Anyone other than me who think that this may be a planted story?
I mean look at it.
Some guy who noone knows who is, makes a post in his second blog about MS not calling him back, in this post he makes no smart remarks or anything about Microsoft and then Microsoft say that they are "investigating it".
In the end, this doesn't make MS look bad, and can actually be spun to be good PR if they follow it up correctly.
So... What you are saying is that Guns are no different than tools used to test a network... I kinda disagree, since you know, they don't really have any real use other than killing stuff. I mean, you don't use guns to stress test a persons tolerence for bullets and you don't use guns to probe out a persons weakest spot against bullets.
Most European countries allow hunting guns, but you don't use a handgun while hunting, and you don't need a fully automatic machine gun either.
Actually, comparing guns to actual tools like you do, seems mostly like somone trying further their own agenda.
This actually happens in Jeffery Deavers book "The Blue Nowhere". The book, is about a ruthless hacker who kills for the challange and a convicted hacker who works with the police to stop him. Great book, where the hacking/coding/computer sequences are actually realistic, not to say that they are completely correct, but there is no flying inside tubes or space invaders CPU hacking sequence. Deaver did good research when writing this book.
Anyway, after the hacker have been defeated and killed, his AI Supercomputer sends out a SWAT raid at the address of the protagonists (Wyatt Gillette) ex-wifes home with the order to shoot to kill, since presumably the residents are radical terrorist suicide bombers. The SWAT team are also told not accept ANY orders from any source other than the computer, since apparently the "terrorists" may have people on the outside who can phone in and pretend to be police officers etc. This makes me think "what if someone did this in real life?". The police would certainly have a lot of blood on their hands because they didn't have strong enough measures to prevent their systems getting hacked.
...That if people could start using more secure OS's, meaning more of the necessary apps gets developed for said OS's, white, black, grey etc listing wouldn't be needed.
I think all PC's should have a sensor, which senses if a certain user is going to do something stupid, then knock said user out with a blunt (and semi soft) instrument, pick it self up and run away. The bane of PC security is users doing stupid things.
(This is coming from a guy who just have had to spend a day cleaning out RavMon from a bunch of Windows PC's because some schmuck tried to download some games over Limewire and thought Hitman: Bloodmoney really only is 5mb, somebody have to teach people how to pirate properly, since improper pirating spreads viruses)
It seems like I better start hoarding bomb making plans then, so I can go trough with my plan to overthrow the government, so I can install a leftists, flip-flopping, black, gay, Islamo-atheistic, liberal terrorist government.
Just kidding, I got my bomb plans of the internet ages ago.
BTW: Wouldn't this just make the people interested in using bombs in a bad way start using code names, like booms for bombs etc?
I played WOW for about a month or two, and I would have to agree with parent, that WOW lacks roleplaying. If you have tried to RP in WOW you would know that it kinda ruins the experience when you are trying to play with a party where the characters have names like "Orckiller7845" or "Aragorn1337" or the even better "leetshaman".
In Norway we have had a similar system, where you choose what you want to do when you are sixteen. The choices are Mechanical, Electrical, Almen "All around", music etc. Most kids choose Almen, which will give you a broad set of knowledge, no skills, and prepare you for university, where you narrow it (We use the Bologna system in Norway).
Personally I went Electrical and IT. Biggest mistake of my life. IT is what I want to do, but the Teachers sucked, the curriculum sucked, the shcool sucked. It only focused on MS products, linux was only mentioned in passing (my teacher told me that I would never in a million years administer a linux server, guess what I am doing today), we had 8 hours a week of learning how to use the MS office suite, instead of learning useful things. In retro perspective I think it would have been better not to attend school at all after I turned sixteen, or gone of to the university.
This is the problem students face. They don't know for sure what each class, course, teacher, school is going to be like. One thing is knowing what you want to work as. You should be able to find that out early in life, but its the way there that is problematic.
This is not good. What happens when people know that other people can listen to their conversations is that they watch what they say, which makes democracy (if that is your thing) loose its value. Democracy can only exist as long as there is free speech. When free speech disappears, so does democracy.
