I've heard this and heard this. I say, SCREW DOCTORS. Oh... I'm making you do your job by looking things up on the internet. I'm sorry if I'm messing up your "Stats" by refusing to take the random pill you suggested this week and requested an actual exam.
I've had a couple of health problems in my life that went on for years I went through doctor after doctor, pill after pill and no doctor went further than whatever the last drug rep to visit their office had suggested. In one case I had almost constant fatigue, I was falling asleep in the middle of the day, then would get manic, sweating profusely. They blew me off, told me it was "All in my head" sent me to a shrink... Then Finally my wife was watching Opra one day and that's when she had her Thyroid issues and went on T.V. to tell everyone to get theirs checked. Her symptoms were similar to some of mine so I went back to the doctor and asked "Have you ever checked my TSH?" It's a standard, rudimentary test for thyroid function that everyone should have checked once a year by most accounts. The doctor looked through my chart... nope! Sure enough I had Graves Disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... Opra Winfery diagnosed me. I'd been through probably a dozen doctors and it was a talk show host. Even then, my regular doctor and a specialist refused to do anything.. at all... saying that even medication would mess up their testing! This went on for months. I switched doctors, the new doctor also refused and suggested that the HMO had procedures he had to follow. Eventually I ended up having a Thyroid Storm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... and ended up in the Emergency Room. They called an on-call Endocrinologist who was floored my levels were at what they were at and prescribed me medication and told me I needed to demand Radio-iodine treatment asap. I explained all the trouble I was having and he said "Once they get this ER bill I doubt you'll have any more trouble." He was right. I switched HMO's 2 months later.
Doctors can burn in hell. They don't care about people, they care about keeping their HMO/PPO happy and making their bonuses. I could have died because of their incompetence and focus on their bottom line.
So next they take a pipe bomb, place it in a bathroom stall behind the toilet with a fuse that will randomly detonate in the next 24hrs. Maybe there's someone in the stall when it goes off, maybe there's not. How can they be held responsible?
You can not get through a day without committing a felony.
Is this really true? (We could use a week without felonies instead, if you were exaggerating.) I'm sure people do sometimes commit crimes without any criminal intent, but at least one felony per day (or week) per person? And it has to be something that most people wouldn't think illegal, otherwise they'd at least try to avoid it doing it.
Yes, its absolutely true. I know a lot of people dispute this, but lawyers and Judges and even the supream court of the unitted states all agree it's true:
The complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.
Justice Breyer - 1998 http://www.law.cornell.edu/sup... No person can every know if anything they are saying could be construed as admission of guilt in a crime.
Estimates of the current size of the body of federal criminal law vary. It has been reported that the Congressional Research Service cannot even count the current number of federal crimes. These laws are scattered in over 50 titles of the United States Code, encompassing roughly 27,000 pages. Worse yet, the statutory code sections often incorporate, by reference, the provisions and sanctions of administrative regulations promulgated by various regulatory agencies under congressional authorization. Estimates of how many such regulations exist are even less well settled, but the ABA thinks there are ”nearly 10,000.”
-James Duane, Regent Law School professor Not even the federal government knows what is a violation of federal law anymore.
16 U.S.C. 3372 - It is unlawful for any person— (1) to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law;
http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc... It is a violation of federal law to be in possession of any plant or animal that is illegal in any other country anywhere on earth. Farm Raised Salmon is Illegal in Australia and New Zealand. (probably due to the fishing lobby but who cares) As a result, every time you buy Salmon you're committing a felony. People have been sent to prison over this law, this is no exaggeration. It's all a matter of if a prosecutor wants you in prison or not.
Al-a-cart is currently illegal due to the structuring content providers talked the FCC into years ago. It's a very complicated topic but basically the production people like Viacom have pushed the line so far that most TV is complete and utter garbage today and is why your cable bill can exceed $200/month easily. It's so far beyond reasonable you now have cable and satalite providers actually dropping entire networks. Dish, for example currently doesn't have any of Fox and is just displaying a banner "Fox removed this channel" in the channels place.
