Next, the RIAA and/or the MPAA will sue the US Government for starting the internet, which exists for the sole purpose of pirating music and movies.
Bah, they'd have to sue Britain for indirectly starting the US, which exists for the sole purpose of starting the internet which exists for the sole purpose of.....
One thing that bugs me about the country codes themselves is that it seems like people don't want to use them. Everything's got to be dotcommified. I suppose I should expect that considering there's songs that use "dot com" in their lyrics now, but..
It's bloody annoying, though. In my neck of the woods (Nova Scotia), I think there's maybe one ISP that does not have a.com addy (ie.ca like stuff is supposed to).
What is the point of the country codes if nobody bothers to use them? The domain system should be utterly demolished, or actually enforced. No spanish fishing trawlers nabbing.ca addies for their personal pages, and sticking.com/.net/.org/etc in the US where they were originally intended. Or even better, yoink them altogether.
> Can someone please define the concept of a > "rogue" website?
I'm more interested in their use of the word "terrorists:" This may mean something as simple as deleting a posting from a Web message board on Yahoo! or it could mean "the shuttering of a terrorist Web site."
So if I decide to complain about, say, Wal-Mart's hiring/firing policy (here they seem to fire their new employees one hour before they would be required to promote them), I'm lumped in with Osama ibn Ladin? Nice.
Feel free to execute me for the above complaints, by the way.
> The best and most innocuous way a system is > penetrated and compromised is not from > remote exploits, but from the inside. The > careless SysAdmin who leaves a root console > open; the stupid employee who writes his > password on postit notes next to the monitor; > the disguntled and angry employee that did > not get the raise he thinks he deserved.
How would insurance companies handle a more meatspace version of those kinds of problems? A clueless employee or security guard forgetting to lock the doors after closing? Would the insurance companies just consider that 'self-inflicted' and leave them to handle it themselves?
Myself, I'd be more interested in finding a concrete way to determine how much a company loses in an attack. Preferably in real money. Anyone can get their web page cracked and replaced for 4 hours and claim they lost three percent of Japan's net worth as a result. In fact, 'anyone' seems to - even the slightest compromise claims to have millions or tens of millions of dollars in damage.
Just how can they prove that they lost, say, $6M on a thirty-minute DDoS smackdown or something? Exactly what company earns a quarter billion dollars a day anyway?
> You don't need to move it much, if you have > enough leeway.
Heh, everyone seems to think you're going to shatter the rock and wind up in the barrel of a cannon full of case shot rather than a rifle.
When you look at it, space is Big.. even a rock hitting the Earth - hell, a rock hitting Jupiter - is a fluke. Given enough distance, you'd only have to move the rock the slightest fraction of a degree. If we can't vaporize the things, we can at least budge them one twelfth of a degree or whatever's nessecary.
> I guess I mean to ask who would shoot the damn > thing down (if possible!) the US can't even > develop defenses against missiles under the > START treaty...
Well, I'd assume that if we found out Ice Cream Tuesdae or whatnot was going to slap the Earth upside the head in whatever "adequate" warning would be (six months to several years), people would sort of look the other way if someone wanted to nudge the thing a bit.
Political treaties would be kind of moot of the future of the species that wrote them was on the line.
I remember poking around the USMC page once awhile back.. they had a list of the various types of equipment that they were using. The thing I found interesting is that they had the costs for each thing as well. What had me on the floor was the existence of a "North Finding Module" that (IIRC) barely cost this side of twenty thousand dollars. And yes, it was what you think it was from the name. I can see the seven-dollar.50 rounds, but that.. aiee. -PS
(AmFlag behind bars, perhaps? Or maybe set in crosshairs.)
My 'group' was targetted by stuff like that in my senior year of high school. T'was a large group of about twenty or thirty people, most of whom were considered the Losers by the stereotypical jocks or whatnot. Based off a running gag between me and a few friends it was nicknamed The Horde (or The Rabble, depending on who you asked). It was pretty much a fairly random sampling of students; you couldn't tell by looking around the school who was in it and who wasn't like you can with most groups these days.
