First of all, I have no problem with any country who wants to restrict entry to their country. I have a work permit for the U.S., but if they revoked it tomorrow, I wouldn't whine. I realize that as a non-citizen, I'm not protected by that country's constitution, and I'm not counting on it.
However, I do question the efficiency of the plan. I was fingerprinted and had my photo taken for a quickpass to get over the border called Nexus. It certainly seems like taking extra precautions against people who obey the law, cross the border lawfully every day, and pay taxes in your country is a strange focus for your limited resources.
But then again, it seems to me that attacking a country completely unrelated to the terrorist threat is a strange way to focus your resources.
Overall, this should be the decision of the people of the U.S.. It will certainly hassle visitors to your country, and make it seem unwelcoming even to the friendliest of tourists. It will also not stop the people determined to enter your country to harm you. However, it may make it a bit more difficult. Too bad it only takes one whacko with a suitcase nuke.
Personally, I think a lot of this stuff since 9/11 has been a knee jerk reaction. It's understandable, but it's completely illogical, if your goal is to prevent terrorism. You can't beat terrorism. By definition, it is the tool of the people who've already been beaten. It's a force you can't fight if you want to keep your principles.
I'm sad for you guys. Good luck though! I hope you figure yourself a way out of it.
Hmmm, you might be able to pull some internet off a Canadian digital satellite provider, like Bell Expressvue, but you'd have to register under an address in Canada. That wouldn't be too hard though.
Where the heck is Idaho, anyway? One of the ones in the middle, right?
Canadian broadcasting law includes Canadian content restrictions. Fully 35% of all music broadcast on Canadian radio must be CanCon, meaning at least two of the composer, performer, recording venue, and lyric writer must be Canadian. For television the fraction is 50%.
Ok, I've been down here driving around Mississippi and Alabama for a while (wholy shit, another tree!), and I'm telling you, all that's on the top 30 stations down here is Alanis, Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne... man, Americans need legislation to LIMIT your Canadian content!
On a more serious note, even my economics teacher said that by artificially supporting the Canadian arts, the government was helping the overall economy because it supported varieties of opinions, beliefs, and cultures, and that increases innovation, creativity, and overall growth.
Can you imagine only being able to hear the same bland American-Idol-formula-pop over and over? You'd turn into... an American!
In spite of this, Canadian television has yet to produce a domestic hit television series
You're forgetting Due South and Red Green. What about Beachcombers and Danger Bay? Traders? Wasn't there a good cop show? (I'm not a fan of police shows, so I don't remember).
People don't watch shows for the drama anymore - they watch it for eye candy: sex, violence, and big special effects. At least a lot of the special effects houses are located in Canada. We also watch American shows and movies with Canadian actors... so what if they're not all "owned" by Canadians... a lot of them are filmed in Canada anyway (X-files, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda).
It seems to me that the Canadian entertainment industry is prospering. As long as I can watch a hockey game without a friggin' red and blue stripe to help me see a black puck on white ice, then I'll consider my tax dollars well spent. Go CBC!
It's a fact that the U.S. has an insanely high teenage pregnancy rate, an insanely high murder rate, comparatively low average I.Q., and can't even live up to it's own principles, like the separation of church and state.
Nice moderating - how this isn't flamebait is beyond me.
Hmm, it's not a troll because it's mostly based on fact. However, Americans are shocked that someone would point these things out, so it must be flamebait.
Perhaps you should reconsider your views before you post such a blatantly ignorant rant.
I rant on/. because doing so in public would get me scorned, and doing so at work would get me fired. Doing it on Slashdot at worst burns karma, and most times just gets me more.
Don't take it personal, Buddy. I have my hippie hug-a-tree days too. That day I was leaning a little right. Sometimes I'm flamebait, sometimes I'm insightful, but at least I'm not taking it out on people I know. And that's the American way.:) Cheers.
It's not really about low-grade techs "whining" that their FrontPage skills won't net them a six-figure salary; it's about fantastic technicians unable to get a $10/hr tech support job, because they've all been sent overseas.
I say you're full of it. I'm pretty liberal by American standards, but this is just leftist bull.
Our company of about 20 people hires about one new engineer every 3 months, and we fire about 50% of those people in the first 3 months of their employment because they're lacking in one or more of these qualities: technical ability, interest in the job, their ability to work independently, to find answers on their own, and most importantly, their ability to come up with new ideas.
If anyone who joins us is really "fantastic" as you say, they're going to be kept on, offered promotions, raises, and eventually shares in the company.
