Might I point out that WinXP was "generally acknowledged to be secure"? Actually, it was pretty secure, compared to what we had been used to prior to WinXP. WinXP SP3 improves a great deal over WinXP, and Win7 improved even more - which only helps to demonstrate that "security" is a moving target. "Generally acknowledged" means squat.
The door didn't hit me on the way out, thank you for your concern.
Ads are blocked at my router, for the most part. It won't connect to ad servers. I have AdBlock installed, because not all ads come from servers. NoScript blocks all those cross site scripts that serve up ads that the router misses. I see precious few adverts.
If I MUST watch an ad to use the service, then it's not a "service". And, I don't need or want it, thank you very much.
Did you say I'm a leech? Whatever. I don't much care what you think. I'm after content, and I'll get my content without wasting years of my life watching meaningless bullshit that you hope will pay for your next Carnival Cruise.
We're the sole superpower? May I invite you to wake up and smell the coffee?
We, the United States, are the fading has-been superpower. We still have our delusions of grandeur, and we are indeed still quite powerful. But, we are the has-been.
The up and coming superpower is China, without a doubt. With economic clout comes the ability to build huge navies, huge armies, and huge air forces - and possible space forces. China's plan of assymetric warfare, known as "Assassin's Mace" is still a few years from completion, but it's moving along.
China WILL dwarf us, one day. That is guaranteed, because so many of our politicians and business leaders are busy selling everything that China needs to do so.
Sole superpower, indeed. Have you never heard that nature hates a vacuum? There is a power vacuum, right now, but it won't stay a vacuum for long.
How anonymous is a post on slashdot, if Facebook is tracking you via your browser? Slashdot may not know who you are (fat chance of that, they log IP addresses) but the browser is reporting to Facebook each and every time you land on a page with a Facebook "like" button.
That is why I check out the anti-tracking addons and other good stuff, pretty frequently. Unless you're actively blocking tracking efforts, any number of businesses, such as Facebook, knows everywhere you go online, and what you're doing. Every bit and byte of data that they gather gets crunched together, and the results of some magical algorithm gets sold to the highest bidder.
The constitution guarantees your freedom of speech, as long as you're wiling to let the jackbooted thugs know which door you sleep behind, so that they can kick it in during the night.
That's not quite how I read the story of the revolution, and it's not quite how I read the constitution.
You're serious? We have a ruling that almost begins to makes some limited sense of patent and copyright law, and you hope it's overturned because you dislike Java?
There is no thing, no process, no work that is so valuable that I wouldn't sacrifice it in favor of making patent and copyright law sane.
Barbarian? That is quite telling. You can't tell the difference between a person defending his home, and the barbarian who broke into his home. No wonder our "justice system" is so messed up.
Shoot the thief dead, dead, dead, and hope that he hasn't bred yet!
At a guess, I'd say the total length of wiring might be indicative of complexity. The machines that I have worked on that have only a few hundred feet of wiring are generally less complex than machines with thousands of feet of wiring in them.
For comparison, find an old Farmall or John Deere tractor, and compare the wiring to your modern automobile. An elementary school child can figure out the wiring on an 50 to 80 year old tractor. Good luck with your car - experience mechanics have problems chasing down problems, especially intermittent shorts.
Not a racist problem? Really? Perhaps you missed Lord Kano's post above. The economic puppeteers are using one specific race (Indians) to bludgeon the people in the IT field, just as they used another race (Mexicans) to bludgeon tradesmen before, during, and after the housing bubble.
Yes, race is a factor in the equation.
And, oh yeah - while ALL Americans are being ripped off, white Americans, especially white MALE Americans are the primary target of this economic wealth redistribution.
I picture some arrogant fool at a race, who spends several minutes fast walking backwards around the track. When the race is almost won, then he starts running in the right direction.
With luck, the utilities will be back at the starting line before the competition crosses the finish line.
Somehow, I fail to see the difference. We want certain kinds of information, that we believe will make our nation stronger. They want any and all information, that they believe will make their nation stronger.
Pot, meet Kettle.
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An abacus? Come on, man, some of us are all thumbs and incapable of operating a mechanical device like an abacus!
Actually, most first world governments have abdicated the right and responsibility for minting currency, in favor of the world bank, and it's subsidiary national central banks. For instance, the "Federal Reserve" bank.
Aristotle was contemporary with cavemen, and their ancestors? Really? I had always suspected that Aristotle was a "modern man". Geez - maybe you have a citation to offer, of your own?
Get real, huh? H4rr4r said (s)he runs them with a load of dish towels. That's a load that would have been washed anyway, no extra use of energy or water. My wife washes her bags with dirty blue jeans. Again, no special loads for reusable bags. You're being silly, in an attempt to make a pointless point.
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Might I point out that WinXP was "generally acknowledged to be secure"? Actually, it was pretty secure, compared to what we had been used to prior to WinXP. WinXP SP3 improves a great deal over WinXP, and Win7 improved even more - which only helps to demonstrate that "security" is a moving target. "Generally acknowledged" means squat.
The door didn't hit me on the way out, thank you for your concern.
Ads are blocked at my router, for the most part. It won't connect to ad servers. I have AdBlock installed, because not all ads come from servers. NoScript blocks all those cross site scripts that serve up ads that the router misses. I see precious few adverts.
