Now an officer can write tickets for anyone speeding over a several mile stretch of road, rather than just a particular point
I would hope you can come up with better worst case scenarios than that; loathe as I am to give that kind of power to the govt there is a part of me that would love to see an inflexible, if-you-break-driving-laws-you-WILL-be-caught scenario. Goodness knows there are enough dangerous drivers out there who get away with it because of how hard it is to catch them all.
Im not sure, for example, that I would be against stationary radar stations on the highway that could alert a cop about reckless driving / speeding in a 5 mile stretch; I dont see the privacy concerns, and I do see the benefit.
Thats a really poor justification for ripping down telecoms wire or becoming a drug dealer.
I mean, Ive heard the whole "one pot bust ruins your life thing", and Im not sure how true it is; but lets assume it is true, and the laws are unfair. So you break a law, get an unusually harsh sentence, and now its everyone elses fault that youre ripping up telephone wire? Does not compute.
And I would reckon that if youre a pothead, your problem isnt finding food to eat, as food is quite a bit cheaper than pot. Again, noone even remotely employable (by an incredibly generous standard-- ie anyone mentally stable and not an invalid) is starving in the streets in the US.
Under prognosis, it links to this page... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_epilepticus which states that, (paraphrased), seizures that are unremitting for longer than 5 minutes are very likely to cause neuron damage, and are unlikely to self terminate.
Starvation deaths in our country are ridiculously low, and even more so once you factor out those incapable of caring (much less working) for themselves, and those mentally unstable. In fact, I would hazard that outside of those, it is non-existent.
Youre welcome to try to pull up stats that contradict me, but I just checked this like a month ago, and it was something like 0.0-something % of deaths were "exposure", and most were incapable of self care.
Reporting the death of someone like Steve Jobs is of note because he is a well known person, his death will have implications for the tech world, etc. His death is no more or less sad than any other's, it just happens to be more notable for the tech world.
Part of me asks with an article like this, if my (hypothetical, future) 16 year old daughter were to die, would her death be of unworthy of mention or mouring because she didnt happen to be an ace programmer?
Who is there to be angry at? Doctors who were trying to save her life? You know, not all tragedies have people you can blame.
I really dont get why people need a reason to be sad about her death (she had an MCP!) and someone to be mad at (those incompetent doctors). Is this what we have come to? Someone's death is only of note if they were of a particular skill set, and if we can blame someone for it?
I had understood that any time someone has a seizure, apart from self-inflicted harm, there is a substantial risk. The wikipedia article, for example, seems to indicate that seizures lasting 5minutes or more are medical emergencies.
Yes, microsoft certification probably isn't the hardest thing ever to get, on the other hand, she did it at 9 which is definitely some sort of an achievement. And of course , it attracts publicity to such a case
I find it to be in bad taste when someone feels they need to over-ascribe deeds to someone who has passed, as if they need to justify her existence for her passing to be sad. An MCP is a very entry level cert (ie, people arent kidding that there are probably many kids who could get it), and its not necessary to pretend otherwise to justify how sad her death is.
I mean, there are many kids who pass at 16 without an MCP. Is their death now worthless? I get that part of the tragedy is that she was gifted in CompSci for her age, but you dont need to go overboard making it something its not.
I guess what Im saying is, I find sincerity and frankness to be in better taste in situations like these than pithy nothings about how awesome it is that she got an MCP and what a tragedy. How about just dropping that part out of the summary-- what of value would be lost from its meaning?
Depending on what category it was in, there are probably scores of 10 year olds that could get an MCP in a Desktop OS (ie windows XP) if you could get them to take the test. I got one myself, and Im not terribly proud to have one (MCP in Windows XP). The test consisted of demonstrating that I knew my way around XP (60% of office workers could probably nail that part), how the system functioned, and recovery console / installation (think mini-A+).
I really hesitated to post this because it is in bad taste to "piss in an open grave" (as parent so eloquently put it), but there really is no need to try to make the MCP something it isnt. Mourn the loss of the kid, mourn the loss of her gifts, and leave it at that.
