and the book isn't a full 'word of god and final' but rather is meant to be interpreted
Thats actually one of the main points of contention in the reformation-- whether or not the completed canon was the sole authority of the religion or not ("Sola scriptura").
There are a great number of denominations which would claim that the bible must be reinterpreted in each age; but there are also a great number who would claim that this violates the very things we split over during the reformation.
The claim being made is that religion causes these conflicts. Im pretty sure Pol Pot didnt start his movement for the sake of a religious belief, but a political one.
I like how your article implies that being born culturally and ethnically jewish makes you a religious jew. That is, after all, their justification for calling Trotsky and Marx (who wasnt actually involved in the atrocities anyways....??? why is he relevant???) "religious". As for Pol Pot, it offers this:
Pol Pot was raised a Buddhist and Catholic.
Ah, so clearly hes both right?
Sorry, but any time someone wants imply that athiests arent capable of the same atrocities as anyone else, my BS meter goes off. IIRC various roman emperors that you would not call "religious"committed their fair share of atrocities (some, in fact, directed at those practicing religions that did not allow worship of the emperor). China is only recently allowing religion in, and is well known for how humanitarian THEY are. Etc etc etc. You live in a fantasy world if you think the source of humanities conflicts is the existence of religion.
Whether or not thats true, us getting rid of nukes wont stop other people from having them-- not even the crazy people. It will just mean we dont have nukes.
Religion is the biggest threat to the survival of our species,
If you think people need religion to threaten the survival of the species, you have another thing coming. People seem to find ways to brutalize each other without it quite well (China, Cambodia, USSR....). The conflict in the middle east just happens to involve religion, but its as much about territory and ethnicity as anything else.
we should tell them to go fuck themselves.
I would tend to agree, but would also note that its not generally my neck on the line.
Last time I ran the numbers for a laptop with an i7 processor, it was around $1200 (6 months ago). I dont recall being able to get a macbook with an i7 for $1200.
And claiming "quality" is a bit of a stretch when the HDD is made by WD (same as HP), the RAM by samsung or whoever (same as HP), the mobo by foxconn (same as everyone), etc etc etc.
Trying to do actual work involving word processing on a device that doesnt actually come with a keyboard is retarded. Stylus input is slow and wonky, and getting a keyboard attachment that you have to lug around seems to defeat the entire point of a tablet. Why would a 10" netbook not be superior in price and functionality, again?
And I love how you use the phrase "it is the cheapest tablet device in its class (quality level, feature set)"; this ensures that you can claim any cheaper device has lower quality and feature set (without specifying what your target feature set is even-- reading books? Word processing? Wasting time with frivilous apps?). Its kind of a "no true scotsman" argument.
You are aware that there were military secrets during the civil war, and you would probably be shot for treason for disclosing them to the enemy during that war?
If I am reading your comment properly, you seem to be implying that laws about military secrets are as bad as jim crow laws. You live in a dream world, and need to get perspective. Secrets are necessary in this world, especially for diplomacy reasons.
Further, this is the military. You dont go getting your own ideas about what needs to be done in the military; if you do, you need to quit. Its not a place for fun and games.
It comes down to who you trust more. I have several clients who are looking at email solutions; two options are "host it inhouse with exchange and backup to tape / backupexec", or "Google Docs, and let a dedicated team handle it".
At the end of the day, they arent going to want to pay for my time to monitor backups, or perform restore testing, or rotate tapes daily. So do i trust that non-technical users will remember to rotate daily (I have several who forget, not realizing its importance despite reminders), or do I trust that Google will overall have less downtime and fewer disasters than a server with no physical monitoring or weekly maintenance?
I will note that gMail's track record is pretty darn good since its inception; I only remember seeing 2-3 other stories like this in that time, with % affected being very low in a few cases, and I do not ever remember seeing a permenant data-loss scenario. Contrast to the real world, where I go to do a restore for said clients, and it turns out they havent rotated tapes in ages, or the tape drive has needed cleaning for years, or their online backup that they picked out (sans my advice) doesnt actually capture exchange or system state... etc.
