Yes, there are exceptions, on both sides, but that doesn't mean that it's sexist to point out that one gender behaves predominantly one way, and the other gender the opposite.
Sure sexist stereotypes aren't sexist and have a core of truth unless they happen to be about you or offend you in some way in which case batten down the hatches, we're in for a rant.
It was only a few of decades ago that rental signs in london would read "no cats, no dogs, no irish". It's not something of hundreds of years ago, plenty of living irish people experienced no shortage of racism and discrimination and the effects are still being felt.
Any good joke is offensive to someone and the quote in question is only offensive in the most trivial fashion to the most overly sensitive of fainting violets. But it isn't what he said, it's the world he said it in of course.
Sweet, so if you don't want a catholic church built in your town all I have to do is threaten to do something hateful and ignorant and public which will lead to lots of american soldiers getting killed in the international backlash and then it would count as a "compromise" when I don't do that in exchange for them not building the church.
they need to be ignored for the same reason you can't give in to the requests of hostage takers, if it works other people see and follow the same approach to achieve their own ends.
it isn't "compromise", that's extortion.
like it or not freedom of religion means more than just your religion.
There's a mormon church in Mountain Meadows in Utah (have fun googling that one) There's no shortage of catholic churches in Jerusalem
Man up, a muslim temple in new york is going to hurt nobody.
If you remove everything offensive from comedy you are left with little more than the sad pathetic little jokes found in Christmas crackers.
It was a trivial pun.
But of course, carlin wasn't making a trivial vaguely funny pun, no, he is guilty of everything that is wrong with the world and everything done by every shithead who hates trans people.
re-read that quote. Carlin did not refer to anyone as "it". That's all your own craziness conflating one thing you don't like with everything bad in the world.
You realise that at that point it also ceases to be a joke or funny in any way right?
You're picking at the most trivial fucking shit there.
When I see an irishman joke I feel no urge to bitch and moan at length about how it negatively reflects on a historically oppressed and subjugated people especially if it's just a half-hearted pun or play on words .
Since the shit is stolen from monopoly abusers thieves which then exaggerate the damage to terrorize people and as a consequence keep law enforcement from going after bigger crimes, your argument doesn't hold much water. You are immoral if you pay them because you are supporting an immoral system.
Actually this is a fairly valid point if you're talking about moral/immoral behaviour. If you consider the way certain companies have manipulated legislation to give themselves an unfair monopoly (SoundExchange anyone) and consider their business practices immoral then it could indeed be considered immoral to support them with money. So paying them could be immoral. But then the most "moral" choice would be to simply not buy anything from them or violate their copyrigths. There's no shortage of good free legal music out there.
Now that could be considered a separate issue to the creation of copies without the permission of the person who created the original of what you're copying which it could be fair to say can also be immoral .
"as in the case of a speed limit on an empty road"
Assuming of course you don't spin off the road and through someones front window and that the debris from the wreck of your car on a dark road doesn't kill someone who was 10 minutes behind you on the road.
personally I think the way speed limits are chosen is poor and some roads should be treated like the high quality sections of autoban in Germany with no speed limits but I wanted to point out that even if there's nobody else near you on a stretch of road when you do something risky you can still kill people.
they could come up with some kind of missile designed to go after transmitters broadcasting interference, they'd be pretty loud and easy to spot.
of course this is probably for drone tech so if you armed a drones as such and programmed them to attack the transmitters if their command channel was blocked the first thing any amoral adversary would do would be to stick an interference transmitter in a preschool with a camera crew nearby.
Listening to someone who says "our customers aren't going to understand how to do that or why you would do that or what config files are or what the command line is, they just want it to work" can sometimes be a good thing.
Which of course has little to do with security except where security gets degraded slightly because people who don't understand what they're doing end up being able to make their system insecure without understanding what they're doing. It can however allow a larger portion of the human race to use the product.
antivirus software is useless for actual security, in general by the time the AV detects it you've already been infected and the virus has done it's dirty work.(unless you're lucky and it catches it as it tries to infect you)
if it's a true worm chances are high you'll be infected before the AV company adds it to their database or before the update is downloaded. Antivirus software is an example of enumerating badness. You pay a company a few dollars a month to try to keep track of everything bad in the world. which is a terrible way to do security.
even the best AV software has fairly crappy hit rates and will do nothing against a customized/targeted attack.
it's only true value is as a performance metric.(which is a has value in itself) if the antivirus ever detects anything then it means all your real security has failed miserably.
