Not true. Christians and Jews believe in an afterlife that allows the person to live forever. A Savior opens the way.
Sweet. So as an atheist all I need to do is get to know a Christian who already has accepted Jesus Christ into his life and hit him with a session highjack.
Most countries have laws against public comment by the defendant during a trial. Posting the police report could get him arrested on a legitimate charge.
And which trial is that, precisely? And even during his trial, wouldn't the government have to, you know, have evidence that *he* leaked the police report in order to (most likely) obtain a mistrial?
You know, I was really right along with you, until you started spouting this bullshit
The best one could hope for is that the customers did a little more due diligence for mission-critical applications like 911 service and credit card processing about the kind of colocation service they were getting and the integrity of the business.
of blaming the victims. How the fuck do you know how much due diligence they did? This dude apparently lied well enough that guys whose livelihood is made by checking out backgrounds were fooled.
Now for the record I consider this to be a bad idea; but I can see why they think it's a good one. Parents are generally considered to be less technically literate than their kids (on average) so you end up with a common situation where any on-computer filtering is likely to be easily removed or bypassed by the children. Putting default porn blocking on internet connections (with an easy opt out) would prevent this problem (to an extent) without the 'concerned parents' having to do anything.
I use OpenDNS; at first it was because Cable One and then Qwest's DNS servers are slower than molasses in winter, but I quickly found that OpenDNS offers free filtering services. I liked this because I could set the filters on something outside of the house (one of my stepkids was young and very into computers, so I wanted something that wasn't router- or computer-based in the house where he could get a hold of them) and it worked for all four computers.
This is optimal. Any parent can set this up, it's no charge (and there are also other nanny filters that cost a little which are good too) and THE GOVERNMENT STAYS THE FUCK OUT OF MY FAMILY AND BUSINESS.
This is why I am a staunch absolutist when it comes to digital anarchy -- there is not one single thing a government can do that the people cannot do better for themselves when it comes to the internet and information. Period.
Given the scale of the US political system I am amazed anything gets done at all. I am coming to the view that we would be better off globally with smaller countries and more power given to local authorities. It is possible that population growth has turned formerly manageable nations into unmanageable ones.
Um, yeah, that's the point. States and municipalities were supposed to have that finer-grained control and the federal government wasn't allowed the power it now currently wields. Population growth per se doesn't have much to do with it.
That's precisely the problem, though..."boot." You want to use it as you would a browser, in tandem with other applications. You can't do your day-to-day work inside of a live CD distro.
Maybe I'm missing something because I thought that's why couchslug said "...with a persistent home partition for storage." Would this not suffice for day-to-day work?
In honor of this new achievement -- something never before attempted, yet absolutely guaranteed to succeed -- I hereby propose to our French brethren that this internet policy be called Ligne Maginot Redux! Vive la France!
I see more and more parallels being drawn between "terrorism" and "anonymous". Both are essentially nebulous concepts that are going to be used to ram home more and more draconian lock-down measures to curb individual freedoms. Formalizing the word ("Anonymous" does this, "Anonymous" does that) is simply a way to engender more fear and concern by pretending that it's some scary world-spanning Subversive Evil Empire wanting to destroy World Peace and Commerce and Benign Governments of the Peoples of Earth wish nothing but to protect it's Law Abiding Citizens (of which we are all a part, yes?)
Perhaps the submitter does not understand that Tron's graphics were cutting edge at the time. If he doesn't get off my lawn, I'll have to run him over in my awesomely bad 80s monster truck.
1. Writing down your passwords is far worse than what I do. than writing it down and having a room-mate/girlfriend happen across it one day. Sure they may not use it right away, but what if you get into a fight...
2. Writing down a password is more effort than I am willing to use for something like Discovery channel.
I write down my passwords, too. And by "write down" I mean "KeyPass."
I saw the folding city in Inception and thought "Holy fuck, that is cool". I guess I must have been the only one then?
