What evidence do you have that Goldman owns or exerts any influence over the US government? This kind of wild, un-sourced speculation is so rampant and accepted on/. that virtually any comment about corporate conspiracy gets at least a +1, Informative.
Funny, in Scandinavia when you apply for a job (at least at university), each applicant gets a list of every applicant, their names, ages, sexes and qualifications.
Really? So exactly why does the person's name (which may indicate race and religion) and sex need to be included? I don't, on principle, think it's wrong to see the other applicants' resumes, but why should name and sex be included? What possible good could come of this? I can see much harm and no good.
BTW, as a guy who got a high level IT position at 18 years old without college, I don't think age is necessarily an indicator of competence, but I'm willing to concede that one could make a case for it.
I read the link but I don't understand why you're attempting to soothe the minds of Slashdot readers with this information. The fact is, all major online poker sites CAN detect cheating based on mathematical probability analysis, but evidently many DO NOT admit to the cheating they detect. Even if the players eventually catch on, and even if they report a username, cheating is clearly still possible if the site itself doesn't want to risk player confidence by fessing up.
Gitmo and torture kept as the ultimate stick, where you probably won't land, but you _might_ if you're really undesirable? Check. Same role as the Gulag had post-Stalin.
Virtually no one in America fears being shipped off to Gitmo, even Arab Americans and illegal Arab immigrants. Any such fear is the same as being afraid of being hit by lightning, since only 775 TOTAL people have been brought there, and the number brought there from the States is about a dozen. You're about a hundred times more likely to be hit by lightning.
I wouldn't be surprised if they actually had less political prisoners than the USA has in gitmo
But you did zero research and just decided to be an ignorant blowhard. Congrats. Read, please. And this, this, this, and this.
But it's all bullshit. The only thing he cares about is himself -- if the merger is approved it probably means more money for him. After one year on satellite he got an $82 million bonus because Sirius reached certain subscriber levels. If the merger doesn't go through Sirius might go under and he doesn't get the rest of his $500 million.
He's said repeatedly that the $500 million is in escrow, meaning that he gets it whether they close shop or not. Oh, and do you think he would've ever gotten $500 million for going to satellite if there was only one satellite radio company? If there was only Sirius, they would've only had to pay him more than terrestrial, or about $10 mil a year.
He's pissed because it took the DoJ and FCC 16 months to make a decision on something as trivial as SATELLITE RADIO, when it took only 10 months to merge Exxon-Mobil.
Easy there.. from this: Some medical research suggests that excessive levels of n6 fatty acids, relative to n3 fatty acids, may increase the probability of a number of diseases and depression.
Modern Western diets typically have ratios of n6 to n3 in excess of 10 to 1, some as high as 30 to 1. The optimal ratio is thought to be 4 to 1 or lower.
...
Chronic excessive production of n6 eicosanoids is associated with heart attacks, thrombotic stroke, arrhythmia, arthritis, osteoporosis, inflammation, mood disorders and cancer.
The men who are the most efficient at procuring bush are the men who are able to be one thing and project another; to see the goal and attain it through dishonest means. I find it difficult to pass judgement though, since I'm busy being crazy, writing a screenplay and living in my car. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to rebel against the government or whatever.
Yeah, it's just a shame that you can't opt for a non-jury trial.
You can in most states. They're called bench trials and they essentially waive the defendant's right to a jury and let the judge decide guilt or innocence. A recent high profile case here in NYC became a bench trial resulting in an aquittal: The Sean Bell Shooting.
*Homer shakes fist up in the air* Homer: OH GOD, WHY DO YOU MOCK ME? Marge: That's not God, that's a waffle Bart threw up there. *Marge pokes waffle down. Homer catches it.* Homer: Lord, I know I shouldn't eat thee, but... *Chomp!* Homer: Mmmm... Sacrelicious...
For starters, I'm hardly a Republican. Anyone else think it's hilarious that of all the things the GP said about him, he takes issue with the Republican thing?
In all fairness (do they even deserve it?), the password listed in the script is for ZDNet's FTP, not Fox. Still pretty embarrassing, but it's not going to hurt Fox at all (I imagine it could have hurt CNet/ZDNet).
Not sure what you mean here. There was nothing wrong with ZDNet's FTP server, or their password policy. The problem is that the dopey Fox News website programmers/admins left a plaintext password on a server with indexing enabled. News organizations, where integrity and truth in reporting (should) be most important, (should) care about their public perception. If this happens again, it will compromise their readers' belief that they're reading factual stories, and not a subtly hax0red version of the news.