In general, the majority (90%) of us did fine. No more angsty or whatever than your typical teenaged population (often much less so, in fact), were appreciated by the teachers (hell, three or four of us pretty much taught some classes), and generally got along fine with most of the student body (again, with the Holier-Than-Thou clique exceptions).
Apparently, though, we were considered too dangerous to say anything in the school yearbook. Behold my surprise when I got my yearbook the day before I graduated, and saw that not only my entry, but the entries of every other graduate in the group (a dozen or so - wow, we didn't shun the 'underclassmen!') was removed and replaced with a one- or two-liner written by the yearbook committee/student council. What was offensive in them? I don't have a clue. All I know is that mine stated my choice of a university for the next year, where in the school the Horde tended to hang out in, a couple of quotes.. fairly standard yearbook stuff. The result was something written in third-person that was often contradictory to what I said (hell, they even replaced the univ choice with "Patrick hasn't decided where he's going yet").
Needless to say, I was quite thoroughly disgusted with the school for some time after this.
Anyway, I just found it disturbing. Sure, my group had the social status of the Loser Group amongst some cliques. On the other hand, they were generally the most clean-cut people in the school; they were well-known and respected by the staff (even the few guys with their heads way up the wrong end), and far from troublemakers. After the whole Columbine mess, one of the jock cliques began circulating rumors that me and my friends were going to be the next group to do something drastic, however. I'm quite surprised that the teachers actually seemed to buy into that and decide to make like we didn't exist.
I really like how some paranoid or arrogant (depending on your perspective) finger-pointing can so radically change peoples' views on a group's mental state. I also like how the staff and S.C. decided that this problem can be solved by simply removing any connections between us in the yearbook.
Meanwhile, the Proper, Popular cliques are out there getting criminal records up the wazoo. (The one who started spreading the rumours still screams death threats at me and/or my friends whenever they drive by.
I'd love to see a game of that type myself.. Sadly, nowadays it would almost immediately be overrun by the typical troll crowd that's so big in most games these days.
People in multi games these days want power, not RP. It's kind of sad when the game becomes a race to see who can hurl it the furthest out of balance, or who can argue for a munch ship the loudest. I try to RP extensively in any game that allows it (TW, BRE, VGAP - and how for the latter!), and even though I usually don't wind up being crowned High Muckamuck of the Known Universe, it's still fun.
Anyone ever actually try something mildly humble in one of those games? Sucking or becoming a power player's easy, but I've found it to be interesting to see if you can be an Average Schmoe without avoiding the other players altogether.
I snagged a Colonial Transport in one TW game and hired myself out as a hauling service. I miss the days when most people didn't have the "Ooh! Easy kill! *blast*" mentality about things like that. Now it's almost manditory to be a munchkin if you want to survive in a game.:P
I had an astoundingly crappy Proboard BBS with TW, BRE, and the rest of the gang on it. I wonder how many actual dialup BBSes are still around anymore.. there used to be a few hundred in town here, lots of really old Citadel BBSes (one guy, after closing down his board, faced such howls of outrage from the community that he started up a pub in its place;) ), all that stuff.
I miss TW and its ilk. There's a half-decent one I goofed with a bit (Space Merchant), but it Just Ain't the Same. It's kinda weird how games that no game marketer nowadays would take a second look at ("It's not even 3D accellerated!") was, and I assume still is, quite popular. Same for all those BBS doors; they were simple as hell, but they *worked*.:)
I should hope there are plenty of people out there who actually don't believe the graphics make the game.;)
T'would be pretty interesting to see what happens once civvies start doing stuff with launch equipment. Especially if any kind of competition gets started with them.;)
I've always found possibilities like that neat. Guess we should keep our fingers crossed on this one. Wonder what Hawking and others in his situation think of stuff like this?