In addition I believe that this will have negative consequences for gays, political activists, people with illnesses etc. No one but you and the people you tell something, have any right to know what that something is. There will be leaks, you can not prevent that without taking extreme measures.
This kinda reminds me of that scene in the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film- When all the Pirates band together and defeat the "evil" East India Trading Company.
With the exception of the clichéish dialogue of course.
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Doesn't matter tough, I am getting myself the openmoko Neo1973 as soon as it hits the shelf.
Jesus Christ, Chuck Norris is not funny anymore.
Besides I find it strange that the internet community chose to make a meme out of a creationist conservative.
The problem I see is that Self Defence doesn't (shouldn't at least) apply to these robots. What will happen when a Iraqi civilian points a gun at a strange machine coming trough the door?
So what you are saying is that searching people, which is a invasion of their privacy, is ok. All she wanted to do was watch a movie.
If I take another example (an take it to the extreme too). Lets say that every grocery store in Canada had a policy that allowed them to get your bank account details, so they could verify that you were there to shop and not steal something, would you give them that information? You would always have the option of growing vegetables, raising and slaughtering livestock yourself, even if you anyway would have to give the book store your personal information to learn how.
Cyber Bullying (dumb word) is not calling someone a dipshit over the internet, it is using the internet as a extension of the real world bullying. For example, Pete is not popular, he don't know why, but he isn't, whenever he speaks up in class, the jocks pick on him etc. Then one day he gets a SMS from a hidden number with a URL that tells him to visit Youtube, metacafe, spikedhumor, whatever, and on this site is a video, of for example him after coming out of the showers after gym, or him on the toilet whatever, exposed for all the world to see. This is cyber bullying, not some anonymous guy on a forum calling you a fag.
I also got interested by that comment, so I searched for 1972 in Wikipedia and here is what I found:
# May 28 - Watergate first break-in.
# May 30 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial in the United Kingdom.
From the Wikipedia article on the Watergate burglaries, it appears (without me having completely read trough them) that those who broke in was from the CIA.
I was once assaulted by a calf who thought he was a dog, true story.
Anton (the name of the calf) was too week to feed from his mother so he had to be fed by my uncle, and of course he slept together with the dogs at night, so he grew thinking he was a dog. He would run and play with the other dogs, only ate dog food, tried to bark and even tried to herd the sheeps (sheep1: Is that a Cow? Sheep2: No silly, its a calf! Sheep1: Bloody strange calf, herding sheeps. Sheep2: agreed, bloody strange...).
He did however have a dark side, and that was that he was evil. Such a vile creature as him have never walked the planet, and will never walk it again, thank Darwin (you might understand that this is a slightly biased account). I remember one summer me and my parents was visiting my uncles and the calf was waiting for me. I was about three or four at the time. As I got out of the car, he started chasing me, and I naturally ran all a four year old could run. It was not enough however and he caught up with me, and knocked me over, I was able to get up and began running again, around the car, when he caught up with me again and head butted me to the ground. I got up, kept running around the car, and he kept chasing me and knocking me over. I ran around the car several times, while my parents was laughing their assess off. In the end however I got the last laugh, as he was slaughtered after a while, and guess who ended up sleeping on the fur.
TFA fails to mention that the reason for this is that the EA Bugs division was disbanded because they found out that instead of spending time carefully putting CTDs inn and unbalancing gameplay, they could simplify the whole process of bug development by just corrupting the EXE file so every time on startup it gives out a BSOD.
The music industry is looking at making music the same way the automotive industry is looking at making cars. For them it is just all about assembling the parts (3 cup of sexy (make sure you remove any talent), 5 spoons of digital remixing, 10 liters of marketing, mash it up, stick it in bowl then devour).
Besides that, what is really up with this love theme in music? There is around zero pop songs that isn't about sex, love, boyfriends, breakup etc. If you name one I will give you a cookie.
Metãl for life \m/
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Anyone other than me who think that this may be a planted story?
I mean look at it.
Some guy who noone knows who is, makes a post in his second blog about MS not calling him back, in this post he makes no smart remarks or anything about Microsoft and then Microsoft say that they are "investigating it".
