Re:Those are america's problems
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American Nerd
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· Score: 4, Funny
"My little brother is an epitome of nerdiness--his computer is an old laptop that runs linux, DWM, and a firefox extension that makes his browser feel like vi."
Lies. Everybody knows that the epitome of nerdiness will have a firefox extension that makes his browser feel like Emacs.
With Wow the problem is worse for Blizzard. If you bought Diablo I, you paid and they have your money. With Wow, their interest is in keeping you paying and paying every month. Cheating ruins that.
And what they can do is much much worse. They could try to hijack every DNS-request for sourceforge and redirect it to a french RIAA website. If they try to do that hard enough they could start a split in DNS and starting the end of the internet as we know it.
"Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao and others like them, might have SAID that they were socialists and making leftish policies. But they weren't/didn't. They were not anywhere near it."
Hitler wasn't.
Stalin, Lenin and the other Communist leaders were all to close to being socialist and we have seen what has happened to those countries. Some factions of Socialists sing the internationale(communist song), others still have images of communist leaders. If you look at their policies regarding class struggle, income distribution, power of the state etc. they all match. It is mostly the means with which the factions are willing to work that makes the difference. Socialists are softish and wish to implement their via refendums and elections. Communists want a violent takeover and extermination of any opposition or viewed opposition. In Europe right parties always have to distance themselves from the extreme-right(and nazi-Germany in particular) while the left gets a "free out of jail card". Look at the article about the former Stasi-agent who is trying to silence nasty remarks about him. He is part of Die Linke(The Left) and apparently they have no problem whatsoever with working with a guy who has helped dissappear people. Beware of socialists because they wear sheep's clothes.
Northrop is also working on a weaponized shark system.
Re:Don't use 'user' policies - use 'system' polici
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Remote Access Policies
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"# LOG ! LOG ! LOG ! I find everything should be logged! Especially traffic going in/out the local network. Have a good log retention policy."
You will drown yourself in logs. The more you log, the more bad apples get through because you are flooded with data that is mostly useless.
"# ENFORCE strong passwords and change 'em when you feel fit."
If you change passwords, people will need to remember new ones. They won't and will write it down on a post-it. And then they will stick the post-it on the monitor for all to see.
Massive areas were flooded in the Middle Ages in the Netherlands. Instead of hiding on high ground we beat the water and founded a nation that is mostly below sea level. It takes a certain state of mind to do this. Once you start surrendering to the water, you lose. And you will keep on running from any danger that comes in your path.
They should consider connecting the islands together where it is fysically possible. If they do that they will kill 2 birds with one stone that way. They're able to stay safe and are able to get extra land.
Second point unrelated to this reply; Look at this picture, the island was never safe to start with. One big wave and the island's gone.
Is 7 meters(ca. 21 feet) below sealevel and we are not leaving. Running is a bad solution. Fight the water because it will fight you. Feet getting wet? Build dams and dykes and stay safe. That idea is probably 10 times cheaper and more efficient than the whole "move everyboy out and buy a new homeland plan".
The Internet is simply ingrained into my life. Imagine a world without coffee. I wouldn't care much because I don't have a taste for it but I bet that millions will cry out in terror and will suddenly be silenced(faiting by lack of cafeine in their bloodstream:) ). Now imagine a world without the internet. I can't. I could. Around 10 years ago we got 33k dailup to get access to "this curious thing called the internet". We used it more and more untill one day we got a bill of 120+ eur and we knew it was time to switch to cable. Every since that moment I and the internet have been connected. If I want to look up an address or zipcode I go the right site and tada, zipcode and address. If I want to look up a term I go to Wikipedia, type the word in and tada, I've got the meaning and some deeper information about the subject. I check my mail every day to see if I have recieved any messages from people and institutions all over the world. If I want to know about technological development I visit tweakers.net or slashdot. I discuss on internetforums in many different countries and have developed my skills in some foreign languages that way.
I am not the only one. The whole world is addicted to the internet. Sending data is now something you do with a few clicks and a few lines of text. You can send huge amounts of data from Vladivostok to Bogota in a matter of seconds. People all around the world can check videomessages people leave on youtube.
Now imagine that somebody "turns off the central switch". I can only fear what would happen. Stock markets would probably go bananas because they are not being fed regular data. The most important letter exchange format in the world(e-mail) would cease to be and sending messages to eachother would become a matter of days not seconds. Distributed projects would die and it would cease to be effective. And that's only the things I can think of. Imagine the extra effects.
We are all addicted to the internet whether we use it or not. That's the paradox.
"Sure, except the colleges are a business like any other (at least to some extent) and they have to attract customers (i.e., students). The prospective students have been enticed into expecting fancy rec centers and cushy dorms. Once a few schools start offering those features, pretty much everyone else has to do so to stay competitive."