Now you have services like this... called "Over the top" which means ESPN is forcing Dish to broadcast its old channels in the old tiered system... and not allowing them to show ESPN (For $7/month or whatever) without also including ESPN Classic at the very same price in the same tier. So, in effect they just doubled the price of ESPN because no-one watches classic at all. But in "Over the top" programming they claim that "The internet" doesn't count as far as the FCC is concerned (Basically because they know they are losing people in vast swaths to online content) So they do allow Al-a-cart programming in steaming services like this.
This is why recently the FCC said they were likely to start regulating "Over the top" programming in the same way they regulate Cable TV. By doing so they will force the content providers hand, and they'll have to chose. Keep making insane 40% profit margins but die a slow death as steaming takes over... or finally give up and allow people to only pay for what they want.
Your naivety is cute. And yes, that's meant to be demeaning.
The problem with the current level of surveillance is not that the current government can or will use it for "Evil" The problem is that everything you do. Everything you say. Hell, everything you think but don't say but can be gleaned from your Internet searches... is being recorded, all the time, and will be stored forever.
Lets say you're an avid Gun rights advocate. And you write to your friends about how asault rifles should be legal. Then lets say 20yrs pass by and public opinion takes a radical turn... There are some terrorist attacks or something... Guns become not just heavily regulated but the entire idea of suggesting guns should be unrestricted suggests that you support whomever perpetrated the afore mentioned terrorist attacks... and all your communications are still in that database... You try to get a government job... you try and run for office... you want to get health insurance... But you're blacklisted everywhere.
Sound far fetched? This is exactly what happened in the McCarthy trials. Those people didn't attend secret communist meetings and plan to overthrow the government. When the idea of communism started to get popular it was a new and interesting political ideology. Lots of people attended meetings. There was a lot of discussion, both good and bad. You could see your neighbor who'd ask where you were headed and say "Oh, Johns throwing a party and going to tell us all about communism, want to come?" and that would not have been weird. But... there were records of all that... A few years passed by, and communism became the enemy of freedom. Suddenly people started looking up all those old logs... Who attended those meetings? Who supported that subversive ideology?!?!
If everything you do, all day, every day, is recorded. Eventually some of it will become the new enemy of the people or illegal, or who knows what. It is impossible to live your life without eventually saying something that will one day become horribly offensive or even outright illegal. This is also why 24/7 tracking of your driving habits or any other thing is a bad. You can not get through a day without committing a felony. If the government or anyone else has the ability to troll through everything you say and do every second of your life they will invariably be able to find something to hang you with. This is why the justice system requires a complaint accompanied by evidence before authorities area allowed to search your person. Because if they were allowed to search your person in search of evidence of a crime before suspicion, they would always find something.
"Nest Will Now Work With Your Door Locks, Light Bulbs and More"
So anyone who can access your Nest network can now determine your living habits and unlock doors on demand?
I'm not typically a paranoid libertarian, but really, there are some things I'm 100% fine with handling on a closed network or with my own two hands.
-Rick
Lol... I always love this argument.
So you think someones going to hack your wifi when they could just instead just chuck a rock through a window and climb in?
There are only 1 way to protect yourself from breakins. Ask any cop. People with medium to large dogs don't get robbed. I get woken up if someone even walks by on the sidewalk. Try and crawl in through my window and you'd have 2 large dogs attached to your legs and shotgun in your face shortly after. The lock on your door is useful only in preventing the neighbor from stumbling into your house when he comes home drunk at 3am.
There's no point in having a useless debate. I question them posting the original article, but there's no reason to make it worse by pretending there's any way to come up with a retort. Science cannot, ever, prove or disprove religion. Period. Religion cannot, ever, prove or disprove Science. They are polar opposites and not related.
At best, Science could claim that Religion is an fascinating form of Philosophy and an interesting topic for study. While Religion could say that Science was an interesting way to study Gods design. Anyone that goes further is just trying to pick a fight and will never concede their point so just avoid it all together.
I disagree... I can't speak for India, but here in the US people really do believe this stuff. Not only that, but many of the politicians we have in office are true believers and again truly believe this stuff. It's not always just some cynical attempt to manipulate people (though in some cases it is.)
