The beneficiaries of corporate welfare would have you think so. In reality, when a mother hog's teats dry up, the little swine start fending for themselves. All those pigs are pigs, for certain, but they are mammalian, so they will just do what mammals have always done.
Careens over the cliff? I thought it was a rather graceful slide, myself.
Ehhh, that "fiscal cliff" thing was very over rated. The best thing they can possibly do, is to allow all those things to just kick in. Our government can never be out of debt, so long as they are paying bankers to administer our currency for their own profit. But, still, the best thing we can do is to raise taxes, and cut the many "entitlements". Starting, of course, with the very special entitlements for the rich.
A balanced budget amendment is what we need, more than anything else. The onl y sensible thing to do, is to ensure that our debt shrinks a little bit every year. GROWING the debt is just plain suicide.
Exactly. Our warplanes emit one hell of a lot of electronic noise, unless they are trying to be quiet. AWACS, anyone? On a jamming mission, they can smother anything and everything, but they don't fly into the ground while doing so. What's more, they can turn off their jamming equipment, turn on the passive listening devices, and hear everything that mankind has ever learned to listen for.
Nothing that passengers can carry onto a plane comes within orders of magnitude of the stuff an AWACS uses. Microamps, compared to what, again?
Savages, huh? There are still savages in the world. We read about some of them in the news from time to time. I'm not even Arabic, or related to any Arabic or Egyptian people, but I can definitely recognize that Egyptians aren't savages. Syrians? They're a bit closer to savagery. You want to meet some real savages, catch a plane to Pakistan, or Somalia. Geez, Louise - some of you think that anyone who isn't American or European has to be a savage. Grow up, get an education.
I think we're all facing bankruptcy, and paying Microsoft for permission to use their operating system just speeds us down that path. How many billions have they raked in, in Bill Gates lifetime? He can buy and sell small governments. He can buy and sell a couple of larger governments. That's not counting any of the corporation's money, just Bill's money.
You would think that a government that doesn't like capitalism would work hard to avoid making rich corporations even richer.
This. I don't have any traditions, really. The wife makes a big deal out of cooking black eyed peas and cabbage, tells us that it's good luck. I think she's just spent all the money on Christmas, and doesn't have any money left to cook a real dinner, but I'm not arguing with her.
Mostly, I just reminisce about where I've spent previous New Year days. A bar in Daytona, hanging with bikers. Smashing through mountainous waves in the North Sea. Palma Mallorca, Spain. Indian Ocean. Adak, Alaska. Winter Harbor, Maine. Oh yeah, the bar on Long Island, where they kicked me out for asking a woman - well, let's not go there, LMAO!!
And I wonder where all those people from my past are today, which of them are alive.
The new year isn't the same once you pass your 50th birthday.
Tonight, I'm just browsing the internet, hoping my dumbass kids aren't doing anything very stupid. At least I talked the youngest into leaving his motorcycle at home. He's driving my car. If he should meet a drunk, the car is much more survivable.
LMAO - his full name didn''t fit into my sig. I can't remember his name, and I'm to lazy to google for it. If you're as lazy as I am, you'll never know!;^)
I don't think this has anything to do with Chernobyl. The heat carried away from the passenger's bodies is carried off by convection. The passengers aren't really glow-in-the-dark radiaoactive.
I'm not quite certain if you're being facetious - but that is precisely the rationale that I hear from people affiliated with the Aryan Nation and the KKK.
"The person who owns the device should OWN IT. DRM allows outside parties to tell the device what is permissible, and what is not permissible. Allowing outsiders any access to my device, however indirectly, is contrary to security."
You wrote, "Your computer presents content to a third party for validation."
I think we said nearly the same thing - for all intents and purposes, can we just agree that outsiders seek control over my machine?
My computer should never be asking outside parties whether it is permissible to do ANYTHING! I refuse to validate any damned thing, whether it be the operating system itself, or content on the machine.
DRM grants third parties access to my computer. It permits third parties to control what my computer may or may not do. It's MY computer. Why in the hell should any third party be permitted to decide that I may or may not view an image, a video, or listen to music? Whether I bought that content, pirated it, or stole the DVD off of a store shelf, it is now here, on MY COMPUTER. Anyone who believes they have the right to police my computer can just bugger off.