In the end, this doesn't make MS look bad, and can actually be spun to be good PR if they follow it up correctly.
So... What you are saying is that Guns are no different than tools used to test a network... I kinda disagree, since you know, they don't really have any real use other than killing stuff. I mean, you don't use guns to stress test a persons tolerence for bullets and you don't use guns to probe out a persons weakest spot against bullets.
Most European countries allow hunting guns, but you don't use a handgun while hunting, and you don't need a fully automatic machine gun either.
Actually, comparing guns to actual tools like you do, seems mostly like somone trying further their own agenda.
SPOILER
This actually happens in Jeffery Deavers book "The Blue Nowhere". The book, is about a ruthless hacker who kills for the challange and a convicted hacker who works with the police to stop him. Great book, where the hacking/coding/computer sequences are actually realistic, not to say that they are completely correct, but there is no flying inside tubes or space invaders CPU hacking sequence. Deaver did good research when writing this book.
Anyway, after the hacker have been defeated and killed, his AI Supercomputer sends out a SWAT raid at the address of the protagonists (Wyatt Gillette) ex-wifes home with the order to shoot to kill, since presumably the residents are radical terrorist suicide bombers. The SWAT team are also told not accept ANY orders from any source other than the computer, since apparently the "terrorists" may have people on the outside who can phone in and pretend to be police officers etc. This makes me think "what if someone did this in real life?". The police would certainly have a lot of blood on their hands because they didn't have strong enough measures to prevent their systems getting hacked.
Laissez-faire means hands off, not free or open. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/17/1448233/ is a good place to look for both a version of why MS have become popular and a discussion as well.
I am going to register ebay.su! In communist Russia, ebay sells you.
...That if people could start using more secure OS's, meaning more of the necessary apps gets developed for said OS's, white, black, grey etc listing wouldn't be needed. I think all PC's should have a sensor, which senses if a certain user is going to do something stupid, then knock said user out with a blunt (and semi soft) instrument, pick it self up and run away. The bane of PC security is users doing stupid things. (This is coming from a guy who just have had to spend a day cleaning out RavMon from a bunch of Windows PC's because some schmuck tried to download some games over Limewire and thought Hitman: Bloodmoney really only is 5mb, somebody have to teach people how to pirate properly, since improper pirating spreads viruses)
It seems like I better start hoarding bomb making plans then, so I can go trough with my plan to overthrow the government, so I can install a leftists, flip-flopping, black, gay, Islamo-atheistic, liberal terrorist government.
Just kidding, I got my bomb plans of the internet ages ago.
BTW: Wouldn't this just make the people interested in using bombs in a bad way start using code names, like booms for bombs etc?
BTW2: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
I think we need a new tag: Astroturfer
I played WOW for about a month or two, and I would have to agree with parent, that WOW lacks roleplaying. If you have tried to RP in WOW you would know that it kinda ruins the experience when you are trying to play with a party where the characters have names like "Orckiller7845" or "Aragorn1337" or the even better "leetshaman".
Last year I had cable, and I used to watch South Park and Chapelle show on MTV. Other than that MTV was a nono.
In Norway we have had a similar system, where you choose what you want to do when you are sixteen. The choices are Mechanical, Electrical, Almen "All around", music etc. Most kids choose Almen, which will give you a broad set of knowledge, no skills, and prepare you for university, where you narrow it (We use the Bologna system in Norway).
Personally I went Electrical and IT. Biggest mistake of my life. IT is what I want to do, but the Teachers sucked, the curriculum sucked, the shcool sucked. It only focused on MS products, linux was only mentioned in passing (my teacher told me that I would never in a million years administer a linux server, guess what I am doing today), we had 8 hours a week of learning how to use the MS office suite, instead of learning useful things. In retro perspective I think it would have been better not to attend school at all after I turned sixteen, or gone of to the university.
This is the problem students face. They don't know for sure what each class, course, teacher, school is going to be like. One thing is knowing what you want to work as. You should be able to find that out early in life, but its the way there that is problematic.
