again only pornographic if you already have a pretty perverse imagination about what say takes place in a mens locker room normally.
Which begs the question*, if she objects to passages in a book talking about a mens/boys locker room why would she not object to a real boys locker room?
One is just talking about it, while the other is the actual environment. WTF?
Not such a bad idea. Can you imagine how effective a 5 year old could be at cable runs at data centers and in office building ceilings? All it would cost me is some Snackables and a visit to Chuck E Cheese later.
In effect, too many parents are afraid when their children learn to think
There not afraid, but sincerely disapprove. Thinking leads to questioning, and for some parents, in some cultures, that just cannot happen. Usually in the more religiously strict households. You don't question your parents, authority, or the church. Period.
That is just so intensely sad to me. It should be the goal of every parent to raise a child to think as early as possible. Always be proactive on gaining all the information you can and come to your own conclusions, or at least attempt to verify other's conclusions.
I was very much influenced by literature when I was younger and had supportive parents that always encouraged me to think for myself.
I agree with you for the most part, but the definition of porn, not so much.
Porn is pretty much whatever you can whack off too. Specifically, what the majority can whack off too.
Nudity, even while not exposing that much, can be quite erotic. Try telling somebody from China a couple thousand years ago that a simple picture of a girls unbound feet was not porn.
It's still quite ridiculous though. There is an awful lot of literature that exposes children to situations a hell of lot darker than imaginary nudity (I am assuming it was not illustrated).
If there was no regulation on a warranty it would continue the race to the bottom in a short term grab for more cash.
It's *not* heavy-handed at all. If you can't manufacturer a product to last 3 years, or at least within a certain failure rate, you are cutting corners and fucking the consumer.
2nd hand sales have always been exempt, and the warranty has always followed the product. In some cases it took me getting to a few supervisors, but I have never failed to get an RMA for a product in warranty without any proof of purchase. The product itself is proof I am covered under the warranty.
I don't know what consumer products are intended to last less than two years anyways. If you mean some sort of consumable than that is usually exempt from any kind of warranty. In fact, if it is not intended to last for a certain period I believe that is called an expiration date. Products like that clearly do not have a warranty in a classical sense.
I'm not being an asshole, just a pragmatist. Really. It has been quite some time since I was in college. The poster did say 30-somethings.
Tabletop gaming has been a traditionally males-only hobby. Nothing wrong with that. I mean how many tupperware parties (or dildo parties) have you attended with a bunch of women? Friends are not really the problem. Finding women that actually are into sports, or male centric hobbies is not easy.
Let's face it. Tabletop gaming is not exactly a pastime that women are particularly interested in. There will be some edge cases of course.
There is only so much time, and when women do have time to spend, I don't blame them if they want to find some more common ground.
I have had a few clients with open RDP, and you can bet I have been up on this with recommending patching to their current IT, and I had no ability to change it. The business owners want access from anywhere on the Internet and don't want the expense and hassle of VPN. In one case it literally comes down to the simplicity of putting in their domain name into an RDP client and anything more complicated is unacceptable.
In those cases I have a letter explaining about the dangers of running it that way, the associated costs of repair, etc.
I don't particularly disagree with what you are saying, but a VPN does make you more secure to outside threats. If you view security as a state, your state of security is higher with a VPN. That is all you are exposing to the outside. One point of attack.
You can apply what you are saying to NAT on consumer firewalls. Sure, they make you "more" secure simply by requiring translation rules to reach internal machines. That does not mean they are immune to attacks and you can ignore logs, not update firmware, have IDS, etc.
Everything you are saying is more or less correct, I just take issue with you implying that VPN has no intrinsic security benefit. It has a benefit in much the same way that NAT has a benefit. Securing client side assets is often overlooked. It does not help that it makes it difficult when executives want to connect with their own hardware from home, or become uncooperative with security policies on corporate laptops
It's no so much a false sense of security as much as it is an enabler for lazy and unsophisticated admins to have security in depth. Everything should be behind VPN, because it does make it more secure. Either that or SSH/SSL protected access to data and services from the outside. Granted if you fuck up it can be worse, but what was the alternative to VPNs that you were proposing? Better than nothing...
Point taken that it is not an excuse to get lazy about securing the internal networks.
Any particular reason why a SSH tunnel is inherently more secure than a TS gateway?