The concept of "ownership" implies that I can do whatever the hell I want to do with my own possessions.
I own my home, I own my computer, I own everything in my home.
Anyone who is worried about what is happening in the privacy of my own home, on my own computer, might better occupy themselves with whatever gay couples are doing behind closed doors.
Granted, it was abused. But, most other abuses were far less horrifying than what the Nazis did. Some of the abuses in the US were pretty bad, but they could have, and should have, been addressed, fixed, and allowed to advance. Without the catalytic effect of the Nazi's programs, I'm half sure that is what would have happened.
Ohhh - I just HATE that blue eyed white guy picture of Jesus. Granted that many slashdotters think that anyone who believes in God is a fool, I'll go one step further on the "fool" bit.
Jesus Christ was born a Jew. The Jews were a rather dark skinned people, with kinda wooly hair, dark eyes. They are related to Arabs. Both of those groups are a blend of African people, and Persians. You don't find blonde, blue eyed, pasty white people in abundance among any of those groups.
Any "Christian" who reads his Bible can find a description of Jesus in the Revelations.
Reading that description, you can almost see the late Colonel Omar Khadafy.
Anyone wanting a picture of Jesus can just hang a picture of the Colonel over their altar. All those drawings and paintings done by middle ages Englishmen and Frenchmen and Germans can be thrown in the garbage.
Of course, very few people apply even the least bit of logic to their religion.
This is possibly the single worst thing that the Nazis did. They turned the world away from eugenics, because they were so cold hearted and calloused toward an entire race.
In and of itself, eugenics is a good thing. I would love to see it advanced. The research could lead to the cures for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, possibly even make our entire race stronger and smarter. The possibilities are endless.
But, because eugenics were so horrible abused by one group of people, against another group of people, we refuse to even look down that road.
I don't suppose that science will advance on that frontier unless and until a significant portion of mankind has left mother earth. I just hope that by then, the researchers haven't forgotten the atrocities committed by the nazis. The memories must be preserved, or mankind risks repeating those same atrocities.
Exactly. Sheep follow the herd. Thinking people take charge of their own security.
The internet knows a lot about me. It knows what I have let it know. But, none of the trackers track me everywhere. There were plenty of tools to prevent that even before the browsers came up with that "Anonymous Browsing" gimmick. About the only way anyone is going to track me, is to do a MIM attack. Even then, they better have a full suite of surveillance software with which to intercept TOR and other privacy software.
Please, see my post above. No one gives a small damn about ancient software designed for long obsolete hardware. If private citizens can cough up the money to keep their hardware and software up to date, so can corporate America.
Keep up, or die.
That's a real problem in America today. We keep ailing corporations afloat, at any cost. Screw them - let them die, and allow the newer generation to come up with their own solutions to today's problems.
If a corporation has "mission critical software" then they are doing things all wrong to start with. Software is just a tool. If you don't plan on purchasing new tools when the old tools wear out or become obsolete, you go under. That applies to craftsmen, as well as to IT people.
"The rest of the world will not wait nor care about your problems. "
I, for one, don't give a small damn about corporate IT's petty little problems.
I'm a private individual, maintaining a small number of machines. I climbed on the 64 bit computing wagon when it was still very new. As soon as Microsoft made a 64 bit Win XP available, I downloaded it, bought the hardware to run it, installed - and ran into a brick wall with driver problems.
That is exactly when I made the switch to Linux. I downloaded the then-current version of Suse, installed it, and had zero problems.
Since then, I've been 64 bit, and haven't looked back. I only screw around with Windows in Virtual machines.
All of this was moderately costly to me, a private individual. New, current technology hardware has never been cheap.
Today, 64 bit hardware is cheap, cheap, cheap. The corporate world can buy hardware that is 3 or 4 generations old, and STILL run 64 bit operating systems, and 64 bit software.
Again - I have no sympathy for the corporate world, or their IT departments. They enslaved themselves to Windows - specifically Windows XP and IE6 - all those years ago. Those idiots who conspired to be locked into Microsoft specific operating systems and browsers need to be flogged, keelhauled, and then be made to walk the plank today.
