and bacterial strains that produce the botulinum neurotoxin.
That bacteria can be found in most people's attics, inside canned food that's gone bad, and a whole lot of other places. Oh, and in cosmetic shops (botox anyone?). Good luck with that, Uncle Sam. It's like trying to regulate ricin; It's too easy to find and synthesize.
If those are obstacles for you then you are not qualified.
Until recently, being gay made you not qualified. Do you think every barrier to entry is justified, or is it just possible that our military is being inflexible and depriving themselves of talent because of it?
A person's age, sex, sexual orientation, poor eyesight, or even disability isn't a hinderance in this line of work: all that is required is a brain and a way of getting information in and out of it. Every asset the military deprives themselves of because of their ass-backwards recruitment policy is another one that other interests can (and will) take advantage of.
And before you start yammering with the same tired crap about "not being qualified"... there's ample history and recent evidence to support the notion that terrorists and foreign interests heavily recruit people who fail to meet said qualifications. Oh yeah, and they pay better too.
One last thing: Just remember that China has more honors students than we have students. Can we really afford to be that picky in this theatre?
Meanwhile, back on the home front, applicants for the US Air Force's Cyber Command are redirected to a website with no working links for which to submit their resume, ask questions, or express their interest in any meaningful way. Those who spend hours on the phone trying to track down a recruiter who actually knows the requirements will eventually be told they don't qualify because of age, their eyesight is too bad, or that a (deceased) member of their family was involved in anti-war protesting fifty years ago, and so they would never qualify for a security clearance.
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Once an operating system reaches a certain percentage of the market share, it becomes a viable platform for malware.
In other news, I have been using computers since the 286 days and I have yet to get a virus of any kind on any of my personal machines. Why? Because I'm careful. Malware only exists because people aren't careful. No operating system can prevent people from doing something dumb, so stop ragging on Apple (or Microsoft, or IBM, or whoever else you want to crucify) -- this is a problem with people, not software. Always has been.
Fact 1: GPL requires source code to be released. Fact 2: License does not specify when it has to be released.
Reaction: ZOMFG, they're violating the license! Raise the pitch forks and aaaaah. Burn them at the stake! Open source means xyzzy, and stuff, and and and... it's just wrong
Rational Resolution: Update the license to have a reasonable time constraint.
Irrational Resolution: Google is evil and must be punished.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled flamefest, already in progress.....
They aren't missing it, they're ignoring it. What it is called isn't the issue, it's what it can do, and whether that is what the end-user wants (or not).
Install a firewall. Not to keep the hackers out, mind you, but to keep your data *in*. There are way too many apps that try to phone home or do things they don't need to ('live' wallpapers come to mind). Disable their network access. If an application requires network access, bring it home, set it up on your home wifi network, and run a sniffer to find out where the data goes. You don't need to know what the data is per se. Then, try blocking as much of it as you can until the application stops working. You've now found the minimum amount of access that app needs to function.
There have been reports of anti-lock brake systems failing when near powerful transmitters, sensor malfunctions leading to brakes seizing or the engine cutting out (leading to a loss of power steering), acceleration controls becoming locked, etc.
Guys, if the modern car can't even talk to itself without going beserk, why are we considering networking them? Worse, what's going to happen when somebody figures out how to make your car think you're about to hit something, and it slams on the brakes to avoid hitting the imaginary object, only to have you rear-ended by the very real object behind you? Or, raising privacy concerns... how about law enforcement (read: anyone with the right equipment) can remote kill or stop your vehicle?
Would now be a bad time to point out that the second paragraph neatly explains how he's going to die, and that it will be soon? He's probably coming forward because he knows he doesn't have much time left. The agency doesn't have to kill him, nature will do it soon enough and without all the fussing, paperwork, and conspiracy theories.
Hey Microsoft, how's that Upgrade Anytime feature of Windows 7 looking right now? Like a big fat target? This case is to set a legal precident -- if you're smart, you'll help this guy now, before it becomes a multi-million dollar cock-up.
This entire disaster has been framed as a failure of nuclear power almost every time it comes up. People don't seem to say this was a failure of management or engineering in these discussions.
Why do you suppose that is?
I think we're flattering ourselves if we think that's what aliens would travel across the universe to suck on our delicious brain meats. In all likelihood, they would be after natural resources, of which the most abundant, and likely useful, materials on this planet would be carbon, silicon, and H2O.
Ah, not quite -- the Vulcans had noticed humans before, but considered them to be insufficiently advanced to warrant further study or interest. When the warp signature was detected they decided to investigate.
The moral of the story? It's not so much detecting alien life that matters, but attracting interest from alien life. If it's out there, it's looking for us... for better, or for worse. We just need to give them a reason to say hello.