putting antivirus on a computer eliminates the need for real security in the same way that counting the money in the bank once a week eliminates the need for vault walls. it's a good thing to do but it's no substitute for real security.
linux has had a hell of a lot of security problems over the years. I like linux, I like open source but it isn't magic. pick an unpatched reasonably out of date linux system and you can find security holes in it.
linux seems to get patched slightly faster but that's about it. it also seems to attract some of the more anal security nuts as devs for some crypto focused applications who err on the side of security vs usability since they can do it how they want rather than how some marketing manager wants.
it's biggest advantage is that linux tends to attract the kinds of users who keep their patches up to date and know to avoid some of the more foolish things you can do. it's next biggest advantage securitywise is that attackers who are in it for the money are going to go after the largest pool of targets and simply put linux is still on the margins.
but linux is not a magic bullet. if you replaced all windows machines in the world overnight with linux machines and put the same people in charge of them linux would fare little better vs the malware authors.
he's just mad cause people don't automatically respect his (future?)phd or want to throw huge wads of money at him before he even gets any industry experience. and it's all dem foreigners fault.
America was highly involved in the early internet but the claim that america invented/created the internet is a load of nationalistic bullshit only repeated by the poorly educated.
Not only US projects were involved in the beginnings of the Internet. Not only government funded US research programs were involved in the beginnings of the Internet. Not only telcos and the commercial sector were involved in the beginnings of the Internet.
I'm not too mad on what they're talking about in TFA but only 1 of the cars on the street going 90 is probably far far more dangerous than all of them going 90.
And you can't seem to accept that for some people it really is just a job.
I gather you belive sex is special in every way but not everyone considers it particularly special.
I don't think there is any more that I can say if you can't grasp that.
"Given the choice most prostitutes would rather do a dirty job that covered their outgoings, but for a variety of reasons they often don't have that option."
And how does it being illegal help them in any way shape or form? Making it illegal only makes it worse for the women already in an unpleasant job.
Another small one. A few fans can make things far more pleasant even if the temperature is right. When you're a bit tired a breeze in the face can wake you up a bit and make you feel more alert.
Cold water or ice dispensers are good as well as the coffee.
make sure you put in some decent aircon and heaters. In winter feeling your fingers slowly turn to ice can be horrible but not nearly as bad as having to wipe sweat off your keyboard in summer. and put the dial where the people in the room can actually change it without going through 3 layers of bitter old building maintenance staff who like to watch the office staff sweat. I cannot stress that one enough.
Also Put a bathroom less than 10 minutes walk away. make sure it's clean and remains stocked with plenty of toilet paper.
these may sound like blindingly obvious simple things but so many workplaces seem to completely fail when it comes to these things.
"that it was in fact the commonly found version of this worm that was used rather than a specially crafted one"
Which makes no sense. If a competent organisation is going to mount a serious well funded attack you don't use code which is already in virus signature databases. You have one of your coders knock up something vaguely similar but with totally different code which will slip by AV software.
And as long as it avoids acting too obviously it will never be picked up by the AV software because it's rare for an antivirus scanner to be able to look at code never seen before and determine it's a virus unless it acts too blatantly like a virus.(attaching itself to every email, editing all exe's, adding itself to startup etc)
"You still seem to think that a lot of prostitutes do it because they want to. Ask any charity or law enforcement person who deals with them and they will tell you otherwise."
no I don't. I don't doubt that most of them would prefer to not do that job. The thing you keep on dismissing off hand over and over and over and replaying the same tired claim over and over and over is that the same thing goes for people in almost every single dirty unpleasant job. They don't like it, they would prefer not to do it, if they were not getting paid for it they wouldn't be doing it.
but the money tends to be good so they do. People aren't addicted to being a prostitute.
"Also, if you think regulation will prevent infections and health problems then you are mistaken. "
If you think regulation prevents any kind of workplace injuries or dangers you'd be mistakem, all it can do, all it ever does in any profession anywhere is reduce injuries and other problems. Which is better than sticking your head in the sand and pretending that if you keep wishing real hard that the underlying problems in society will go away.
"Compare the infection rates of prostitutes in places where it is legal with nurses and you will find that nursing is a far safer profession."
Compare the infection rates of taxi drivers with nurses and you'll find that taxi driving is a far safer profession. (of course if you look at road deaths it swings back the other way.) And the point you keep ignoring is that the pay is also far far better.