The fact that we don't retain people who can't do the job doesn't mean all the jobs are being sent offshore, it just means we discriminate based on talent. If all someone does is sit on their butt, do the bare minimum, and never strive to improve, then why shouldn't I replace them with someone from another country, willing to work for 1/10th the wage? The fact is, we have no use for such an employee either way, and much of our work is hands-on, so we won't be doing any outsourcing anyway.
Look, supposedly "all" the manufacturing jobs left, but I've been to far too many factories in the U.S. that build car parts, toys, garments, even bullets, to know that this is B.S., and new plants are being built all the time. Yes, they're all more automated now, but there are still jobs for everybody out there. I've seen them.
Someone who is only marginally able to do "mind-work", that got hired during the tech boom, is going to have to face facts and realize that since demand is lower, and supply is higher, they might as well go find something more menial to do. If that's serving coffee at Starbucks, so be it. I'd rather they serve me coffee than write crappy code that I have to go and fix. I hate being responsible for other people's sh!t.
People who are truly "fantastic" are either employed, or soon will be. If you really can't find a job, either start your own company, or stop whining and go do something you're good at.
Now if I get a chance to export any work off-shore, and it's really cheaper, I'm gonna damned well do it, because I don't particularly like Americans (particularly the whiny ones) any more than any other people on this Earth. Now stop whining, get out of your frickin' SUV and mow my damned lawn, so I can get some real work done! I'm offering $5 / hour. Feel free to clean my eavestroughs while you're at it.
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I find that when troubleshooting systems with which other people have worked longer, I have had better luck just asking them simple facts and troubleshooting myself rather than listening to their wild-ass guesses and having to shoot them down.
Yes, but within their guesses are sometimes tidbits of information. Last week we had a complaint from a user that every time they clicked this one button on a form, it set off a certain process that wasn't supposed to happen right then, but we knew that there was no connection between that click event and the process. However, I knew he wasn't imagining it.
After investigating, I found that when he opened the form that the button was on, it loaded a timer object that started ticking away, and 5 seconds later initiated the process. Just happens that it takes about 5 seconds from opening the form to click on the button.
Of course, if I'd written the software... well, whatever.
Okay, I'm looking around me right now, and there's one laptop computer, and 3 other PCs on my desk. Not to mention the desk lamps pretty close to my head. At least the PCs have metal cases, but the ones I'm going to work on later today have plastic housings.
Your moth example just shows that variation in distribution of existing genetic material. It doesn't show any evolution at all.
Ok, look: whales have hands inside their flippers. You can make up all the crazy irrational things you want to try and explain it away, but the simplest explanation is evolution.
When I was a kid, I believed in things like Santa Claus, God, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny. All 4 are lies passed down by our parents to amuse us. It's just that the first generation forgot to tell their kids that God isn't real. Now we're adults. We can figure it out for ourselves.
By filming in Canada, the production companies don't have to pay union rates to the hordes of support personal required to make the films. This out sourcing significantly brings down costs, while still providing a location with white, English-speaking extras and close proximity to the US, to accommodate "name" US actors.
Not only can we speak English in Canada, we can even spell personnel. You're of English descent... learn the language!
CS would be a liberal arts degree... where as CE would be from the engineering college.
It depends on the university. I've seen CS taught in the science faculty, and at Waterloo, in the math faculty, whereas computer engineering is, of course, in the engineering faculty. (BTW, a faculty is what an American would call a "college", i.e., a subdivision of a university.)
Computer engineering is often an electrical engineering base with focus on computer architecture and design, with more programming than a EE degree would give you. Computer science is primarily math and programming based, though it certainly varies between schools and individuals - you can usually tailor it to a more theoretical or practical curriculum as you prefer, though you should be getting a heavy dose of both.
I think you gave a pretty accurate description here. If I may add... I'm a comp. eng. grad from Waterloo...
I've found that since I graduated in 2000, I've been able to test the full range of subjects I was exposed to in undergrad. On any given day I might be troubleshooting an electrical control panel, programming a PLC, calculating power requirements, designing an HMI (in any of about 28 different languages and packages, of course), programming in C, Java, VB, or whatever else suits the customer's fancy this week, and even writing web based interfaces for data collection systems using SQL databases. There's a lot of value in being able to fill the gap between the machinery on the plant floor, and the office network. My job is definitely not repetitive.