Well, if there are enough candidates for going to college then there can be some institutes that try to compete on price, not on shiny features.
Well, if you want to be exact, you need to contruct a big NFA-lambda and convert it to a DFA and then to a regexp. Doing it by hand can be tedious but eventually you'll succeed.
"I am from Europe and believe that the reason why USA was so much advanced is really the fact they had very advanced democracy (in some cases direct) on national and local level."
I am also from Europa and I believe that the reason why the USA was so much advanced is really the fact that they are a country with over 300 million people, vast amounts of land, leader of one camp in the Cold War and the fact that they are able to amass massive amounts of debt because oil is mostly traded in us$. But that's just me.
"I bet a single blog post, especially if it was even slightly controversial, could easily generate thousands of comments."
Make that tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands. I know of a reasonably sized Belgian forum attracting only a certain group of Belgians(mostly Flemish people striving for independence). A hot topic could easily draw 1000+ comments. Now imagine sometyhing aimed at the entire US population. That could easily be a factor 100 larger.
In the Netherlands there were some referendums about choosing a maor. A lot of people thought the referendum were bad because choices were lacking. In some cities there was a voting percentage as low as 9%. Adter a few of these failed referendums they stopped doing it and called it failed. It simply didn't have any sense of legitimity it should have. It can work but the voting percentage needs to be so incredibly low so you can show that nobody really cared or was against it.
Slashdot Mirror
"My little brother is an epitome of nerdiness--his computer is an old laptop that runs linux, DWM, and a firefox extension that makes his browser feel like vi."
Lies. Everybody knows that the epitome of nerdiness will have a firefox extension that makes his browser feel like Emacs.
With Wow the problem is worse for Blizzard. If you bought Diablo I, you paid and they have your money. With Wow, their interest is in keeping you paying and paying every month. Cheating ruins that.
Assume: A: Ballmer posts on Slashdhot
Therefore, chairs do not post on Slashdot
B: Tablizer posted on Slashdot
Therefore, Tablizer is not a chair.
And what they can do is much much worse. They could try to hijack every DNS-request for sourceforge and redirect it to a french RIAA website. If they try to do that hard enough they could start a split in DNS and starting the end of the internet as we know it.
Introduce Elvish as a language option?
"Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao and others like them, might have SAID that they were socialists and making leftish policies. But they weren't/didn't. They were not anywhere near it."
Hitler wasn't.
Stalin, Lenin and the other Communist leaders were all to close to being socialist and we have seen what has happened to those countries. Some factions of Socialists sing the internationale(communist song), others still have images of communist leaders. If you look at their policies regarding class struggle, income distribution, power of the state etc. they all match. It is mostly the means with which the factions are willing to work that makes the difference. Socialists are softish and wish to implement their via refendums and elections. Communists want a violent takeover and extermination of any opposition or viewed opposition. In Europe right parties always have to distance themselves from the extreme-right(and nazi-Germany in particular) while the left gets a "free out of jail card". Look at the article about the former Stasi-agent who is trying to silence nasty remarks about him. He is part of Die Linke(The Left) and apparently they have no problem whatsoever with working with a guy who has helped dissappear people. Beware of socialists because they wear sheep's clothes.
Northrop is also working on a weaponized shark system.
"# LOG ! LOG ! LOG ! I find everything should be logged! Especially traffic going in/out the local network. Have a good log retention policy."
You will drown yourself in logs. The more you log, the more bad apples get through because you are flooded with data that is mostly useless.
"# ENFORCE strong passwords and change 'em when you feel fit."
If you change passwords, people will need to remember new ones. They won't and will write it down on a post-it. And then they will stick the post-it on the monitor for all to see.
Probably a gift coupon for a $8 mouse. And a lollypop if you are lucky.
"What ever happened to Wesley and the traveller? Where are they now?"
Some place very very very far away. I hope.
Old chart of the Netherlands(not the same as Denmark, go read a map):
http://ivan.ahk.nl/kaarten/lagelandenromeins.jpg
Modern chart of the Netherlands:
http://ivan.ahk.nl/kaarten/netherlands.jpg
Massive areas were flooded in the Middle Ages in the Netherlands. Instead of hiding on high ground we beat the water and founded a nation that is mostly below sea level. It takes a certain state of mind to do this. Once you start surrendering to the water, you lose. And you will keep on running from any danger that comes in your path.
They should consider connecting the islands together where it is fysically possible. If they do that they will kill 2 birds with one stone that way. They're able to stay safe and are able to get extra land.
Second point unrelated to this reply; Look at this picture, the island was never safe to start with. One big wave and the island's gone.