I have zero empathy for any of them.
It's past time for the boards of these corporations to understand that computer tech moves forward, continuously. And, they need to understand that if they are to remain competitive, they MUST keep up, or at least trail along with hardware and software that is only a couple generations old.
That calls for an investment, on their part. Rewrite the software, of develop new software. I don't give a rip which they do. It's probably smarter to develop new, and to get into the forefront again with both hardware and software. But, they don't need to be on the bleeding edge. Just get rid of the crap that has been obsolete for half of a decade.
Everyone in the US is worried about this "Fiscal Cliff" thing.
Wake up, Corporate America. You're facing an IT cliff. Or, don't wake up. Walk over the cliff, and I'll not mourn you. The survivors will adapt real damned quick, at great expense, and the rest of you will die.
WTF does DRM have to do with security? DRM is anathema to security. The person who owns the device should OWN IT. DRM allows outside parties to tell the device what is permissible, and what is not permissible. Allowing outsiders any access to my device, however indirectly, is contrary to security.
If DRM is a subset of security, then the Tea Party is a subset of the Democratic Party. The Westboro clan is a subset of the gay rights movement. Chavez is a subset of capitalistic investors.
Dude - we get enough wishy washy nonsense from politicians. We really don't need that in a tech discussion.
since we can see farther and clearer than ever before, it's kinda likely that if there's a habitable world out there, we're more likely than ever to find it.
Meanwhile, in other news, farmers announce that if it's not to dry, not to wet, and just the right temperatures, they could harvest bumper crops this year.
Please stand by while we compile a more complete list of inane almost predictions.
I worked roofing for awhile, here and there. Take any metal tool, be it a framing square, a hammer, a screwdriver, and lay it on the hot asphalt shingled roof for just a few minutes. The actual temp may only be high seventies, but on a clear sunshiny day, picking that metal tool up after ten minutes can blister your hands. (Of course, I use degrees F, that would be high 20's for you?) I wasn't scientific about it, but a lighter colored roof didn't seem to cook those tools quite so quickly. Color was a trade off though. Lighter colors reflected more energy back up into your face, darker colors cooked your feet and any tools that were laid on the roof.
I spent a whole summer doing roofing when I was 15. That was the next-to-the-last time I ran away from home. Already an underweight runt, I lost ten pounds that summer!
A guy can learn a lot of physics, just observing the world around him. It's easy to understand the potential of solar energy, if only we could develop better photovoltaic cells.
That's really strange. I happen to live in a rather bigoted all-white area. Few blacks live here. Those blacks who live here are mostly found in the city. Yet, our crime rate is consistent with the rest of the state. Our state's statistics are consistent with national averages. We have our horrifying murders, we have rapes, we have child molestation cases, auto thefts, drug labs.
If you and people like you had any idea what you're talking about, then my neighborhood should be virtually crime free, yet the county courthouse stays busy all the time. Statistically, the courthouse has to many cases against black defendants, but there is no shortage whatsoever of white defendants. All four of our most gruesome and senseless murders in the past decade were committed by white guys. The two current (unrelated) pointless murders being prosecuted were committed by an Hispanic guy, and a white female. The most newsworthy, recent attempted murder was committed by a white deputy sheriff.
You should drop the hate, dude. It costs you more than you'll can possibly realize.
Please - let's not introduce rational discussion and valid points to this discussion. Based on the title and the summary, I had just about decided that Dead Steve was much more evil that I had ever believed Living Steve to be. Now, here you go, forcing me to backtrack. Alright, Dead Steve isn't any more evil than he was living. Forget Zombie Steve, forget the invasion, forget the Apple crime conspiracy. Crap - Apple bashing threads are so fun to read!
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The beneficiaries of corporate welfare would have you think so. In reality, when a mother hog's teats dry up, the little swine start fending for themselves. All those pigs are pigs, for certain, but they are mammalian, so they will just do what mammals have always done.
Careens over the cliff? I thought it was a rather graceful slide, myself.
Ehhh, that "fiscal cliff" thing was very over rated. The best thing they can possibly do, is to allow all those things to just kick in. Our government can never be out of debt, so long as they are paying bankers to administer our currency for their own profit. But, still, the best thing we can do is to raise taxes, and cut the many "entitlements". Starting, of course, with the very special entitlements for the rich.
