You hypocrite, first take the 32 gigabyte flash drive out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the millimeter-scale computing system from your brother's eye.
"In my opinion, wealth should be earned, not entitled. " Ditto here, my vote goes to a 100% estate tax, even if it means that Paris Hilton would have to flip my burgers.(ick)
Door locks don't keep burglars or determined attackers out, either. So, what purpose do they serve?
They make it hard to *casually* invade a room or building. They make it so there's at least a small hassle involved.
So, you wouldn't mind then that say, for example, coming home from work and every time you go to unlock your front door, you have to wait through 30 seconds of ads played over a speaker before you're allowed to enter your own house? You don't think that after about five times of this you wouldn't start crawling in through the window? Or maybe walking around to the back porch where, even if the door there is unlocked all the time where anyone can waltz in, at least you can walk freely into and out of your house?
And here-in lies one of the problems of the Constitution. Its all about rights, but nothing about responsibilities.
Duh. The Constitution was written so as to define and limit the powers of the federal government. The rights listed were only to hold out examples of what the government was explicitly told to back off from.
You cannot assume that EVERY kid has a cell phone. Not all families are wealthy, you know...
Issuing a cell phone for the purposes of checking in with the school would probably be far cheaper than the units that they'll end up using. It will be used only to call the school during the proscribed times for the purposes of voice verification while matched against the GPS location.
Nowadays every kid has a cell phone. Why not allow the schools to install an app. that automatically relays their location back to the school every five minutes?
The kids may decide to just leave the cell phone somewhere. Luckily cell phones have cameras too. If you automatically relay a picture back every hour, you can ensure that the cell phone is moving and that the kid is near it. Or require the kid to take a picture of his face next to a clock every hour.
Surely that's not overly intrusive.
Verizon wireless already has the feature that (naturally) costs like ten bucks a month to relay cell phone GPS data to a website so parents can track location. It's simple: the school will require the student to CALL the truancy office during the times of day for a verbal authenticator and the phone can be checked against location. No stupid codes that someone else can punch in on the delinquent child's behalf.
We in the tech world are naturally upset by this disturbing news; more so perhaps the other leaders in the industry. In fact, Steve Ballmer could barely toss a highchair, he was so distraught.
I bet you love making fun of the TSA too, not realizing you're making the same mistakes as them.
No, I don't let anyone get a free pass. I scan everyone that comes into my house with an old x-ray machine I found once while dumpster diving behind some doctor's clinic. I figure that a little extra radiation won't hurt nobody and fuck 'em since they agreed to come into my house when I called them to fix my sink.
A better way is to misdirect them, and thus make Anonymous look like those who harass innocent people. It may also reduce the number of "good" activists willing to join Anonymous, or encourage bad elements to continue doing that.
Sure, that may work for a few anonymous ones. The ones with the axes to grind about Visa, US Fedgov, HBGary, whatever shan't be so easily deflected.
Yes the people in the brown shirts could have been stopped by peaceful action.
And you're basing this idea on what evidence, exactly?
The people in the white sheets have been pushed to the fringes and are for the most part despised and powerless because of peaceful speeches.
They were already a fringe group and not the head of a country.
They think they are above the law. You know that reasonably fair court system we fought for so hard. Anyone that for any reason thinks they are above the law is no longer on the side team good.
It's called civil disobedience. I doubt they think they're above the law. They are anonymous so that they have the freedom to protest without being thrown in jail/killed/whatever before they can try to influence or warn the general populace. Or I guess when many of the Founders of this country wrote anonymously or under pseudonyms, they were the equivalent of the brownshirts and whitesheets of their day?
Please they are bullies and thugs. They attack those that they do not like. Maybe they will go after me because I dared to poke them and say what I think of them. In that case are they still team good?
The cases under discussion have been involving people and organizations when it's commonly perceived that there's a huge social injustice going on and there is bound to be backlash. It's happened many times in the US's history, even before computers.
Only laws that unfair should be broken and they need to be broken in public and in a way for the people to see they are wrong.
