JJ Abrams tell Jon Stewart that "he never liked Star Trek" on The Daily Show. Well, now he's had a chance to kill it by turning it 100% into a modern day blockbuster action flick and shirking any attempt to tackle an interesting philosophical or ethical dilemma as the main plot. As the modern reemergence of comic book and super hero movies have shown, those films are a dime a dozen that anyone can do. Tackling something deeper while still holding our attention is the hard part. The Watchmen was a good candidate for it but fell short. I'm sure JJ Abrams would rather cover up the complicated parts that question good versus evil with another lens flare.
Where are the mod points when you need them? You hit the problem squarely on the head with the JJ Abrams reboots. Star Trek has been reduced to an action flick. Something that will be forgotten in a month. A lot of action, pretty visuals, with a big fat void in the middle. I've seen both now and they are utterly forgettable.
Ok, so you can buy a portable EMP that can impact electronics 1-2M away. Assuming you upped the power source enough to reach that Reaper drone at anywhere from 10k to 50k high, you might be good to go. Of course, you'd probably need a full-sized tractor trailer to haul the power supply.
As for shooting them, if a drone is flying at 100m, yes, it might be vulnerable to small-arms fire. Though, with your shotgun, you'd probably only get one shot before the drone, moving at an average of 200mph, is out of range.
Then again, most drones, at least the ones the public has seen in combat, aren't stupid enough to fly so low.
The problem is the average citizen can't, legally, get his/her hands on some SAMs. Plus, do you know how much a Stinger costs on the second-hand market? There is the whole import problem too. A directional EMP (if there is such a thing) would probably rank in the top ten list of weapons Joe Citizen is NOT allowed to own. Shooting them isn't an option either. Most are too high, too fast, and shooting at them with automatic weapons would draw massive amounts of attention.
Passive measures are probably the best we've got for now. Safety in numbers. Do your naughty business in cities or underground.
I'm can't disagree with the U.S. Government's position on this one. If data is sent via the Internet, the world's biggest public network, and isn't encrypted, then why should anybody need anything to read it? Unreasonable search and seizure doesn't apply when one person is talking to another person on a street corner...or on the world's biggest public network.
Encrypt your messages and then an argument can be made for 4th Amendment violations.
You're probably more right than you realize. Fedora Project has taken an odd turn over the last 2-3 releases. This password masking issue is only the latest of "change because we can" versus "change because it's broken" attitude.
How the hell did you get marked Insightful? Go install Fedora while sitting at your desk in your cubicle at work...the same cubicle where people can walk up behind you and YOU WONT EVEN KNOW IT. Sysadmins don't have to live in the server room just to install an OS these days. .
So, profits are down and the answer is to lay off the people who bring in the profits? Or the people who build the products that make the money?
How is this right in any sense of the word? Instead of spot layoffs to raise the stock price a few cents, AMD should be focusing on beating the tar out of Intel, Nvidia, and ARM manufacturers. Or wondering why AMD doesn't have a chip that can drive a tablet?
How long have you been downloading "warez"? A year? There was a time when the keygens bundled with apps included trojans. When "legit OS" versions were modified to load a trojan AND access an IRC channel where it sat...waiting to be abused. When opening a PDF or CHM would cause the computer to open browser windows to ad-infested sites AND click on those ads so the malware author got paid. Etc...etc...etc...
That you've never encountered a virus or trojan doesn't mean they aren't out there...it just means your experience is rather limited.
You're assuming the perp plugs in the laptop to his network. Why would he do that? Network access isn't needed when wiping laptops. Just pop in a bootable CD or USB flash drive, wait a few minutes, and laptop has been wiped.
What happens when the perp wipes the hard drive? Barring some BIOS magic, your software just disappears. That's the first thing I do when I steal laptops.
Bullshit. Amazon couldn't keep their Kindle v1 and Kindle v2 in stock and those were around $300. When the DX came out, they were SWAMPED with orders. Just because $300 is too expensive for you doesn't mean others can't afford it.
Special-purpose e-readers have to be a lot cheaper than comparable phones and tablets, or they're not going to sell.
Amazon would disagree with you.
Ultimately, the phone/tablet market will probably eat the e-reader market. Look what happened to standalone PDAs.
and yet Amazon still continues to sell Kindle...yet the market is dead, right? *rolls eyes*
What reasons could the state possibly have had to put a GPS tracker on an employee's personal vehicle? And track the vehicle outside of business hours? This stinks of big brother and privacy intrusions. What an employee does on their own personal time and in their own personal car should be their own personal business. I could be buying hookers and blow every weekend but if I show up on time during the week and do my job, the state should have no say in the matter.