...one is part of a Microsoft product?
I hate to say it, but the mods should not be so quick here. Microsoft does have an awful lot of security holes. Most people would be crazy to let anyone connect to any kind of Microsoft based service over an Internet connection. Wrapping those connections up in something else like VPN is really the only way to go.
Linux has it share of vulnerabilities to be sure, but if it is Microsoft it is not an unreasonable position to say it is less secure and to take the appropriate precautions.
I would never trust a TS gateway to remain secure, and certainly not more than SSH tunnels.
If anybody has a chance at reversing the polarity of the tachyon beams and calibrating the EPS conduits to dissipate that intensely strong anti-vagina field stuck to tabletop gaming and changing the rate at which some neckbeards get laid, it's Will Wheaton.
I look forward to the results of this experiment. albeit, with some skepticism.... and hope. Mostly skepticism.
No. If he survives till the ground it will be the longest free fall jump. Survival is not required for being the first person to break the sound barrier without a means of propulsion.
Now there's an interesting point of view. Do you think someone cannot logically be responsible for fraud, as well ?
If you are responsible for a suicide, which is death, then it turns into a homicide. So yes, it is logically precluded that Ravi could be responsible for the suicide.
You are going to draw specious conclusions that some harmful words caused a person to kill themselves and punish them for words?
Ravi was not responsible for the suicide.
And you don't view targeting perpetrators committing crimes specifically because of their bias against homosexuality to be doing that ?
No. In fact, I see it as the opposite. It gives special treatment to one class of victims over another. Other than invasion of privacy, what crime was actually committed? Hate crime laws are nothing but an attempt to use discrimination to cure discrimination.
I'm all for putting him away in jail for 6 months on the privacy violation alone. It's ridiculous to pin the death on him or punish him because of how he was treating the victim.
Yes, the connections to the PSTN don't use the MP3 codec, and it would be very strange to use MP3 between phones on a PBX system. However, PBX systems like Asterisk do transcode MP3 files to play as MOH or even system sounds on a channel.
If you build a jukebox system to provide MOH, typically the end user uses MP3's to load their music, not FLAC.
Also, if you are doing anything scripted on a Linux system for dynamic content generation Sox does not fully support FLAC. FFMPEG does have support for it, but I am not sure about any others.
So while it is possible to convert FLAC to MP3, so it can be converted to g729 or whatever codec you prefer it does not make a lot of sense when the codecs actually used for transport to most PSTNs are terrible for music and audio fidelity in general.
Which is kind of my point. Unless you are talking about some in-house conference systems, even MP3 is wasted.
Problem is where is the support for the alternatives? Hardly any software really supports FLAC at all. I don't use iTunes, but does it support it? I know that Zune does not. Most standalone players don't support it.
Of course, every other technology I use takes advantage of MP3. Asterisk can't use FLAC. Which would be hilarious if it did because the standard codecs are about the worst way to transmit music anyways. A phone call is terrible for quality. Unless you are inside a closed system using HD codecs, forget about it.
I'll pick up and start using FLAC more often when the software and platforms I use actually support it.
Insightful, really? Might as well have just posted 'Use Linux!" as that would have gotten a +5 I'm sure for the fanboi perception bubbles we have here
You still butthurt about that? Your entire rant about Linux strongly put you in the MS fanboi category.....
However, I do agree that consoles have done very little to hold back PC gaming. I think we hit diminishing returns some time ago. Not enough attention paid to plot and AI.
If anything, consoles could have been pushing PC gaming forward with their draconian DRM and complete disregard for the consumers. The rumored upcoming suport on the 720 to ban used game sales certainly put some fire on the Internets.
Of course, Sony needs no help looking like dicks to their consumers. No help at all. Quite frankly, their next console better come with a blowjob machine if they think they can win back the hearts and minds of the people they screwed over.
The only thing he was convicted of that holds any water is invasion of privacy. As far as I am concerned, that should be a 6 month to a 1 year sentence at the worst. Prison and jail are rough places and a rush to judgement on time to be served rarely fits the actual crime, or is even consistent with other serious crimes.
He was not convicted of "causing" the suicide, which is right. He may have been an asshole, but he can't be held responsible for the man committing suicide. At least not logically.
