Think about it, and take it to a personal level. You loose your job and then at that time you decide to spend money to put in a new energy efficient heater and buy a new computer.
That's comparison is a little distorted. The government did not loose it's job. If it did, I'd think we'd have bigger concerns. A more accurate comparison would be that the government had a pay cut. In that case, you look at cutting costs but doing so smartly. That means looking at the ROI. If the overall long term expenditure can be reduced by a initial investment, then doing so is the smart choice.
Since you are using analogy, I think it was in "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett where the character Samuel Vimes, while looking at a hole in his shoe that he constantly fixes with a piece of cardboard, comes to the conclusion that it takes money to save money and not in the obvious way. Vimes knows that if he could invest an expensive pair of shoes that they would last much longer then all the cheap shoes he's been buying and, in the end, he would end up paying less for his shoes and save money.
You may think the our Government is in the same position as the character Samuel Vimes, I do not.
take it to a personal level
I have and my friends have as well. We were all working landscaping. Often rooming together to save on rent and/or went back to live with parents because rent was too expensive. I was driving a clunker ( early 2000's and I'm driving around in a 75 Dodge Dart ). All of us living paycheck to paycheck. Most of the time working part-time jobs as kitchen help in addition to cutting lawns. We all came to the conclusion that it sucked and that the only way we were going to get out of it was investing money in our education.
The surprising thing is this is not any new revelation. I cannot count the number of times this advice was given to me. "Invest in your education". Mostly by teachers in schools that by the general consensus are lacking ( "We do have massive problems with some of our public schools" ). So now a president actually makes this an issue and the response seems to be by some "PANIC! PANIC! Socialism is on the march!"
And to sort of bring this full circle and ask you to do a little self examination, If McCain or Bush addressed the public on the same issues and said the same thing as Obama, verbatim, would you be complaining? Stripped of any association with Obama, would you support this statement alone? "We need to make a substantial investment in our education system to maintain U.S. competitiveness in the world economy."
Though tasty cupcake is a much better parallel to an apple pie, alas, gotta' keep the same syllable count when doing a parody song ( of a parody song ) or it throws off the tempo.
If you hadn't noticed, the original submission implied that Obama would use this for illegal wiretapping. The person I responded to implied that if the same accusation was made of the Bush administration, no one would complain.
First: If that accusation was made of the Bush administration, it would have some basis.
Second: There has been a lot of complaining about it.
Now, about your post. The EVERYBODY PANIC! is much better when you use all caps. If you bother to RTFA:
Obama's plan will include funds to make public buildings more energy efficient, repair roads and bridges and modernize schools. His plan for schools is to repair aging buildings, make them energy efficient and install new computers in classrooms, he said. "To help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools,"
You ask how can we afford this and I ask you how can we not? You imply that more social programs will be made but from that statement it seems that he wants to bolster current programs to bring them up-to-date. From what part of that do you draw an conclusion that the money used will have more social programs rather than go to existing programs that already serve the purposes covered in the address? From what part of the address do you come to the conclusion that the government is going to run broadband?
This looks like a solution in search of a problem. We do have massive problems with some of our public schools
So, do we or do we not have a problem?
but throwing laptops at them isn't going to help them at all.
So, how does "His plan for schools is to repair aging buildings, make them energy efficient and install new computers in classrooms" get morphed into "throwing laptops at them"?
Well, there was that whole thing about illegal wiretapping of US citizens bit... So it wouldn't be so much as a complaint but more of a "What? Again?!" would it?
With regards to Kool-Aid flavors. Red is a flavor. Allow me to explain:
Ahem....
For the most part all Kool-Aid tastes the same. Hence, they get grouped by color and it is common to refer to Kool-Aid by color group rather than flavor. As in this Forbes article Pinot Grigios For Every Taste by Eric Arnold. And I quote.
What gives the wine a more intense flavor is extended maceration with the grape skins, which, in turn, makes the juice a darker color, sort of like purple Kool-Aid.
Had he used any other beverage, I would hazard a guess that he would have used the word "grape" instead of "purple".
Sooo.....
My anger tastes like chicken or a Slim Jim, depending on your point of view, and I should start drinking lots of Kool-Aid.
Who needs therapy!
One question though, what flavor Kool-Aid? Red?
A white paper on the history and future of malware and how it can affect the Apple Mac OS X platform.