I'm always running into either the I.S. type, whose only concern seems to be windows networking, and of course the electrical side, who don't want to touch source code with a 10 foot pole. Computer engineering is really about bridging these historically separate fields of electrical engineering, and computer science.
Yes, and they give you a paper receipt. And the banks are audited by a third party. And they can count the money still left in the machine to see if it matches what the machine says it should have, and that money is paper cash.
Why not do this: have the machine ask you all the questions, and print it out in human readable form with a 2D barcode of the same information. You check the sheet over and verify it's what you really wanted, or you put it in the handy-dandy shredder right beside it, and do it again. When you're satisfied with the result, fold it in half, take it to the ballot box and stuff it in there.
Then, to count it, open the box, scan the 2D code on every piece of paper, and the results are tabulated. If any of the results look suspect, then you can still use the paper for a manual recount, using human eyes.
Also, for every election, select 10% of the ballots at random and manually verify that the 2D barcode matches the human readable portion, just to audit the system. Obviously the auditing system has to be from a different vendor than the voting terminal.
Just one Canadian's opinion. Myself, I'm happy with a pen and paper.
If you want to vote for Candidate A, you throw a pine cone in this box. If you want to vote for Candidate B you throw a birch branch in this box. After a while though, the boxes get pretty heavy and weigh a couple of kilometers.
Of course, there could be evil spammers who also like Linux (or don't like SCO), but until someone's caught, or fesses up, it's impossible to say.
That sounds like terrorist speak to me. Thanks to recent legislation, anyone running Linux can now be 'detained' indefinitely without evidence. God bless Micro^H^H^H^H^H^H America.
In any case us western countries have had the lion's share of the distribution of wealth for far too long at the expense of poorer nations.
There are two types of wealth: natural resources, and everything else. You might argue that natural resources are "distributed" in some unfair way, but by far most of the wealth in this world is created by people. Emphasis on created.
If I mow your lawn, fix your car, or write some software for you, I've created wealth. In return, you give me money, which is a token of the wealth you created and gave to other people (unless you happen to own a lot of oil, timber, iron ore, etc., in which case you got the money by selling off this wealth that you "found").
The west didn't get all its' wealth given to it. The economic climate was designed to be (and lucky enough to be) the most conducive to economic growth. It encouraged people to create wealth because they get to keep some of it.
As more countries reform their economic systems, the populace will create wealth for themselves, and the other nations with wealth to invest will see these new markets as profitable, and do business there.
That doesn't stop you from making wealth for yourself, it just means that you have more competition.
I see you're finding it pretty easy to shoot down ideas. Try coming up with some of your own solutions so the rest of us can tell you how you're wrong. Or are you an arts major?
Obviously SCO has a lot of enemies out there right now, but it's always sad to watch someone stoop to this level.
No it's not.
I'd rather someone exploit these security problems in Outlook now, and hopefully force people to do something about it before someone tries something more serious than DDoS'ing a less than honest company's website.
The reason that the U.S. has the patriot act (and the reason Canada has a similar law now) is because people demanded that the government do something about the threat of terrorism. They wanted security, and they couldn't understand why the laws weren't protecting them.
However, none of the hijackers (as I understand it) ever committed a crime, until the morning of 9/11/2001. Our basic values say that it's a persons actions, not their thoughts, that are punishable. If our laws reflect those values, there's nothing we can do to prevent this type of terrorist attack (short of getting fewer enemies).
Therefore, while these laws run directly against our most cherished values, they are the only defence against the threat.
For that reason, there is no real defence. It's a no-win situation. If we continue to play by these rules, we've already lost.
How do you fix it? Step 1: learn about the history of the middle east, and specifically what the west has done in the last 50 years to really piss off the people there. Step 2: admit we were wrong. Step 3: apologize. Step 4: sign a final deal, compensating the Palestinians for their loss. Step 5: try not to get ourselves into this mess again.
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A terrorist could come from Australia, or the UK, or even the US.
Then why don't you start by fingerprinting your own damned population?
First of all, I have no problem with any country who wants to restrict entry to their country. I have a work permit for the U.S., but if they revoked it tomorrow, I wouldn't whine. I realize that as a non-citizen, I'm not protected by that country's constitution, and I'm not counting on it.
However, I do question the efficiency of the plan. I was fingerprinted and had my photo taken for a quickpass to get over the border called Nexus. It certainly seems like taking extra precautions against people who obey the law, cross the border lawfully every day, and pay taxes in your country is a strange focus for your limited resources.
