Average Joe User is cheap and lazy, that's a given. TFA:
Users understand, there is no assurance that heeding advice will protect them from attacks.
What dosen't make sense are the people who bitch and moan about what a hassle Linux is to set up and get figured out, while they waste hours and hours of their time and money cleaning out their Windows installs, setting up anti-malware programs that waste even more time in the form of annoying pop-up reminders and eaten CPU cycles, and even reinstalling their O.S.; if not bothering or paying somebody else to do it. I'd been toying aroung with Linux and Unix for years for business and personal use, but I finally switched for good when I realized that I was wasting more time with Windows than I would with a *NIX O.S.
Windows can be used safely and quickly without protection, but only by savvy users who don't do any "real-world" stuff like torrent or allow the occasional ingorant user to use their computer.
Would Linux be more safe if it had greater than or equal to the market share of Windows? Is any home O.S. really safe as long as the user keeps clicking "yes" or "ok"? That's a whole other debate. The fact is that Linux, now, is much less of a hassle than Windows.
Probably means that there's a shortage of real crooks like terrorists and spies, so the feds have to do something to justify their elephantine budgets and keep their bust-numbers high.
Hey, ICE? Hi, this is Agent Smith from the FBI and I'm calling to report a MySpace profile featuring a black guy with gold chains and a new car that he probably stole from some hapless old lady. Can you go pick 'him up for me? Warrants? Nah, if the judge asks just say that the guy's an illegal alien or he's downloading music or somethin'. On your way? Thanks.
Learn to ballast, idiot. It would be dependent on the strength of the pumps and ballast tanks. Look at the pic. There aren't any ballast mechanisms or even elevation control surfaces other than two vertical propellers. Think of ABE as an undersea helicopter(or autogyro to be precise) rather than a submarine.
Also, it's hull markings indicate NCC-1701 B. Badass.
Ideally, that would be the case. But I know from personal experience that the doctors never check. They make an educated guess on the spot based on a quick glance through the questionnaire and a few questions. Then, if that drug dosen't work, they try another one. Then cocktails of 'em.
More patient throughput and the patients' problems disappear because they're left with nothing but hindbrains, drooling stupors, and tardive dyskenesia.
Good idea. But that still leaves Caucasian Womens' magazines and TV. Have you picked up an issue of Home and Garden lately? That mag and those like it are chock full of two-page spreads of women frolicing in fields aside pink-and-blue of bipolar graphic design.
Meanwhile, erectile dysfunciton medicine ads are featuring younger and younger men. Then there's the awkwardness of having to explain them to your kids who see them on TV.
Yup. Secret clearences are run through the ENTNAC, which anybody can pass. TS and above are where they send a guy to speak in person to friends and family and run more extensive checks. I was only SECRET scum, so I easily got away with violating UCMJ Article 83. No sir, I never smoked marihuana in my life.
It's Article 125 enlistees should worry about. Fortunately, it's usually only invoked in high-profile cases and/or in conjunction of violation of articles like 120 or 134.
This[PDF Warning] is the "suitability matrix", their criteria. Notice that "sodomy" is a Class C (D being the worst) offense. Weren't the nations archaic sodomy laws struck down by the supreme court in 2003?
'All of the victims we've worked with had perfectly installed antivirus,' he said.
Perfectly perfect installs of antivirus? As in, perfect enough to be NSA backdoors? Other articles mentioned that the exploits were there because of NSA mandates for data access that we can safely assume to include internet-facing Windows computers. If that's true, then the NSA are a helluva lot more stupid(or lazy) than they claim to be.
'They all had intrusion detection systems and several had Web proxies scan content.'"
You can't hack us, we're hiding behind seven proxies! What's this? Oh, nevermind, ignore it. It's just the NSA snooping around our systems again. Warrants? Nah, we know they're looking for bad guys. See, they're looking up data on Chinese people! They're probably going after cyber-warriors! Ooooh, how exciting!
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Damn shame considering that there are waaay cooler things than hollow coins on ThinkGeek. I think that KD also meant to provoke discussion about using them for corporate theft or espionage, but don't many confidential environments disable USB ports and card readers anyway? I assume that for an environment which required "spying" that employees would be expected to leave all of their USB toys, cell phones, and everything else in their lockers and any suspicious behavior would be reported.