Microsoft: We're sorry our product broke and a lot of people weren't able to get online.
Slashdot: BURN THE HERETIC!
Amazon: We're sorry our product broke and a lot of people weren't able to get online.
Slashdot: It's okay. Here, have a cookie.
If this is anything like schools here are already, as soon as they show up, the doors will be locked and barred, they'll be run through the metal detectors, relieved of anything sharp or electronic, then shoveled into a cramped, hot room where they'll have to endure hours of someone talking at them and there will be no breaks to go to the bathroom.
And after, you'll be fed a crappy lunch and told what a rotten person you are, and be given a letter to take home instructing everyone to love you less.
Yeah, actually that sounds like what I'd expect from the pro-copyright crowd.
You guys don't read the small print, do you? Once you upload, it's no longer your content unless you have a few hundred thousand dollars sitting around to convince a judge otherwise.
Well, the theory of relativity, evolution, anything about computers, most modern medicine, etc., would be straight out because they didn't exist then. And I doubt many people here would disagree that knowing how to use a computer and a basic understanding of physics something every college would want in its students.
It's no use trying to test ourselves according to the standards of over a hundred years ago... we know so much more about the world it's not even fair. The smartest person of that era would look like a total idiot today just trying to get by with what we take for granted -- driving a car, using a cell phone, browsing the internet, etc.
In my experience, inability to form a cohesive argument doesn't stop people from having strong convictions. I won't politicize this with examples, but there are a lot of people out there who are very passionate about issues despite having incoherent, nonsensical rationale.
Those people come to those convictions from a strong feeling. Cohesion does not require rationality, only a strong base.
The problem is that they don't care, though. I'm not sure how you can educate the apathy out of them.
If it was explained to them in terms they could relate to the social and economic impact these policies have on their lives, a minority of them would move from silence to activism. The problem isn't that they don't know, it's that they don't even have the tools to proceed forward with the analysis.
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and bacterial strains that produce the botulinum neurotoxin.
That bacteria can be found in most people's attics, inside canned food that's gone bad, and a whole lot of other places. Oh, and in cosmetic shops (botox anyone?). Good luck with that, Uncle Sam. It's like trying to regulate ricin; It's too easy to find and synthesize.
Umm, has anyone bothered to consider that this could be disabled by placing a small piece of tape over the sensor? Just saying...
Conan the Barbarian and most of the characters of discworld would disapprove. If you're going to die, do it AWESOMELY.
If those are obstacles for you then you are not qualified.
Until recently, being gay made you not qualified. Do you think every barrier to entry is justified, or is it just possible that our military is being inflexible and depriving themselves of talent because of it?
A person's age, sex, sexual orientation, poor eyesight, or even disability isn't a hinderance in this line of work: all that is required is a brain and a way of getting information in and out of it. Every asset the military deprives themselves of because of their ass-backwards recruitment policy is another one that other interests can (and will) take advantage of.
And before you start yammering with the same tired crap about "not being qualified" ... there's ample history and recent evidence to support the notion that terrorists and foreign interests heavily recruit people who fail to meet said qualifications. Oh yeah, and they pay better too.
One last thing: Just remember that China has more honors students than we have students. Can we really afford to be that picky in this theatre?
Meanwhile, back on the home front, applicants for the US Air Force's Cyber Command are redirected to a website with no working links for which to submit their resume, ask questions, or express their interest in any meaningful way. Those who spend hours on the phone trying to track down a recruiter who actually knows the requirements will eventually be told they don't qualify because of age, their eyesight is too bad, or that a (deceased) member of their family was involved in anti-war protesting fifty years ago, and so they would never qualify for a security clearance. The best of the best of the best... see rules for official details. Some restrictions may apply.
Once an operating system reaches a certain percentage of the market share, it becomes a viable platform for malware. In other news, I have been using computers since the 286 days and I have yet to get a virus of any kind on any of my personal machines. Why? Because I'm careful. Malware only exists because people aren't careful. No operating system can prevent people from doing something dumb, so stop ragging on Apple (or Microsoft, or IBM, or whoever else you want to crucify) -- this is a problem with people, not software. Always has been.
He's working his way up to humans slowly.
Fact 1: GPL requires source code to be released.
Fact 2: License does not specify when it has to be released.
Reaction: ZOMFG, they're violating the license! Raise the pitch forks and aaaaah. Burn them at the stake! Open source means xyzzy, and stuff, and and and... it's just wrong
Rational Resolution: Update the license to have a reasonable time constraint.
Irrational Resolution: Google is evil and must be punished.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled flamefest, already in progress.....