The whole "well, they are young and stupid" thing is an understandable push back against the zero-tolerance agenda of the past decades, but both are wrong. Actions have consequences
Bias intimidation is a bullshit law, and as one other poster put it quite succinctly, it further alienates the victim by giving them special prosecution. Saying both are wrong in the way you do, implies they are equal. Far from it. Bullying and hazing are bad, but 10 year prison sentences? Worse.
People can be assholes and treat other people horribly. Creating a law that vaguely states if it can be reasonably believed you did so because the person fell into a minority category, and that if a crime was committed (regardless of scale) you can be subjected to 10 years in prison is going way too far.
My problem with this is that it does nothing to address the real problems. That boy did not receive justice. Nothing is really being learned by that kind of sentencing.
We are becoming a nanny state and a country of pussies where every little feeling that gets hurt is a criminal offense. It's like the Care Bears took over the justice system.
It would be far better to address the fundamental problem. That is how homosexuality is viewed in society, period. If Ravi is responsible for this young boy's fate, then churches, religion, the far right, etc. are all as equally responsible for creating an environment that tortured this young boy from the start.
That is going to take time and involvement by parents actually raising their children to be tolerant of others. That goes for discrimination not limited to sexual orientation.
As somebody else said, discrimination is not solved by adding further discrimination.
First off, your brain starts to bleed just from the background image. Then the evil cube gods start programming you with their evil 4 day belly button logic. Forced extraction of your educated stupidity and oneness, one god mentality is commenced.
That whole website is a complete riot. It's like stream of consciousness writing from a mental patient they have not found the correct medication for.
Slashdot Mirror
Hell, my highschool library stocked the clan of the cavebear books. That is some enlightening reading for a 13 year old.
To say the least. Rape was not exactly a concept back then.
Uhhh, what if they just fixed the cable?
again only pornographic if you already have a pretty perverse imagination about what say takes place in a mens locker room normally.
Which begs the question*, if she objects to passages in a book talking about a mens/boys locker room why would she not object to a real boys locker room?
One is just talking about it, while the other is the actual environment. WTF?
* Excellent bait for Grammar Nazis. Try it.
In the same breath they can claim superiority to a nation run with Sharia law....
Not such a bad idea. Can you imagine how effective a 5 year old could be at cable runs at data centers and in office building ceilings? All it would cost me is some Snackables and a visit to Chuck E Cheese later.
In effect, too many parents are afraid when their children learn to think
There not afraid, but sincerely disapprove. Thinking leads to questioning, and for some parents, in some cultures, that just cannot happen. Usually in the more religiously strict households. You don't question your parents, authority, or the church. Period.
That is just so intensely sad to me. It should be the goal of every parent to raise a child to think as early as possible. Always be proactive on gaining all the information you can and come to your own conclusions, or at least attempt to verify other's conclusions.
I was very much influenced by literature when I was younger and had supportive parents that always encouraged me to think for myself.
I agree with you for the most part, but the definition of porn, not so much.
Porn is pretty much whatever you can whack off too. Specifically, what the majority can whack off too.
Nudity, even while not exposing that much, can be quite erotic. Try telling somebody from China a couple thousand years ago that a simple picture of a girls unbound feet was not porn.
It's still quite ridiculous though. There is an awful lot of literature that exposes children to situations a hell of lot darker than imaginary nudity (I am assuming it was not illustrated).
If there was no regulation on a warranty it would continue the race to the bottom in a short term grab for more cash.
It's *not* heavy-handed at all. If you can't manufacturer a product to last 3 years, or at least within a certain failure rate, you are cutting corners and fucking the consumer.
2nd hand sales have always been exempt, and the warranty has always followed the product. In some cases it took me getting to a few supervisors, but I have never failed to get an RMA for a product in warranty without any proof of purchase. The product itself is proof I am covered under the warranty.
I don't know what consumer products are intended to last less than two years anyways. If you mean some sort of consumable than that is usually exempt from any kind of warranty. In fact, if it is not intended to last for a certain period I believe that is called an expiration date. Products like that clearly do not have a warranty in a classical sense.
But I hear they have cookies.
LOL.
I'm not being an asshole, just a pragmatist. Really. It has been quite some time since I was in college. The poster did say 30-somethings.
Tabletop gaming has been a traditionally males-only hobby. Nothing wrong with that. I mean how many tupperware parties (or dildo parties) have you attended with a bunch of women? Friends are not really the problem. Finding women that actually are into sports, or male centric hobbies is not easy.
