Modern cheap sata drives are nowhere near as robust, and are around twice the price. LTO4 tapes hold 800GB native, cost around $30, and are very easy to swap.
ID is simply "somehow something somewhere is wrong with evolution"
Thats not quite accurate, is it? ID simply states that there was an intelligent designer behind whatever processes led to what we have now, as far as I am aware. As has been stated many times before, its really not something that can be proven or disproven.
Google DOES warn of dangers. The defendant claims...
Rosenberg claims that she accessed the Maps function on her Blackberry mobile device, where it did not include the warning.
Which is utter bull, I have google maps 3.2.1 on my blackberry and it certainly DOES warn you of dangers while following their directions. You also have to agree to a EULA when you launch it for the first time, which I imagine disclaims any liability.
Youre right that its offensive, and youre right that we arent really loosing rights... but NOT for the reason you gave. We havent lost a right because Facebook is a private enterprise and we are free to not use it if this offends us. You seem to be implying that, for example, it would be OK to have a law mandating the death penalty for being offensive; I disagree.
Im not sure you are aware of this, but burning a US flag is protected speech. If you were lynched in your example, there would be a murder investigation; it is certainly NOT ok to lynch people for what you described.
Its a private business, theyre free to block whatever they want. Its not a violation of free speech if its being blocked by Facebook on their own webpage. I like how you got modded insightful for that though, it would be really swell if the US Govt started dictating what private businesses could and could not do content-wise on their own sites, totally not a worse evil than this.
The only requirement for being a Christian is following (the example set by) Christ
Actually, "Christian" refers to followers of Christ, and not simply following his example (there is a difference). Problem is, Christ quoted exclusively from the Old Testament, not the new, so clearly he believed it. If the whole thing were merely about "being a good person", there would be no reason to refer to him as Christ, aka messiah, aka annointed one, rather than simply rabbi or teacher. Its really rather hard to get "just be a good person" out of either testament without being intentionally blind to 80% of the text.
Religion can never be disprove. If there is truly an omnipotent being then that being could change the result of ANY experiment performed
It goes beyond that. God is commonly refered to as "supernatural", that is, outside of nature. How exactly would you prove the existence of something not directly in this universe?
Its been said a thousand times before...
Turning off broadcasting is absolutely pointless if you use WPA. Any tool that will allow you to crack WPA or mess with the AP will also uncover the AP almost instantly if there is ANY activity, and your laptop will periodically announce to the world that it knows that SSID.
They did this around the world, long term and had to set the tech up to do it and keep the data collection going.
Perhaps its silly of me to ask, but is this speculation, or fact that can be sourced?
Google missed a request from the German gov to show what data they collected and how it was stored ect.
My understanding from every article ive seen on the topic is that, whilst complying with the German authorities, they discovered the issue, promptly announced it, and complied with requests to delete the data. Can you provide a link that shows otherwise?
How many external eyes got to scan city maps with MAC, IP and plain text data for keywords?
Is this like that whole "did glenn beck rape and murder children in 1990" thing, where you can ask questions based in fantasy to imply wrongdoing? Do you have any evidence that anyone other than a computer actually saw the payload data?
The state sends out spyware/p2p hunt, finds an open MAC
What the hell is an open MAC? A rooted Apple computer?
Why was your post rated insightful? One can see by references to "Open MACs", "P2P hunts", and the implication that IP addresses are personally identifying / private that you have no idea what the hell youre talking about. Half of your post is directly refuted by every article we've had on this topic since it came to light.
Im sorry if I come off as a google apologist, defending them all the time, but my goodness people just seem to want to ignore fact and the actual articles, so they can wildly speculate about what awful things google is doing. My understanding was that Slashdot, as a site for geek news, would be some kind of bastion of reason and intellect. Clearly, I must be new here.
But parent implied that this sort of thing would be useful for missiles. My point was that trying to get a scram jet configuration to work with a missile in order to get it to go fast is silly, as they already go fast and have very long range.
I happened to like Brosnan, and thought he was one of the better ones (having seen many of the old ones too)... but that may just be because I saw GoldenEye first as a kid.
decreasing attractiveness of this mode of robbery.
Couple of questions...
1) If you can demonstrate to the court sophistication, intent, and premeditation to the court, cant they just up the sentence based off of that?