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This paper was created to outline the results of research performed by the MacForensicsLab.com research and development team. These results are presented to the public in order to raise awareness of the situation and to prompt the relevant responsible parties to address the issues outlined within.
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If there was as much money as you think to be made from cracking Macs someone would have done it by now, or do you honestly think that there's no one in the world talented enough to find a hole in OSX with $28 billion on the line?
But... but.... there's a whole page dedicated to how secure Macs are.
"I don't care. I have *never* pirated anything over bittorrent, even thought I've used it a number of times."
The unverifiable claims are the easiest to fabricate.
There are legitimate usages. Very large game patches for instance. Especially on the day of release. Given the demographics of the slashdot crowd, I'd be willing to bet money that the statement applies to someone here.
A car lease would be a more accurate analogy since you are only leasing the equipment.
Still, would you lease a car if it came with some guy who sat in the back seat and bitched about the miles you put on the vehicle? Maybe disable the car or limit how far you can travel during periods of high usage? Or said "No, you can't drive to X because X is the bad part of town and you can't possibly have a legitimate reason to go there"?
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I have the Web Developer add-on for Firefox and with a Ctrl+Shift+S, all CSS is broken/disabled. Does this mean I should not use CSS?
I've gone through various stages in web design. At one time I was in the "JS is evil crowd!". Now, I use JS to enhance the user's experience but the pages must not depend on JS.
I would recommend looking into DOJO. Though jQuery is also working on Section 508 compliance. From what I recall, the guy who worked on Dojo's 508 compliance is now working on jQuery's though I cannot cite the source off the top of my head (A catch 22. I do remember it was on the person-in-question's blog).
Dojo Accessibility Compliance
People familiar with accessibility and accessibility guidelines such as the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and the US Section 508 requirements, are often interested in a compliance statement for Dojo. While Dojo does not make an explicit claim of compliance to W3C WCAG 2.0 Level A or to US Section 508, every attempt has been made to meet those guidelines and to make the 1.0 and future versions of the core widget set, dijit, accessible to keyboard, low vision and assistive technology users. Keyboard support has been added to all of the dijit widgets and is supported in Firefox 2 & 3 on Mac and Windows as well as IE 6 & 7 on Windows (Safari and Opera do not yet support full keyboard navigation of scripted content). All of the dijit widgets support font resizing and work in Windows High Contrast mode to support low vision users. Dijit utilizes the under development W3C Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification so that all dijit widgets are accessible using the latest versions of the JAWS or Window-Eyes screen readers with Firefox 3. Additional WCAG 2.0 and US Section 508 compliance details are provided below.
You'll get use to it because it's kinda like someone thinking all U.S. Citizens are obese, xenophobic, gun toting rednecks.
Just gotta laugh when you know it's a joke and... shoot the foreigner who think it's true. Then go get some beer and waddle up to the all-you-can-eat buffet.
That caveat is why the place I work for now does not allow source files from outside the network. Your security and system maintenance then depends on them.
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Think about it, and take it to a personal level. You loose your job and then at that time you decide to spend money to put in a new energy efficient heater and buy a new computer.
That's comparison is a little distorted. The government did not loose it's job. If it did, I'd think we'd have bigger concerns. A more accurate comparison would be that the government had a pay cut. In that case, you look at cutting costs but doing so smartly. That means looking at the ROI. If the overall long term expenditure can be reduced by a initial investment, then doing so is the smart choice.
Since you are using analogy, I think it was in "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett where the character Samuel Vimes, while looking at a hole in his shoe that he constantly fixes with a piece of cardboard, comes to the conclusion that it takes money to save money and not in the obvious way. Vimes knows that if he could invest an expensive pair of shoes that they would last much longer then all the cheap shoes he's been buying and, in the end, he would end up paying less for his shoes and save money.
You may think the our Government is in the same position as the character Samuel Vimes, I do not.
take it to a personal level
I have and my friends have as well. We were all working landscaping. Often rooming together to save on rent and/or went back to live with parents because rent was too expensive. I was driving a clunker ( early 2000's and I'm driving around in a 75 Dodge Dart ). All of us living paycheck to paycheck. Most of the time working part-time jobs as kitchen help in addition to cutting lawns. We all came to the conclusion that it sucked and that the only way we were going to get out of it was investing money in our education.
