And the difference between your example and mine, is that enforcing the damn law is the *JOB* of the police. A police officer being a jerk and arresting someone on obviously trumped up charges or moving them along when they have a legal right to be there is doing something the mythical non-authoritarian jerk officer should be stopping them from doing. As their job.
I'm not in the military, I'm not in law enforcement. I do my part by voting against the people I think are committing war crimes. If I was in the military and didn't stand up against such actions, then yes I it would be a similar situation.
Any individual police officer who has never done such a thing has ignored another officer doing so, covered up for another officer doing so, and so on. And hence is just as bad if not worse.
Hawke called himself agnostic (of the "I don't know and don't waste time thinking about such crap" variety), and a few previous Prime Ministers are referred to as agnostic, though I don't know if they called themselves that: Curtin, Gorton, Whitlam.
Making it 100% would be essentially the exact opposite of a dictatorship. That's just consensus which is used in lots of situation - Cabinet decisions in the Westminster system, The P5 security council members veto power is almost the same thing too.
Why would I do that. You do realise that security isn't black and white.
There are levels of security.
My online banking details are something I wouldn't send over HTTP, and yet I'm perfectly willing to send my slashdot details over HTTP.
It's possible to get my online banking details, they are not perfectly secure. It is just more difficult than if I logged into my bank via HTTP.
It's possible to get my slashdot details, they are not perfecctly secure. It is just more difficult than if I posted them in a slashfot post.
In this case the cost/benefit is on the part of slashdot. They bear the cost of paying for the extra resources to do HTTPS on their traffic. There's a benefit to them as well, if login credentials were exposed it would reduce the popularity of the site since a lot of the content generating users would go away if anyone could use their account at anytime.
And simple cookie login tokens over HTTP is enough security so that they don't go away. There's no need to pay for more.
Do you also think slashdot should send every user an RSA SecureID hardware token?
If you want more democracy, you want the Senate to make the filibuster extremely rare, instead of the current Republican practice of filibustering every single Democratic bill, which changes the Constitution's majority (50%+1) requirement into a forced supermajority of 60+.
Why is a majority threshold "more" democratic than a supermajority theshold?
Of course it is an update can update whatever it wants, from the kernel to which services are enabled, to arbitrary registry settings, to installing an application.
And they have a mechanism to push updates - which the user can turn off of course.
You're going to have to be more specific for the dummies like me. Take the United Nuclear link that has a laser but it's $30 for 30mW. The one this article is about is 1000mW. So on a per-watt basis it's 1/5th the price, which seems the better value really if what you care about is the setting things on fire part.
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Removing the requirement of violence or the threat of violence from any definition of terrorism is just dumb.
Sure the root word doesn't require violence, but that's irrelevant since words have meanings on their own.
Use a different word, terrorism has been taken for 200 years to mean something else.
Please point to where I said the "DESERVE DEATH"?
And the difference between your example and mine, is that enforcing the damn law is the *JOB* of the police. A police officer being a jerk and arresting someone on obviously trumped up charges or moving them along when they have a legal right to be there is doing something the mythical non-authoritarian jerk officer should be stopping them from doing. As their job.
I'm not in the military, I'm not in law enforcement. I do my part by voting against the people I think are committing war crimes. If I was in the military and didn't stand up against such actions, then yes I it would be a similar situation.
Oh and I have moved countries in fact.
I'm smack on* the median age for the country I am in, which I don't think counts as "very young".
OK 20 days ago I was exactly the median, I'm a little over it now.
surely, the evidence is against that...
Obviously you can't use a trademarked name.
Obviously you can't just take their artwork and redistribute it.
Hopefully you aren't wealthy enough for them to be able to tell you are, otherwsie have fun paying out all of it to sony for wilfull infringment.
All police are authoritarian jerks.
Yes, all not some.
Any individual police officer who has never done such a thing has ignored another officer doing so, covered up for another officer doing so, and so on. And hence is just as bad if not worse.
Except apparently they are bumping into things they aren't supposed to be.
So maybe: Humans are pretty damn good, would be more reasonable.
Informative? Can I have some of what you guys are smoking?
http://www.smh.com.au/national/catholics-divided-in-the-house-20091225-lezv.html has her saying she is a "non-practicing Baptist". I have no idea what the hell that is, but it isn't atheist...
Hawke called himself agnostic (of the "I don't know and don't waste time thinking about such crap" variety), and a few previous Prime Ministers are referred to as agnostic, though I don't know if they called themselves that: Curtin, Gorton, Whitlam.
Reptilians in human bodies don't count.
Are you an idiot?
"first" only thing that makes it news outside of Australia and politics.
If Postal 2 is the best game in their list (that I didn't bother looking at), then the real question is how have they survived so long.
Making it 100% would be essentially the exact opposite of a dictatorship. That's just consensus which is used in lots of situation - Cabinet decisions in the Westminster system, The P5 security council members veto power is almost the same thing too.
Because the women they were commanded to take as plunder were completely wlling, of course.
she "HATES" video games, so there's nothing there to be tapped.
Yes dielectric heating is how microwaves work, that doesn't mean 2.4GHz is special at it.
Why would I do that. You do realise that security isn't black and white.
There are levels of security.
My online banking details are something I wouldn't send over HTTP, and yet I'm perfectly willing to send my slashdot details over HTTP.
It's possible to get my online banking details, they are not perfectly secure. It is just more difficult than if I logged into my bank via HTTP.
It's possible to get my slashdot details, they are not perfecctly secure. It is just more difficult than if I posted them in a slashfot post.
In this case the cost/benefit is on the part of slashdot. They bear the cost of paying for the extra resources to do HTTPS on their traffic. There's a benefit to them as well, if login credentials were exposed it would reduce the popularity of the site since a lot of the content generating users would go away if anyone could use their account at anytime.
And simple cookie login tokens over HTTP is enough security so that they don't go away. There's no need to pay for more.
Do you also think slashdot should send every user an RSA SecureID hardware token?
Surely that still results in a cookie that can be snooped over the HTTP stream and used as a login token?
If you want more democracy, you want the Senate to make the filibuster extremely rare, instead of the current Republican practice of filibustering every single Democratic bill, which changes the Constitution's majority (50%+1) requirement into a forced supermajority of 60+.
Why is a majority threshold "more" democratic than a supermajority theshold?
HTTPS is hearder on the server.
slashdot has exactly zero stuff that needs encrypting. Yes, including slashdot login/password details.
So that makes perfect sense.
And if you haven't seen something then it does not exist, right?
Of course it is an update can update whatever it wants, from the kernel to which services are enabled, to arbitrary registry settings, to installing an application.
And they have a mechanism to push updates - which the user can turn off of course.
So that is exactly how Windows Update works.
It's looking at data which is explicitly published by people such that the general public can view it.
Or is the summary writer claiming they are snooping the data elsewhere?
Which has exactly what to do with one source being cheaper than another?
You're going to have to be more specific for the dummies like me. Take the United Nuclear link that has a laser but it's $30 for 30mW. The one this article is about is 1000mW. So on a per-watt basis it's 1/5th the price, which seems the better value really if what you care about is the setting things on fire part.