2) if using google maps shows premeditation, then why do we need another law to establish that it is, in fact, premeditation?
3) Is the hopeful outcome that a criminal think "gee, I really wanted to rob that house, but man, that extra year from google maps is kind of harsh, I better not"? Is this realistic?
like others said, using a digital map is somewhat substantial evidence that the crime was premeditated.
So make the punishment for premeditation tougher, and rely on existing laws. If you have a law that says "murder is illegal", you dont need another that says "intentionally decapitating someone is also illegal".
Hasnt it been shown (ie, here, and other places) that it would take ridiculous quantities of thermite to bring down the WTC towers, on the order of tens of thousands of pounds? And that using thermite would be retarded anyways?
Dont let that stop you, though, Id be interested in how truthers get around that little obstacle-- its bound to be amusing.
According to this article, ICBMs already travel at close to Mach 20 during the boost phase and Mach 10 on impact. Missiles have no problem going faster than jets, why do you think they are so effective?
And so do many consumers.
To give some anecdotal support, I recently had a friend touting the glories of the HTC Touch Pro, so I upgraded from my Blackberry Curve to one. He was right on some level about all the bells and whistles it had, and I did see that there was an active dev community. Problem is, the phone was slow, bloated, and incredibly over complicated-- to dial a number from the home screen took some 4 clicks to even get to the phone app. Now Im a techie, and I love tearing things apart, customizing, etc, but when I have a phone, I want it to do one or two things (email and phone), and to do them very well. Anything else is icing, but if it is not superb at its primary function i am not interested.
The problem is Microsoft has shown over and over that they dont get this-- anyone who has dealt with WinMo knows this. A company that ships a task manager (windows style) with their phone just doesnt get it. What on earth would lead one to believe they get tablets either?
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Modern cheap sata drives are nowhere near as robust, and are around twice the price. LTO4 tapes hold 800GB native, cost around $30, and are very easy to swap.
Flash is promising, but still not there in terms of reliablity.
They have 800GB flash drives that cost around $30? News to me.
you mean back before the advent of semi-decent javascript engines?
Chrome has ietab, and should work for any of those sites that render badly in chrome.
ID is simply "somehow something somewhere is wrong with evolution"
Thats not quite accurate, is it? ID simply states that there was an intelligent designer behind whatever processes led to what we have now, as far as I am aware. As has been stated many times before, its really not something that can be proven or disproven.
Rosenberg claims that she accessed the Maps function on her Blackberry mobile device, where it did not include the warning.
Which is utter bull, I have google maps 3.2.1 on my blackberry and it certainly DOES warn you of dangers while following their directions. You also have to agree to a EULA when you launch it for the first time, which I imagine disclaims any liability.
Youre right that its offensive, and youre right that we arent really loosing rights... but NOT for the reason you gave. We havent lost a right because Facebook is a private enterprise and we are free to not use it if this offends us. You seem to be implying that, for example, it would be OK to have a law mandating the death penalty for being offensive; I disagree.
Im not sure you are aware of this, but burning a US flag is protected speech. If you were lynched in your example, there would be a murder investigation; it is certainly NOT ok to lynch people for what you described.
Its a private business, theyre free to block whatever they want. Its not a violation of free speech if its being blocked by Facebook on their own webpage. I like how you got modded insightful for that though, it would be really swell if the US Govt started dictating what private businesses could and could not do content-wise on their own sites, totally not a worse evil than this.
The only requirement for being a Christian is following (the example set by) Christ
Actually, "Christian" refers to followers of Christ, and not simply following his example (there is a difference). Problem is, Christ quoted exclusively from the Old Testament, not the new, so clearly he believed it. If the whole thing were merely about "being a good person", there would be no reason to refer to him as Christ, aka messiah, aka annointed one, rather than simply rabbi or teacher. Its really rather hard to get "just be a good person" out of either testament without being intentionally blind to 80% of the text.
Religion can never be disprove. If there is truly an omnipotent being then that being could change the result of ANY experiment performed
It goes beyond that. God is commonly refered to as "supernatural", that is, outside of nature. How exactly would you prove the existence of something not directly in this universe?
Its been said a thousand times before...
Turning off broadcasting is absolutely pointless if you use WPA. Any tool that will allow you to crack WPA or mess with the AP will also uncover the AP almost instantly if there is ANY activity, and your laptop will periodically announce to the world that it knows that SSID.