The fact that it was an IIS admin and not a reporter who screwed up isn't the issue: it's the end result that the news could be altered.
I think the parents point had to do more with the certain religious ideas, as opposed "general" religious identity. Do you have any statistics on the number who believe genesis is the literal truth, for example?
Does it not stand to reason if the number of people who believe in God decreases, so too will the number of people who believe in Genesis? I've seen nothing to suggest that the remaining religious people in the U.S. have suddenly, in the Bush years, decided to suddenly believe in Genesis at the expense of science.
No, sir, that's not enough. The examples you bring up are recent examples of issues which have existed since the inception of these religions. They are not new, and are not more prevalent now than they have ever been.
What you propose is that if you can cite an incident which happened recently, it means that said incidents are on the rise. This is simply not true, and is not supported by any study. Fewer religious people means that fewer people will have a religious objection to science. It's common sense.
Not wanting to be nasty or anything, but America is going through a bit of a religious experience at the moment, with people rejecting science by the million.
Really? Got any facts to back that up?
According to the American Religious Identification Survey "The proportion of the [American] population that can be classified as Christian has declined from 86% in 1990 to 77% in 2001" and the number of people who believe in no religion AT ALL doubled from 1990 to 2001.
The big (obvious) flaw here is that this is a survey of Americans only. It's well known that the US is one of the most religious countries on the face of the earth. The number of "true believers" in the US has always been astronomical, the number of people who self-identify as "born again" Christians or fundamentalists is off the charts relative to almost any other western country you want to name. The level of education in the US is also corespondingly low relative to other western countries.
Anyone want some actual FACTS?
According to the American Religious Identification Survey "The proportion of the [American] population that can be classified as Christian has declined from 86% in 1990 to 77% in 2001" and the number of people who believe in no religion AT ALL doubled from 1990 to 2001. And when you say "the face of the Earth" just be honest and say "some countries in Europe, such as England, but not Italy, and not anywhere in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa or just about everywhere else, because those countries just don't count."
Also, this research indicates that the average American citizen has more years of schooling, on average, than anywhere else in the world.
You're correct. America is essentially a christian fundamentalist country, or well on its way to become one, and that almost strictly has to do with parents spreading their beliefs to their offsprings from the earliest age.
Time to check your facts, bub. According to the American Religious Identification Survey "76.5% (159 million) of Americans identify themselves as Christian. This is a major slide from 86.2% in 1990. Identification with Christianity has suffered a loss of 9.7 percentage points in 11 years -- about 0.9 percentage points per year."
Other research shows that the number of Americans not affiliated with any religion AT ALL has doubled since 1990.
I understand that people want to bash America, Bush, the religious right, etc., but if you're going to do so, at least get your story straight. (And though I shouldn't have to do so, let me just point out that I'm an Atheist Democrat)
One of my profs in undergrad (who was a pianist) told me once that good pianists are a dime a dozen.
Not a flame, but did your prof say that good string (or other instrument performers) musicians are not a dime a dozen? Are any instruments considered to be more difficult than others?
>Remember, the goals of industry in the US - any industry, are revenue and profit.
What are the goals of food companies in other countries? Losing money? Minimizing profits and growing their business as slowly as possible? Or do you believe that many companies outside the US have found that happy medium between capitalism and socialism, where customers get low-priced, healthful, tasty food, and the company makes a small but sensible profit? Just enough profit so that the owners of the company live juuuuust a wee bit better than the average citizen, right?
Get a grip man. It's not the US, it's nearly every successful company, food-based or otherwise, in any country on Earth.
A violent criminal usually falls either below 85 IQ or above 185 IQ. The frequency of this below IQ 85 is about 85% of the population of such persons with about 13% above IQ 185. Only a tiny fraction falls in the middle.
I defy you to find me a single study which supports this ridiculous claim. According to the IQ bellcurve only one in 1,000,000 people will have an IQ of 174-200. So what you claim means that there are 300 people in the United States committing 13% of the violent crimes? Nonsense.
You know, I hardly ever post on the slashdot comments, but this completely ridiculous comment brought me out of the woodwork. I'm willing to put up with the hundreds of conspiracy theorists, anarchists, folks calling for the execution of the president. But this, is just ridiculous. You're actually trying to make a rational argument for something that you have clearly made up in your mind.
