My intention was not to make an ad hominem argument, sorry if it came out that way. Another example would be the ongoing Israeli blockade and past massive military operation in Gaza after Hamas was voted in. That collective punishment of civilians for the actions of their leaders is justified.
I was just pointing out that this is similar to the argument that the collective punishment of Sony's customers is justified because of Sony's past actions.
If anything, in a democratic society, the populace has more responsibility for their leader's actions than the customers of a multinational. And yet, I don't think anyone in the US would say that the 9/11 and other terrorist attacks against American civilians are justifiable, even if a good many will say that the actions of the US government have created much anger and desire for revenge in the Muslim world.
And as far as the terrorist reaching their objectives, they haven't. I mean, yeah, they killed a bunch of people, (though much less than die of, say measles per year) and slowed down the economy a bit, for a little while. But they did not cause an economic crisis (we had our own banks do it for them), nor did they prevent further attacks on Muslim lands. In fact the death and destruction they brought upon themselves, the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, countries lying in ruins -- directly attributable to 9/11 -- have at least in part caused many of their former supporters, the young, educated and unemployed, to lead non-violent protests with the aim of establishing real democracy in the middle east. And not blowing themselves up for a religious dictatorship.
This is a very similar argument to the one Bin Laden used to (partly) justify the 9/11 attacks, and other attacks on civilians. It goes something like this : because America is a democracy, its citizens have a direct responsibility for the actions their government takes, and attacks on civilians are justified as retaliation for years of American imperialism and belligerence.
It's true that the US government has acted aggressively towards Muslim countries, and that its policies in many parts of the Muslim world are viewed as neo-colonist. It's also true that US citizens elect their government officials. It does not, however, justify terrorist attacks, and the people that have been killed or injured in these attacks are certainly victims, for the simple reason that the mass murder of civilians can NEVER be justified, for any reason. I think we can all agree on this ?
So Sony has acted in ways which are anti-consumer, and this for years without most of their customers knowing or caring. Now Sony gets hacked and millions of their customer's details are stolen and exposed, and this is somehow the customers' fault for having chosen Sony ? Sony's customers are simply victims caught in the crossfire of two opposing, and equally immoral groups.
Not looking to good on that front, I'm afraid. The focus is now more on tablets and netbooks ever since Nokia left the party. But it could do OK in the tablet space, if there are good apps for it that come out.
An important element is, as often, totally ignored in the summary:
We are not in situation that 500 IDs for system accounts ought to be enough for anybody. Actually, it was not 500. It was 299 because range 0-200 is for reserved IDs. There are 799 non reserved IDs for system accounts available after this change.
While the uneducated _may_ have had such views, the people at "highest offices in government" certainly did not believe in a flat Earth, and neither would their advisers and scholars.
"The idea that educated men at the time of Columbus believed that the earth was flat, and that this belief was one of the obstacles to be overcome by Columbus before he could get his project sanctioned, remains one of the hardiest errors in teaching."
No matter who is in control, the fault rests with the masses. They get what they deserve.
As having the most powerful military and economy in the history of the human race, the American public also has a responsability to the rest of the world. Your comment could make sense for a small country that has very limited outside influence, but not for the US.
The choices of the US electorate have very far ranging repercussions indeed. The mortgage crisis and subsequent economic turmoil caused by it being a prime example of America's poor choices screwing the whole world over.
Oh I feel the same way. That's why I wouldn't buy the OS in the first place, a company that doesn't respect my rights as a customer will not get my money.
They may be given driver's licenses, but it doesn't mean they know how to drive. It took me at least 6 months after getting my license to really consider that I knew how to drive. Seeing some of the people at the DMV and on the road, it seems like all you need is not being completely blind, and having at least 2 functioning limbs.
I'm sure RIM and Apple aren't losing market share - these rapid gains are coming by handset vendors dropping an OEM OS for Android, or shipping the same handset with an Android option.
Yes, they both are losing market share, since that metric takes the respective percentages of all sales. Apple may be selling more devices in absolute terms, but in proportion to Android, it is selling less. This is because the market itself is growing very rapidly.
In Europe there is no carrier lock, you can get the iPhone from several companies, in some countries this has been the case for several years. And yet, Android is exploding in popularity. Biggest losers in Europe are Apple and Nokia, where Nokia is more or less equivalent to RIM in the US in terms of previous market share and demography of its users.
In regards to video games, you can make the engine open source but use a regular copyright license for the artwork, levels, characters, etc. This is what ID Software does, after they don't license the engine any longer.
Except they can't buy Apple or Google, which are the main drivers of the tablet market. Even with enough money, there would be no way the anti trust laws would allow it.