Sure a nurse probably has less than a (to pick a somewhat random guesstimate)tenth the chance of catching something deadly(unless there's some really contagious airborne virus going round) but they also earn less than a tenth as much per hour working.
I don't know why you think that is the current situation for drug users because it isn't. Possession is currently illegal.
there's more than your home town in the world. In some places police don't pay much attention to the addicts and focus on the dealers.
Of course the more sensible thing to do would be to put the dealers out of business by providing addicts with free high quality drugs(cheap for a government vs the cost of problems addicts cause trying to pay for their addictions) and after a couple of years when the big dealers are well out of business gradually push the addicts into addiction counselling and treatment. Drug dealing is a business after all just like any other.
How long does a normal business last when someone starts giving better merchandise away for free next door?
It would of course be important to make sure addicts are not penalised for accepting free drugs. Eliminate the profit in getting people addicted and you'll see less addicts.
(there's some interesting evidence based trials in London looking at an approach pretty similar to this, though focused on long term heroin addicts, free heroin on the condition of being a quiet non-destructive addict who doesn't steal things with arms of the trial looking at various incentive schemes)
Also, particularly in the case of opiates, addicts can be fairly functional in normal life when they have access to sufficient supplies of opiates.
On the other hand if you just arrest a dealer the dealer down the street will take over his customer base long before the first sees the inside of a courtroom. intercept a shipping container full of drugs and all you achieve is pushing up the price (and the number of car radios stolen) by a few percent that month.
One point we can probably agree on is that the current system in much of the US where the addicts are simply punished severely is about the worst of all possible approaches.
Please, show me the other vectors that agent.btz uses then. The link you provided only lists vectors which rely totally on autorun.
And if you're a forgien intelligence service there is no reason to use code already in the AV companies signature databases as a base for your attack, that just jeopardizes the attack since any civilian AV scanner will pick it up.
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Yes, there are exceptions, on both sides, but that doesn't mean that it's sexist to point out that one gender behaves predominantly one way, and the other gender the opposite.
Sure sexist stereotypes aren't sexist and have a core of truth unless they happen to be about you or offend you in some way in which case batten down the hatches, we're in for a rant.
It was only a few of decades ago that rental signs in london would read "no cats, no dogs, no irish".
It's not something of hundreds of years ago, plenty of living irish people experienced no shortage of racism and discrimination and the effects are still being felt.
Any good joke is offensive to someone and the quote in question is only offensive in the most trivial fashion to the most overly sensitive of fainting violets.
But it isn't what he said, it's the world he said it in of course.
Toughen up.
Sweet, so if you don't want a catholic church built in your town all I have to do is threaten to do something hateful and ignorant and public which will lead to lots of american soldiers getting killed in the international backlash and then it would count as a "compromise" when I don't do that in exchange for them not building the church.
they need to be ignored for the same reason you can't give in to the requests of hostage takers, if it works other people see and follow the same approach to achieve their own ends.
it isn't "compromise", that's extortion.
like it or not freedom of religion means more than just your religion.
There's a mormon church in Mountain Meadows in Utah (have fun googling that one)
There's no shortage of catholic churches in Jerusalem
Man up, a muslim temple in new york is going to hurt nobody.
Fuck costing them a lot of money, if they hire someone to explicitly break the law then execs should get jail terms.
Funny side note- a human of unknown gender should be "he" not "it".
objects and animals are "it", humans are he or she defaulting to he if unknown.
If you remove everything offensive from comedy you are left with little more than the sad pathetic little jokes found in Christmas crackers.
It was a trivial pun.
But of course, carlin wasn't making a trivial vaguely funny pun, no, he is guilty of everything that is wrong with the world and everything done by every shithead who hates trans people.
re-read that quote.
Carlin did not refer to anyone as "it".
That's all your own craziness conflating one thing you don't like with everything bad in the world.
You realise that at that point it also ceases to be a joke or funny in any way right?
You're picking at the most trivial fucking shit there.
When I see an irishman joke I feel no urge to bitch and moan at length about how it negatively reflects on a historically oppressed and subjugated people especially if it's just a half-hearted pun or play on words .
Since the shit is stolen from monopoly abusers thieves which then exaggerate the damage to terrorize people and as a consequence keep law enforcement from going after bigger crimes, your argument doesn't hold much water. You are immoral if you pay them because you are supporting an immoral system.
Actually this is a fairly valid point if you're talking about moral/immoral behaviour.