How the hell did you get a +5 when you didn't even RTFA?
Every PC vendor has problems. True. Not every PC vendor knows about those problems, still ships the equipment to their customers, then BLAMES THEIR VERY OWN CUSTOMERS FOR THE PROBLEM.
Dell should be hung from the rafters for the crap they pulled.
Geez. He said top-posting would make sense. He didn't provide a reason. All I was asking for was a reason or two. For that, I get tagged troll? Unreal.
"I used to agree with this...but now that I have spent more time in a business setting, I can say that there are very real reasons why top posting and html email make sense."
Then fail to provide any reasons why top posting would make sense.
Very true. Case in point: CoD: Modern Warfare 2. PC gamers were up in arms about lack of dedicated server support, console port, etc. Talks of boycotts over missing features and the price ($60 v/s $50). What happened when the game was released? Biggest video game debut ever? PC gamers who signed boycotts and joined Steam boycott groups were seen playing the game.
For years, Microsoft has raked in money with Office. It's been THE leading revenue generator for ages with $4.4 billion in 3Q 2009. Office and related business products bring in more money than their Server/OS division. However, that number is trending down to the tune of almost 500 million from the same time last year.
Maybe it's just the recession. Maybe it was the Vista impact. However, the decline is noticeable.
So, we're up to $20k/month US for just two sites. That still doesn't factor in things like firewalls, DoS mitigation, software distribution between the two sites, etc. etc. etc.
My point was simply this -- there are more costs involved in software distribution than just the cost of the "pipes".
Ok, let's point 100,000 clients to your residential connection and see how long it takes them to download anything before your cable/dsl modem rolls over and DIES.
Read the post before jumping in next time. We are talking about infrastructure to support massive amounts of downloads...not your tiny little residential connection.
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JJ Abrams tell Jon Stewart that "he never liked Star Trek" on The Daily Show. Well, now he's had a chance to kill it by turning it 100% into a modern day blockbuster action flick and shirking any attempt to tackle an interesting philosophical or ethical dilemma as the main plot. As the modern reemergence of comic book and super hero movies have shown, those films are a dime a dozen that anyone can do. Tackling something deeper while still holding our attention is the hard part. The Watchmen was a good candidate for it but fell short. I'm sure JJ Abrams would rather cover up the complicated parts that question good versus evil with another lens flare.
Where are the mod points when you need them? You hit the problem squarely on the head with the JJ Abrams reboots. Star Trek has been reduced to an action flick. Something that will be forgotten in a month. A lot of action, pretty visuals, with a big fat void in the middle. I've seen both now and they are utterly forgettable.
Ok, so you can buy a portable EMP that can impact electronics 1-2M away. Assuming you upped the power source enough to reach that Reaper drone at anywhere from 10k to 50k high, you might be good to go. Of course, you'd probably need a full-sized tractor trailer to haul the power supply.
As for shooting them, if a drone is flying at 100m, yes, it might be vulnerable to small-arms fire. Though, with your shotgun, you'd probably only get one shot before the drone, moving at an average of 200mph, is out of range.
Then again, most drones, at least the ones the public has seen in combat, aren't stupid enough to fly so low.
The problem is the average citizen can't, legally, get his/her hands on some SAMs. Plus, do you know how much a Stinger costs on the second-hand market? There is the whole import problem too. A directional EMP (if there is such a thing) would probably rank in the top ten list of weapons Joe Citizen is NOT allowed to own. Shooting them isn't an option either. Most are too high, too fast, and shooting at them with automatic weapons would draw massive amounts of attention.
Passive measures are probably the best we've got for now. Safety in numbers. Do your naughty business in cities or underground.
Cue the flamebait accusations....
I'm can't disagree with the U.S. Government's position on this one. If data is sent via the Internet, the world's biggest public network, and isn't encrypted, then why should anybody need anything to read it? Unreasonable search and seizure doesn't apply when one person is talking to another person on a street corner...or on the world's biggest public network.
Encrypt your messages and then an argument can be made for 4th Amendment violations.
When Joe User exceeds his monthly data plan, he has to pay more just for the privilege of viewing a video ad...to access his own Facebook page.
You're probably more right than you realize. Fedora Project has taken an odd turn over the last 2-3 releases. This password masking issue is only the latest of "change because we can" versus "change because it's broken" attitude.