Heh, you gotta wonder, when a guy was given six months to live before a lot of people reading this were even born. Hopefully, we'll get to see it happen someday.
That's at least the third time you've said that in this article's comments. Please come up with something original to say instead of waving around a big sign saying "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!"
Well, then all the zealots would be whining anyway.. "What are stories about windows-only release doing on slashdot?!!" You just can't win anymore.
And it supports open source in pretty much the same way handing an artist some good, free paints supports art. Who cares if the compiler doesn't have the source? It's what you make with it that matters.
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Bah, they'd have to sue Britain for indirectly starting the US, which exists for the sole purpose of starting the internet which exists for the sole purpose of .....
-PS
It's bloody annoying, though. In my neck of the woods (Nova Scotia), I think there's maybe one ISP that does not have a .com addy (ie .ca like stuff is supposed to).
What is the point of the country codes if nobody bothers to use them? The domain system should be utterly demolished, or actually enforced. No spanish fishing trawlers nabbing .ca addies for their personal pages, and sticking .com/.net/.org/etc in the US where they were originally intended. Or even better, yoink them altogether.
Is domainname.type.country really that difficult?
I suppose so. It'd make sense.
*grumble*
-Patrick Stewart
> "rogue" website?
I'm more interested in their use of the word "terrorists:" This may mean something as simple as deleting a posting from a Web message board on Yahoo! or it could mean "the shuttering of a terrorist Web site."
So if I decide to complain about, say, Wal-Mart's hiring/firing policy (here they seem to fire their new employees one hour before they would be required to promote them), I'm lumped in with Osama ibn Ladin? Nice.
Feel free to execute me for the above complaints, by the way.
-Patrick Stewart
> penetrated and compromised is not from
> remote exploits, but from the inside. The
> careless SysAdmin who leaves a root console
> open; the stupid employee who writes his
> password on postit notes next to the monitor;
> the disguntled and angry employee that did
> not get the raise he thinks he deserved.
How would insurance companies handle a more meatspace version of those kinds of problems? A clueless employee or security guard forgetting to lock the doors after closing? Would the insurance companies just consider that 'self-inflicted' and leave them to handle it themselves?
Myself, I'd be more interested in finding a concrete way to determine how much a company loses in an attack. Preferably in real money. Anyone can get their web page cracked and replaced for 4 hours and claim they lost three percent of Japan's net worth as a result. In fact, 'anyone' seems to - even the slightest compromise claims to have millions or tens of millions of dollars in damage.
Just how can they prove that they lost, say, $6M on a thirty-minute DDoS smackdown or something? Exactly what company earns a quarter billion dollars a day anyway?
-Patrick Stewart
> enough leeway.
Heh, everyone seems to think you're going to shatter the rock and wind up in the barrel of a cannon full of case shot rather than a rifle.
When you look at it, space is Big.. even a rock hitting the Earth - hell, a rock hitting Jupiter - is a fluke. Given enough distance, you'd only have to move the rock the slightest fraction of a degree. If we can't vaporize the things, we can at least budge them one twelfth of a degree or whatever's nessecary.
-Patrick Stewart
> thing down (if possible!) the US can't even
> develop defenses against missiles under the
> START treaty...
Well, I'd assume that if we found out Ice Cream Tuesdae or whatnot was going to slap the Earth upside the head in whatever "adequate" warning would be (six months to several years), people would sort of look the other way if someone wanted to nudge the thing a bit.
Political treaties would be kind of moot of the future of the species that wrote them was on the line.
