The thing that really needs to be taken into account is that just because your certified does not guarantee 100% security. The auditor should not be held responsible for this, all they do is check to see if you are compliant with a standard. If they want 100% secure they should unplug it , put it in safe and then drop it into the Marianas Trench.
So if they have super secret squirrel fiber lines buried all over the place, wouldn't it be prudent to keep tabs on pending construction, and use means at their disposal to mark their ultra secret lines as a gas main or something? Surely they weren't just hoping the backhoes would miss.
Assuming it was legalized....If women/men choose of their own free will to work in that industry, who is being exploited? I would have to argue the consumer.
I certainly don't mean to imply that legalizing it will solve 100% of the problems.It would definitely reduce them though. Yes they would pay taxes but they would have a bit more security in the environment they work in, and more legal recourse and protection if something did happen. Hard to go to the authorities to file assault charges if they happened while peddling an illegal service.
I still don't understand why prostitution is illegal. Regulate it, slap a sin tax on it. You create jobs(referring to the oversight of the industry), and you help prevent the spread of disease by enforcing health standards, crime is cut down and the Police can go take care of violent crimes. But most importantly we'll stop hearing about this Craiglist BS.
You really do have a good point here. If this stereotype didn't describe at least some of the habits of a sizable portion of the women I know; then why do womens clothes cost so much for so little material? Why do the shoes, which are basically barely different than walking barefoot cost so much. Why does my wife feel a need to buy tiny bottles and jewelry boxes, just because they are cute? Did you know cuteness is multiplied by how small something is, unless we are talking about the male anatomy. I digress. Hell I work with a girl that bought an Asus eeepc 701 because it was cute. Since then she's learned a good deal about Linux.
In conclusion, yes Della has offended the women and others who don't fit in this stereotype, but I'd argue they weren't targeting you.
Do you remember DaiKatana? Sure it wasn't in limbo nearly as long, but once it was released it was outdated and a commercial flop. Better DNF not share that fate.
Actually we were pushing a "secure" version of XP before I got out of the AF in 2006. Basically it was just locked down, if you didn't have to have it to do your job that feature/program was disabled by the security settings. I believe the image we pushed was made by the NOSC at the time. It wasn't anything you couldn't do on your own to your home computer.
Having spent some time with both 7 beta and Vista, there really wasn't that big of a difference. It had some added eye candy and was purported to be more stable, but I run Vista 64 Ultimate... which has not had as many of the stability issues as some of the other versions of Vista. Granted I haven't bean able to spend anytime with the RC but I doubt it will be altogether to much different than the Beta.
I thought I read that they were going to give free upgrades to people who already had Vista... since you know it's really a little more than a glorified service pack.
Do you really expect me to believe your only problem with this is the police taking the pictures? I think you'd be crying foul regardless.
Actually I wouldn't, my main beef as stated several times is that the police did not follow procedures which led to the pictures being leaked which was the breach of privacy.
I agree that protocol was breached and that officers should be disciplined but I do not agree that there was any breach of privacy. Police have been known to release photographs of criminals to the community at large. Granted they are for identification purposes and it would be a sick joke to suggest that is the case here. However by releasing these it MAY make other people think about getting into a car stoned.
Generally when the Police release a photo to the community it's a mug shot or some other picture used to identify a suspect on the loose, generally not pictures of mutilated dead people. To use the picture for an awareness campaign where I live oversteps the authority of the local Police. It would have to be done by some group like MADD or some other such group, and they would most likely talk to the family first to help insulate themselves against a lawsuit.
I'm not sure what you're objecting to.
I was pretty sure I made that clear... but hey I'll give it another shot. We almost seem to agree on this issue except for your "fuck the family" attitude. Your words. Also you seem to be saying that this is censorship which it is not. Had it been released through the proper procedures it wouldn't be an invasion of privacy either, but it wasn't and hence it is.
Regardless I do not want incidents like this being buried or sanitized. Misuse of information does not warrant its censorship. People need to know what the consequence of their actions actually are, and there's no better way to learn without further carnage than to publicly expose such horrendous mistakes complete with all the gore.
Pictures of gore do little in the way to shock the people. Go see a movie like Saw or Hostile and look at your target audience desensitize themselves to images of gore. Truthfully until you see something like this up close and in person it is just an image, there are other senses involved that bring it home if you see it in person. Hopefully you never have to see anything like that.
Also just because the information/data is out there it doesn't automatically grant you a right to use it how you see fit and that is not always censorship.
These two points seem to be where we really disagree.
The difference here is the Police took the pictures, not the public. They have an obligation not to release those pictures unless they follow the proper procedures, this is the breach of privacy that occurred. Also not wanting pictures of your near decapitated daughter floating around the internet most likely has less to do with a "cover up" then you think. I would assume they just don't want to see it; I could be wrong on this though since I don't know them.