You seriously don't think that these so-called attacks are not being done in a *very* public way to try and demonstrate the wrongs being done? You want to stop Anonymous from taking out Visa or Paypal in another DDoS? Start prosecuting some of the human beings who own and run these companies for their immoral, deceptive, predatory, illegal behaviors. Start parading some of these douchebags out in front as an example of what happens when you ruin thousands of families (for one simple example).
Look at MLK and Gandhi as examples. Or in this case judge Anon by there tactics not by your dislike of who they are fighting.
You seem to be forgetting that MLK was the head of the Black Panthers and look at what violence they did to fight for racial equality.
Oh, wait. You mean MLK wasn't the head of the Black Panthers? But they were fighting for the same thing, right? So they *must* be all on the same side.
Actually the navy officers on board the ship at the time of the incident said it was not windows, rather it was an application that controlled propulsion. The developer of this software also admitted it was their software, although it was a development version not the production version that would have handled the fault more robustly.
Alright, just for the sake of argument, supposing it *was* Windows that caused the fault and not the application. Do you really think the United States Navy is going to publicly say that Windows caused this huge expense and embarrassment?
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I think Ed Cooke's memory is as average as he claims. For example, I betcha he can't remember where my car keys are either.
You hypocrite, first take the 32 gigabyte flash drive out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the millimeter-scale computing system from your brother's eye.
Use porn mode on your browser
They actually have those? I always thought I made that up so that my wife thought I couldn't remove that "feature."
Newsflash: People want to actually use their computer, and generally that takes Linux out of the equation.
You do realize that most of the people on /. won't be able to read that due to heavy use of flashblock.
Jes' sayin'.
Yay!
2011 -- the year of Windows on the desktop!
A guy can dream, can't he?
"In my opinion, wealth should be earned, not entitled. "
Ditto here, my vote goes to a 100% estate tax, even if it means that Paris Hilton would have to flip my burgers.(ick)
MMmmmmm... slut burger......
... the crap I read on Slashdot is so unbelievable, I have to reboot my laptop in the hopes that it will go away.
You wouldn't have to if you were running Linux.
Isn't this kid's hack the reason every PS3 game is now rife with cheats?
No thanks, I'm rooting for Sony on this one.
I'm sure they'll return the favor...
Door locks don't keep burglars or determined attackers out, either. So, what purpose do they serve?
They make it hard to *casually* invade a room or building. They make it so there's at least a small hassle involved.
So, you wouldn't mind then that say, for example, coming home from work and every time you go to unlock your front door, you have to wait through 30 seconds of ads played over a speaker before you're allowed to enter your own house? You don't think that after about five times of this you wouldn't start crawling in through the window? Or maybe walking around to the back porch where, even if the door there is unlocked all the time where anyone can waltz in, at least you can walk freely into and out of your house?
Guy passing bogus checks to casinos: One point eight million dollars.
Guy defrauds US government: Tens of millions of dollars.
Seeing Guy hanged for treason alongside idiotic government bureaucrats who helped perpetrate this boondoggle: priceless
so there's a biological analogy that perfectly matches the US government's behavior.
Schizophrenia or psychosis?
I mean if US companies did pull out of china
A frustrated China could not be reached for comment...
...but will be out of the bathroom "real soon."
No! they'll just burn a hole thru the horizon and get you on the other side :)
Chuck Norris doesn't burn a hole through the horizon.
He is the horizon.
And here-in lies one of the problems of the Constitution. Its all about rights, but nothing about responsibilities.
Duh. The Constitution was written so as to define and limit the powers of the federal government. The rights listed were only to hold out examples of what the government was explicitly told to back off from.
If someone threatens to kill you, it doesn't matter much what the law says.
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
-Dalai Lama
(Seattle Times, May 15, 2001)
You cannot assume that EVERY kid has a cell phone. Not all families are wealthy, you know...
Issuing a cell phone for the purposes of checking in with the school would probably be far cheaper than the units that they'll end up using. It will be used only to call the school during the proscribed times for the purposes of voice verification while matched against the GPS location.
Simple and effective.
Nowadays every kid has a cell phone. Why not allow the schools to install an app. that automatically relays their location back to the school every five minutes?