There will always be room for movies focused around spectacles and eye candy because of visceral thrill... Perhaps the article writer has lost his ability to suspend his disbelief, but I was loving every second of the sfx (actors floating) and vfx (folding buildings) of Inception.
Oh, hell no, you aren't the only one. I felt the exact same way. I felt the sfx were absolutely amazing -- hell, I mentioned this to a friend just two nights ago now; I said that the sfx in Inception were even more awesome because they weren't "flashy" and in your face. But most importantly, the story was engaging and, IMO, unique. I spent most of my time going, "wow, what a mind fuck. Which level are they on again? Oh, yeah! And how will they figure out to do the kick with no gravity?"
I clearly remember T2. Even then, I said, "oh. Special effects, they're pretty cool. But the story kinda sucked."
I may have missed someone mentioning this, but the reason for these guns on ships?
Three-quarters of the world's mega-cities are by the sea. Around 80 per cent or so of people live within 60 miles of the coast.
Our fleets would be able to be a very credible threat to land-based targets/populations, especially... oh.... I dunno.... Shanghai? Beijing? Who wouldn't want to stand off a hundred miles or more, completely untouchable by their long-guns, while we have subs, aircraft, and AWACS, and CIWS, and so on, to protect them from other ships or aircraft.
Slashdot Mirror
"What did you do at your last job?"
"Oh, I saw something clearly wrong and participated in it."
"Great! You're hired!"
It would appear you're new to the writing style of the RockPaperShotgun guys. Playing on words is their motto ;)
Oh and, they're British.
Well, the tip-off that they weren't American was the correct use of the word "astonishingly."
I've seen this method used by a Brazilian online banking system.
A Brazilian? Wow, that's a lot!
The RIAA has been pulling that one for years
Yeah, well I've been pulling one for years too. I guess that's something we have in common...
Nice site! Thank you!
Not true. Christians and Jews believe in an afterlife that allows the person to live forever. A Savior opens the way.
Sweet. So as an atheist all I need to do is get to know a Christian who already has accepted Jesus Christ into his life and hit him with a session highjack.
I'll be seein' all you pious suckers in heaven!
I would mod you up; that was literally the funniest thing I've read all year!
When is she slated to go to Battle School?
Most countries have laws against public comment by the defendant during a trial. Posting the police report could get him arrested on a legitimate charge.
And which trial is that, precisely? And even during his trial, wouldn't the government have to, you know, have evidence that *he* leaked the police report in order to (most likely) obtain a mistrial?
You know, I was really right along with you, until you started spouting this bullshit
The best one could hope for is that the customers did a little more due diligence for mission-critical applications like 911 service and credit card processing about the kind of colocation service they were getting and the integrity of the business.
of blaming the victims. How the fuck do you know how much due diligence they did? This dude apparently lied well enough that guys whose livelihood is made by checking out backgrounds were fooled.
Have a little empathy, for christ's sake.
Now for the record I consider this to be a bad idea; but I can see why they think it's a good one. Parents are generally considered to be less technically literate than their kids (on average) so you end up with a common situation where any on-computer filtering is likely to be easily removed or bypassed by the children. Putting default porn blocking on internet connections (with an easy opt out) would prevent this problem (to an extent) without the 'concerned parents' having to do anything.
I use OpenDNS; at first it was because Cable One and then Qwest's DNS servers are slower than molasses in winter, but I quickly found that OpenDNS offers free filtering services. I liked this because I could set the filters on something outside of the house (one of my stepkids was young and very into computers, so I wanted something that wasn't router- or computer-based in the house where he could get a hold of them) and it worked for all four computers.
This is optimal. Any parent can set this up, it's no charge (and there are also other nanny filters that cost a little which are good too) and THE GOVERNMENT STAYS THE FUCK OUT OF MY FAMILY AND BUSINESS.
This is why I am a staunch absolutist when it comes to digital anarchy -- there is not one single thing a government can do that the people cannot do better for themselves when it comes to the internet and information. Period.