Let's face it. Tabletop gaming is not exactly a pastime that women are particularly interested in. There will be some edge cases of course.
There is only so much time, and when women do have time to spend, I don't blame them if they want to find some more common ground.
Some of us are worried, but our hands are tied.
I have had a few clients with open RDP, and you can bet I have been up on this with recommending patching to their current IT, and I had no ability to change it. The business owners want access from anywhere on the Internet and don't want the expense and hassle of VPN. In one case it literally comes down to the simplicity of putting in their domain name into an RDP client and anything more complicated is unacceptable.
In those cases I have a letter explaining about the dangers of running it that way, the associated costs of repair, etc.
You can lead a horse to water.....
I don't particularly disagree with what you are saying, but a VPN does make you more secure to outside threats. If you view security as a state, your state of security is higher with a VPN. That is all you are exposing to the outside. One point of attack.
You can apply what you are saying to NAT on consumer firewalls. Sure, they make you "more" secure simply by requiring translation rules to reach internal machines. That does not mean they are immune to attacks and you can ignore logs, not update firmware, have IDS, etc.
Everything you are saying is more or less correct, I just take issue with you implying that VPN has no intrinsic security benefit. It has a benefit in much the same way that NAT has a benefit. Securing client side assets is often overlooked. It does not help that it makes it difficult when executives want to connect with their own hardware from home, or become uncooperative with security policies on corporate laptops
It's no so much a false sense of security as much as it is an enabler for lazy and unsophisticated admins to have security in depth. Everything should be behind VPN, because it does make it more secure. Either that or SSH/SSL protected access to data and services from the outside. Granted if you fuck up it can be worse, but what was the alternative to VPNs that you were proposing? Better than nothing...
Point taken that it is not an excuse to get lazy about securing the internal networks.
....Or you could use a TS gateway....
Any particular reason why a SSH tunnel is inherently more secure than a TS gateway?
I hate to say it, but the mods should not be so quick here. Microsoft does have an awful lot of security holes. Most people would be crazy to let anyone connect to any kind of Microsoft based service over an Internet connection. Wrapping those connections up in something else like VPN is really the only way to go.
Linux has it share of vulnerabilities to be sure, but if it is Microsoft it is not an unreasonable position to say it is less secure and to take the appropriate precautions.
I would never trust a TS gateway to remain secure, and certainly not more than SSH tunnels.
ATTN: HeyBob!
RE: Inquiry into further data regarding board game experiment.
Hi Bob,
Interesting experiment. Could you tell me how many females (other than mothers) were present? What was the night on the Sausage Fest Scale?
Also, to your knowledge, how many males claimed to get laid, and of those how many were verifiable (to any extent)?
Yes.... but this is Will fucking Wheaton.
If anybody has a chance at reversing the polarity of the tachyon beams and calibrating the EPS conduits to dissipate that intensely strong anti-vagina field stuck to tabletop gaming and changing the rate at which some neckbeards get laid, it's Will Wheaton.
I look forward to the results of this experiment. albeit, with some skepticism.... and hope. Mostly skepticism.
THANK YOU FOR THE 1990'S NETIQUETTE LESSON
stop shouting. some of us got really drunk last night. it was friday you know.
No. If he survives till the ground it will be the longest free fall jump. Survival is not required for being the first person to break the sound barrier without a means of propulsion.
Now there's an interesting point of view. Do you think someone cannot logically be responsible for fraud, as well ?
If you are responsible for a suicide, which is death, then it turns into a homicide. So yes, it is logically precluded that Ravi could be responsible for the suicide.
You are going to draw specious conclusions that some harmful words caused a person to kill themselves and punish them for words?
Ravi was not responsible for the suicide.
And you don't view targeting perpetrators committing crimes specifically because of their bias against homosexuality to be doing that ?
No. In fact, I see it as the opposite. It gives special treatment to one class of victims over another. Other than invasion of privacy, what crime was actually committed? Hate crime laws are nothing but an attempt to use discrimination to cure discrimination.
I'm all for putting him away in jail for 6 months on the privacy violation alone. It's ridiculous to pin the death on him or punish him because of how he was treating the victim.
Yes, the connections to the PSTN don't use the MP3 codec, and it would be very strange to use MP3 between phones on a PBX system. However, PBX systems like Asterisk do transcode MP3 files to play as MOH or even system sounds on a channel.