The kids may decide to just leave the cell phone somewhere. Luckily cell phones have cameras too. If you automatically relay a picture back every hour, you can ensure that the cell phone is moving and that the kid is near it. Or require the kid to take a picture of his face next to a clock every hour.
Surely that's not overly intrusive.
Verizon wireless already has the feature that (naturally) costs like ten bucks a month to relay cell phone GPS data to a website so parents can track location. It's simple: the school will require the student to CALL the truancy office during the times of day for a verbal authenticator and the phone can be checked against location. No stupid codes that someone else can punch in on the delinquent child's behalf.
We in the tech world are naturally upset by this disturbing news; more so perhaps the other leaders in the industry. In fact, Steve Ballmer could barely toss a highchair, he was so distraught.
I bet you love making fun of the TSA too, not realizing you're making the same mistakes as them.
No, I don't let anyone get a free pass. I scan everyone that comes into my house with an old x-ray machine I found once while dumpster diving behind some doctor's clinic. I figure that a little extra radiation won't hurt nobody and fuck 'em since they agreed to come into my house when I called them to fix my sink.
you just need to harshly go after anyone involved in illegal activities.
Everyone excepting, of course, the CEO's, corporations, and governments who can perpetrate wrongs with impunity.
A better way is to misdirect them, and thus make Anonymous look like those who harass innocent people. It may also reduce the number of "good" activists willing to join Anonymous, or encourage bad elements to continue doing that.
Sure, that may work for a few anonymous ones. The ones with the axes to grind about Visa, US Fedgov, HBGary, whatever shan't be so easily deflected.
Yes the people in the brown shirts could have been stopped by peaceful action.
And you're basing this idea on what evidence, exactly?
The people in the white sheets have been pushed to the fringes and are for the most part despised and powerless because of peaceful speeches.
They were already a fringe group and not the head of a country.
They think they are above the law. You know that reasonably fair court system we fought for so hard. Anyone that for any reason thinks they are above the law is no longer on the side team good.
It's called civil disobedience. I doubt they think they're above the law. They are anonymous so that they have the freedom to protest without being thrown in jail/killed/whatever before they can try to influence or warn the general populace. Or I guess when many of the Founders of this country wrote anonymously or under pseudonyms, they were the equivalent of the brownshirts and whitesheets of their day?
Please they are bullies and thugs. They attack those that they do not like. Maybe they will go after me because I dared to poke them and say what I think of them. In that case are they still team good?
The cases under discussion have been involving people and organizations when it's commonly perceived that there's a huge social injustice going on and there is bound to be backlash. It's happened many times in the US's history, even before computers.
Only laws that unfair should be broken and they need to be broken in public and in a way for the people to see they are wrong.
You seriously don't think that these so-called attacks are not being done in a *very* public way to try and demonstrate the wrongs being done? You want to stop Anonymous from taking out Visa or Paypal in another DDoS? Start prosecuting some of the human beings who own and run these companies for their immoral, deceptive, predatory, illegal behaviors. Start parading some of these douchebags out in front as an example of what happens when you ruin thousands of families (for one simple example).
Look at MLK and Gandhi as examples. Or in this case judge Anon by there tactics not by your dislike of who they are fighting.
You seem to be forgetting that MLK was the head of the Black Panthers and look at what violence they did to fight for racial equality.
Oh, wait. You mean MLK wasn't the head of the Black Panthers? But they were fighting for the same thing, right? So they *must* be all on the same side.
It took 750 8 cpu systems and 16 terrabytes of RAM to implement watson and that was stretched to the limit.
So you're saying that with another couple of gigs of RAM, the computer would be able to run Windows Vista with Aero turned on?
Actually the navy officers on board the ship at the time of the incident said it was not windows, rather it was an application that controlled propulsion. The developer of this software also admitted it was their software, although it was a development version not the production version that would have handled the fault more robustly.
Alright, just for the sake of argument, supposing it *was* Windows that caused the fault and not the application. Do you really think the United States Navy is going to publicly say that Windows caused this huge expense and embarrassment?