I agree that the medium is overpriced, but buying it also sends the message that people will tolerate increasingly locked-down DRM until there's no such thing as "personal ownership".
A solution would be to mandate certain amounts of healthy food purchase with food stamps/EBT. A concurrent solution would be to have a strong, employed middle class who can afford to buy healthy foods like produce. Or perhaps tax the hell out of fast food. I can go to Little Caesar's and get a large pepperoni for less than six bucks. Six bucks a day ain't bad for an active fatass like me (in before ramen noodles, I ate them every day for years and I'm sick of 'em)
Aditionally, I have to shout out to growing vegetables. They make special hangers if you're short on space, and Home Depot has a 1-year no-fault warranty on plants. Tomatoes and zucchini are tasty grilled and easy as hell to grow.
If there's anything we learned from the PC universe, it's that many people would rather have viruses run transparently in the background than have their machines slow to a crawl because of overbearing security suites that often don't even identify proper threats.
Having tried the iPhone, I think it's a decent gadget, but it's not fast enough to be able to take performance hits from inefficient security suites.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Fuck, man, that was a good one. 1 hearty laugh and 1 coffee-stained laptop.
Mod me down, I don't fucking care. That laugh was well-worth it. Good to see that somebody here has a sense of humor. But really, the guy who's going to grab a loaded weapon at the first rustle in the bushes is the same kinda guy who sleeps with a loaded weapon under his pillow. I don't have a problem with responsible gun ownership but shit like that is bound to happen to those with excessively itchy trigger fingers.
It's not necessarily a bad thing if the scope is narrowed to emergency services or official business(state and local government agencies, in short) like filing tax paperwork, renewing vehicle registration or paying off tickets, and applying for and managing benefits(which would be facilitated by ubiquitous debit cards). It would eliminate a lot of paperwork and expensive face-time for the agencies involved as well as lower-class and/or rural citizens.
But for regular browsing news and Facebook-type stuff? Yeah, bet on monitoring...though the data collected won't be representitive of all demographics because the middle-class and wealthy will still have the "full-featured" broadband from cable providers...which are kinda monitored anyway, but that's beside the point.
Since the service must be allocated among a list of open frequencies, it's also possible that people subscribing to the service would need new gadgets to access the pipes. There's a lot of possibility for abuse if, say, the extra communication logic is subseqently required for "emergency" purposes in all gadgets.
Which is a good point, what happens to all the road-ragers who take to the skies and transfer their angry unsafe operation to the skies? It'll be a whole new meaning to "flipping the bird*"!
* Because birds fly. Man, I'm so writing that one down for later.
When I was fourteen, I wrote space-invader games in BASIC on a VIC-20. If you were interested in computers back in 1982, I bet you did the same...It's not what we dreamed of as fourteen-year-olds and trained for as eighteen-year-olds.
Yeah, because all of us totally had PCs as kids. Except that stepping out into the daylight and becoming interested in sex was much more awesome.
When I was 18, I wrote multi-user dungeons in C on serial terminals attached to a Sun 3...
In C but not in assembly? What a pussy.
we're looking up the EnterpriseFactoryBeanMaker class in the 3,456-page Bumper Tome Of Horrible Stupid Classes (Special Grimoire Edition), because we can't remember which of the arguments to the createEnterpriseBeanBuilderFactory() method tells it to make the public static pure virtual destructor be a volatile final abstract interface factory decorator.
Nice jab against Java, but if you can't code multi-user dungeons in assembler then there's a reason why your bosses stuck you with Java, dumbass.
Are you gonna argue with Knuth? Huh? Are you? Didn't think so.
Oh yeah, you're so bad, I bet you're man enough to hit your dick with a hammer. That from a man who spent his entire life masturbating to his own source code while the rest of us were riding bikes and getting pussy.
I want to make things, not just glue things together...Tuna nigiri. For me, there is a sort of metallic flavour to most raw tuna; but belly tuna, the fatty cut known as toro, is just sensational...
Wow, you even fement your own sushi-vinegar and then hand-assemble every bit of rice grain-by grain until you're left with a perfect oblong shape? Do you grate and color your own wasabi? Do you catch the fish and cut that piece yourself? No, you don't, so shut the fuck up sissyboy.
I understand, I think, how we landed up here. I wish I know how we can get out.