But then again, it seems to me that attacking a country completely unrelated to the terrorist threat is a strange way to focus your resources.
Overall, this should be the decision of the people of the U.S.. It will certainly hassle visitors to your country, and make it seem unwelcoming even to the friendliest of tourists. It will also not stop the people determined to enter your country to harm you. However, it may make it a bit more difficult. Too bad it only takes one whacko with a suitcase nuke.
Personally, I think a lot of this stuff since 9/11 has been a knee jerk reaction. It's understandable, but it's completely illogical, if your goal is to prevent terrorism. You can't beat terrorism. By definition, it is the tool of the people who've already been beaten. It's a force you can't fight if you want to keep your principles.
I'm sad for you guys. Good luck though! I hope you figure yourself a way out of it.
Can I live in the US and have a Canadian ISP?
Hmmm, you might be able to pull some internet off a Canadian digital satellite provider, like Bell Expressvue, but you'd have to register under an address in Canada. That wouldn't be too hard though.
Where the heck is Idaho, anyway? One of the ones in the middle, right?
Canadian broadcasting law includes Canadian content restrictions. Fully 35% of all music broadcast on Canadian radio must be CanCon, meaning at least two of the composer, performer, recording venue, and lyric writer must be Canadian. For television the fraction is 50%.
Ok, I've been down here driving around Mississippi and Alabama for a while (wholy shit, another tree!), and I'm telling you, all that's on the top 30 stations down here is Alanis, Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne... man, Americans need legislation to LIMIT your Canadian content!
On a more serious note, even my economics teacher said that by artificially supporting the Canadian arts, the government was helping the overall economy because it supported varieties of opinions, beliefs, and cultures, and that increases innovation, creativity, and overall growth.
Can you imagine only being able to hear the same bland American-Idol-formula-pop over and over? You'd turn into... an American!
In spite of this, Canadian television has yet to produce a domestic hit television series
You're forgetting Due South and Red Green. What about Beachcombers and Danger Bay? Traders? Wasn't there a good cop show? (I'm not a fan of police shows, so I don't remember).
People don't watch shows for the drama anymore - they watch it for eye candy: sex, violence, and big special effects. At least a lot of the special effects houses are located in Canada. We also watch American shows and movies with Canadian actors... so what if they're not all "owned" by Canadians... a lot of them are filmed in Canada anyway (X-files, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda).
It seems to me that the Canadian entertainment industry is prospering. As long as I can watch a hockey game without a friggin' red and blue stripe to help me see a black puck on white ice, then I'll consider my tax dollars well spent. Go CBC!
And then a bomb goes off and kills 200 people on a train in Madrid and people realize just what an ass folks like you really are.
Buddy, you're an American and a republican... as if you know where Madrid is!
It's a fact that...
It's a fact that the U.S. has an insanely high teenage pregnancy rate, an insanely high murder rate, comparatively low average I.Q., and can't even live up to it's own principles, like the separation of church and state.
Them are the facts, Butthead.
Nice moderating - how this isn't flamebait is beyond me.
Hmm, it's not a troll because it's mostly based on fact. However, Americans are shocked that someone would point these things out, so it must be flamebait.
Perhaps you should reconsider your views before you post such a blatantly ignorant rant.
/. because doing so in public would get me scorned, and doing so at work would get me fired. Doing it on Slashdot at worst burns karma, and most times just gets me more.
:) Cheers.
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Don't take it personal, Buddy. I have my hippie hug-a-tree days too. That day I was leaning a little right. Sometimes I'm flamebait, sometimes I'm insightful, but at least I'm not taking it out on people I know. And that's the American way.
It's not really about low-grade techs "whining" that their FrontPage skills won't net them a six-figure salary; it's about fantastic technicians unable to get a $10/hr tech support job, because they've all been sent overseas.
I say you're full of it. I'm pretty liberal by American standards, but this is just leftist bull.
Our company of about 20 people hires about one new engineer every 3 months, and we fire about 50% of those people in the first 3 months of their employment because they're lacking in one or more of these qualities: technical ability, interest in the job, their ability to work independently, to find answers on their own, and most importantly, their ability to come up with new ideas.
If anyone who joins us is really "fantastic" as you say, they're going to be kept on, offered promotions, raises, and eventually shares in the company.
The fact that we don't retain people who can't do the job doesn't mean all the jobs are being sent offshore, it just means we discriminate based on talent. If all someone does is sit on their butt, do the bare minimum, and never strive to improve, then why shouldn't I replace them with someone from another country, willing to work for 1/10th the wage? The fact is, we have no use for such an employee either way, and much of our work is hands-on, so we won't be doing any outsourcing anyway.