If I MUST watch an ad to use the service, then it's not a "service". And, I don't need or want it, thank you very much.
Did you say I'm a leech? Whatever. I don't much care what you think. I'm after content, and I'll get my content without wasting years of my life watching meaningless bullshit that you hope will pay for your next Carnival Cruise.
We're the sole superpower? May I invite you to wake up and smell the coffee?
We, the United States, are the fading has-been superpower. We still have our delusions of grandeur, and we are indeed still quite powerful. But, we are the has-been.
The up and coming superpower is China, without a doubt. With economic clout comes the ability to build huge navies, huge armies, and huge air forces - and possible space forces. China's plan of assymetric warfare, known as "Assassin's Mace" is still a few years from completion, but it's moving along.
China WILL dwarf us, one day. That is guaranteed, because so many of our politicians and business leaders are busy selling everything that China needs to do so.
Sole superpower, indeed. Have you never heard that nature hates a vacuum? There is a power vacuum, right now, but it won't stay a vacuum for long.
How anonymous is a post on slashdot, if Facebook is tracking you via your browser? Slashdot may not know who you are (fat chance of that, they log IP addresses) but the browser is reporting to Facebook each and every time you land on a page with a Facebook "like" button.
That is why I check out the anti-tracking addons and other good stuff, pretty frequently. Unless you're actively blocking tracking efforts, any number of businesses, such as Facebook, knows everywhere you go online, and what you're doing. Every bit and byte of data that they gather gets crunched together, and the results of some magical algorithm gets sold to the highest bidder.
The constitution guarantees your freedom of speech, as long as you're wiling to let the jackbooted thugs know which door you sleep behind, so that they can kick it in during the night.
That's not quite how I read the story of the revolution, and it's not quite how I read the constitution.
"Our legal system was not designed as a support for any particular kind of business model" except banking.
You're serious? We have a ruling that almost begins to makes some limited sense of patent and copyright law, and you hope it's overturned because you dislike Java?
There is no thing, no process, no work that is so valuable that I wouldn't sacrifice it in favor of making patent and copyright law sane.
Barbarian? That is quite telling. You can't tell the difference between a person defending his home, and the barbarian who broke into his home. No wonder our "justice system" is so messed up.
Shoot the thief dead, dead, dead, and hope that he hasn't bred yet!
At a guess, I'd say the total length of wiring might be indicative of complexity. The machines that I have worked on that have only a few hundred feet of wiring are generally less complex than machines with thousands of feet of wiring in them.
For comparison, find an old Farmall or John Deere tractor, and compare the wiring to your modern automobile. An elementary school child can figure out the wiring on an 50 to 80 year old tractor. Good luck with your car - experience mechanics have problems chasing down problems, especially intermittent shorts.
It wasn't me! I swear it wasn't me! I've never worked on an aircraft in my life!
Sux2bthatguy!!
(Note that Runaway is color vision impaired, and has in fact wired things wrong from time to time.)
Google "Ruby Ridge".
In today's world, it's more like "My corporation will have you arrested and accidentally shot while resisting arrest if you disagree with us."
Not a racist problem? Really? Perhaps you missed Lord Kano's post above. The economic puppeteers are using one specific race (Indians) to bludgeon the people in the IT field, just as they used another race (Mexicans) to bludgeon tradesmen before, during, and after the housing bubble.
Yes, race is a factor in the equation.
And, oh yeah - while ALL Americans are being ripped off, white Americans, especially white MALE Americans are the primary target of this economic wealth redistribution.
Go ahead - pretend it ain't so.
Think maybe there's a reason for that?
Like - maybe software might merit copyright protection, but never patent protection?
Ahhhhh, echos of the housing bubble? Corporate America has shifted targets from lowly craftsmen, to the formerly elite IT crowd.
The day will come when a citizen of the US can't buy an IT job, especially if he looks like a white American.
I picture some arrogant fool at a race, who spends several minutes fast walking backwards around the track. When the race is almost won, then he starts running in the right direction.
With luck, the utilities will be back at the starting line before the competition crosses the finish line.
Somehow, I fail to see the difference. We want certain kinds of information, that we believe will make our nation stronger. They want any and all information, that they believe will make their nation stronger.
Pot, meet Kettle.
An abacus? Come on, man, some of us are all thumbs and incapable of operating a mechanical device like an abacus!
http://www.esl-resources.com/lit/html/04_allthumbs.jpg
Mate for me. Self flagellation is just not my thing.
http://mate-desktop.org/
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=were+cavemen+human%3F
Actually, most first world governments have abdicated the right and responsibility for minting currency, in favor of the world bank, and it's subsidiary national central banks. For instance, the "Federal Reserve" bank.
Aristotle was contemporary with cavemen, and their ancestors? Really? I had always suspected that Aristotle was a "modern man". Geez - maybe you have a citation to offer, of your own?
I stand corrected. It is the tip of a peninsula, with water running around about 290 degrees. Not an island at all!
Get real, huh? H4rr4r said (s)he runs them with a load of dish towels. That's a load that would have been washed anyway, no extra use of energy or water. My wife washes her bags with dirty blue jeans. Again, no special loads for reusable bags. You're being silly, in an attempt to make a pointless point.
You're forgetting the dead stuff among the rocks all the way around the island. I didn't smell much cannabis, but the dead stuff was pervasive.