You'll get out soon enough when your job goes to India, asshole!
Learn to doppler. Refer to the picture in TFA. See that green shit at the top? The "mesa" is the noise and the peak is the tone we hear. As the spaceship flies outta sight, the peak will shift left while decreasing in height. The purple-colored graph is a record of the signal strength over time.
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What dosen't make sense are the people who bitch and moan about what a hassle Linux is to set up and get figured out, while they waste hours and hours of their time and money cleaning out their Windows installs, setting up anti-malware programs that waste even more time in the form of annoying pop-up reminders and eaten CPU cycles, and even reinstalling their O.S.; if not bothering or paying somebody else to do it. I'd been toying aroung with Linux and Unix for years for business and personal use, but I finally switched for good when I realized that I was wasting more time with Windows than I would with a *NIX O.S.
Windows can be used safely and quickly without protection, but only by savvy users who don't do any "real-world" stuff like torrent or allow the occasional ingorant user to use their computer.
Would Linux be more safe if it had greater than or equal to the market share of Windows? Is any home O.S. really safe as long as the user keeps clicking "yes" or "ok"? That's a whole other debate. The fact is that Linux, now, is much less of a hassle than Windows.
Probably means that there's a shortage of real crooks like terrorists and spies, so the feds have to do something to justify their elephantine budgets and keep their bust-numbers high.
Hey, ICE? Hi, this is Agent Smith from the FBI and I'm calling to report a MySpace profile featuring a black guy with gold chains and a new car that he probably stole from some hapless old lady. Can you go pick 'him up for me? Warrants? Nah, if the judge asks just say that the guy's an illegal alien or he's downloading music or somethin'. On your way? Thanks.
Will that get rid of those annoying but obligatory Quicktime downloads?
Learn to ballast, idiot. It would be dependent on the strength of the pumps and ballast tanks. Look at the pic. There aren't any ballast mechanisms or even elevation control surfaces other than two vertical propellers. Think of ABE as an undersea helicopter(or autogyro to be precise) rather than a submarine.
Also, it's hull markings indicate NCC-1701 B. Badass.
Ideally, that would be the case. But I know from personal experience that the doctors never check. They make an educated guess on the spot based on a quick glance through the questionnaire and a few questions. Then, if that drug dosen't work, they try another one. Then cocktails of 'em.
More patient throughput and the patients' problems disappear because they're left with nothing but hindbrains, drooling stupors, and tardive dyskenesia.
Good idea. But that still leaves Caucasian Womens' magazines and TV. Have you picked up an issue of Home and Garden lately? That mag and those like it are chock full of two-page spreads of women frolicing in fields aside pink-and-blue of bipolar graphic design.
Meanwhile, erectile dysfunciton medicine ads are featuring younger and younger men. Then there's the awkwardness of having to explain them to your kids who see them on TV.
Yup. Secret clearences are run through the ENTNAC, which anybody can pass. TS and above are where they send a guy to speak in person to friends and family and run more extensive checks. I was only SECRET scum, so I easily got away with violating UCMJ Article 83. No sir, I never smoked marihuana in my life.
It's Article 125 enlistees should worry about. Fortunately, it's usually only invoked in high-profile cases and/or in conjunction of violation of articles like 120 or 134.
This[PDF Warning] is the "suitability matrix", their criteria. Notice that "sodomy" is a Class C (D being the worst) offense. Weren't the nations archaic sodomy laws struck down by the supreme court in 2003?
Perfectly perfect installs of antivirus? As in, perfect enough to be NSA backdoors? Other articles mentioned that the exploits were there because of NSA mandates for data access that we can safely assume to include internet-facing Windows computers. If that's true, then the NSA are a helluva lot more stupid(or lazy) than they claim to be.
You can't hack us, we're hiding behind seven proxies! What's this? Oh, nevermind, ignore it. It's just the NSA snooping around our systems again. Warrants? Nah, we know they're looking for bad guys. See, they're looking up data on Chinese people! They're probably going after cyber-warriors! Ooooh, how exciting!
He's probably on MySpace instead.
Damn shame considering that there are waaay cooler things than hollow coins on ThinkGeek. I think that KD also meant to provoke discussion about using them for corporate theft or espionage, but don't many confidential environments disable USB ports and card readers anyway? I assume that for an environment which required "spying" that employees would be expected to leave all of their USB toys, cell phones, and everything else in their lockers and any suspicious behavior would be reported.