This is why there should be a firm separation of Church and state. Religion is by defiance something that rejects evidence and relies solely on faith. As such, anyone can come along, reject all reasonable arguments and declare that they have faith that their own opinion on the matter is fact because God says so. You may be able to run your spiritual life that way, but not your physical one.
lord ganesha proof of plastic surgery?? rarely do i found abject ignorance so funny. but this is gold!!
It is not that crazy if you actually think about it for long... In India, people with severe facial deformities are often revered as profits or some such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now, I don't know about intentionally making yourself look like an Elephant with plastic surgery... but there are certainly many cases of people ending up with a natural resemblance to having the head of an elephant. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that at some time in the very distant past that a cult popped up around someone with a deformity like this and it just so happened his ideas caught on and turned into modern Hinduism.
If I get re-incarnated into a fly, I'll do my best to retract this statement.
Computers should not be in schools outside of a computer lab. At most, maybe a teacher could have a digital overhead projector. But these ridiculous chalk boards? iPads for every student? Come one. The only real "tech" a school should invest in is covering the walls of each room with metal screen to turn it into a Faraday cage so the kids can't text one another.
And no, I'm not a Neo-Luddite. I just think that, in the classroom, computers do far more harm than good.
Speak for yourself asshole... I'm under 40 and can fix damned near anything. So can my kid. We just got done rebuilding a 50yr old tractor together.
Most people of any generation are useless meat puppets that seem to exist for the sole purpose of consuming celebrity gossip. We need them to blow their money on useless crap so technology and industry can advance and allow those of us with an IQ about 80 can have new tools to play with.
Plaintiff: I'm suing you for infringement! Turn over your hard drive as evidence! Defendant: Um... oh, that failed 6 months ago, I threw it out.
No potential for abuse there at all... lol
But it seems fair to me. Businesses have retention policies for this very reason. A retention policy is not usually designed to retain data. It's there to make sure data doesn't stay around for decades waiting to be discovered by some random lawsuit. After I got into the industry and saw how they did things, I brought the same policy home. All the drives in my house get a low level format at least every 6 months. Everything important is backed up, everything else gets wiped and reinstalled.
I'm dealing with WINE daily as my kid finds more games he wants to work. The fact that there's a virtual "Bottle" that's the Windows file system... and the DLLs needed for web content and such get opened in wrappers... that's either an emulator, or close enough for the distinction to only matter to annoying Neckbeards.
It seems that WINE is an emulator that has a whole bunch of tools that make using the emulator a hell of a lot easier than it otherwise would be.
I've got both Windows and Linux boxes in my house. Basically my windows boxes are for gaming because... well... Linux sucks for Gaming.
But recently my 7yr old got his first computer so I gave him Kbuntu. Wow... I was really suprised how well it's performing game wise. Thanks to Valve there's a huge number of games available on Linux. New games are almost guaranteed to be OS agnostic. And the games that aren't... Wine has made amazing progress at emulation. With a relatively small amount of effort you can get most things, even browser games, running on Linux at basically the same quality it runs under windows.
A good example: The sequel to Ultima Online (currently in Alpha): https://www.shroudoftheavatar.... Is Windows/Linux/Mac compatible.
It reminds me of the stories of teenagers getting themselves a website and then hosting some video that went viral overnight... they wake up to a $16k bill.
not north korea, is slashdot becoming just another source for government misinformation and propaganda???
First of all, if you review the "Evidence" provided by that "security firm" you quickly learn that there is no evidence and this is more of a PR stunt. In fact, if you look at all of the interviews with them, every single one of them was with their "Head of media relations" I mean... come on... they're not even trying to hide it.
But lets assume their wild-ass-guess is correct... So an insider helped a hacking group attack Sony... that's their theory. Ok... and why couldn't that hacking group be part of the North Korean military?
How much greenhouse gas would be emitted if everybody drove their car, or took a boat vs. flying? Me thinks much more.
Most people who take planes aren't going to take buses either. The main advantage is the speed.
The point isn't to just stop flying. The point is, focusing all of your efficiency standards on automobiles is stupid.