Quite correct, but if the attacker is able to do a dump of your DB, the use of a quickly generated hash means that given enough time, your passwords will eventually be cracked. This is especially true now that GPUs can be used quite effectively for password cracking.
Combine random hashes with a slow algorithm like bcrypt (the one-way hash type, not the 2 way encryption) instead of md5 or sha1 and you effectively increase the time needed to crack your password database to years instead of weeks...
With that kind of mentality, you're not very likely to be interested in a startup anyway. There's always the very real possibility of complete failure, leaving you with basically nothing. They also expect you to work long hours, often 'volunteering' for unpaid overtime, or working at home on weekends. None of this is very appealing to a man with a family.
There is, of course, absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a secure job to provide for your family -- and being able to leave your work, at work. In fact it's what most of us do. It takes a different kind of person, usually younger and with little responsabilities, to be involved in a startup. Someone who is willing to put in a huge amount of effort on what is essentially a gamble.
I've worked for both startups and established companies and the difference in attitude and expectations is huge. TFA specifically said the comments on.NET only applied to job applicants for a startup company, and that it is a fine language otherwise. I would tend to agree.
In some cases it does, for example when the same motor is used in different car models with different programming. The more expensive model will have more power, and all that is needed to get the cheaper model to similar performance is to reprogram the ECU. Which not only voids the warranty, is illegal in some countries.
The last thing the US Air Force should do is use B-52s in this conflict. Any good will the Libyans may have towards the West will disappear the instant the US starts doing "carpet bombing" runs, which have almost always meant heavy civilian casualties. Precision air strikes please !!
If, for instance, we could no longer perform lung scans via MRI, it is of no consequence to society as a whole.
Quite the contrary, medical breakthroughs are of enormous importance to society.
In this case, these scans could potentially quickly identify lung cancer early on, and/or improve the survival of people affected with lung cancer. About one million people die of lung cancer each year, so the social implications are far from inconsequential.
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My intention was not to make an ad hominem argument, sorry if it came out that way. Another example would be the ongoing Israeli blockade and past massive military operation in Gaza after Hamas was voted in. That collective punishment of civilians for the actions of their leaders is justified.
I was just pointing out that this is similar to the argument that the collective punishment of Sony's customers is justified because of Sony's past actions.
If anything, in a democratic society, the populace has more responsibility for their leader's actions than the customers of a multinational. And yet, I don't think anyone in the US would say that the 9/11 and other terrorist attacks against American civilians are justifiable, even if a good many will say that the actions of the US government have created much anger and desire for revenge in the Muslim world.
And as far as the terrorist reaching their objectives, they haven't. I mean, yeah, they killed a bunch of people, (though much less than die of, say measles per year) and slowed down the economy a bit, for a little while. But they did not cause an economic crisis (we had our own banks do it for them), nor did they prevent further attacks on Muslim lands. In fact the death and destruction they brought upon themselves, the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, countries lying in ruins -- directly attributable to 9/11 -- have at least in part caused many of their former supporters, the young, educated and unemployed, to lead non-violent protests with the aim of establishing real democracy in the middle east. And not blowing themselves up for a religious dictatorship.
This is a very similar argument to the one Bin Laden used to (partly) justify the 9/11 attacks, and other attacks on civilians. It goes something like this : because America is a democracy, its citizens have a direct responsibility for the actions their government takes, and attacks on civilians are justified as retaliation for years of American imperialism and belligerence.
It's true that the US government has acted aggressively towards Muslim countries, and that its policies in many parts of the Muslim world are viewed as neo-colonist. It's also true that US citizens elect their government officials. It does not, however, justify terrorist attacks, and the people that have been killed or injured in these attacks are certainly victims, for the simple reason that the mass murder of civilians can NEVER be justified, for any reason. I think we can all agree on this ?
So Sony has acted in ways which are anti-consumer, and this for years without most of their customers knowing or caring. Now Sony gets hacked and millions of their customer's details are stolen and exposed, and this is somehow the customers' fault for having chosen Sony ? Sony's customers are simply victims caught in the crossfire of two opposing, and equally immoral groups.
Not looking to good on that front, I'm afraid. The focus is now more on tablets and netbooks ever since Nokia left the party. But it could do OK in the tablet space, if there are good apps for it that come out.
Well it's still at a very early stage, but the Skylon spaceplane design has been deemed to be solid enough for beginning to static test the engines.
http://dvice.com/archives/2011/05/skylon-spacepla-1.php
An important element is, as often, totally ignored in the summary :
We are not in situation that 500 IDs for system accounts ought to be enough for anybody.
Actually, it was not 500. It was 299 because range 0-200 is for reserved IDs.
There are 799 non reserved IDs for system accounts available after this
change.