-Patrick Stewart
I remember poking around the USMC page once awhile back.. they had a list of the various types of equipment that they were using. The thing I found interesting is that they had the costs for each thing as well. What had me on the floor was the existence of a "North Finding Module" that (IIRC) barely cost this side of twenty thousand dollars. And yes, it was what you think it was from the name. I can see the seven-dollar .50 rounds, but that.. aiee. -PS
My 'group' was targetted by stuff like that in my senior year of high school. T'was a large group of about twenty or thirty people, most of whom were considered the Losers by the stereotypical jocks or whatnot. Based off a running gag between me and a few friends it was nicknamed The Horde (or The Rabble, depending on who you asked). It was pretty much a fairly random sampling of students; you couldn't tell by looking around the school who was in it and who wasn't like you can with most groups these days.
In general, the majority (90%) of us did fine. No more angsty or whatever than your typical teenaged population (often much less so, in fact), were appreciated by the teachers (hell, three or four of us pretty much taught some classes), and generally got along fine with most of the student body (again, with the Holier-Than-Thou clique exceptions).
Apparently, though, we were considered too dangerous to say anything in the school yearbook. Behold my surprise when I got my yearbook the day before I graduated, and saw that not only my entry, but the entries of every other graduate in the group (a dozen or so - wow, we didn't shun the 'underclassmen!') was removed and replaced with a one- or two-liner written by the yearbook committee/student council. What was offensive in them? I don't have a clue. All I know is that mine stated my choice of a university for the next year, where in the school the Horde tended to hang out in, a couple of quotes.. fairly standard yearbook stuff. The result was something written in third-person that was often contradictory to what I said (hell, they even replaced the univ choice with "Patrick hasn't decided where he's going yet").
Needless to say, I was quite thoroughly disgusted with the school for some time after this.
Anyway, I just found it disturbing. Sure, my group had the social status of the Loser Group amongst some cliques. On the other hand, they were generally the most clean-cut people in the school; they were well-known and respected by the staff (even the few guys with their heads way up the wrong end), and far from troublemakers. After the whole Columbine mess, one of the jock cliques began circulating rumors that me and my friends were going to be the next group to do something drastic, however. I'm quite surprised that the teachers actually seemed to buy into that and decide to make like we didn't exist.
I really like how some paranoid or arrogant (depending on your perspective) finger-pointing can so radically change peoples' views on a group's mental state. I also like how the staff and S.C. decided that this problem can be solved by simply removing any connections between us in the yearbook.
Meanwhile, the Proper, Popular cliques are out there getting criminal records up the wazoo. (The one who started spreading the rumours still screams death threats at me and/or my friends whenever they drive by.
Funny how that works.
Anyone else get shafted like that?
-PS
People in multi games these days want power, not RP. It's kind of sad when the game becomes a race to see who can hurl it the furthest out of balance, or who can argue for a munch ship the loudest. I try to RP extensively in any game that allows it (TW, BRE, VGAP - and how for the latter!), and even though I usually don't wind up being crowned High Muckamuck of the Known Universe, it's still fun.
Anyone ever actually try something mildly humble in one of those games? Sucking or becoming a power player's easy, but I've found it to be interesting to see if you can be an Average Schmoe without avoiding the other players altogether.
I snagged a Colonial Transport in one TW game and hired myself out as a hauling service. I miss the days when most people didn't have the "Ooh! Easy kill! *blast*" mentality about things like that. Now it's almost manditory to be a munchkin if you want to survive in a game. :P
-PS
I miss TW and its ilk. There's a half-decent one I goofed with a bit (Space Merchant), but it Just Ain't the Same. It's kinda weird how games that no game marketer nowadays would take a second look at ("It's not even 3D accellerated!") was, and I assume still is, quite popular. Same for all those BBS doors; they were simple as hell, but they *worked*. :)
I should hope there are plenty of people out there who actually don't believe the graphics make the game. ;)
-PS
Ahh, human intelligence.
-PS
-PS
Heh, you gotta wonder, when a guy was given six months to live before a lot of people reading this were even born. Hopefully, we'll get to see it happen someday.
-PS
-PS
And it supports open source in pretty much the same way handing an artist some good, free paints supports art. Who cares if the compiler doesn't have the source? It's what you make with it that matters.
-Patrick Stewart