If you consider the way certain companies have manipulated legislation to give themselves an unfair monopoly (SoundExchange anyone) and consider their business practices immoral then it could indeed be considered immoral to support them with money.
So paying them could be immoral.
But then the most "moral" choice would be to simply not buy anything from them or violate their copyrigths.
There's no shortage of good free legal music out there.
Now that could be considered a separate issue to the creation of copies without the permission of the person who created the original of what you're copying which it could be fair to say can also be immoral .
"as in the case of a speed limit on an empty road"
Assuming of course you don't spin off the road and through someones front window and that the debris from the wreck of your car on a dark road doesn't kill someone who was 10 minutes behind you on the road.
personally I think the way speed limits are chosen is poor and some roads should be treated like the high quality sections of autoban in Germany with no speed limits but I wanted to point out that even if there's nobody else near you on a stretch of road when you do something risky you can still kill people.
they could come up with some kind of missile designed to go after transmitters broadcasting interference, they'd be pretty loud and easy to spot.
of course this is probably for drone tech so if you armed a drones as such and programmed them to attack the transmitters if their command channel was blocked the first thing any amoral adversary would do would be to stick an interference transmitter in a preschool with a camera crew nearby.
Listening to someone who says "our customers aren't going to understand how to do that or why you would do that or what config files are or what the command line is, they just want it to work" can sometimes be a good thing.
Which of course has little to do with security except where security gets degraded slightly because people who don't understand what they're doing end up being able to make their system insecure without understanding what they're doing.
It can however allow a larger portion of the human race to use the product.
antivirus software is useless for actual security, in general by the time the AV detects it you've already been infected and the virus has done it's dirty work.(unless you're lucky and it catches it as it tries to infect you)
if it's a true worm chances are high you'll be infected before the AV company adds it to their database or before the update is downloaded.
Antivirus software is an example of enumerating badness.
You pay a company a few dollars a month to try to keep track of everything bad in the world.
which is a terrible way to do security.
even the best AV software has fairly crappy hit rates and will do nothing against a customized/targeted attack.
it's only true value is as a performance metric.(which is a has value in itself)
if the antivirus ever detects anything then it means all your real security has failed miserably.
putting antivirus on a computer eliminates the need for real security in the same way that counting the money in the bank once a week eliminates the need for vault walls.
it's a good thing to do but it's no substitute for real security.
linux has had a hell of a lot of security problems over the years.
I like linux, I like open source but it isn't magic.
pick an unpatched reasonably out of date linux system and you can find security holes in it.
linux seems to get patched slightly faster but that's about it.
it also seems to attract some of the more anal security nuts as devs for some crypto focused applications who err on the side of security vs usability since they can do it how they want rather than how some marketing manager wants.
it's biggest advantage is that linux tends to attract the kinds of users who keep their patches up to date and know to avoid some of the more foolish things you can do.
it's next biggest advantage securitywise is that attackers who are in it for the money are going to go after the largest pool of targets and simply put linux is still on the margins.
but linux is not a magic bullet.
if you replaced all windows machines in the world overnight with linux machines and put the same people in charge of them linux would fare little better vs the malware authors.
he's just mad cause people don't automatically respect his (future?)phd or want to throw huge wads of money at him before he even gets any industry experience.
and it's all dem foreigners fault.
America was highly involved in the early internet but the claim that america invented/created the internet is a load of nationalistic bullshit only repeated by the poorly educated.
http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/origins.html
Not only US projects were involved in the beginnings of the Internet.
Not only government funded US research programs were involved in the beginnings of the Internet.
Not only telcos and the commercial sector were involved in the beginnings of the Internet.
or to translate blair1q's complaints:
"Dey tuk er jerbs!"
"Durka Dur!"
because people in countries are less important than americans and shouldn't get a chance at those jobs.
At least the darknets should last a fairly long time.
I'm not too mad on what they're talking about in TFA but only 1 of the cars on the street going 90 is probably far far more dangerous than all of them going 90.
Most of them are probably not amoral sociopaths in real life but I think John Gabriel's "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory" explains it neatly.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/
And you can't seem to accept that for some people it really is just a job.
I gather you belive sex is special in every way but not everyone considers it particularly special.
I don't think there is any more that I can say if you can't grasp that.
"Given the choice most prostitutes would rather do a dirty job that covered their outgoings, but for a variety of reasons they often don't have that option."
And how does it being illegal help them in any way shape or form?
Making it illegal only makes it worse for the women already in an unpleasant job.