Look, supposedly "all" the manufacturing jobs left, but I've been to far too many factories in the U.S. that build car parts, toys, garments, even bullets, to know that this is B.S., and new plants are being built all the time. Yes, they're all more automated now, but there are still jobs for everybody out there. I've seen them.
Someone who is only marginally able to do "mind-work", that got hired during the tech boom, is going to have to face facts and realize that since demand is lower, and supply is higher, they might as well go find something more menial to do. If that's serving coffee at Starbucks, so be it. I'd rather they serve me coffee than write crappy code that I have to go and fix. I hate being responsible for other people's sh!t.
People who are truly "fantastic" are either employed, or soon will be. If you really can't find a job, either start your own company, or stop whining and go do something you're good at.
Now if I get a chance to export any work off-shore, and it's really cheaper, I'm gonna damned well do it, because I don't particularly like Americans (particularly the whiny ones) any more than any other people on this Earth. Now stop whining, get out of your frickin' SUV and mow my damned lawn, so I can get some real work done! I'm offering $5 / hour. Feel free to clean my eavestroughs while you're at it.
I find that when troubleshooting systems with which other people have worked longer, I have had better luck just asking them simple facts and troubleshooting myself rather than listening to their wild-ass guesses and having to shoot them down.
Yes, but within their guesses are sometimes tidbits of information. Last week we had a complaint from a user that every time they clicked this one button on a form, it set off a certain process that wasn't supposed to happen right then, but we knew that there was no connection between that click event and the process. However, I knew he wasn't imagining it.
After investigating, I found that when he opened the form that the button was on, it loaded a timer object that started ticking away, and 5 seconds later initiated the process. Just happens that it takes about 5 seconds from opening the form to click on the button.
Of course, if I'd written the software... well, whatever.
Okay, I'm looking around me right now, and there's one laptop computer, and 3 other PCs on my desk. Not to mention the desk lamps pretty close to my head. At least the PCs have metal cases, but the ones I'm going to work on later today have plastic housings.
I'm screwed...
No wonder I feel dumber every day.
Your moth example just shows that variation in distribution of existing genetic material. It doesn't show any evolution at all.
Ok, look: whales have hands inside their flippers. You can make up all the crazy irrational things you want to try and explain it away, but the simplest explanation is evolution.
When I was a kid, I believed in things like Santa Claus, God, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny. All 4 are lies passed down by our parents to amuse us. It's just that the first generation forgot to tell their kids that God isn't real. Now we're adults. We can figure it out for ourselves.
By filming in Canada, the production companies don't have to pay union rates to the hordes of support personal required to make the films. This out sourcing significantly brings down costs, while still providing a location with white, English-speaking extras and close proximity to the US, to accommodate "name" US actors.
Not only can we speak English in Canada, we can even spell personnel. You're of English descent... learn the language!
CS would be a liberal arts degree... where as CE would be from the engineering college.
It depends on the university. I've seen CS taught in the science faculty, and at Waterloo, in the math faculty, whereas computer engineering is, of course, in the engineering faculty. (BTW, a faculty is what an American would call a "college", i.e., a subdivision of a university.)
Computer engineering is often an electrical engineering base with focus on computer architecture and design, with more programming than a EE degree would give you. Computer science is primarily math and programming based, though it certainly varies between schools and individuals - you can usually tailor it to a more theoretical or practical curriculum as you prefer, though you should be getting a heavy dose of both.
I think you gave a pretty accurate description here. If I may add... I'm a comp. eng. grad from Waterloo...
I've found that since I graduated in 2000, I've been able to test the full range of subjects I was exposed to in undergrad. On any given day I might be troubleshooting an electrical control panel, programming a PLC, calculating power requirements, designing an HMI (in any of about 28 different languages and packages, of course), programming in C, Java, VB, or whatever else suits the customer's fancy this week, and even writing web based interfaces for data collection systems using SQL databases. There's a lot of value in being able to fill the gap between the machinery on the plant floor, and the office network. My job is definitely not repetitive.
I'm always running into either the I.S. type, whose only concern seems to be windows networking, and of course the electrical side, who don't want to touch source code with a 10 foot pole. Computer engineering is really about bridging these historically separate fields of electrical engineering, and computer science.
I couldn't figure out what you were talking about ...
