Thanks for the info. Will discuss this with the wife, we have been talking about moving to Canada but everything I heard said it was next to impossible. Do you know anything about BC? Because the weather there is a little more to my liking;-)
It's a perfect example of the powers that be coopting a word, and they may very well do the same thing to libertarianism. The US Government engaged in a propaganda campaign against anarchists around the turn of the century, which is where the whole meme of the "bomb throwing anarchist" came from. The dictionary.com definition is right, because language changes according to useage, and the campaign was successful, so people started using the word in that way. But if you talk to any Anarchists aside from the street punk circle-A variety, they will tell you a very different story.
You are correct, but we have come to two different conclusions based on the facts at hand. I concluded that it would only work on an admin account, you concluded it would grant admin privileges. I am now RTFA for more clues... Ambiguous. Looking to F_Secure... Can't find the relevant article. Checking the diary entry mentioned in TFA... Nothing about privilege escalation. It's a toss up, either of us could be right.
Anarchism does not advocate a lawless society either. Read the links I gave. Ochlocracy can refer to a State where laws have broken down, or a society where there are no laws, as I said, mob rule. Which I think is what you meant, not anarchy. I find it odd that you know a lot about Libertarianism but (seemingly) have never encountered the correct definition of Anarchy.
Anarchism is different from Ochlocracy, which is what I believe you are referring to. Libertarianism is a type of Anarchism, and both believe in doing away with coercive rulership. Ochlocracy is mob rule, which is what most people mean when they say "anarchy."
Who says the American execs know? I mean, it's good cover, you open plants in the US and Mexico, hire a bunch of American execs, and put in a covert signalling mechanism in the form of, oh say a power management feature on the motherboards that slightly varies the rate at which ethernet packets are sent based on things the computer is doing. That scheme took me all of five seconds to dream up, I'm sure China could come up with better.
I'm guessing this is just paranoia and xenaphobia on the part of our government, but it's not quite as far-fetched as you make it out to be.
Because I want to move there. $10/hr menial jobs? New York and San Francisco don't pay that well, and they are two of the most expensive places on earth. Seriously, do you need a Linux expert/Network Administrator? I'll move to wherever you are in a heartbeat because most of the world is not like where you live.
I would love to move to Canada, but I've looked into it and without either $100,000 to invest in the local economy or an employer willing to state they need and can't find someone with my qualifications, I am not getting in.
You don't get it. Government is the big bad ooky thing that tells us all what to do and takes our money. In Anarchy, we don't have that. We have a bunch of individuals who, um, organize themselves into groups and decide, errr, how to distribute resources, and how to enforce that distribution, and what to do about the Bad People and stuff like that. That's not government, see, because it's different. It's only because of your Statist indoctrination that you can't see the difference.
I consider myself an Anarcho-Syndicalist, but man! the twists of logic that some Anarchists go through... Talk about indoctrination. Anarchism is a form of Government, and if you can't see that, you really need to read a little more.
"Oh, but spun, Anarchists don't Initiate Force (you can hear the capitals when they talk, can't you?)" you say, "We don't force people to do anything!"
Oh really? You don't force them to respect your property rights and conflict resolution system?
"Oh, but that's not Initiation of Force! That's Retaliatory Force! They started it!"
Yeah, sure. "They started it" is the favorite excuse of tyrants everywhere. What about my right to go anywhere I want and use any natural resource I want? Why should I respect your supposed "right" to take that away from me? If you weren't here, I could use the land you claim as your own.
Basically, the parent post is correct, anytime you have more than one person, that is political science. Discussion of things such as property rights, conflict resolution, decision making systems, etc. THAT IS GOVERNMENT!
I'm sure some Libertarian is going to come along now and demonstrate the meaning of the word Sophistry for us.
How about backing that up with some references, because from what I understand, only an congressional committee was briefed, and they were forbiden from talking about the briefing.
You know, people claim that posts have a hard time conveying nuance, but you sure managed to convey "frothing at the mouth" pretty accurately. Why do I doubt you really are a Democrat, I wonder?
Consider that 400 speed film has a resolution of about 6.5 megapixels per square inch, based on the grain size of the film. 35mm film uses a surface area of about 1.33 square inches per picture, for about 8.5 megapixels per picture of useable resolution. We are just now reaching the resolution of regular film.
The main issues with digital cameras are twofold, one is the lack of tonal range, the other is the quality of the optics. Digital cameras do not pick up low light and shadow details as well as film, and generally have inferior optics which limit image quality far more than resolution does.