This is not good. What happens when people know that other people can listen to their conversations is that they watch what they say, which makes democracy (if that is your thing) loose its value. Democracy can only exist as long as there is free speech. When free speech disappears, so does democracy. In addition I believe that this will have negative consequences for gays, political activists, people with illnesses etc. No one but you and the people you tell something, have any right to know what that something is. There will be leaks, you can not prevent that without taking extreme measures.
This kinda reminds me of that scene in the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film- When all the Pirates band together and defeat the "evil" East India Trading Company. With the exception of the clichéish dialogue of course.
Doesn't matter tough, I am getting myself the openmoko Neo1973 as soon as it hits the shelf.
I got a grand plan to install emacs on it.
Jesus Christ, Chuck Norris is not funny anymore. Besides I find it strange that the internet community chose to make a meme out of a creationist conservative.
The problem I see is that Self Defence doesn't (shouldn't at least) apply to these robots. What will happen when a Iraqi civilian points a gun at a strange machine coming trough the door?
So what you are saying is that searching people, which is a invasion of their privacy, is ok. All she wanted to do was watch a movie. If I take another example (an take it to the extreme too). Lets say that every grocery store in Canada had a policy that allowed them to get your bank account details, so they could verify that you were there to shop and not steal something, would you give them that information? You would always have the option of growing vegetables, raising and slaughtering livestock yourself, even if you anyway would have to give the book store your personal information to learn how.
Linux would stand more open towards Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.
Cyber Bullying (dumb word) is not calling someone a dipshit over the internet, it is using the internet as a extension of the real world bullying. For example, Pete is not popular, he don't know why, but he isn't, whenever he speaks up in class, the jocks pick on him etc. Then one day he gets a SMS from a hidden number with a URL that tells him to visit Youtube, metacafe, spikedhumor, whatever, and on this site is a video, of for example him after coming out of the showers after gym, or him on the toilet whatever, exposed for all the world to see. This is cyber bullying, not some anonymous guy on a forum calling you a fag.
I also got interested by that comment, so I searched for 1972 in Wikipedia and here is what I found: # May 28 - Watergate first break-in. # May 30 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial in the United Kingdom. From the Wikipedia article on the Watergate burglaries, it appears (without me having completely read trough them) that those who broke in was from the CIA.
I don't think so.
I was once assaulted by a calf who thought he was a dog, true story. Anton (the name of the calf) was too week to feed from his mother so he had to be fed by my uncle, and of course he slept together with the dogs at night, so he grew thinking he was a dog. He would run and play with the other dogs, only ate dog food, tried to bark and even tried to herd the sheeps (sheep1: Is that a Cow? Sheep2: No silly, its a calf! Sheep1: Bloody strange calf, herding sheeps. Sheep2: agreed, bloody strange...). He did however have a dark side, and that was that he was evil. Such a vile creature as him have never walked the planet, and will never walk it again, thank Darwin (you might understand that this is a slightly biased account). I remember one summer me and my parents was visiting my uncles and the calf was waiting for me. I was about three or four at the time. As I got out of the car, he started chasing me, and I naturally ran all a four year old could run. It was not enough however and he caught up with me, and knocked me over, I was able to get up and began running again, around the car, when he caught up with me again and head butted me to the ground. I got up, kept running around the car, and he kept chasing me and knocking me over. I ran around the car several times, while my parents was laughing their assess off. In the end however I got the last laugh, as he was slaughtered after a while, and guess who ended up sleeping on the fur.
TFA fails to mention that the reason for this is that the EA Bugs division was disbanded because they found out that instead of spending time carefully putting CTDs inn and unbalancing gameplay, they could simplify the whole process of bug development by just corrupting the EXE file so every time on startup it gives out a BSOD.
But guess who is getting a iPhone on Wedensday...
The music industry is looking at making music the same way the automotive industry is looking at making cars. For them it is just all about assembling the parts (3 cup of sexy (make sure you remove any talent), 5 spoons of digital remixing, 10 liters of marketing, mash it up, stick it in bowl then devour). Besides that, what is really up with this love theme in music? There is around zero pop songs that isn't about sex, love, boyfriends, breakup etc. If you name one I will give you a cookie. Metãl for life \m/