The surprising thing is this is not any new revelation. I cannot count the number of times this advice was given to me. "Invest in your education". Mostly by teachers in schools that by the general consensus are lacking ( "We do have massive problems with some of our public schools" ). So now a president actually makes this an issue and the response seems to be by some "PANIC! PANIC! Socialism is on the march!"
And to sort of bring this full circle and ask you to do a little self examination, If McCain or Bush addressed the public on the same issues and said the same thing as Obama, verbatim, would you be complaining? Stripped of any association with Obama, would you support this statement alone? "We need to make a substantial investment in our education system to maintain U.S. competitiveness in the world economy."
Noted.
Though I do wonder about the legal ramifications of making photocopies. That would mean I was cloning them right?
Though tasty cupcake is a much better parallel to an apple pie, alas, gotta' keep the same syllable count when doing a parody song ( of a parody song ) or it throws off the tempo.
If you hadn't noticed, the original submission implied that Obama would use this for illegal wiretapping. The person I responded to implied that if the same accusation was made of the Bush administration, no one would complain.
First: If that accusation was made of the Bush administration, it would have some basis.
Second: There has been a lot of complaining about it.
Now, about your post. The EVERYBODY PANIC! is much better when you use all caps. If you bother to RTFA:
Obama's plan will include funds to make public buildings more energy efficient, repair roads and bridges and modernize schools. His plan for schools is to repair aging buildings, make them energy efficient and install new computers in classrooms, he said. "To help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools,"
You ask how can we afford this and I ask you how can we not? You imply that more social programs will be made but from that statement it seems that he wants to bolster current programs to bring them up-to-date. From what part of that do you draw an conclusion that the money used will have more social programs rather than go to existing programs that already serve the purposes covered in the address? From what part of the address do you come to the conclusion that the government is going to run broadband?
The address in question: President-elect Barack Obama lays out key parts of Economic Recovery Plan.
This looks like a solution in search of a problem. We do have massive problems with some of our public schools
So, do we or do we not have a problem?
but throwing laptops at them isn't going to help them at all.
So, how does "His plan for schools is to repair aging buildings, make them energy efficient and install new computers in classrooms" get morphed into "throwing laptops at them"?
Still... It being close to X-mas all I can think of now is:
Ding! Wine is spawned!
Ding! Wine is spawned!
I cook in Dalaran and I wear a epic hat.
Would you like some Rhino Dogs with 'dat?
Well, there was that whole thing about illegal wiretapping of US citizens bit... So it wouldn't be so much as a complaint but more of a "What? Again?!" would it?
"...the mere fact that they were not realistic representations of human beings did not mean that they could not be considered people."
Those cardboard cutouts of Homer & Marge in the passenger seats? Restricted commuter lanes, here I come.
Oh and the cardboard cutouts of Bart, Lisa and Maggie? Dependents when I file taxes.
The tape that holds them together? That's a medical expense.
With regards to Kool-Aid flavors. Red is a flavor. Allow me to explain:
Ahem....
For the most part all Kool-Aid tastes the same. Hence, they get grouped by color and it is common to refer to Kool-Aid by color group rather than flavor. As in this Forbes article Pinot Grigios For Every Taste by Eric Arnold. And I quote.
What gives the wine a more intense flavor is extended maceration with the grape skins, which, in turn, makes the juice a darker color, sort of like purple Kool-Aid.
Had he used any other beverage, I would hazard a guess that he would have used the word "grape" instead of "purple".
( all in fun )
I completely agree. As soon as you say (with some certainty) that your OS is "safe", you're proper fucked.
OSX.RSPlug.E Trojan Horse Discovered Dec. 2 2008
Sooo..... My anger tastes like chicken or a Slim Jim, depending on your point of view, and I should start drinking lots of Kool-Aid. Who needs therapy! One question though, what flavor Kool-Aid? Red?
I can feel your anger. It gives you focus. It makes you stronger...
I wonder if the first OSX virus will be called "hubris". Has a nice ring to it. osx.hubris.v
Malware On Mac OS X - Viruses, Trojans, and Worms
http://www.macforensicslab.com/Malware_on_Mac_OS_X.pdf
A white paper on the history and future of malware and how it can affect the Apple Mac OS X platform.