They did this around the world, long term and had to set the tech up to do it and keep the data collection going.
Perhaps its silly of me to ask, but is this speculation, or fact that can be sourced?
Google missed a request from the German gov to show what data they collected and how it was stored ect.
My understanding from every article ive seen on the topic is that, whilst complying with the German authorities, they discovered the issue, promptly announced it, and complied with requests to delete the data. Can you provide a link that shows otherwise?
How many external eyes got to scan city maps with MAC, IP and plain text data for keywords?
Is this like that whole "did glenn beck rape and murder children in 1990" thing, where you can ask questions based in fantasy to imply wrongdoing? Do you have any evidence that anyone other than a computer actually saw the payload data?
The state sends out spyware/p2p hunt, finds an open MAC
What the hell is an open MAC? A rooted Apple computer?
Why was your post rated insightful? One can see by references to "Open MACs", "P2P hunts", and the implication that IP addresses are personally identifying / private that you have no idea what the hell youre talking about. Half of your post is directly refuted by every article we've had on this topic since it came to light.
Did you miss the part where everyone already knew they were sniffing packets to determine location, and that was never being denied? The issue has always been whether payload data was being recorded. See here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-update.html
Im sorry if I come off as a google apologist, defending them all the time, but my goodness people just seem to want to ignore fact and the actual articles, so they can wildly speculate about what awful things google is doing. My understanding was that Slashdot, as a site for geek news, would be some kind of bastion of reason and intellect. Clearly, I must be new here.
Neither infected PDFs nor Java rely on javascript. An ad in a DIV will infect you just fine.
No, you can simply contribute to the multi-billion dollar hassle that spam is.
But parent implied that this sort of thing would be useful for missiles. My point was that trying to get a scram jet configuration to work with a missile in order to get it to go fast is silly, as they already go fast and have very long range.
I happened to like Brosnan, and thought he was one of the better ones (having seen many of the old ones too)... but that may just be because I saw GoldenEye first as a kid.
Yea, cause you totally arent going to clear browser history after googling "how do I rob house?"
decreasing attractiveness of this mode of robbery.
Couple of questions...
1) If you can demonstrate to the court sophistication, intent, and premeditation to the court, cant they just up the sentence based off of that?
2) if using google maps shows premeditation, then why do we need another law to establish that it is, in fact, premeditation?
3) Is the hopeful outcome that a criminal think "gee, I really wanted to rob that house, but man, that extra year from google maps is kind of harsh, I better not"? Is this realistic?
like others said, using a digital map is somewhat substantial evidence that the crime was premeditated.
So make the punishment for premeditation tougher, and rely on existing laws. If you have a law that says "murder is illegal", you dont need another that says "intentionally decapitating someone is also illegal".
Well, arguably it demonstrates premeditation;
So in other words its covered by existing laws, and doesnt need another retarded law to cover it?
Yes, because internet enabled smartphones are so rare these days, and it totally takes days to fire google maps up on a PC and get a printout.
Hasnt it been shown (ie, here, and other places) that it would take ridiculous quantities of thermite to bring down the WTC towers, on the order of tens of thousands of pounds? And that using thermite would be retarded anyways?
Dont let that stop you, though, Id be interested in how truthers get around that little obstacle-- its bound to be amusing.
According to this article, ICBMs already travel at close to Mach 20 during the boost phase and Mach 10 on impact. Missiles have no problem going faster than jets, why do you think they are so effective?
Apple loves this kind of thinking.
And so do many consumers.
To give some anecdotal support, I recently had a friend touting the glories of the HTC Touch Pro, so I upgraded from my Blackberry Curve to one. He was right on some level about all the bells and whistles it had, and I did see that there was an active dev community. Problem is, the phone was slow, bloated, and incredibly over complicated-- to dial a number from the home screen took some 4 clicks to even get to the phone app. Now Im a techie, and I love tearing things apart, customizing, etc, but when I have a phone, I want it to do one or two things (email and phone), and to do them very well. Anything else is icing, but if it is not superb at its primary function i am not interested.
The problem is Microsoft has shown over and over that they dont get this-- anyone who has dealt with WinMo knows this. A company that ships a task manager (windows style) with their phone just doesnt get it. What on earth would lead one to believe they get tablets either?