First of all, for this attack to succeed you would actually have to take the machine apart, then switch memory cards, then take your ass to another voting machine in a different district, then insert the card there, assuming that you could get another vote.
Second, your assumption is that this is somehow MORE terror inducing (they are terrorists, after all) than simply purchasing a weapon, walking into a public place, and shooting a dozen people before you get mowed down by the police? Or driving a mac truck through a street fair and killing 40 people? Or any of the number of ways that they could kill a half dozen people and paralyze the country with fear (think the anthrax killings.)
Third, why on earth would a third world Arab country, capable of supplying their terror squads with thousands of dollars in training, possibly send their people to the US to carry out information warfare? They could just as easily train their people to conduct major hacker operations remotely, and have ZERO chance that these people, who are clearly willing to DIE AT ANY TIME IN AMERICA, get caught for an "information" crimes instead of violent, personal ones.
Fourth, every single district that comes out even somewhat different than the expected demographics and past elections would immediately demand a recount by polling voters who supposedly voted. The fraud would be caught within days, and the only thing that would happen would be a recount in these few districts.
Fifth, you would need a MASSIVE terrorist network, we're talking hundreds of terrorists in multiple states carrying out technologically sophisticated operations that would demand dissemination of viruses on hardware and voter fraud materials.
OK, let's go with a hypothetical scenario: newly hired Jr. admin Tibor is surfing the web and picks up a trojan from one of the many IE vulnerabilities out there. It logs all keystrokes and periodically silently POSTs them to some website. The company tried to prevent this with up-to-date anti-virus software on the corporate PC's, but this user contracted the trojan on his non-corp domain PC. Tibor's dualboot linux/winxp dev box, let's say.
Using Tibor's stolen credentials the crackers are able to log in and steal various confidential infos. Do you press charges against the entire company based on the bonehead of one admin? What if the cracker accessed the corporate network via the contractor's PC, or the intern's? At some point it isn't always negligence, and where that point is is very debatable.
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What evidence do you have that Goldman owns or exerts any influence over the US government? This kind of wild, un-sourced speculation is so rampant and accepted on /. that virtually any comment about corporate conspiracy gets at least a +1, Informative.
Unions are dying a slow, painful death here in the US too.
Funny, in Scandinavia when you apply for a job (at least at university), each applicant gets a list of every applicant, their names, ages, sexes and qualifications.
Really? So exactly why does the person's name (which may indicate race and religion) and sex need to be included? I don't, on principle, think it's wrong to see the other applicants' resumes, but why should name and sex be included? What possible good could come of this? I can see much harm and no good.
BTW, as a guy who got a high level IT position at 18 years old without college, I don't think age is necessarily an indicator of competence, but I'm willing to concede that one could make a case for it.
And based on Captain Kirk's hairpiece, it seems wig tech didn't progress much either.
I read the link but I don't understand why you're attempting to soothe the minds of Slashdot readers with this information. The fact is, all major online poker sites CAN detect cheating based on mathematical probability analysis, but evidently many DO NOT admit to the cheating they detect. Even if the players eventually catch on, and even if they report a username, cheating is clearly still possible if the site itself doesn't want to risk player confidence by fessing up.
Gitmo and torture kept as the ultimate stick, where you probably won't land, but you _might_ if you're really undesirable? Check. Same role as the Gulag had post-Stalin.
Virtually no one in America fears being shipped off to Gitmo, even Arab Americans and illegal Arab immigrants. Any such fear is the same as being afraid of being hit by lightning, since only 775 TOTAL people have been brought there, and the number brought there from the States is about a dozen. You're about a hundred times more likely to be hit by lightning.
I wouldn't be surprised if they actually had less political prisoners than the USA has in gitmo
But you did zero research and just decided to be an ignorant blowhard. Congrats. Read, please. And this, this, this, and this.
But it's all bullshit. The only thing he cares about is himself -- if the merger is approved it probably means more money for him. After one year on satellite he got an $82 million bonus because Sirius reached certain subscriber levels. If the merger doesn't go through Sirius might go under and he doesn't get the rest of his $500 million.
He's said repeatedly that the $500 million is in escrow, meaning that he gets it whether they close shop or not. Oh, and do you think he would've ever gotten $500 million for going to satellite if there was only one satellite radio company? If there was only Sirius, they would've only had to pay him more than terrestrial, or about $10 mil a year.