Is 7 meters(ca. 21 feet) below sealevel and we are not leaving. Running is a bad solution. Fight the water because it will fight you. Feet getting wet? Build dams and dykes and stay safe. That idea is probably 10 times cheaper and more efficient than the whole "move everyboy out and buy a new homeland plan".
"In his words 'Those guys are retards'."
No, they are differently abled.
So not paying institutes messing up your pc?
Then I know some people from the Cosa Nostra that I want you to meet...
The Internet is simply ingrained into my life. Imagine a world without coffee. I wouldn't care much because I don't have a taste for it but I bet that millions will cry out in terror and will suddenly be silenced(faiting by lack of cafeine in their bloodstream :) ). Now imagine a world without the internet. I can't. I could. Around 10 years ago we got 33k dailup to get access to "this curious thing called the internet". We used it more and more untill one day we got a bill of 120+ eur and we knew it was time to switch to cable. Every since that moment I and the internet have been connected. If I want to look up an address or zipcode I go the right site and tada, zipcode and address. If I want to look up a term I go to Wikipedia, type the word in and tada, I've got the meaning and some deeper information about the subject. I check my mail every day to see if I have recieved any messages from people and institutions all over the world. If I want to know about technological development I visit tweakers.net or slashdot. I discuss on internetforums in many different countries and have developed my skills in some foreign languages that way.
I am not the only one. The whole world is addicted to the internet. Sending data is now something you do with a few clicks and a few lines of text. You can send huge amounts of data from Vladivostok to Bogota in a matter of seconds. People all around the world can check videomessages people leave on youtube.
Now imagine that somebody "turns off the central switch". I can only fear what would happen. Stock markets would probably go bananas because they are not being fed regular data. The most important letter exchange format in the world(e-mail) would cease to be and sending messages to eachother would become a matter of days not seconds. Distributed projects would die and it would cease to be effective. And that's only the things I can think of. Imagine the extra effects.
We are all addicted to the internet whether we use it or not. That's the paradox.
"Sure, except the colleges are a business like any other (at least to some extent) and they have to attract customers (i.e., students). The prospective students have been enticed into expecting fancy rec centers and cushy dorms. Once a few schools start offering those features, pretty much everyone else has to do so to stay competitive."
Well, if there are enough candidates for going to college then there can be some institutes that try to compete on price, not on shiny features.
"Unfortunately, prior art exists everywhere."
Ok then, try to find a company who admits that they are patent trolling. Nobody is going public with that. Halliburton wins.
Well, if you want to be exact, you need to contruct a big NFA-lambda and convert it to a DFA and then to a regexp. Doing it by hand can be tedious but eventually you'll succeed.
"but think of how awesomely cool it would go wrong if it did."
Yeah, I'm thinking about the truck going on a rampage killing multiple people in the vicinity. Awesome.
"I am from Europe and believe that the reason why USA was so much advanced is really the fact they had very advanced democracy (in some cases direct) on national and local level."
I am also from Europa and I believe that the reason why the USA was so much advanced is really the fact that they are a country with over 300 million people, vast amounts of land, leader of one camp in the Cold War and the fact that they are able to amass massive amounts of debt because oil is mostly traded in us$. But that's just me.
I am typing this from my Android. I have tried this and I don't have any pr
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"I bet a single blog post, especially if it was even slightly controversial, could easily generate thousands of comments."
Make that tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands. I know of a reasonably sized Belgian forum attracting only a certain group of Belgians(mostly Flemish people striving for independence). A hot topic could easily draw 1000+ comments. Now imagine sometyhing aimed at the entire US population. That could easily be a factor 100 larger.
"Do you mean "choosing a mayor", and do you have any links even in Dutch?"
Yes I do.
Sure:
http://rechtennieuws.nl/17971/kabinet-schaft-burgemeestersreferendum-af.html (abolishment of the referendum)
http://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/nederland/article1491930.ece/Burgemeestersreferendum_uit_de_gratie.html (no more subsidies for referendums about mayors)
http://www.overheidsmanagement.nl/nieuws/id1668-28402/burgemeestersreferendum_utrecht_mislukt.html (failed referndum in Utrecht, only 9% voted and it costed more than 600.000 eur).
http://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/laatstenieuws/article1764662.ece (failed referendum in Eindhoven)
In the Netherlands there were some referendums about choosing a maor. A lot of people thought the referendum were bad because choices were lacking. In some cities there was a voting percentage as low as 9%. Adter a few of these failed referendums they stopped doing it and called it failed. It simply didn't have any sense of legitimity it should have. It can work but the voting percentage needs to be so incredibly low so you can show that nobody really cared or was against it.
It can work, but it is highly unlikely.