Another small one.
A few fans can make things far more pleasant even if the temperature is right.
When you're a bit tired a breeze in the face can wake you up a bit and make you feel more alert.
Cold water or ice dispensers are good as well as the coffee.
make sure you put in some decent aircon and heaters.
In winter feeling your fingers slowly turn to ice can be horrible but not nearly as bad as having to wipe sweat off your keyboard in summer.
and put the dial where the people in the room can actually change it without going through 3 layers of bitter old building maintenance staff who like to watch the office staff sweat.
I cannot stress that one enough.
Also
Put a bathroom less than 10 minutes walk away.
make sure it's clean and remains stocked with plenty of toilet paper.
these may sound like blindingly obvious simple things but so many workplaces seem to completely fail when it comes to these things.
Finally a coffee machine is nice.
"that it was in fact the commonly found version of this worm that was used rather than a specially crafted one"
Which makes no sense.
If a competent organisation is going to mount a serious well funded attack you don't use code which is already in virus signature databases.
You have one of your coders knock up something vaguely similar but with totally different code which will slip by AV software.
And as long as it avoids acting too obviously it will never be picked up by the AV software because it's rare for an antivirus scanner to be able to look at code never seen before and determine it's a virus unless it acts too blatantly like a virus.(attaching itself to every email, editing all exe's, adding itself to startup etc)
It's also a far far far lower paid profession.
"You still seem to think that a lot of prostitutes do it because they want to. Ask any charity or law enforcement person who deals with them and they will tell you otherwise."
no I don't.
I don't doubt that most of them would prefer to not do that job.
The thing you keep on dismissing off hand over and over and over and replaying the same tired claim over and over and over is that the same thing goes for people in almost every single dirty unpleasant job.
They don't like it, they would prefer not to do it, if they were not getting paid for it they wouldn't be doing it.
but the money tends to be good so they do.
People aren't addicted to being a prostitute.
"Also, if you think regulation will prevent infections and health problems then you are mistaken. "
If you think regulation prevents any kind of workplace injuries or dangers you'd be mistakem, all it can do, all it ever does in any profession anywhere is reduce injuries and other problems.
Which is better than sticking your head in the sand and pretending that if you keep wishing real hard that the underlying problems in society will go away.
"Compare the infection rates of prostitutes in places where it is legal with nurses and you will find that nursing is a far safer profession."
Compare the infection rates of taxi drivers with nurses and you'll find that taxi driving is a far safer profession.
(of course if you look at road deaths it swings back the other way.)
And the point you keep ignoring is that the pay is also far far better.
Sure a nurse probably has less than a (to pick a somewhat random guesstimate)tenth the chance of catching something deadly(unless there's some really contagious airborne virus going round) but they also earn less than a tenth as much per hour working.
I don't know why you think that is the current situation for drug users because it isn't. Possession is currently illegal.
there's more than your home town in the world.
In some places police don't pay much attention to the addicts and focus on the dealers.
Of course the more sensible thing to do would be to put the dealers out of business by providing addicts with free high quality drugs(cheap for a government vs the cost of problems addicts cause trying to pay for their addictions) and after a couple of years when the big dealers are well out of business gradually push the addicts into addiction counselling and treatment.
Drug dealing is a business after all just like any other.
How long does a normal business last when someone starts giving better merchandise away for free next door?
It would of course be important to make sure addicts are not penalised for accepting free drugs.
Eliminate the profit in getting people addicted and you'll see less addicts.
(there's some interesting evidence based trials in London looking at an approach pretty similar to this, though focused on long term heroin addicts, free heroin on the condition of being a quiet non-destructive addict who doesn't steal things with arms of the trial looking at various incentive schemes)
Also, particularly in the case of opiates, addicts can be fairly functional in normal life when they have access to sufficient supplies of opiates.
On the other hand if you just arrest a dealer the dealer down the street will take over his customer base long before the first sees the inside of a courtroom.
intercept a shipping container full of drugs and all you achieve is pushing up the price (and the number of car radios stolen) by a few percent that month.
One point we can probably agree on is that the current system in much of the US where the addicts are simply punished severely is about the worst of all possible approaches.
Please, show me the other vectors that agent.btz uses then.
The link you provided only lists vectors which rely totally on autorun.
And if you're a forgien intelligence service there is no reason to use code already in the AV companies signature databases as a base for your attack, that just jeopardizes the attack since any civilian AV scanner will pick it up.
Rolling your own virus is not hard.