A balanced budget amendment is what we need, more than anything else. The onl y sensible thing to do, is to ensure that our debt shrinks a little bit every year. GROWING the debt is just plain suicide.
Exactly. Our warplanes emit one hell of a lot of electronic noise, unless they are trying to be quiet. AWACS, anyone? On a jamming mission, they can smother anything and everything, but they don't fly into the ground while doing so. What's more, they can turn off their jamming equipment, turn on the passive listening devices, and hear everything that mankind has ever learned to listen for.
Nothing that passengers can carry onto a plane comes within orders of magnitude of the stuff an AWACS uses. Microamps, compared to what, again?
Savages, huh? There are still savages in the world. We read about some of them in the news from time to time. I'm not even Arabic, or related to any Arabic or Egyptian people, but I can definitely recognize that Egyptians aren't savages. Syrians? They're a bit closer to savagery. You want to meet some real savages, catch a plane to Pakistan, or Somalia. Geez, Louise - some of you think that anyone who isn't American or European has to be a savage. Grow up, get an education.
I think we're all facing bankruptcy, and paying Microsoft for permission to use their operating system just speeds us down that path. How many billions have they raked in, in Bill Gates lifetime? He can buy and sell small governments. He can buy and sell a couple of larger governments. That's not counting any of the corporation's money, just Bill's money.
You would think that a government that doesn't like capitalism would work hard to avoid making rich corporations even richer.
Since you were like, 10? So - this is the fifth year now?
I know, you didn't deserve that, but isn't everyone here a teenage kid living in his momma's basement? ;^)
This. I don't have any traditions, really. The wife makes a big deal out of cooking black eyed peas and cabbage, tells us that it's good luck. I think she's just spent all the money on Christmas, and doesn't have any money left to cook a real dinner, but I'm not arguing with her.
Mostly, I just reminisce about where I've spent previous New Year days. A bar in Daytona, hanging with bikers. Smashing through mountainous waves in the North Sea. Palma Mallorca, Spain. Indian Ocean. Adak, Alaska. Winter Harbor, Maine. Oh yeah, the bar on Long Island, where they kicked me out for asking a woman - well, let's not go there, LMAO!!
And I wonder where all those people from my past are today, which of them are alive.
The new year isn't the same once you pass your 50th birthday.
Tonight, I'm just browsing the internet, hoping my dumbass kids aren't doing anything very stupid. At least I talked the youngest into leaving his motorcycle at home. He's driving my car. If he should meet a drunk, the car is much more survivable.
LMAO - his full name didn''t fit into my sig. I can't remember his name, and I'm to lazy to google for it. If you're as lazy as I am, you'll never know! ;^)
I don't think this has anything to do with Chernobyl. The heat carried away from the passenger's bodies is carried off by convection. The passengers aren't really glow-in-the-dark radiaoactive.
Termites and ants do indeed have ventilation. It's natural ventilation, so you don't recognize it as such, but it most certainly is ventilation.
I'm seeing paywalls, book reviews, etc that don't really have a lot of text available for the casual browser. My search:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=thermoregulation+ventilation+termite+mounds&oq=vantilation+termite+mounds&gs_l=hp.1.1.0i13i30j0i13i5i30.1592.8146.0.14169.26.25.0.0.0.0.513.5998.0j12j10j1j1j1.25.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.8YEnc5ejSjM&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.b2U&fp=eb5dc79f55434dab&bpcl=40096503&biw=994&bih=588
Enjoy
I'm not quite certain if you're being facetious - but that is precisely the rationale that I hear from people affiliated with the Aryan Nation and the KKK.
Scary, isn't it?
Maybe you didn't read my original post?
"The person who owns the device should OWN IT. DRM allows outside parties to tell the device what is permissible, and what is not permissible. Allowing outsiders any access to my device, however indirectly, is contrary to security."
You wrote, "Your computer presents content to a third party for validation."
I think we said nearly the same thing - for all intents and purposes, can we just agree that outsiders seek control over my machine?