Those that support "Green" energy often have a very naive view of what exactly "Green" is. Solar panels are the answer to all of our problems... but they never consider the effects of silver mining and glass production of the panels. Hydroelectric is carbon neutral! But destroys vast swaths of the ecosystem in the process. Electric cars don't produce CO2! Yet 67% of our electricity comes from fossil fuels, many of them even less efficient than the gasoline engines the electric car is replacing.
I don't know anyone that ever thought "Open source" was bug free. The point is that people can more easilly find and fix bugs with open source. With closed source, there could be some obvious and dangerous mistakes in the code but no-one but those with access to the source will know it exists. It's then up to whomever owns the source to decide if it's profitable enough to fix it. The problem with that system is there are people with access to the source... People come and go from every company on earth every day. So they're finding these vulnerabilities, and leaving the company with them. They can sell these to whomever they wished if they so chose. The NSA and others like them probobly have all the major players broken so they can view the source as well. The point being is that closed source is only closed to YOU With open source, you can look at the code yourself, and if you see a bug the general community doesn't think is a big deal and doesn't want to fix... if it's in fact, a big deal to you, you can go right ahead and fix it yourself.
Yes, the... what? 5000? 10,000? people that have Google Fiber will be very excited about this. lol
It's all well and good to install fiber in some of the easiest areas in the country to service. But almost all of those places already had multiple choices for ISPs. When Google starts rolling out fiber in rural Idaho, where the need really is, then it'll be interesting. But I have a feeling that'll never happen.
"The database has already one worried comment saying that automatically revealing a vulnerability just like that might be a bad idea." Really? They had 90 days to fix this. That is plenty of time.
You've never been through regression testing have you?
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I've heard this and heard this. I say, SCREW DOCTORS. Oh... I'm making you do your job by looking things up on the internet. I'm sorry if I'm messing up your "Stats" by refusing to take the random pill you suggested this week and requested an actual exam.
I've had a couple of health problems in my life that went on for years I went through doctor after doctor, pill after pill and no doctor went further than whatever the last drug rep to visit their office had suggested. In one case I had almost constant fatigue, I was falling asleep in the middle of the day, then would get manic, sweating profusely. They blew me off, told me it was "All in my head" sent me to a shrink... Then Finally my wife was watching Opra one day and that's when she had her Thyroid issues and went on T.V. to tell everyone to get theirs checked. Her symptoms were similar to some of mine so I went back to the doctor and asked "Have you ever checked my TSH?" It's a standard, rudimentary test for thyroid function that everyone should have checked once a year by most accounts. The doctor looked through my chart... nope! Sure enough I had Graves Disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Opra Winfery diagnosed me. I'd been through probably a dozen doctors and it was a talk show host. Even then, my regular doctor and a specialist refused to do anything.. at all... saying that even medication would mess up their testing! This went on for months. I switched doctors, the new doctor also refused and suggested that the HMO had procedures he had to follow. Eventually I ended up having a Thyroid Storm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
and ended up in the Emergency Room. They called an on-call Endocrinologist who was floored my levels were at what they were at and prescribed me medication and told me I needed to demand Radio-iodine treatment asap. I explained all the trouble I was having and he said "Once they get this ER bill I doubt you'll have any more trouble." He was right. I switched HMO's 2 months later.
Doctors can burn in hell. They don't care about people, they care about keeping their HMO/PPO happy and making their bonuses. I could have died because of their incompetence and focus on their bottom line.
So next they take a pipe bomb, place it in a bathroom stall behind the toilet with a fuse that will randomly detonate in the next 24hrs. Maybe there's someone in the stall when it goes off, maybe there's not. How can they be held responsible?
You can not get through a day without committing a felony.
Is this really true? (We could use a week without felonies instead, if you were exaggerating.) I'm sure people do sometimes commit crimes without any criminal intent, but at least one felony per day (or week) per person? And it has to be something that most people wouldn't think illegal, otherwise they'd at least try to avoid it doing it.
Yes, its absolutely true. I know a lot of people dispute this, but lawyers and Judges and even the supream court of the unitted states all agree it's true:
The complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.