He's pissed because it took the DoJ and FCC 16 months to make a decision on something as trivial as SATELLITE RADIO, when it took only 10 months to merge Exxon-Mobil.
Easy there.. from this:
Some medical research suggests that excessive levels of n6 fatty acids, relative to n3 fatty acids, may increase the probability of a number of diseases and depression.
Modern Western diets typically have ratios of n6 to n3 in excess of 10 to 1, some as high as 30 to 1. The optimal ratio is thought to be 4 to 1 or lower.
Chronic excessive production of n6 eicosanoids is associated with heart attacks, thrombotic stroke, arrhythmia, arthritis, osteoporosis, inflammation, mood disorders and cancer.
The men who are the most efficient at procuring bush are the men who are able to be one thing and project another; to see the goal and attain it through dishonest means. I find it difficult to pass judgement though, since I'm busy being crazy, writing a screenplay and living in my car. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to rebel against the government or whatever.
Dude, you're from the U.K., so let's not get too preachy when talking about governments who "worry a lot of us," OK?
Yeah, it's just a shame that you can't opt for a non-jury trial.
You can in most states. They're called bench trials and they essentially waive the defendant's right to a jury and let the judge decide guilt or innocence. A recent high profile case here in NYC became a bench trial resulting in an aquittal: The Sean Bell Shooting.
*Homer shakes fist up in the air*
Homer: OH GOD, WHY DO YOU MOCK ME?
Marge: That's not God, that's a waffle Bart threw up there.
*Marge pokes waffle down. Homer catches it.*
Homer: Lord, I know I shouldn't eat thee, but...
*Chomp!*
Homer: Mmmm... Sacrelicious...
For starters, I'm hardly a Republican.
Anyone else think it's hilarious that of all the things the GP said about him, he takes issue with the Republican thing?
In all fairness (do they even deserve it?), the password listed in the script is for ZDNet's FTP, not Fox. Still pretty embarrassing, but it's not going to hurt Fox at all (I imagine it could have hurt CNet/ZDNet).
Not sure what you mean here. There was nothing wrong with ZDNet's FTP server, or their password policy. The problem is that the dopey Fox News website programmers/admins left a plaintext password on a server with indexing enabled. News organizations, where integrity and truth in reporting (should) be most important, (should) care about their public perception. If this happens again, it will compromise their readers' belief that they're reading factual stories, and not a subtly hax0red version of the news.
The fact that it was an IIS admin and not a reporter who screwed up isn't the issue: it's the end result that the news could be altered.
I think the parents point had to do more with the certain religious ideas, as opposed "general" religious identity. Do you have any statistics on the number who believe genesis is the literal truth, for example?
Does it not stand to reason if the number of people who believe in God decreases, so too will the number of people who believe in Genesis? I've seen nothing to suggest that the remaining religious people in the U.S. have suddenly, in the Bush years, decided to suddenly believe in Genesis at the expense of science.
That enough?
No, sir, that's not enough. The examples you bring up are recent examples of issues which have existed since the inception of these religions. They are not new, and are not more prevalent now than they have ever been.
What you propose is that if you can cite an incident which happened recently, it means that said incidents are on the rise. This is simply not true, and is not supported by any study. Fewer religious people means that fewer people will have a religious objection to science. It's common sense.
Not wanting to be nasty or anything, but America is going through a bit of a religious experience at the moment, with people rejecting science by the million.
Really? Got any facts to back that up?
According to the American Religious Identification Survey "The proportion of the [American] population that can be classified as Christian has declined from 86% in 1990 to 77% in 2001" and the number of people who believe in no religion AT ALL doubled from 1990 to 2001.
Sorry, homeboy. You're wrong.
The big (obvious) flaw here is that this is a survey of Americans only. It's well known that the US is one of the most religious countries on the face of the earth. The number of "true believers" in the US has always been astronomical, the number of people who self-identify as "born again" Christians or fundamentalists is off the charts relative to almost any other western country you want to name. The level of education in the US is also corespondingly low relative to other western countries.
Anyone want some actual FACTS?
According to the American Religious Identification Survey "The proportion of the [American] population that can be classified as Christian has declined from 86% in 1990 to 77% in 2001" and the number of people who believe in no religion AT ALL doubled from 1990 to 2001. And when you say "the face of the Earth" just be honest and say "some countries in Europe, such as England, but not Italy, and not anywhere in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa or just about everywhere else, because those countries just don't count."