Yes because all those late 80's early 90's war on drugs shock adds were so effective... I find it disturbing that you seem so eager to relieve someone of their right to privacy based on the fact they did something stupid. Those rights are in place for a reason, if you strip them away for one person (or in this case family) you erode those rights for all of us.
So obviously Taser's lawyers need to create characters inside the game, and virtually sue the offending persons I'm very surprised they have not already though of this.....
I agree with you and If I had points I would gladly mod you up.
There is a difference between censorship and privacy, apparently some of you are not aware of that. These pictures were never supposed to be public, to protect the privacy of the family. The fact that they were leaked by persons within the Police department is a bit concerning. These people are supposed to know better, no different than if a person who works at a hospital accesses a persons medical records out of curiosity. We have a reasonable right to expect privacy with certain things, this was one of them.
That said it's out there now nothing can undo that.
Truthfully casual or not there are certain things in most of these games geared towards the casual player that only the hardcore could or would ever do. So does the fact that video game companies are reaching out to casual gamers ring the death knell of the hardcore? This is ridiculous if anything it will provide more opportunities for the hardcore. There are obviously more casual players, so the companies get them get their money and still pump out products that have elements that the casual player will never see. Everybody wins, gaming becomes more socially acceptable, better games are produced (well we can hope right) and guys who play video games find girls that play video games. Ok this last part might be a stretch...
The toy looks like a ball in a tube, I'm sure this will be all the rage with the ADHD crowd..c'mon it's not even shiny! It needs more p'zaz like multi colored leds that flash and strobe in correspondence to how well you control the ball.
You know I bought my PSP the day it came out. I was traveling a lot at the time and had high hopes for it. The release games weren't very engaging to say the least. Then it seemed like there was a period where they only released movies for it. So I stopped using it. I would wager that I'm not the only person who did this. Sony seems to have really gone off the deep end in the past few years, bad marketing, not properly supporting the PSP, horrible price schemes.. is it just me or do they keep making more expensive versions of the PS3? So the clais of piracy ate my profit seem far fetched to me.
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The thing that really needs to be taken into account is that just because your certified does not guarantee 100% security. The auditor should not be held responsible for this, all they do is check to see if you are compliant with a standard. If they want 100% secure they should unplug it , put it in safe and then drop it into the Marianas Trench.
So if they have super secret squirrel fiber lines buried all over the place, wouldn't it be prudent to keep tabs on pending construction, and use means at their disposal to mark their ultra secret lines as a gas main or something? Surely they weren't just hoping the backhoes would miss.
Stereotypes exist for a reason. That aside my local Comic store owner looks and acts just like the one from the Simpsons.
Assuming it was legalized....If women/men choose of their own free will to work in that industry, who is being exploited? I would have to argue the consumer.
I certainly don't mean to imply that legalizing it will solve 100% of the problems.It would definitely reduce them though. Yes they would pay taxes but they would have a bit more security in the environment they work in, and more legal recourse and protection if something did happen. Hard to go to the authorities to file assault charges if they happened while peddling an illegal service.
I still don't understand why prostitution is illegal. Regulate it, slap a sin tax on it. You create jobs(referring to the oversight of the industry), and you help prevent the spread of disease by enforcing health standards, crime is cut down and the Police can go take care of violent crimes. But most importantly we'll stop hearing about this Craiglist BS.
You really do have a good point here. If this stereotype didn't describe at least some of the habits of a sizable portion of the women I know; then why do womens clothes cost so much for so little material? Why do the shoes, which are basically barely different than walking barefoot cost so much. Why does my wife feel a need to buy tiny bottles and jewelry boxes, just because they are cute? Did you know cuteness is multiplied by how small something is, unless we are talking about the male anatomy. I digress. Hell I work with a girl that bought an Asus eeepc 701 because it was cute. Since then she's learned a good deal about Linux. In conclusion, yes Della has offended the women and others who don't fit in this stereotype, but I'd argue they weren't targeting you.
The year of Linux on the desktop, of course!
How about Linux gaming, or does that go hand and hand with the desktop?
Do you remember DaiKatana? Sure it wasn't in limbo nearly as long, but once it was released it was outdated and a commercial flop. Better DNF not share that fate.
In general cars are unfriendly when colliding with pedestrians, especially anything over 25mph.
Actually we were pushing a "secure" version of XP before I got out of the AF in 2006. Basically it was just locked down, if you didn't have to have it to do your job that feature/program was disabled by the security settings. I believe the image we pushed was made by the NOSC at the time. It wasn't anything you couldn't do on your own to your home computer.
So if the scenes were filmed you know they are going to be on some DVD extra feature. So whats the big deal?