I think you're missing my point. It's a phone.
They aren't missing it, they're ignoring it. What it is called isn't the issue, it's what it can do, and whether that is what the end-user wants (or not).
Install a firewall. Not to keep the hackers out, mind you, but to keep your data *in*. There are way too many apps that try to phone home or do things they don't need to ('live' wallpapers come to mind). Disable their network access. If an application requires network access, bring it home, set it up on your home wifi network, and run a sniffer to find out where the data goes. You don't need to know what the data is per se. Then, try blocking as much of it as you can until the application stops working. You've now found the minimum amount of access that app needs to function.
Ask and ye shall receive.
There have been reports of anti-lock brake systems failing when near powerful transmitters, sensor malfunctions leading to brakes seizing or the engine cutting out (leading to a loss of power steering), acceleration controls becoming locked, etc.
Guys, if the modern car can't even talk to itself without going beserk, why are we considering networking them? Worse, what's going to happen when somebody figures out how to make your car think you're about to hit something, and it slams on the brakes to avoid hitting the imaginary object, only to have you rear-ended by the very real object behind you? Or, raising privacy concerns... how about law enforcement (read: anyone with the right equipment) can remote kill or stop your vehicle?
Frankly, the engineering just isn't there yet.
Would now be a bad time to point out that the second paragraph neatly explains how he's going to die, and that it will be soon? He's probably coming forward because he knows he doesn't have much time left. The agency doesn't have to kill him, nature will do it soon enough and without all the fussing, paperwork, and conspiracy theories.
Hey Microsoft, how's that Upgrade Anytime feature of Windows 7 looking right now? Like a big fat target? This case is to set a legal precident -- if you're smart, you'll help this guy now, before it becomes a multi-million dollar cock-up.
But coal power is also handled by an organization with a profit motive.
They emit more radiation than nuclear power plants, too.
This entire disaster has been framed as a failure of nuclear power almost every time it comes up. People don't seem to say this was a failure of management or engineering in these discussions. Why do you suppose that is?
I have only one question: Will this standard be open for public inspection?
Like being a good host or source of protein?
I think we're flattering ourselves if we think that's what aliens would travel across the universe to suck on our delicious brain meats. In all likelihood, they would be after natural resources, of which the most abundant, and likely useful, materials on this planet would be carbon, silicon, and H2O.
Ah, not quite -- the Vulcans had noticed humans before, but considered them to be insufficiently advanced to warrant further study or interest. When the warp signature was detected they decided to investigate. The moral of the story? It's not so much detecting alien life that matters, but attracting interest from alien life. If it's out there, it's looking for us... for better, or for worse. We just need to give them a reason to say hello.
Microsoft: We're sorry our product broke and a lot of people weren't able to get online. Slashdot: BURN THE HERETIC! Amazon: We're sorry our product broke and a lot of people weren't able to get online. Slashdot: It's okay. Here, have a cookie.
If this is anything like schools here are already, as soon as they show up, the doors will be locked and barred, they'll be run through the metal detectors, relieved of anything sharp or electronic, then shoveled into a cramped, hot room where they'll have to endure hours of someone talking at them and there will be no breaks to go to the bathroom. And after, you'll be fed a crappy lunch and told what a rotten person you are, and be given a letter to take home instructing everyone to love you less. Yeah, actually that sounds like what I'd expect from the pro-copyright crowd.
It's a generalization, but I can summarize what needs to happen in three words: "Evacuate, contain, bury."
You guys don't read the small print, do you? Once you upload, it's no longer your content unless you have a few hundred thousand dollars sitting around to convince a judge otherwise.
Could any of us pass the exam today?
Well, the theory of relativity, evolution, anything about computers, most modern medicine, etc., would be straight out because they didn't exist then. And I doubt many people here would disagree that knowing how to use a computer and a basic understanding of physics something every college would want in its students. It's no use trying to test ourselves according to the standards of over a hundred years ago... we know so much more about the world it's not even fair. The smartest person of that era would look like a total idiot today just trying to get by with what we take for granted -- driving a car, using a cell phone, browsing the internet, etc.
In my experience, inability to form a cohesive argument doesn't stop people from having strong convictions. I won't politicize this with examples, but there are a lot of people out there who are very passionate about issues despite having incoherent, nonsensical rationale.
Those people come to those convictions from a strong feeling. Cohesion does not require rationality, only a strong base.
The problem is that they don't care, though. I'm not sure how you can educate the apathy out of them.
If it was explained to them in terms they could relate to the social and economic impact these policies have on their lives, a minority of them would move from silence to activism. The problem isn't that they don't know, it's that they don't even have the tools to proceed forward with the analysis.