So sure, make claims that "the cloud" is untrustworthy... but there are scores of companies that rely on consultants for server setup and then never have an IT person set foot in the "server room" for several years thereafter-- and thats PRECISELY the market that "the cloud" is perfect for. You offload IT work from non-skilled folks to skilled folks, with the downside of relying on connectivity (though gmail has offline mode...).
Thats a false dichotomy. You dont need to spend $2000 to get a good laptop, nor does it have to have an apple logo on it.
Just because you got burned on dell and HPs cheapest crap, doesnt mean that they dont have better quality stuff, not to mention all the other vendors out there (Sony, Acer, Asus, MSI, etc). Some have very, VERY nice machines for around half what a mac book costs.
The state had both evidence and an eyewitness. The defendant cant just pull out a pad of paper that claims he is innocent and get off; he must either discredit the states proof and witness, or provide evidence which does so, and unvetted GPS data wouldnt cut it if it were my decision.
Paypal very clearly in the second paragraph stated
Courage to Resist organization claimed that their resistance to follow our policy is because PayPal sought to withdraw funds from their checking account. To be clear: PayPal cannot take such action without the authorization of an account holder, nor does it ever take such unauthorized actions.
We recently placed a temporary limitation of the Courage to Resist organization’s PayPal account as they had not complied to our stated policy requiring non profits to associate a bank account with their PayPal account (for the vast majority of non-profits, this is not an issue).
In a press release issued today, the Courage to Resist organization claimed that their resistance to follow our policy is because PayPal sought to withdraw funds from their checking account. To be clear: PayPal cannot take such action without the authorization of an account holder, nor does it ever take such unauthorized actions.
But no, CTR and slashdots sourceless claims are totally more credible than that. And its totally bogus for Paypal to ask CTR to follow the same requirements as everyone else.
I can agree the unfreezing has a tenuous link with Manning-- all the attention around this non-story has made paypal choose the path of least resistance, which is to reinstate the account and lift the restrictions.
I take it youve already performed the trial, then? You have rock solid evidence this has taken place, you have taken care of all of those formalities?
Its kind of scary that anyone can claim pretty much anything anti-government or anti-corporation, and you can watch all sorts of people hopping on the bandwagon demanding a hanging.
Never mind that a significant portion of the inflammatory headlines on slashdot end up being either grossly exaggerated, or wholly made up....
Android is extremely secure and has the best security model of all mobile OSs
If you mean exactly identical to Blackberry's model, then yes. Before google maps can make calls, it must request permissions to do so. If an app recommends security permissions at installation, the user must review them before they can accept them.
This isnt anything new, Blackberry has been doing this since I started using them 5 years ago.
That is not correct. Claiming "it keeps on running" implies that there is a process or thread open using iexplore.exe, which is not true. Ieframe.dll is used by explorer, but if you close explorer that dll handle also closes.
It is tied into the OS in that it is used for rendering quite a lot, from help files to web pages to Steam's interface, but I dont see any reason you cant close all IE handles.
If you have a virus on your computer, it doesnt matter what OS or browser you use. This thing could be a usermode rootkit running a usermode driver, intercepting all network calls made by said user and rerouting them. Once you have the virus its too late.
Its only market share which has saved Linux and Mac from getting their comeuppance; a good number of the flaws out there would have no issue exploiting the PDF or Flash or Java plugins through Firefox running on Mac or Linux. Even up-to-date plugins have their issues; hence the name "Zero-day".
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Free to criticize an experiment that seems pointless?
and the book isn't a full 'word of god and final' but rather is meant to be interpreted
Thats actually one of the main points of contention in the reformation-- whether or not the completed canon was the sole authority of the religion or not ("Sola scriptura").
There are a great number of denominations which would claim that the bible must be reinterpreted in each age; but there are also a great number who would claim that this violates the very things we split over during the reformation.
The claim being made is that religion causes these conflicts. Im pretty sure Pol Pot didnt start his movement for the sake of a religious belief, but a political one.