Also, this research indicates that the average American citizen has more years of schooling, on average, than anywhere else in the world.
You're correct. America is essentially a christian fundamentalist country, or well on its way to become one, and that almost strictly has to do with parents spreading their beliefs to their offsprings from the earliest age.
Time to check your facts, bub. According to the American Religious Identification Survey "76.5% (159 million) of Americans identify themselves as Christian. This is a major slide from 86.2% in 1990. Identification with Christianity has suffered a loss of 9.7 percentage points in 11 years -- about 0.9 percentage points per year."
Other research shows that the number of Americans not affiliated with any religion AT ALL has doubled since 1990.
I understand that people want to bash America, Bush, the religious right, etc., but if you're going to do so, at least get your story straight. (And though I shouldn't have to do so, let me just point out that I'm an Atheist Democrat)
One of my profs in undergrad (who was a pianist) told me once that good pianists are a dime a dozen.
Not a flame, but did your prof say that good string (or other instrument performers) musicians are not a dime a dozen? Are any instruments considered to be more difficult than others?
>Remember, the goals of industry in the US - any industry, are revenue and profit.
What are the goals of food companies in other countries? Losing money? Minimizing profits and growing their business as slowly as possible? Or do you believe that many companies outside the US have found that happy medium between capitalism and socialism, where customers get low-priced, healthful, tasty food, and the company makes a small but sensible profit? Just enough profit so that the owners of the company live juuuuust a wee bit better than the average citizen, right?
Get a grip man. It's not the US, it's nearly every successful company, food-based or otherwise, in any country on Earth.
I defy you to find me a single study which supports this ridiculous claim. According to the IQ bellcurve only one in 1,000,000 people will have an IQ of 174-200. So what you claim means that there are 300 people in the United States committing 13% of the violent crimes? Nonsense.
You know, I hardly ever post on the slashdot comments, but this completely ridiculous comment brought me out of the woodwork. I'm willing to put up with the hundreds of conspiracy theorists, anarchists, folks calling for the execution of the president. But this, is just ridiculous. You're actually trying to make a rational argument for something that you have clearly made up in your mind.
First of all, for this attack to succeed you would actually have to take the machine apart, then switch memory cards, then take your ass to another voting machine in a different district, then insert the card there, assuming that you could get another vote.
Second, your assumption is that this is somehow MORE terror inducing (they are terrorists, after all) than simply purchasing a weapon, walking into a public place, and shooting a dozen people before you get mowed down by the police? Or driving a mac truck through a street fair and killing 40 people? Or any of the number of ways that they could kill a half dozen people and paralyze the country with fear (think the anthrax killings.)
Third, why on earth would a third world Arab country, capable of supplying their terror squads with thousands of dollars in training, possibly send their people to the US to carry out information warfare? They could just as easily train their people to conduct major hacker operations remotely, and have ZERO chance that these people, who are clearly willing to DIE AT ANY TIME IN AMERICA, get caught for an "information" crimes instead of violent, personal ones.
Fourth, every single district that comes out even somewhat different than the expected demographics and past elections would immediately demand a recount by polling voters who supposedly voted. The fraud would be caught within days, and the only thing that would happen would be a recount in these few districts.
Fifth, you would need a MASSIVE terrorist network, we're talking hundreds of terrorists in multiple states carrying out technologically sophisticated operations that would demand dissemination of viruses on hardware and voter fraud materials.
Sorry, I just don't like FUD.
Actually, in their press release they have some of the filenames affected by the errant signature. Among them is:
- FrameworkService.exe
Which, if you take a look at your Task Manager, you will notice is:
Directory of C:\Program Files\McAfee\Common Framework
09/27/2005 03:06 AM 102,463 FrameworkService.exe
OK, let's go with a hypothetical scenario: newly hired Jr. admin Tibor is surfing the web and picks up a trojan from one of the many IE vulnerabilities out there. It logs all keystrokes and periodically silently POSTs them to some website. The company tried to prevent this with up-to-date anti-virus software on the corporate PC's, but this user contracted the trojan on his non-corp domain PC. Tibor's dualboot linux/winxp dev box, let's say.
Using Tibor's stolen credentials the crackers are able to log in and steal various confidential infos. Do you press charges against the entire company based on the bonehead of one admin? What if the cracker accessed the corporate network via the contractor's PC, or the intern's? At some point it isn't always negligence, and where that point is is very debatable.