Hey, I bet there are some pretty smart MBAs over in India who could do the job of most managers and CEOs twice as well for a quarter of the pay. As an added benefit, with remote management, worker morale would improve.
I hope shareholders sue the boards of any companies that don't outsource their management, they are costing those shareholders money.
Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boys, your turn is coming.
I was using the term chaos as in chaos theory which describes the behavior of nonlinear dynamic systems. Random truly is the wrong word, there is order as you say, but it is not directed order, and considered as a continuous process, the system consisting of environment and evolution is nonlinear, meaning a small change in one part can cause a big change in another part. Anyways, according to your bio-blurb, you're a Master's student studying dinosaur paleontology, so I rather suspect you have an even better understanding of evolution than I do.
Fitness criteria change as the environment changes. What is fit for one species in one environment is not the same as what is fit for another species, or the same species in a different environment. Wings won't help a lobster. Gills won't help a bird. Evolution is not directed towards greater and greater fitness on some arbitrary external scale of fitness.
It isn't that we don't get what ender is trying to say, it's that he doesn't get how we have answered his question because he is basing his premise on false assumptions. If we appear vehement it's because many of us have addressed these same concerns again and again, often to the same person who appears incapable of understanding the answers he is given because he is incapable of changing his basic assumptions.
Yes, and no. Fitness criteria are not random in that they are based on the environment, but the particular environment in which a species exists can be considered random. In any case, evolution does not progress in a linear fashion. Perhaps chaotic is a beter word.
The only thing left here is a huge smoking crater. The poor schmoe has been shown six ways from Sunday how his arguments are based on misunderstanding and if he still doesn't get it, I'd call it willfull ignorance.
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Thanks for the info. Will discuss this with the wife, we have been talking about moving to Canada but everything I heard said it was next to impossible. Do you know anything about BC? Because the weather there is a little more to my liking ;-)
It's a perfect example of the powers that be coopting a word, and they may very well do the same thing to libertarianism. The US Government engaged in a propaganda campaign against anarchists around the turn of the century, which is where the whole meme of the "bomb throwing anarchist" came from. The dictionary.com definition is right, because language changes according to useage, and the campaign was successful, so people started using the word in that way. But if you talk to any Anarchists aside from the street punk circle-A variety, they will tell you a very different story.
Poked around a litle more, found F-Secure's bulletin. Says 'rootkit like features.' Symantec has a rundown of what it does: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoo r.ginwui.html The 'rootkit like features' refers to this:
4. Hooks the following APIs to hide itself:
[list of APIs deleted thanks to LAME LAMENESS FILTER]
Can this be done without admin privileges? I don't know enough about Windows to say.
You are correct, but we have come to two different conclusions based on the facts at hand. I concluded that it would only work on an admin account, you concluded it would grant admin privileges. I am now RTFA for more clues... Ambiguous. Looking to F_Secure... Can't find the relevant article. Checking the diary entry mentioned in TFA... Nothing about privilege escalation. It's a toss up, either of us could be right.
Anarchism does not advocate a lawless society either. Read the links I gave. Ochlocracy can refer to a State where laws have broken down, or a society where there are no laws, as I said, mob rule. Which I think is what you meant, not anarchy. I find it odd that you know a lot about Libertarianism but (seemingly) have never encountered the correct definition of Anarchy.
A rootkit merely conceals activity on a system where a root compromise has already taken place. There is no mention of privilege escalation.
Anarchism is different from Ochlocracy, which is what I believe you are referring to. Libertarianism is a type of Anarchism, and both believe in doing away with coercive rulership. Ochlocracy is mob rule, which is what most people mean when they say "anarchy."
Who says the American execs know? I mean, it's good cover, you open plants in the US and Mexico, hire a bunch of American execs, and put in a covert signalling mechanism in the form of, oh say a power management feature on the motherboards that slightly varies the rate at which ethernet packets are sent based on things the computer is doing. That scheme took me all of five seconds to dream up, I'm sure China could come up with better.
I'm guessing this is just paranoia and xenaphobia on the part of our government, but it's not quite as far-fetched as you make it out to be.
Because I want to move there. $10/hr menial jobs? New York and San Francisco don't pay that well, and they are two of the most expensive places on earth. Seriously, do you need a Linux expert/Network Administrator? I'll move to wherever you are in a heartbeat because most of the world is not like where you live.
I would love to move to Canada, but I've looked into it and without either $100,000 to invest in the local economy or an employer willing to state they need and can't find someone with my qualifications, I am not getting in.