It's simply a glorified Stash Box.
I agree that the medium is overpriced, but buying it also sends the message that people will tolerate increasingly locked-down DRM until there's no such thing as "personal ownership".
A solution would be to mandate certain amounts of healthy food purchase with food stamps/EBT. A concurrent solution would be to have a strong, employed middle class who can afford to buy healthy foods like produce. Or perhaps tax the hell out of fast food. I can go to Little Caesar's and get a large pepperoni for less than six bucks. Six bucks a day ain't bad for an active fatass like me (in before ramen noodles, I ate them every day for years and I'm sick of 'em)
Aditionally, I have to shout out to growing vegetables. They make special hangers if you're short on space, and Home Depot has a 1-year no-fault warranty on plants. Tomatoes and zucchini are tasty grilled and easy as hell to grow.
If there's anything we learned from the PC universe, it's that many people would rather have viruses run transparently in the background than have their machines slow to a crawl because of overbearing security suites that often don't even identify proper threats.
Having tried the iPhone, I think it's a decent gadget, but it's not fast enough to be able to take performance hits from inefficient security suites.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Fuck, man, that was a good one. 1 hearty laugh and 1 coffee-stained laptop.
Mod me down, I don't fucking care. That laugh was well-worth it. Good to see that somebody here has a sense of humor. But really, the guy who's going to grab a loaded weapon at the first rustle in the bushes is the same kinda guy who sleeps with a loaded weapon under his pillow. I don't have a problem with responsible gun ownership but shit like that is bound to happen to those with excessively itchy trigger fingers.
What a bunch of horseshit. Most modern intro-to-programming classes are taught in C and/or C++.
It's not necessarily a bad thing if the scope is narrowed to emergency services or official business(state and local government agencies, in short) like filing tax paperwork, renewing vehicle registration or paying off tickets, and applying for and managing benefits(which would be facilitated by ubiquitous debit cards). It would eliminate a lot of paperwork and expensive face-time for the agencies involved as well as lower-class and/or rural citizens.
But for regular browsing news and Facebook-type stuff? Yeah, bet on monitoring...though the data collected won't be representitive of all demographics because the middle-class and wealthy will still have the "full-featured" broadband from cable providers...which are kinda monitored anyway, but that's beside the point.
Since the service must be allocated among a list of open frequencies, it's also possible that people subscribing to the service would need new gadgets to access the pipes. There's a lot of possibility for abuse if, say, the extra communication logic is subseqently required for "emergency" purposes in all gadgets.
Which is a good point, what happens to all the road-ragers who take to the skies and transfer their angry unsafe operation to the skies? It'll be a whole new meaning to "flipping the bird*"!
* Because birds fly. Man, I'm so writing that one down for later.
National enemies like Iran and China, right? Suddenly, the loosening of restrictions seems a bit more disingenuous.
Java scum call that an "interface".
A "factory" is nothing more than a buzzword which is part of the cancer that is killing Java.
Yeah, because all of us totally had PCs as kids. Except that stepping out into the daylight and becoming interested in sex was much more awesome.
In C but not in assembly? What a pussy.
Nice jab against Java, but if you can't code multi-user dungeons in assembler then there's a reason why your bosses stuck you with Java, dumbass.
Oh yeah, you're so bad, I bet you're man enough to hit your dick with a hammer. That from a man who spent his entire life masturbating to his own source code while the rest of us were riding bikes and getting pussy.
Wow, you even fement your own sushi-vinegar and then hand-assemble every bit of rice grain-by grain until you're left with a perfect oblong shape? Do you grate and color your own wasabi? Do you catch the fish and cut that piece yourself? No, you don't, so shut the fuck up sissyboy.
You'll get out soon enough when your job goes to India, asshole!
Learn to doppler. Refer to the picture in TFA. See that green shit at the top? The "mesa" is the noise and the peak is the tone we hear. As the spaceship flies outta sight, the peak will shift left while decreasing in height. The purple-colored graph is a record of the signal strength over time.
It sounds like Wile E. Coyote falling off of a cliff.
Hahahah! Bra-VO, if only more Slashdotters had your scathing wit!