge on someone. The question is what the courts will have to say about it, and thats where the difference between the US and Russia is.
Youll also note we dont have a "hooliganism" law.
... with a bad economy, with money tight, most businesses are looking for a way to trim a buck. Just because your particular firm isn't willing to spend the (minimal, in most cases) effort on a migration that will literally save your company tons of money, don't think that all of us think that way. We certainly don't.
The last few times I tried that, apparently the users got sufficiently pissed with OpenOffice's oddities that they just went out and purchased Office 2007 anyways. Being a technical guy, I can put up with a fair bit of grief before I loose my cool at my computer; apparently your average accounting / legal employee tends to be much less tolerant of that kind of change.
So the best of luck to you, but dont be surprised when those savings turn out not to be worth it to the CEO.
Good news: It looks like Office 2007 will happily read ODS / ODT / whatever files (found this out last night).
And of course LibreOffice is happy with the binary 2003 formats-- not sure about the OOXML stuff.
Several years down the road LibreOffice will probably remain an option. Let tomorrow worry about tomorrow.
Its pretty irritating if youre used to office, but the pricetag goes a long way to easing the pain. And actually its been a lot better in recent versions-- I often forget im using it.
False. Google requires you to whitelist sites that want to use Java, and also has click-to-play for java on top of that. Both (IIRC) can be managed by the above mentioned ADM templates, as can which plugins are allowed, what extensions are mandatory, etc.
Physical qwerty keyboards seem to be afterthoughts on Android-- be warned. Things like thumbs brushing and activating the touchscreen while typing, and keys failing to register come to mind. Another big gripe-- a lot of the keyboards have the numbers across the top rather than arranged as a dialer. They really do want you dialing with the touchscreen, which is as awful as youd expect.
You get numerous prompts before you can run an ActiveX control. By default, "activeX filtering" is turned on which basically prevents any controls from running till you allow it-- kind of like flashblock or Chrome's java controls.
And really, theres not much difference between an NPAPI plugin and an ActiveX control that Im aware of; when antivirus products use NPAPI for filtering and antivirus (WebRep), it tells me that theres not much a firefox plugin DOESNT have access to.
All of this really misses the forest for the trees tho, ActiveX is not the gigantic, glaring security hole to be worried about. Java and any of the Adobe products are-- something like 80% of exploits target those.
The problem is that IE9 doesnt do a rapid-release cycle like Firefox does, so all of its 9 point releases since 9.0 in May 2011 are considered the same product. That total of 60 vulns you see spans a year and a half. Firefox 14s spans about 8 weeks (July 17)-- which makes that "32" a LOT scarier. To boil it down, Firefox 14 had ~4 vulns per week since release, while IE9 has had less than 1 per week.
To do a more fair comparison you would need to total up the number of unique vulnerabilities for Firefox 5.0-15, and compare it to IE9.0 - 9.09 (which we already know is 60). For the record, Firefox 10 alone (released less than a year ago) had 60 vulnerabilities, all of which were patched-- and then Firefox 14 had another 32.
So no, things havent gotten better for firefox, and its still a ton easier to hack than IE or chrome (no sandboxing, no process-per-tab, no privilege dropping, no plugin filtering, etc etc etc). Firefox is a fine browser, but recommending it for security reasons is boneheaded as technically IE and chrome are superior. And up until version 14 of firefox (with silent auto update), you were FAR more likely to be stuck with an old firefox than you were with an old IE.
Obviously my post was not referring to "on linux". But even there, my understanding is that, security-wise, Firefox is in second or third place (not really sure where Opera stands...).
Good old slashdot, always bringing politics into it.
Android with Swype + Touchdown beats BlackBerry, physical keyboard or not.
Having to devote full time attention to a touch screen to make a phone call is superior to 4 button calling for basically any contact? (phone - first initial - last initial - phone)? An utter lack of any keyboard shortcuts or physical button remapping is somehow better than what blackberry has? No full contact search, terrible phone extension support in contacts (only supports semicolon, when most programs use "###-###-#### x###"), no hardware call start and end buttons (great when the UI lags and you cant answer your call), terrible text editing (touch screen is vastly inferior to trackpad for precision)....
As for swype, Ill bet that anyone reasonably familiar with a Blackberry could be competitive without having to look down at the keyboard or screen; Id like to see you do ANYTHING on your android without looking at it.
Chrome, with its adm templates. See above. Its actually really manageable-- unlike firefox, they put some time into the business side of things.