That's a very good question.
Turns out I read it here http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/11/238222&art_pos=1
Having spent some time with both 7 beta and Vista, there really wasn't that big of a difference. It had some added eye candy and was purported to be more stable, but I run Vista 64 Ultimate... which has not had as many of the stability issues as some of the other versions of Vista. Granted I haven't bean able to spend anytime with the RC but I doubt it will be altogether to much different than the Beta.
I thought I read that they were going to give free upgrades to people who already had Vista... since you know it's really a little more than a glorified service pack.
Do you really expect me to believe your only problem with this is the police taking the pictures? I think you'd be crying foul regardless.
Actually I wouldn't, my main beef as stated several times is that the police did not follow procedures which led to the pictures being leaked which was the breach of privacy.
I agree that protocol was breached and that officers should be disciplined but I do not agree that there was any breach of privacy. Police have been known to release photographs of criminals to the community at large. Granted they are for identification purposes and it would be a sick joke to suggest that is the case here. However by releasing these it MAY make other people think about getting into a car stoned.
Generally when the Police release a photo to the community it's a mug shot or some other picture used to identify a suspect on the loose, generally not pictures of mutilated dead people. To use the picture for an awareness campaign where I live oversteps the authority of the local Police. It would have to be done by some group like MADD or some other such group, and they would most likely talk to the family first to help insulate themselves against a lawsuit.
I'm not sure what you're objecting to.
I was pretty sure I made that clear... but hey I'll give it another shot. We almost seem to agree on this issue except for your "fuck the family" attitude. Your words. Also you seem to be saying that this is censorship which it is not. Had it been released through the proper procedures it wouldn't be an invasion of privacy either, but it wasn't and hence it is.
Regardless I do not want incidents like this being buried or sanitized. Misuse of information does not warrant its censorship. People need to know what the consequence of their actions actually are, and there's no better way to learn without further carnage than to publicly expose such horrendous mistakes complete with all the gore.
Pictures of gore do little in the way to shock the people. Go see a movie like Saw or Hostile and look at your target audience desensitize themselves to images of gore. Truthfully until you see something like this up close and in person it is just an image, there are other senses involved that bring it home if you see it in person. Hopefully you never have to see anything like that. Also just because the information/data is out there it doesn't automatically grant you a right to use it how you see fit and that is not always censorship. These two points seem to be where we really disagree.
The difference here is the Police took the pictures, not the public. They have an obligation not to release those pictures unless they follow the proper procedures, this is the breach of privacy that occurred. Also not wanting pictures of your near decapitated daughter floating around the internet most likely has less to do with a "cover up" then you think. I would assume they just don't want to see it; I could be wrong on this though since I don't know them.
Yes because all those late 80's early 90's war on drugs shock adds were so effective... I find it disturbing that you seem so eager to relieve someone of their right to privacy based on the fact they did something stupid. Those rights are in place for a reason, if you strip them away for one person (or in this case family) you erode those rights for all of us.
So obviously Taser's lawyers need to create characters inside the game, and virtually sue the offending persons I'm very surprised they have not already though of this.....
I agree with you and If I had points I would gladly mod you up. There is a difference between censorship and privacy, apparently some of you are not aware of that. These pictures were never supposed to be public, to protect the privacy of the family. The fact that they were leaked by persons within the Police department is a bit concerning. These people are supposed to know better, no different than if a person who works at a hospital accesses a persons medical records out of curiosity. We have a reasonable right to expect privacy with certain things, this was one of them. That said it's out there now nothing can undo that.
Truthfully casual or not there are certain things in most of these games geared towards the casual player that only the hardcore could or would ever do. So does the fact that video game companies are reaching out to casual gamers ring the death knell of the hardcore? This is ridiculous if anything it will provide more opportunities for the hardcore. There are obviously more casual players, so the companies get them get their money and still pump out products that have elements that the casual player will never see. Everybody wins, gaming becomes more socially acceptable, better games are produced (well we can hope right) and guys who play video games find girls that play video games. Ok this last part might be a stretch...
The toy looks like a ball in a tube, I'm sure this will be all the rage with the ADHD crowd..c'mon it's not even shiny! It needs more p'zaz like multi colored leds that flash and strobe in correspondence to how well you control the ball.
You know I bought my PSP the day it came out. I was traveling a lot at the time and had high hopes for it. The release games weren't very engaging to say the least. Then it seemed like there was a period where they only released movies for it. So I stopped using it. I would wager that I'm not the only person who did this. Sony seems to have really gone off the deep end in the past few years, bad marketing, not properly supporting the PSP, horrible price schemes .. is it just me or do they keep making more expensive versions of the PS3? So the clais of piracy ate my profit seem far fetched to me.
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