I believe the term is "stepping up to the crease".
That's what she said.
Going to a porn site is also pretty opt-in. It's not like porn sites are randomly set as your default page in your browser.
Exactly.
I set my default homepage to a porn site quite on purpose. That way, the only popups I get aren't just on my computer.
Heh. You said 'snatch'.
Given the scale of the US political system I am amazed anything gets done at all. I am coming to the view that we would be better off globally with smaller countries and more power given to local authorities. It is possible that population growth has turned formerly manageable nations into unmanageable ones.
Um, yeah, that's the point. States and municipalities were supposed to have that finer-grained control and the federal government wasn't allowed the power it now currently wields. Population growth per se doesn't have much to do with it.
It may be more trouble than it's worth, but isn't that why there's VMWare ThinApp?
That's precisely the problem, though..."boot." You want to use it as you would a browser, in tandem with other applications. You can't do your day-to-day work inside of a live CD distro.
Maybe I'm missing something because I thought that's why couchslug said "...with a persistent home partition for storage." Would this not suffice for day-to-day work?
Hey, I share the dream, but my cynicism demands that I say, "ain't gonna happen."
In honor of this new achievement -- something never before attempted, yet absolutely guaranteed to succeed -- I hereby propose to our French brethren that this internet policy be called Ligne Maginot Redux! Vive la France!
I see more and more parallels being drawn between "terrorism" and "anonymous". Both are essentially nebulous concepts that are going to be used to ram home more and more draconian lock-down measures to curb individual freedoms. Formalizing the word ("Anonymous" does this, "Anonymous" does that) is simply a way to engender more fear and concern by pretending that it's some scary world-spanning Subversive Evil Empire wanting to destroy World Peace and Commerce and Benign Governments of the Peoples of Earth wish nothing but to protect it's Law Abiding Citizens (of which we are all a part, yes?)
Makes me want to vomit. Copiously.
Perhaps the submitter does not understand that Tron's graphics were cutting edge at the time. If he doesn't get off my lawn, I'll have to run him over in my awesomely bad 80s monster truck.
Or maybe invite over The Lawnmower Man?
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Goddammit. Now I'm gonna have to change my Slashdot password.
1. Writing down your passwords is far worse than what I do. than writing it down and having a room-mate/girlfriend happen across it one day. Sure they may not use it right away, but what if you get into a fight...
2. Writing down a password is more effort than I am willing to use for something like Discovery channel.
I write down my passwords, too. And by "write down" I mean "KeyPass."
I saw the folding city in Inception and thought "Holy fuck, that is cool". I guess I must have been the only one then?
There will always be room for movies focused around spectacles and eye candy because of visceral thrill... Perhaps the article writer has lost his ability to suspend his disbelief, but I was loving every second of the sfx (actors floating) and vfx (folding buildings) of Inception.
Oh, hell no, you aren't the only one. I felt the exact same way. I felt the sfx were absolutely amazing -- hell, I mentioned this to a friend just two nights ago now; I said that the sfx in Inception were even more awesome because they weren't "flashy" and in your face. But most importantly, the story was engaging and, IMO, unique. I spent most of my time going, "wow, what a mind fuck. Which level are they on again? Oh, yeah! And how will they figure out to do the kick with no gravity?"
I clearly remember T2. Even then, I said, "oh. Special effects, they're pretty cool. But the story kinda sucked."
YMMV and all that.
I may have missed someone mentioning this, but the reason for these guns on ships?
Three-quarters of the world's mega-cities are by the sea.
Around 80 per cent or so of people live within 60 miles of the coast.
Our fleets would be able to be a very credible threat to land-based targets/populations, especially... oh.... I dunno.... Shanghai? Beijing? Who wouldn't want to stand off a hundred miles or more, completely untouchable by their long-guns, while we have subs, aircraft, and AWACS, and CIWS, and so on, to protect them from other ships or aircraft.