Justice Breyer - 1998
http://www.law.cornell.edu/sup...
No person can every know if anything they are saying could be construed as admission of guilt in a crime.
Estimates of the current size of the body of federal criminal law vary. It has been reported that the Congressional Research Service cannot even count the current number of federal crimes. These laws are scattered in over 50 titles of the United States Code, encompassing roughly 27,000 pages. Worse yet, the statutory code sections often incorporate, by reference, the provisions and sanctions of administrative regulations promulgated by various regulatory agencies under congressional authorization. Estimates of how many such regulations exist are even less well settled, but the ABA thinks there are ”nearly 10,000.”
-James Duane, Regent Law School professor
Not even the federal government knows what is a violation of federal law anymore.
16 U.S.C. 3372 - It is unlawful for any person—
(1) to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law;
http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc...
It is a violation of federal law to be in possession of any plant or animal that is illegal in any other country anywhere on earth.
Farm Raised Salmon is Illegal in Australia and New Zealand. (probably due to the fishing lobby but who cares) As a result, every time you buy Salmon you're committing a felony. People have been sent to prison over this law, this is no exaggeration. It's all a matter of if a prosecutor wants you in prison or not.
Al-a-cart is currently illegal due to the structuring content providers talked the FCC into years ago. It's a very complicated topic but basically the production people like Viacom have pushed the line so far that most TV is complete and utter garbage today and is why your cable bill can exceed $200/month easily. It's so far beyond reasonable you now have cable and satalite providers actually dropping entire networks. Dish, for example currently doesn't have any of Fox and is just displaying a banner "Fox removed this channel" in the channels place.
Now you have services like this... called "Over the top" which means ESPN is forcing Dish to broadcast its old channels in the old tiered system... and not allowing them to show ESPN (For $7/month or whatever) without also including ESPN Classic at the very same price in the same tier. So, in effect they just doubled the price of ESPN because no-one watches classic at all. But in "Over the top" programming they claim that "The internet" doesn't count as far as the FCC is concerned (Basically because they know they are losing people in vast swaths to online content) So they do allow Al-a-cart programming in steaming services like this.
This is why recently the FCC said they were likely to start regulating "Over the top" programming in the same way they regulate Cable TV. By doing so they will force the content providers hand, and they'll have to chose. Keep making insane 40% profit margins but die a slow death as steaming takes over... or finally give up and allow people to only pay for what they want.
Your naivety is cute. And yes, that's meant to be demeaning.
The problem with the current level of surveillance is not that the current government can or will use it for "Evil"
The problem is that everything you do. Everything you say. Hell, everything you think but don't say but can be gleaned from your Internet searches... is being recorded, all the time, and will be stored forever.
Lets say you're an avid Gun rights advocate. And you write to your friends about how asault rifles should be legal. Then lets say 20yrs pass by and public opinion takes a radical turn... There are some terrorist attacks or something... Guns become not just heavily regulated but the entire idea of suggesting guns should be unrestricted suggests that you support whomever perpetrated the afore mentioned terrorist attacks... and all your communications are still in that database... You try to get a government job... you try and run for office... you want to get health insurance... But you're blacklisted everywhere.
Sound far fetched? This is exactly what happened in the McCarthy trials. Those people didn't attend secret communist meetings and plan to overthrow the government. When the idea of communism started to get popular it was a new and interesting political ideology. Lots of people attended meetings. There was a lot of discussion, both good and bad. You could see your neighbor who'd ask where you were headed and say "Oh, Johns throwing a party and going to tell us all about communism, want to come?" and that would not have been weird. But... there were records of all that... A few years passed by, and communism became the enemy of freedom. Suddenly people started looking up all those old logs... Who attended those meetings? Who supported that subversive ideology?!?!
If everything you do, all day, every day, is recorded. Eventually some of it will become the new enemy of the people or illegal, or who knows what. It is impossible to live your life without eventually saying something that will one day become horribly offensive or even outright illegal. This is also why 24/7 tracking of your driving habits or any other thing is a bad. You can not get through a day without committing a felony. If the government or anyone else has the ability to troll through everything you say and do every second of your life they will invariably be able to find something to hang you with. This is why the justice system requires a complaint accompanied by evidence before authorities area allowed to search your person. Because if they were allowed to search your person in search of evidence of a crime before suspicion, they would always find something.