You don't get it. Government is the big bad ooky thing that tells us all what to do and takes our money. In Anarchy, we don't have that. We have a bunch of individuals who, um, organize themselves into groups and decide, errr, how to distribute resources, and how to enforce that distribution, and what to do about the Bad People and stuff like that. That's not government, see, because it's different. It's only because of your Statist indoctrination that you can't see the difference.
I consider myself an Anarcho-Syndicalist, but man! the twists of logic that some Anarchists go through... Talk about indoctrination. Anarchism is a form of Government, and if you can't see that, you really need to read a little more.
"Oh, but spun, Anarchists don't Initiate Force (you can hear the capitals when they talk, can't you?)" you say, "We don't force people to do anything!"
Oh really? You don't force them to respect your property rights and conflict resolution system?
"Oh, but that's not Initiation of Force! That's Retaliatory Force! They started it!"
Yeah, sure. "They started it" is the favorite excuse of tyrants everywhere. What about my right to go anywhere I want and use any natural resource I want? Why should I respect your supposed "right" to take that away from me? If you weren't here, I could use the land you claim as your own.
Basically, the parent post is correct, anytime you have more than one person, that is political science. Discussion of things such as property rights, conflict resolution, decision making systems, etc. THAT IS GOVERNMENT!
I'm sure some Libertarian is going to come along now and demonstrate the meaning of the word Sophistry for us.
You are absolutely right, I should have been more clear. What I really meant was spend money on good lenses rather than more megapixels.
Is that the locked file cabinet in an unlit basement in a disused lavatory labeled "Beware of the Tiger?"
Blame the editors and media owners.
When neocons can't refute an argument, they simply pretend it doesn't exist and go on arguing the same point you just refuted, at a louder volume.
How about backing that up with some references, because from what I understand, only an congressional committee was briefed, and they were forbiden from talking about the briefing.
You know, people claim that posts have a hard time conveying nuance, but you sure managed to convey "frothing at the mouth" pretty accurately. Why do I doubt you really are a Democrat, I wonder?
I have even less content than you!
Consider that 400 speed film has a resolution of about 6.5 megapixels per square inch, based on the grain size of the film. 35mm film uses a surface area of about 1.33 square inches per picture, for about 8.5 megapixels per picture of useable resolution. We are just now reaching the resolution of regular film.
The main issues with digital cameras are twofold, one is the lack of tonal range, the other is the quality of the optics. Digital cameras do not pick up low light and shadow details as well as film, and generally have inferior optics which limit image quality far more than resolution does.
Hey, I bet there are some pretty smart MBAs over in India who could do the job of most managers and CEOs twice as well for a quarter of the pay. As an added benefit, with remote management, worker morale would improve.
I hope shareholders sue the boards of any companies that don't outsource their management, they are costing those shareholders money.
Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boys, your turn is coming.
Oooh! You've come up with a new one, boy you sure showed me. Not.
I was using the term chaos as in chaos theory which describes the behavior of nonlinear dynamic systems. Random truly is the wrong word, there is order as you say, but it is not directed order, and considered as a continuous process, the system consisting of environment and evolution is nonlinear, meaning a small change in one part can cause a big change in another part. Anyways, according to your bio-blurb, you're a Master's student studying dinosaur paleontology, so I rather suspect you have an even better understanding of evolution than I do.
Fitness criteria change as the environment changes. What is fit for one species in one environment is not the same as what is fit for another species, or the same species in a different environment. Wings won't help a lobster. Gills won't help a bird. Evolution is not directed towards greater and greater fitness on some arbitrary external scale of fitness.
It isn't that we don't get what ender is trying to say, it's that he doesn't get how we have answered his question because he is basing his premise on false assumptions. If we appear vehement it's because many of us have addressed these same concerns again and again, often to the same person who appears incapable of understanding the answers he is given because he is incapable of changing his basic assumptions.
Yes, and no. Fitness criteria are not random in that they are based on the environment, but the particular environment in which a species exists can be considered random. In any case, evolution does not progress in a linear fashion. Perhaps chaotic is a beter word.
Right, of course, because when google loads slow and the rest of the net doesn't, the first thing Joe Average is going to think is "it's my durn ISP!"
As others have stated, the market isn't some magical all knowing, all loving sky god that corrects all injustices.
The only thing left here is a huge smoking crater. The poor schmoe has been shown six ways from Sunday how his arguments are based on misunderstanding and if he still doesn't get it, I'd call it willfull ignorance.