My computer should never be asking outside parties whether it is permissible to do ANYTHING! I refuse to validate any damned thing, whether it be the operating system itself, or content on the machine.
DRM grants third parties access to my computer. It permits third parties to control what my computer may or may not do. It's MY computer. Why in the hell should any third party be permitted to decide that I may or may not view an image, a video, or listen to music? Whether I bought that content, pirated it, or stole the DVD off of a store shelf, it is now here, on MY COMPUTER. Anyone who believes they have the right to police my computer can just bugger off.
The concept of "ownership" implies that I can do whatever the hell I want to do with my own possessions.
I own my home, I own my computer, I own everything in my home.
Anyone who is worried about what is happening in the privacy of my own home, on my own computer, might better occupy themselves with whatever gay couples are doing behind closed doors.
Granted, it was abused. But, most other abuses were far less horrifying than what the Nazis did. Some of the abuses in the US were pretty bad, but they could have, and should have, been addressed, fixed, and allowed to advance. Without the catalytic effect of the Nazi's programs, I'm half sure that is what would have happened.
Ohhh - I just HATE that blue eyed white guy picture of Jesus. Granted that many slashdotters think that anyone who believes in God is a fool, I'll go one step further on the "fool" bit.
Jesus Christ was born a Jew. The Jews were a rather dark skinned people, with kinda wooly hair, dark eyes. They are related to Arabs. Both of those groups are a blend of African people, and Persians. You don't find blonde, blue eyed, pasty white people in abundance among any of those groups.
Any "Christian" who reads his Bible can find a description of Jesus in the Revelations.
Reading that description, you can almost see the late Colonel Omar Khadafy.
Anyone wanting a picture of Jesus can just hang a picture of the Colonel over their altar. All those drawings and paintings done by middle ages Englishmen and Frenchmen and Germans can be thrown in the garbage.
Of course, very few people apply even the least bit of logic to their religion.
This is possibly the single worst thing that the Nazis did. They turned the world away from eugenics, because they were so cold hearted and calloused toward an entire race.
In and of itself, eugenics is a good thing. I would love to see it advanced. The research could lead to the cures for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, possibly even make our entire race stronger and smarter. The possibilities are endless.
But, because eugenics were so horrible abused by one group of people, against another group of people, we refuse to even look down that road.
I don't suppose that science will advance on that frontier unless and until a significant portion of mankind has left mother earth. I just hope that by then, the researchers haven't forgotten the atrocities committed by the nazis. The memories must be preserved, or mankind risks repeating those same atrocities.
Exactly. Sheep follow the herd. Thinking people take charge of their own security.
The internet knows a lot about me. It knows what I have let it know. But, none of the trackers track me everywhere. There were plenty of tools to prevent that even before the browsers came up with that "Anonymous Browsing" gimmick. About the only way anyone is going to track me, is to do a MIM attack. Even then, they better have a full suite of surveillance software with which to intercept TOR and other privacy software.
Please, see my post above. No one gives a small damn about ancient software designed for long obsolete hardware. If private citizens can cough up the money to keep their hardware and software up to date, so can corporate America.
Keep up, or die.
That's a real problem in America today. We keep ailing corporations afloat, at any cost. Screw them - let them die, and allow the newer generation to come up with their own solutions to today's problems.
If a corporation has "mission critical software" then they are doing things all wrong to start with. Software is just a tool. If you don't plan on purchasing new tools when the old tools wear out or become obsolete, you go under. That applies to craftsmen, as well as to IT people.
"The rest of the world will not wait nor care about your problems. "
I, for one, don't give a small damn about corporate IT's petty little problems.
I'm a private individual, maintaining a small number of machines. I climbed on the 64 bit computing wagon when it was still very new. As soon as Microsoft made a 64 bit Win XP available, I downloaded it, bought the hardware to run it, installed - and ran into a brick wall with driver problems.
That is exactly when I made the switch to Linux. I downloaded the then-current version of Suse, installed it, and had zero problems.
Since then, I've been 64 bit, and haven't looked back. I only screw around with Windows in Virtual machines.
All of this was moderately costly to me, a private individual. New, current technology hardware has never been cheap.