"Nest Will Now Work With Your Door Locks, Light Bulbs and More"
So anyone who can access your Nest network can now determine your living habits and unlock doors on demand?
I'm not typically a paranoid libertarian, but really, there are some things I'm 100% fine with handling on a closed network or with my own two hands.
-Rick
Lol... I always love this argument.
So you think someones going to hack your wifi when they could just instead just chuck a rock through a window and climb in?
There are only 1 way to protect yourself from breakins. Ask any cop. People with medium to large dogs don't get robbed. I get woken up if someone even walks by on the sidewalk. Try and crawl in through my window and you'd have 2 large dogs attached to your legs and shotgun in your face shortly after. The lock on your door is useful only in preventing the neighbor from stumbling into your house when he comes home drunk at 3am.
Way to go WSJ...
There's no point in having a useless debate. I question them posting the original article, but there's no reason to make it worse by pretending there's any way to come up with a retort. Science cannot, ever, prove or disprove religion. Period. Religion cannot, ever, prove or disprove Science. They are polar opposites and not related.
At best, Science could claim that Religion is an fascinating form of Philosophy and an interesting topic for study. While Religion could say that Science was an interesting way to study Gods design. Anyone that goes further is just trying to pick a fight and will never concede their point so just avoid it all together.
I disagree... I can't speak for India, but here in the US people really do believe this stuff. Not only that, but many of the politicians we have in office are true believers and again truly believe this stuff. It's not always just some cynical attempt to manipulate people (though in some cases it is.)
This is why there should be a firm separation of Church and state. Religion is by defiance something that rejects evidence and relies solely on faith. As such, anyone can come along, reject all reasonable arguments and declare that they have faith that their own opinion on the matter is fact because God says so. You may be able to run your spiritual life that way, but not your physical one.
lord ganesha proof of plastic surgery?? rarely do i found abject ignorance so funny. but this is gold!!
It is not that crazy if you actually think about it for long...
In India, people with severe facial deformities are often revered as profits or some such:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now, I don't know about intentionally making yourself look like an Elephant with plastic surgery... but there are certainly many cases of people ending up with a natural resemblance to having the head of an elephant. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that at some time in the very distant past that a cult popped up around someone with a deformity like this and it just so happened his ideas caught on and turned into modern Hinduism.
If I get re-incarnated into a fly, I'll do my best to retract this statement.
Computers should not be in schools outside of a computer lab.
At most, maybe a teacher could have a digital overhead projector. But these ridiculous chalk boards? iPads for every student? Come one.
The only real "tech" a school should invest in is covering the walls of each room with metal screen to turn it into a Faraday cage so the kids can't text one another.
And no, I'm not a Neo-Luddite. I just think that, in the classroom, computers do far more harm than good.
...and the best part is they have Nukes!
Speak for yourself asshole... I'm under 40 and can fix damned near anything. So can my kid. We just got done rebuilding a 50yr old tractor together.
Most people of any generation are useless meat puppets that seem to exist for the sole purpose of consuming celebrity gossip. We need them to blow their money on useless crap so technology and industry can advance and allow those of us with an IQ about 80 can have new tools to play with.
lol... Come on man...
Plaintiff: I'm suing you for infringement! Turn over your hard drive as evidence!
Defendant: Um... oh, that failed 6 months ago, I threw it out.
No potential for abuse there at all... lol
But it seems fair to me. Businesses have retention policies for this very reason. A retention policy is not usually designed to retain data. It's there to make sure data doesn't stay around for decades waiting to be discovered by some random lawsuit. After I got into the industry and saw how they did things, I brought the same policy home. All the drives in my house get a low level format at least every 6 months. Everything important is backed up, everything else gets wiped and reinstalled.
...hmmm... the WINE website seems to disagree with you:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#hea...
The way they describe it:
"Wine is not just an emulator" is more accurate.