I like how your article implies that being born culturally and ethnically jewish makes you a religious jew. That is, after all, their justification for calling Trotsky and Marx (who wasnt actually involved in the atrocities anyways....??? why is he relevant???) "religious". As for Pol Pot, it offers this:
Pol Pot was raised a Buddhist and Catholic.
Ah, so clearly hes both right?
Sorry, but any time someone wants imply that athiests arent capable of the same atrocities as anyone else, my BS meter goes off. IIRC various roman emperors that you would not call "religious"committed their fair share of atrocities (some, in fact, directed at those practicing religions that did not allow worship of the emperor). China is only recently allowing religion in, and is well known for how humanitarian THEY are. Etc etc etc. You live in a fantasy world if you think the source of humanities conflicts is the existence of religion.
...deterrence is obsolete
Whether or not thats true, us getting rid of nukes wont stop other people from having them-- not even the crazy people. It will just mean we dont have nukes.
Religion is the biggest threat to the survival of our species,
If you think people need religion to threaten the survival of the species, you have another thing coming. People seem to find ways to brutalize each other without it quite well (China, Cambodia, USSR....). The conflict in the middle east just happens to involve religion, but its as much about territory and ethnicity as anything else.
we should tell them to go fuck themselves.
I would tend to agree, but would also note that its not generally my neck on the line.
Last time I ran the numbers for a laptop with an i7 processor, it was around $1200 (6 months ago). I dont recall being able to get a macbook with an i7 for $1200.
And claiming "quality" is a bit of a stretch when the HDD is made by WD (same as HP), the RAM by samsung or whoever (same as HP), the mobo by foxconn (same as everyone), etc etc etc.
Why does it have to be an ipad? Why cant it be a netbook that can also be used to do word processing? Why not some kind of ArchOS tablet?
Oh, right, its apple, therefore it is implicitly better quality and value than anything else in existance, never mind the markup.
Trying to do actual work involving word processing on a device that doesnt actually come with a keyboard is retarded. Stylus input is slow and wonky, and getting a keyboard attachment that you have to lug around seems to defeat the entire point of a tablet. Why would a 10" netbook not be superior in price and functionality, again?
And I love how you use the phrase "it is the cheapest tablet device in its class (quality level, feature set)"; this ensures that you can claim any cheaper device has lower quality and feature set (without specifying what your target feature set is even-- reading books? Word processing? Wasting time with frivilous apps?). Its kind of a "no true scotsman" argument.
You are aware that there were military secrets during the civil war, and you would probably be shot for treason for disclosing them to the enemy during that war?
If I am reading your comment properly, you seem to be implying that laws about military secrets are as bad as jim crow laws. You live in a dream world, and need to get perspective. Secrets are necessary in this world, especially for diplomacy reasons.
Further, this is the military. You dont go getting your own ideas about what needs to be done in the military; if you do, you need to quit. Its not a place for fun and games.
An empty account would likely (maybe?) not have offline access enabled, and it is disabled by default. Possibly it could help.
Not everyone has an IT staff. I would prefer that CEOs DIDNT "take responsibility" for their own data, as thats not really their core competency.
Who do you trust more to keep things operational, a PHB of a 10 employee startup, or Google's Docs team?
It comes down to who you trust more. I have several clients who are looking at email solutions; two options are "host it inhouse with exchange and backup to tape / backupexec", or "Google Docs, and let a dedicated team handle it".
At the end of the day, they arent going to want to pay for my time to monitor backups, or perform restore testing, or rotate tapes daily. So do i trust that non-technical users will remember to rotate daily (I have several who forget, not realizing its importance despite reminders), or do I trust that Google will overall have less downtime and fewer disasters than a server with no physical monitoring or weekly maintenance?
I will note that gMail's track record is pretty darn good since its inception; I only remember seeing 2-3 other stories like this in that time, with % affected being very low in a few cases, and I do not ever remember seeing a permenant data-loss scenario. Contrast to the real world, where I go to do a restore for said clients, and it turns out they havent rotated tapes in ages, or the tape drive has needed cleaning for years, or their online backup that they picked out (sans my advice) doesnt actually capture exchange or system state... etc.