Also, I dont care what your field is, it is highly unlikely that the consequences of a disastrous software cleanup will be worse than the consequences of a disastrous girder removal from a heavily used bridge.
As another responder further in the thread mentioned, plans like this are all well and good, good luck getting them to be used before 2020. (See: DNSSEC, IPv6)
Even SPF took a few years to meed widespread adoption, and that only required a single TXT record for a domain to secure itself, and was highly compatible with non-SPF users. An alternative naming system, on the other hand, would be useless in proportion to the number of users not on it.
Im well aware of what CLI can be used for, having managed systems ranging from Solaris to AIX to Windows to OSX. I have done a large amount of batch and vbs scripting in Windows, but also quite a bit in OSX and Linux. TO claim that somehow because Linux has better CLI tools, therefore Windows doesnt actually have any scripting capabilities is either ignorant or a serious bit of hyperbole.
And regardless of who came first, Unix doesnt "own" CLIs any more than Windows owns GUIs.
You get their credit card, and rack up a bunch of charges? You direct them to place their order on www.google.tz.nw.com, and infect their machines with malware? You verify phone numbers for a robo-calling list?
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Another example is NaCl, or Native Client, which tries to mimic Microsoft's ActiveX, and again
And Mozilla's NPAPI plugins....
But of course thats different, right?
Because the government (not sure if state or fed) used to pay a monthly incentive check (~$3000?) to people to live there?
Now an officer can write tickets for anyone speeding over a several mile stretch of road, rather than just a particular point
I would hope you can come up with better worst case scenarios than that; loathe as I am to give that kind of power to the govt there is a part of me that would love to see an inflexible, if-you-break-driving-laws-you-WILL-be-caught scenario. Goodness knows there are enough dangerous drivers out there who get away with it because of how hard it is to catch them all.
Im not sure, for example, that I would be against stationary radar stations on the highway that could alert a cop about reckless driving / speeding in a 5 mile stretch; I dont see the privacy concerns, and I do see the benefit.
The CEO of Enron isnt likely to cause problems by trying to steal cat5 cables for the copper inside.
Thats a really poor justification for ripping down telecoms wire or becoming a drug dealer.
I mean, Ive heard the whole "one pot bust ruins your life thing", and Im not sure how true it is; but lets assume it is true, and the laws are unfair. So you break a law, get an unusually harsh sentence, and now its everyone elses fault that youre ripping up telephone wire? Does not compute.
And I would reckon that if youre a pothead, your problem isnt finding food to eat, as food is quite a bit cheaper than pot. Again, noone even remotely employable (by an incredibly generous standard-- ie anyone mentally stable and not an invalid) is starving in the streets in the US.
Under prognosis, it links to this page...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_epilepticus
which states that, (paraphrased), seizures that are unremitting for longer than 5 minutes are very likely to cause neuron damage, and are unlikely to self terminate.
Fresno, california is in the US, last I checked.
All irrelevant to the point i was making. Dont make this some kind of perverse "my kid's death is more tragic than your kid's".
Starvation deaths in our country are ridiculously low, and even more so once you factor out those incapable of caring (much less working) for themselves, and those mentally unstable. In fact, I would hazard that outside of those, it is non-existent.
Youre welcome to try to pull up stats that contradict me, but I just checked this like a month ago, and it was something like
0.0-something % of deaths were "exposure", and most were incapable of self care.
Reporting the death of someone like Steve Jobs is of note because he is a well known person, his death will have implications for the tech world, etc. His death is no more or less sad than any other's, it just happens to be more notable for the tech world.
Part of me asks with an article like this, if my (hypothetical, future) 16 year old daughter were to die, would her death be of unworthy of mention or mouring because she didnt happen to be an ace programmer?
Who is there to be angry at? Doctors who were trying to save her life? You know, not all tragedies have people you can blame.
I really dont get why people need a reason to be sad about her death (she had an MCP!) and someone to be mad at (those incompetent doctors). Is this what we have come to? Someone's death is only of note if they were of a particular skill set, and if we can blame someone for it?