I'm dealing with WINE daily as my kid finds more games he wants to work. The fact that there's a virtual "Bottle" that's the Windows file system... and the DLLs needed for web content and such get opened in wrappers... that's either an emulator, or close enough for the distinction to only matter to annoying Neckbeards.
It seems that WINE is an emulator that has a whole bunch of tools that make using the emulator a hell of a lot easier than it otherwise would be.
So, if the FCC decides to enforce Net Neutrality like Netflix wants... wouldn't that include region blocking like this?
I've got both Windows and Linux boxes in my house. Basically my windows boxes are for gaming because... well... Linux sucks for Gaming.
But recently my 7yr old got his first computer so I gave him Kbuntu. Wow... I was really suprised how well it's performing game wise. Thanks to Valve there's a huge number of games available on Linux. New games are almost guaranteed to be OS agnostic. And the games that aren't... Wine has made amazing progress at emulation. With a relatively small amount of effort you can get most things, even browser games, running on Linux at basically the same quality it runs under windows.
A good example: The sequel to Ultima Online (currently in Alpha): https://www.shroudoftheavatar....
Is Windows/Linux/Mac compatible.
It reminds me of the stories of teenagers getting themselves a website and then hosting some video that went viral overnight... they wake up to a $16k bill.
not north korea, is slashdot becoming just another source for government misinformation and propaganda???
First of all, if you review the "Evidence" provided by that "security firm" you quickly learn that there is no evidence and this is more of a PR stunt. In fact, if you look at all of the interviews with them, every single one of them was with their "Head of media relations" I mean... come on... they're not even trying to hide it.
But lets assume their wild-ass-guess is correct...
So an insider helped a hacking group attack Sony... that's their theory. Ok... and why couldn't that hacking group be part of the North Korean military?
How much greenhouse gas would be emitted if everybody drove their car, or took a boat vs. flying? Me thinks much more.
Most people who take planes aren't going to take buses either. The main advantage is the speed.
The point isn't to just stop flying. The point is, focusing all of your efficiency standards on automobiles is stupid.
Those that support "Green" energy often have a very naive view of what exactly "Green" is. Solar panels are the answer to all of our problems... but they never consider the effects of silver mining and glass production of the panels. Hydroelectric is carbon neutral! But destroys vast swaths of the ecosystem in the process. Electric cars don't produce CO2! Yet 67% of our electricity comes from fossil fuels, many of them even less efficient than the gasoline engines the electric car is replacing.
I don't know anyone that ever thought "Open source" was bug free. The point is that people can more easilly find and fix bugs with open source. With closed source, there could be some obvious and dangerous mistakes in the code but no-one but those with access to the source will know it exists. It's then up to whomever owns the source to decide if it's profitable enough to fix it. The problem with that system is there are people with access to the source... People come and go from every company on earth every day. So they're finding these vulnerabilities, and leaving the company with them. They can sell these to whomever they wished if they so chose. The NSA and others like them probobly have all the major players broken so they can view the source as well. The point being is that closed source is only closed to YOU With open source, you can look at the code yourself, and if you see a bug the general community doesn't think is a big deal and doesn't want to fix... if it's in fact, a big deal to you, you can go right ahead and fix it yourself.
Yes, the... what? 5000? 10,000? people that have Google Fiber will be very excited about this. lol
It's all well and good to install fiber in some of the easiest areas in the country to service. But almost all of those places already had multiple choices for ISPs. When Google starts rolling out fiber in rural Idaho, where the need really is, then it'll be interesting. But I have a feeling that'll never happen.
I just realized the pictures they do have are of other facilities... there aren't any pictures at all.
Get down there with your phone man!
Wow!
Get a Geiger counter... Who knows what will happen when they start poking at things.
I wish there were more pictures...
"The database has already one worried comment saying that automatically revealing a vulnerability just like that might be a bad idea."
Really? They had 90 days to fix this. That is plenty of time.
You've never been through regression testing have you?
Are there 100,000 DVD players or PCs in private hands in North Korea? This doesn't seem like it is likely to have much effect.
http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-6...
They don't even have electricity... so I doubt it.