Today, 64 bit hardware is cheap, cheap, cheap. The corporate world can buy hardware that is 3 or 4 generations old, and STILL run 64 bit operating systems, and 64 bit software.
Again - I have no sympathy for the corporate world, or their IT departments. They enslaved themselves to Windows - specifically Windows XP and IE6 - all those years ago. Those idiots who conspired to be locked into Microsoft specific operating systems and browsers need to be flogged, keelhauled, and then be made to walk the plank today.
I have zero empathy for any of them.
It's past time for the boards of these corporations to understand that computer tech moves forward, continuously. And, they need to understand that if they are to remain competitive, they MUST keep up, or at least trail along with hardware and software that is only a couple generations old.
That calls for an investment, on their part. Rewrite the software, of develop new software. I don't give a rip which they do. It's probably smarter to develop new, and to get into the forefront again with both hardware and software. But, they don't need to be on the bleeding edge. Just get rid of the crap that has been obsolete for half of a decade.
Everyone in the US is worried about this "Fiscal Cliff" thing.
Wake up, Corporate America. You're facing an IT cliff. Or, don't wake up. Walk over the cliff, and I'll not mourn you. The survivors will adapt real damned quick, at great expense, and the rest of you will die.
Again - no sympathy. Die, you unwashed heathens.
WTF does DRM have to do with security? DRM is anathema to security. The person who owns the device should OWN IT. DRM allows outside parties to tell the device what is permissible, and what is not permissible. Allowing outsiders any access to my device, however indirectly, is contrary to security.
If DRM is a subset of security, then the Tea Party is a subset of the Democratic Party. The Westboro clan is a subset of the gay rights movement. Chavez is a subset of capitalistic investors.
Dude - we get enough wishy washy nonsense from politicians. We really don't need that in a tech discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DX1iplQQJTo
since we can see farther and clearer than ever before, it's kinda likely that if there's a habitable world out there, we're more likely than ever to find it.
Meanwhile, in other news, farmers announce that if it's not to dry, not to wet, and just the right temperatures, they could harvest bumper crops this year.
Please stand by while we compile a more complete list of inane almost predictions.
I worked roofing for awhile, here and there. Take any metal tool, be it a framing square, a hammer, a screwdriver, and lay it on the hot asphalt shingled roof for just a few minutes. The actual temp may only be high seventies, but on a clear sunshiny day, picking that metal tool up after ten minutes can blister your hands. (Of course, I use degrees F, that would be high 20's for you?) I wasn't scientific about it, but a lighter colored roof didn't seem to cook those tools quite so quickly. Color was a trade off though. Lighter colors reflected more energy back up into your face, darker colors cooked your feet and any tools that were laid on the roof.
I spent a whole summer doing roofing when I was 15. That was the next-to-the-last time I ran away from home. Already an underweight runt, I lost ten pounds that summer!
A guy can learn a lot of physics, just observing the world around him. It's easy to understand the potential of solar energy, if only we could develop better photovoltaic cells.
That's really strange. I happen to live in a rather bigoted all-white area. Few blacks live here. Those blacks who live here are mostly found in the city. Yet, our crime rate is consistent with the rest of the state. Our state's statistics are consistent with national averages. We have our horrifying murders, we have rapes, we have child molestation cases, auto thefts, drug labs.
If you and people like you had any idea what you're talking about, then my neighborhood should be virtually crime free, yet the county courthouse stays busy all the time. Statistically, the courthouse has to many cases against black defendants, but there is no shortage whatsoever of white defendants. All four of our most gruesome and senseless murders in the past decade were committed by white guys. The two current (unrelated) pointless murders being prosecuted were committed by an Hispanic guy, and a white female. The most newsworthy, recent attempted murder was committed by a white deputy sheriff.
You should drop the hate, dude. It costs you more than you'll can possibly realize.
Please - let's not introduce rational discussion and valid points to this discussion. Based on the title and the summary, I had just about decided that Dead Steve was much more evil that I had ever believed Living Steve to be. Now, here you go, forcing me to backtrack. Alright, Dead Steve isn't any more evil than he was living. Forget Zombie Steve, forget the invasion, forget the Apple crime conspiracy. Crap - Apple bashing threads are so fun to read!