If you build a jukebox system to provide MOH, typically the end user uses MP3's to load their music, not FLAC.
Also, if you are doing anything scripted on a Linux system for dynamic content generation Sox does not fully support FLAC. FFMPEG does have support for it, but I am not sure about any others.
So while it is possible to convert FLAC to MP3, so it can be converted to g729 or whatever codec you prefer it does not make a lot of sense when the codecs actually used for transport to most PSTNs are terrible for music and audio fidelity in general.
Which is kind of my point. Unless you are talking about some in-house conference systems, even MP3 is wasted.
Nothing reads like time cube. Nothing. :)
First off, your brain starts to bleed just from the background image
The funniest thing for me is that when you finally scroll down to the bottom of that wall of crazy-text, there's a "next page" link.
Have you clicked it? :) That's where the real journey begins. If you think the first page was batshit crazy....
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know all this.
Problem is where is the support for the alternatives? Hardly any software really supports FLAC at all. I don't use iTunes, but does it support it? I know that Zune does not. Most standalone players don't support it.
Of course, every other technology I use takes advantage of MP3. Asterisk can't use FLAC. Which would be hilarious if it did because the standard codecs are about the worst way to transmit music anyways. A phone call is terrible for quality. Unless you are inside a closed system using HD codecs, forget about it.
I'll pick up and start using FLAC more often when the software and platforms I use actually support it.
360 also implies a circle, which means they have you covered from every angle.....
Insightful, really? Might as well have just posted 'Use Linux!" as that would have gotten a +5 I'm sure for the fanboi perception bubbles we have here
You still butthurt about that? Your entire rant about Linux strongly put you in the MS fanboi category.....
However, I do agree that consoles have done very little to hold back PC gaming. I think we hit diminishing returns some time ago. Not enough attention paid to plot and AI.
If anything, consoles could have been pushing PC gaming forward with their draconian DRM and complete disregard for the consumers. The rumored upcoming suport on the 720 to ban used game sales certainly put some fire on the Internets.
Of course, Sony needs no help looking like dicks to their consumers. No help at all. Quite frankly, their next console better come with a blowjob machine if they think they can win back the hearts and minds of the people they screwed over.
The only thing he was convicted of that holds any water is invasion of privacy. As far as I am concerned, that should be a 6 month to a 1 year sentence at the worst. Prison and jail are rough places and a rush to judgement on time to be served rarely fits the actual crime, or is even consistent with other serious crimes.
He was not convicted of "causing" the suicide, which is right. He may have been an asshole, but he can't be held responsible for the man committing suicide. At least not logically.
The whole "well, they are young and stupid" thing is an understandable push back against the zero-tolerance agenda of the past decades, but both are wrong. Actions have consequences
Bias intimidation is a bullshit law, and as one other poster put it quite succinctly, it further alienates the victim by giving them special prosecution. Saying both are wrong in the way you do, implies they are equal. Far from it. Bullying and hazing are bad, but 10 year prison sentences? Worse.
People can be assholes and treat other people horribly. Creating a law that vaguely states if it can be reasonably believed you did so because the person fell into a minority category, and that if a crime was committed (regardless of scale) you can be subjected to 10 years in prison is going way too far.
My problem with this is that it does nothing to address the real problems. That boy did not receive justice. Nothing is really being learned by that kind of sentencing.
We are becoming a nanny state and a country of pussies where every little feeling that gets hurt is a criminal offense. It's like the Care Bears took over the justice system.
It would be far better to address the fundamental problem. That is how homosexuality is viewed in society, period. If Ravi is responsible for this young boy's fate, then churches, religion, the far right, etc. are all as equally responsible for creating an environment that tortured this young boy from the start.
That is going to take time and involvement by parents actually raising their children to be tolerant of others. That goes for discrimination not limited to sexual orientation.
As somebody else said, discrimination is not solved by adding further discrimination.
Nothing reads like time cube. Nothing. :)
First off, your brain starts to bleed just from the background image. Then the evil cube gods start programming you with their evil 4 day belly button logic. Forced extraction of your educated stupidity and oneness, one god mentality is commenced.
That whole website is a complete riot. It's like stream of consciousness writing from a mental patient they have not found the correct medication for.