I had understood that any time someone has a seizure, apart from self-inflicted harm, there is a substantial risk. The wikipedia article, for example, seems to indicate that seizures lasting 5minutes or more are medical emergencies.
Yes, microsoft certification probably isn't the hardest thing ever to get, on the other hand, she did it at 9 which is definitely some sort of an achievement. And of course , it attracts publicity to such a case
I find it to be in bad taste when someone feels they need to over-ascribe deeds to someone who has passed, as if they need to justify her existence for her passing to be sad. An MCP is a very entry level cert (ie, people arent kidding that there are probably many kids who could get it), and its not necessary to pretend otherwise to justify how sad her death is.
I mean, there are many kids who pass at 16 without an MCP. Is their death now worthless? I get that part of the tragedy is that she was gifted in CompSci for her age, but you dont need to go overboard making it something its not.
I guess what Im saying is, I find sincerity and frankness to be in better taste in situations like these than pithy nothings about how awesome it is that she got an MCP and what a tragedy. How about just dropping that part out of the summary-- what of value would be lost from its meaning?
Depending on what category it was in, there are probably scores of 10 year olds that could get an MCP in a Desktop OS (ie windows XP) if you could get them to take the test. I got one myself, and Im not terribly proud to have one (MCP in Windows XP). The test consisted of demonstrating that I knew my way around XP (60% of office workers could probably nail that part), how the system functioned, and recovery console / installation (think mini-A+).
I really hesitated to post this because it is in bad taste to "piss in an open grave" (as parent so eloquently put it), but there really is no need to try to make the MCP something it isnt. Mourn the loss of the kid, mourn the loss of her gifts, and leave it at that.
Though you can bet that once the job market picks up, this type of stuff will become rare again.
Im not sure how employable someone is who is willing to steal copper cable for scrap. Is that someone YOU would want to hire?
Was it good to remove Gadafi? Probably, but aiding in democracy storms seems Pyrrhic when the US Legislature is bought and paid for
Would you trade our system for the one the Libyans just threw out?
Do you think they would?
No, what would be FAIR would be for them to link to her Twitter and facebook account.
Oh wait, didnt Twitter and Facebook tell google to shove off? Oh yea. Sour grapes, anyone?
Did you just issue a vote of confidence for political purges?
Please tell me Im reading that wrong, or remind me never to vote you for Benevolent Dictator.
We once ascribed to "ethical" war, via various conventions we signed, but we don't do that anymore.
Which wars are these that have been fought, not over money, or over territory, or over power, but over ethics? Please name one.
Certainly not the Revolutionary, or Civil, or WWI, or WW2. In fact if memory serves we werent all that keen to stop Hitler for a good part of the war.
I think Libya and similar smallish interventions might be the closest you could get, though those too can have ulterior motives ascribed to them.
Also, I dont care what your field is, it is highly unlikely that the consequences of a disastrous software cleanup will be worse than the consequences of a disastrous girder removal from a heavily used bridge.
Code can be reverted, bridges cannot.
You could have just put TL;DR, rather than trying to respond to a post you didnt read.
As another responder further in the thread mentioned, plans like this are all well and good, good luck getting them to be used before 2020. (See: DNSSEC, IPv6)
Even SPF took a few years to meed widespread adoption, and that only required a single TXT record for a domain to secure itself, and was highly compatible with non-SPF users. An alternative naming system, on the other hand, would be useless in proportion to the number of users not on it.
Theres also Windows DNS :D
Pretty sure its based on Bind though, and is missing some features.
Im well aware of what CLI can be used for, having managed systems ranging from Solaris to AIX to Windows to OSX. I have done a large amount of batch and vbs scripting in Windows, but also quite a bit in OSX and Linux. TO claim that somehow because Linux has better CLI tools, therefore Windows doesnt actually have any scripting capabilities is either ignorant or a serious bit of hyperbole.
And regardless of who came first, Unix doesnt "own" CLIs any more than Windows owns GUIs.
You get their credit card, and rack up a bunch of charges? You direct them to place their order on www.google.tz.nw.com, and infect their machines with malware? You verify phone numbers for a robo-calling list?