While the uneducated _may_ have had such views, the people at "highest offices in government" certainly did not believe in a flat Earth, and neither would their advisers and scholars.
"The idea that educated men at the time of Columbus believed that the earth was flat, and that this belief was one of the obstacles to be overcome by Columbus before he could get his project sanctioned, remains one of the hardiest errors in teaching."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
No matter who is in control, the fault rests with the masses. They get what they deserve.
As having the most powerful military and economy in the history of the human race, the American public also has a responsability to the rest of the world. Your comment could make sense for a small country that has very limited outside influence, but not for the US.
The choices of the US electorate have very far ranging repercussions indeed. The mortgage crisis and subsequent economic turmoil caused by it being a prime example of America's poor choices screwing the whole world over.
So now we have free (libre) software for extracting RAR files. Great ! You just need to run it on a proprietary operating system ...
Oh I feel the same way. That's why I wouldn't buy the OS in the first place, a company that doesn't respect my rights as a customer will not get my money.
If you live in the USA, EULAS are enforceable. Remember Psystar ?
That would be illegal. That's the advantage of Open Source, and why it runs Linux.
They may be given driver's licenses, but it doesn't mean they know how to drive. It took me at least 6 months after getting my license to really consider that I knew how to drive. Seeing some of the people at the DMV and on the road, it seems like all you need is not being completely blind, and having at least 2 functioning limbs.
I'm sure RIM and Apple aren't losing market share - these rapid gains are coming by handset vendors dropping an OEM OS for Android, or shipping the same handset with an Android option.
Yes, they both are losing market share, since that metric takes the respective percentages of all sales. Apple may be selling more devices in absolute terms, but in proportion to Android, it is selling less. This is because the market itself is growing very rapidly.
In Europe there is no carrier lock, you can get the iPhone from several companies, in some countries this has been the case for several years. And yet, Android is exploding in popularity. Biggest losers in Europe are Apple and Nokia, where Nokia is more or less equivalent to RIM in the US in terms of previous market share and demography of its users.
http://www.greatereader.org/?p=19211
In regards to video games, you can make the engine open source but use a regular copyright license for the artwork, levels, characters, etc. This is what ID Software does, after they don't license the engine any longer.
Except they can't buy Apple or Google, which are the main drivers of the tablet market. Even with enough money, there would be no way the anti trust laws would allow it.
For games, not really, but for other apps it can be quite useful. I like being able to run all the Linux networking tools on my n900.
Quite correct, but if the attacker is able to do a dump of your DB, the use of a quickly generated hash means that given enough time, your passwords will eventually be cracked. This is especially true now that GPUs can be used quite effectively for password cracking.
Combine random hashes with a slow algorithm like bcrypt (the one-way hash type, not the 2 way encryption) instead of md5 or sha1 and you effectively increase the time needed to crack your password database to years instead of weeks ...
And HOW much is AMD paying you to be their shill ?
... and Glenn Beck would consider you a litle too right wing for his taste.
Wasn't that just as completly ridiculous as your comment ?
With that kind of mentality, you're not very likely to be interested in a startup anyway. There's always the very real possibility of complete failure, leaving you with basically nothing. They also expect you to work long hours, often 'volunteering' for unpaid overtime, or working at home on weekends. None of this is very appealing to a man with a family.
There is, of course, absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a secure job to provide for your family -- and being able to leave your work, at work. In fact it's what most of us do. It takes a different kind of person, usually younger and with little responsabilities, to be involved in a startup. Someone who is willing to put in a huge amount of effort on what is essentially a gamble.
I've worked for both startups and established companies and the difference in attitude and expectations is huge. TFA specifically said the comments on .NET only applied to job applicants for a startup company, and that it is a fine language otherwise. I would tend to agree.
In some cases it does, for example when the same motor is used in different car models with different programming. The more expensive model will have more power, and all that is needed to get the cheaper model to similar performance is to reprogram the ECU. Which not only voids the warranty, is illegal in some countries.
The last thing the US Air Force should do is use B-52s in this conflict. Any good will the Libyans may have towards the West will disappear the instant the US starts doing "carpet bombing" runs, which have almost always meant heavy civilian casualties. Precision air strikes please !!
If, for instance, we could no longer perform lung scans via MRI, it is of no consequence to society as a whole.
Quite the contrary, medical breakthroughs are of enormous importance to society.
In this case, these scans could potentially quickly identify lung cancer early on, and/or improve the survival of people affected with lung cancer. About one million people die of lung cancer each year, so the social implications are far from inconsequential.
Go into a stone house in the Alps in November. Light a fire, let the stone warm up, then turn off the fire. Are you immediately cold ?
Go into a stone house in Italy in July around noontime. Is it colder, hotter or same as outside ? Repeat the experiment in the evening.