Well, I was sure that the original poster knew what I was talking about. Sorry for your confusion though.
ATMs exist.
Yes, and they give you a paper receipt. And the banks are audited by a third party. And they can count the money still left in the machine to see if it matches what the machine says it should have, and that money is paper cash.
Why not do this: have the machine ask you all the questions, and print it out in human readable form with a 2D barcode of the same information. You check the sheet over and verify it's what you really wanted, or you put it in the handy-dandy shredder right beside it, and do it again. When you're satisfied with the result, fold it in half, take it to the ballot box and stuff it in there.
Then, to count it, open the box, scan the 2D code on every piece of paper, and the results are tabulated. If any of the results look suspect, then you can still use the paper for a manual recount, using human eyes.
Also, for every election, select 10% of the ballots at random and manually verify that the 2D barcode matches the human readable portion, just to audit the system. Obviously the auditing system has to be from a different vendor than the voting terminal.
Just one Canadian's opinion. Myself, I'm happy with a pen and paper.
If you want to vote for Candidate A, you throw a pine cone in this box. If you want to vote for Candidate B you throw a birch branch in this box. After a while though, the boxes get pretty heavy and weigh a couple of kilometers.
You should apologize to Rick Mercer for that.
Of course, there could be evil spammers who also like Linux (or don't like SCO), but until someone's caught, or fesses up, it's impossible to say.
That sounds like terrorist speak to me. Thanks to recent legislation, anyone running Linux can now be 'detained' indefinitely without evidence. God bless Micro^H^H^H^H^H^H America.
You can't make money selling to the middle class!
I'm quite certain that the founders of home depot would disagree with you there.
But I've always dreamed of inventing a $2000 toaster, with all the gadgets that could go into it, and selling one to Mr. Trump or Mr. Gates.
You're right. They use that money elsewhere.
Bigger boats
$15,000 watches
Expensive artwork
Marble dog-houses
McMegaMansions
Then, if you were really worth all that money you think you're worth, you'd realize you should switch to one of the following professions:
Boat building
Watch making
Artist
High-end Dog-house construction
etc.
Am I the only one seeing opportunities?
In any case us western countries have had the lion's share of the distribution of wealth for far too long at the expense of poorer nations.
There are two types of wealth: natural resources, and everything else. You might argue that natural resources are "distributed" in some unfair way, but by far most of the wealth in this world is created by people. Emphasis on created.
If I mow your lawn, fix your car, or write some software for you, I've created wealth. In return, you give me money, which is a token of the wealth you created and gave to other people (unless you happen to own a lot of oil, timber, iron ore, etc., in which case you got the money by selling off this wealth that you "found").
The west didn't get all its' wealth given to it. The economic climate was designed to be (and lucky enough to be) the most conducive to economic growth. It encouraged people to create wealth because they get to keep some of it.
As more countries reform their economic systems, the populace will create wealth for themselves, and the other nations with wealth to invest will see these new markets as profitable, and do business there.
That doesn't stop you from making wealth for yourself, it just means that you have more competition.
I say, bring 'em on!
That's pretty simplistic. Even if that ...
I see you're finding it pretty easy to shoot down ideas. Try coming up with some of your own solutions so the rest of us can tell you how you're wrong. Or are you an arts major?
Obviously SCO has a lot of enemies out there right now, but it's always sad to watch someone stoop to this level.
No it's not.
I'd rather someone exploit these security problems in Outlook now, and hopefully force people to do something about it before someone tries something more serious than DDoS'ing a less than honest company's website.
If I may offer something to think about:
The reason that the U.S. has the patriot act (and the reason Canada has a similar law now) is because people demanded that the government do something about the threat of terrorism. They wanted security, and they couldn't understand why the laws weren't protecting them.
However, none of the hijackers (as I understand it) ever committed a crime, until the morning of 9/11/2001. Our basic values say that it's a persons actions, not their thoughts, that are punishable. If our laws reflect those values, there's nothing we can do to prevent this type of terrorist attack (short of getting fewer enemies).
Therefore, while these laws run directly against our most cherished values, they are the only defence against the threat.
For that reason, there is no real defence. It's a no-win situation. If we continue to play by these rules, we've already lost.
How do you fix it? Step 1: learn about the history of the middle east, and specifically what the west has done in the last 50 years to really piss off the people there. Step 2: admit we were wrong. Step 3: apologize. Step 4: sign a final deal, compensating the Palestinians for their loss. Step 5: try not to get ourselves into this mess again.