This document discusses the technologies used in malware. These include viruses, Trojans and worms. The specific intention is to bring forth detailed discussion on how this affects the Apple Mac OS X platform. The document outlines a potential framework for a Mac OS X malware suite. The document closes with recommendations on what Apple Inc, and users of Mac OS X can do to defend against such technology.
This paper was created to outline the results of research performed by the MacForensicsLab.com research and development team. These results are presented to the public in order to raise awareness of the situation and to prompt the relevant responsible parties to address the issues outlined within.
The MacForensicsLab.com staff and SubRosaSoft.com Inc consider it important to bring such discussions out into the public and welcomes all opportunities to discuss the paper on info@subrosasoft.com.
It definitely was a "N" word
If there was as much money as you think to be made from cracking Macs someone would have done it by now, or do you honestly think that there's no one in the world talented enough to find a hole in OSX with $28 billion on the line?
But... but.... there's a whole page dedicated to how secure Macs are.
"I don't care. I have *never* pirated anything over bittorrent, even thought I've used it a number of times."
The unverifiable claims are the easiest to fabricate.
There are legitimate usages. Very large game patches for instance. Especially on the day of release. Given the demographics of the slashdot crowd, I'd be willing to bet money that the statement applies to someone here.
A car lease would be a more accurate analogy since you are only leasing the equipment.
Still, would you lease a car if it came with some guy who sat in the back seat and bitched about the miles you put on the vehicle? Maybe disable the car or limit how far you can travel during periods of high usage? Or said "No, you can't drive to X because X is the bad part of town and you can't possibly have a legitimate reason to go there"?
I have the Web Developer add-on for Firefox and with a Ctrl+Shift+S, all CSS is broken/disabled. Does this mean I should not use CSS?
I've gone through various stages in web design. At one time I was in the "JS is evil crowd!". Now, I use JS to enhance the user's experience but the pages must not depend on JS.
I would recommend looking into DOJO. Though jQuery is also working on Section 508 compliance. From what I recall, the guy who worked on Dojo's 508 compliance is now working on jQuery's though I cannot cite the source off the top of my head (A catch 22. I do remember it was on the person-in-question's blog).
Dojo Accessibility Compliance
People familiar with accessibility and accessibility guidelines such as the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and the US Section 508 requirements, are often interested in a compliance statement for Dojo. While Dojo does not make an explicit claim of compliance to W3C WCAG 2.0 Level A or to US Section 508, every attempt has been made to meet those guidelines and to make the 1.0 and future versions of the core widget set, dijit, accessible to keyboard, low vision and assistive technology users. Keyboard support has been added to all of the dijit widgets and is supported in Firefox 2 & 3 on Mac and Windows as well as IE 6 & 7 on Windows (Safari and Opera do not yet support full keyboard navigation of scripted content). All of the dijit widgets support font resizing and work in Windows High Contrast mode to support low vision users. Dijit utilizes the under development W3C Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification so that all dijit widgets are accessible using the latest versions of the JAWS or Window-Eyes screen readers with Firefox 3. Additional WCAG 2.0 and US Section 508 compliance details are provided below.
You'll get use to it because it's kinda like someone thinking all U.S. Citizens are obese, xenophobic, gun toting rednecks. Just gotta laugh when you know it's a joke and... shoot the foreigner who think it's true. Then go get some beer and waddle up to the all-you-can-eat buffet.
This mod isn't complete without duct tape.
That caveat is why the place I work for now does not allow source files from outside the network. Your security and system maintenance then depends on them.
He ran a bad campaign. If you cant run a campaign and drive your people, your not looking good to be running the executive.
It was a weather-vane campaign. Perhaps the press failed to give him equal coverage because he didn't give them something consistent?
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AfriNIC
I know they can use some improvements because some ranges are missing, but here's what I've got.
/^(24|6[3-9]|7[0-6]|9[6-9]|199|20[4-9]|216)\./
/^(5[8-9]|6[0-1]|11[4-9]|12[0-6]|20[2-3]|21[0-1]|21[8-9]|22[0-2])\./
/^(62|7[7-9]|8[0-9]|9[0-5]|19[3-5]|21[2-3]|217)\./
/^(18[6-7]|189|190|20[0-1])\./
/^(12[8-9]|13[0-9]|14[0-9]|15[0-9]|16[0-9]|17[0-2]|188|19[1-2]|198)\./
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