How the hell did you get marked Insightful? Go install Fedora while sitting at your desk in your cubicle at work...the same cubicle where people can walk up behind you and YOU WONT EVEN KNOW IT. Sysadmins don't have to live in the server room just to install an OS these days. .
So, profits are down and the answer is to lay off the people who bring in the profits? Or the people who build the products that make the money?
How is this right in any sense of the word? Instead of spot layoffs to raise the stock price a few cents, AMD should be focusing on beating the tar out of Intel, Nvidia, and ARM manufacturers. Or wondering why AMD doesn't have a chip that can drive a tablet?
How long have you been downloading "warez"? A year? There was a time when the keygens bundled with apps included trojans. When "legit OS" versions were modified to load a trojan AND access an IRC channel where it sat...waiting to be abused. When opening a PDF or CHM would cause the computer to open browser windows to ad-infested sites AND click on those ads so the malware author got paid. Etc...etc...etc...
That you've never encountered a virus or trojan doesn't mean they aren't out there...it just means your experience is rather limited.
You're assuming the perp plugs in the laptop to his network. Why would he do that? Network access isn't needed when wiping laptops. Just pop in a bootable CD or USB flash drive, wait a few minutes, and laptop has been wiped.
What happens when the perp wipes the hard drive? Barring some BIOS magic, your software just disappears. That's the first thing I do when I steal laptops.
You claim to have tested video and audio quality but deleted your account "in minutes" within opening it? That was some test
Was all set to blast the article with examples of old people in IT...but realized my own IT career ended when I was 38yo.
And they continue to screw the Aussies on game prices with most games costing TWICE as much as their U.S. versions.
$300 is too much for an e-reader.
Bullshit. Amazon couldn't keep their Kindle v1 and Kindle v2 in stock and those were around $300. When the DX came out, they were SWAMPED with orders. Just because $300 is too expensive for you doesn't mean others can't afford it.
Special-purpose e-readers have to be a lot cheaper than comparable phones and tablets, or they're not going to sell.
Amazon would disagree with you.
Ultimately, the phone/tablet market will probably eat the e-reader market. Look what happened to standalone PDAs.
and yet Amazon still continues to sell Kindle...yet the market is dead, right? *rolls eyes*
What reasons could the state possibly have had to put a GPS tracker on an employee's personal vehicle? And track the vehicle outside of business hours? This stinks of big brother and privacy intrusions. What an employee does on their own personal time and in their own personal car should be their own personal business. I could be buying hookers and blow every weekend but if I show up on time during the week and do my job, the state should have no say in the matter.
How the hell did you get a +5 when you didn't even RTFA?
Every PC vendor has problems. True. Not every PC vendor knows about those problems, still ships the equipment to their customers, then BLAMES THEIR VERY OWN CUSTOMERS FOR THE PROBLEM.
Dell should be hung from the rafters for the crap they pulled.
Geez. He said top-posting would make sense. He didn't provide a reason. All I was asking for was a reason or two. For that, I get tagged troll? Unreal.
"I used to agree with this...but now that I have spent more time in a business setting, I can say that there are very real reasons why top posting and html email make sense."
Then fail to provide any reasons why top posting would make sense.
Very true. Case in point: CoD: Modern Warfare 2. PC gamers were up in arms about lack of dedicated server support, console port, etc. Talks of boycotts over missing features and the price ($60 v/s $50). What happened when the game was released? Biggest video game debut ever? PC gamers who signed boycotts and joined Steam boycott groups were seen playing the game.
For years, Microsoft has raked in money with Office. It's been THE leading revenue generator for ages with $4.4 billion in 3Q 2009. Office and related business products bring in more money than their Server/OS division. However, that number is trending down to the tune of almost 500 million from the same time last year.
Maybe it's just the recession. Maybe it was the Vista impact. However, the decline is noticeable.
Source: MS Annual Reports and Earnings Releases
Someone wants to make a buck off of OS X without paying the Apple tax and Apple is upset. Is anyone really surprised?
Thank you for the recommendation. I'll give it a look.
So, we're up to $20k/month US for just two sites. That still doesn't factor in things like firewalls, DoS mitigation, software distribution between the two sites, etc. etc. etc.
My point was simply this -- there are more costs involved in software distribution than just the cost of the "pipes".
Thank you for providing real-world numbers.
Ok, let's point 100,000 clients to your residential connection and see how long it takes them to download anything before your cable/dsl modem rolls over and DIES.
Read the post before jumping in next time. We are talking about infrastructure to support massive amounts of downloads...not your tiny little residential connection.