So sure, make claims that "the cloud" is untrustworthy... but there are scores of companies that rely on consultants for server setup and then never have an IT person set foot in the "server room" for several years thereafter-- and thats PRECISELY the market that "the cloud" is perfect for. You offload IT work from non-skilled folks to skilled folks, with the downside of relying on connectivity (though gmail has offline mode...).
There's a difference between cheap and value.
Thats a false dichotomy. You dont need to spend $2000 to get a good laptop, nor does it have to have an apple logo on it.
Just because you got burned on dell and HPs cheapest crap, doesnt mean that they dont have better quality stuff, not to mention all the other vendors out there (Sony, Acer, Asus, MSI, etc). Some have very, VERY nice machines for around half what a mac book costs.
I dont know ANYONE who uses windows media player to manage or play or purchase MP3s.
Well, it would help if Wikileaks didnt place his only serious competition in jeopardy...
The state had both evidence and an eyewitness. The defendant cant just pull out a pad of paper that claims he is innocent and get off; he must either discredit the states proof and witness, or provide evidence which does so, and unvetted GPS data wouldnt cut it if it were my decision.
Paypal very clearly in the second paragraph stated
Courage to Resist organization claimed that their resistance to follow our policy is because PayPal sought to withdraw funds from their checking account. To be clear: PayPal cannot take such action without the authorization of an account holder, nor does it ever take such unauthorized actions.
Seems like a refutation to me.
Then you apparently didnt actually read the earlier story, where the explaination boils down to,
Source for claims (here)
We recently placed a temporary limitation of the Courage to Resist organization’s PayPal account as they had not complied to our stated policy requiring non profits to associate a bank account with their PayPal account (for the vast majority of non-profits, this is not an issue).
In a press release issued today, the Courage to Resist organization claimed that their resistance to follow our policy is because PayPal sought to withdraw funds from their checking account. To be clear: PayPal cannot take such action without the authorization of an account holder, nor does it ever take such unauthorized actions.
But no, CTR and slashdots sourceless claims are totally more credible than that. And its totally bogus for Paypal to ask CTR to follow the same requirements as everyone else.
I can agree the unfreezing has a tenuous link with Manning-- all the attention around this non-story has made paypal choose the path of least resistance, which is to reinstate the account and lift the restrictions.
Freenas kicks the crap out of the linux-based openfiler, pfsense is a heck of a distro, etc etc.
BSD is still relevant as Im concerned.
I take it youve already performed the trial, then? You have rock solid evidence this has taken place, you have taken care of all of those formalities?
Its kind of scary that anyone can claim pretty much anything anti-government or anti-corporation, and you can watch all sorts of people hopping on the bandwagon demanding a hanging.
Never mind that a significant portion of the inflammatory headlines on slashdot end up being either grossly exaggerated, or wholly made up....
Android is extremely secure and has the best security model of all mobile OSs
If you mean exactly identical to Blackberry's model, then yes. Before google maps can make calls, it must request permissions to do so. If an app recommends security permissions at installation, the user must review them before they can accept them.
This isnt anything new, Blackberry has been doing this since I started using them 5 years ago.
It would not help with this malware. The malware keeps the session open; that is in fact how it operates and why it is so novel.
That is not correct. Claiming "it keeps on running" implies that there is a process or thread open using iexplore.exe, which is not true. Ieframe.dll is used by explorer, but if you close explorer that dll handle also closes.
It is tied into the OS in that it is used for rendering quite a lot, from help files to web pages to Steam's interface, but I dont see any reason you cant close all IE handles.
If you have a virus on your computer, it doesnt matter what OS or browser you use. This thing could be a usermode rootkit running a usermode driver, intercepting all network calls made by said user and rerouting them. Once you have the virus its too late.
Its only market share which has saved Linux and Mac from getting their comeuppance; a good number of the flaws out there would have no issue exploiting the PDF or Flash or Java plugins through Firefox running on Mac or Linux. Even up-to-date plugins have their issues; hence the name "Zero-day".