Who wants to invest money in developing a product, only to have the open source community go after you? And you get bashed for trying to earn a living.
I don't think the GPL crowd is "going after people for trying to earn a living", they are simply protecting their work. If you use GPL'd code, you have to make it available it... those are the conditions of use. Pretty simple.
I developed an embedded device using NetBSD. I would love to use Linux, but the agressive stance of the GPL license (Linksys!!) keeps me away. I know many others that share the same view.
I think Linksys's choice to use Linux actually helped them. Their wireless AP(WRT54G) is quite popular due to its openness. The openness allows for mods&add-ons and this in turns promotes a community around the product. One could say it helps build "Brand Loyalty" and provides free positive PR(for the product at least).
How much custom code you adding? From the sounds of it(worried about GPL) you aren't adding much; maybe a driver or two. And in the end you gave back to NetBSD anyways, so I don't really understand your complaint.
Beside if someone is going to rip you off, wouldn't it be another manufacturer? In which case if you had use GPL'd code, you could at least force them to provide the GPL'd code used. Level the playing field? With a BSD license, you'd know they ripped you off but had no way of forcing them to release the code.
Yes, completely ignoring if the device under a patent.
Ahhh, grasshopper. Don't waste too much of your spare time doing tech support. You'll get more than your fill of it when you join the work a day world. There are much better things to do in college.:)
There seems to be some misconception that any idiot should be able to use a computer and people don't realize that there are basic skills you should pick up before using one in an uncontrolled environment
Sure but out in the real world, that doesn't happen very often. And isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
Be grateful that you haven't had provide tech support.:)
Agreed, the education is the priority. Part of the learning experience is making mistakes; both the freedom to make them and to learn from them.
I would much rather take the time to explain to them how to proplerly use stuff, and maybe get them using another browser like mozilla/firefox, then come up with some asinine solution like forcing them to run Vmware.
Setting up VMWare doesn't mean the parent gets out of educating their child. It just provides an easier to support&maintain computing environment. Which remember was the original point; instead of uninstall/removing crap just copy virgin image over and you're done.
A number of children websites just don't work in non-IE browsers, e.g. ToonTown. Even in a corporate/adult environment a large number of website don't work properly in Firefox. Or worst yet work in Firefox in Windows but don't work in Firefox in unix. MBNA ShopSafe is that beast.
A lot of children & game websites install a lot of crap. The crap isn't malware but will degrade the performance of the machine over time. If the virtual machine is configured to start from a virgin machine each time it avoids your "what if they hose it?" problem. But this can also being a pain for the user, as they would need to keep re-installing stuff(e.g. ToonTown).
What if they hose their install and you're not there? Suddenly they fire up the browser in the host OS and go to town.
This is really a trust issue. If they are only allowed to use the virtual machine and it got hosed, they need to wait for an adult to repair it. If they disobey a rule, then they get punished.
Going back to your education theme, you could teach them how to restore the virtual machine to a virgin state. e.g. if your virtual machine breaks, run this batch file. The batch file overwrites their virtual machine with the virgin image and they are back in business. This is the beauty of VMWare&virtual machines.
VMWare is basically being used in place of a seperate kids PC.
Maybe people could expend a lot less effort with this kind of ridiculous setup if they learned how to surf the internet without clicking on every shiny thing that pops up in their face.
Well, those would be the rubs. It takes time to learn safe surfing, especially when there isn't much in the way of instruction and/or interest on the part of the surfer. And add to that the fact that people are actually trying to selling stuff on the internets. Lets call it marketing. The whole point of "marketing" is to get people to click on links to buy stuff or install something.
When a particular style(shiny stuff) of marketing gets picked up on by "the unwashed masses", then the marketing style changes and people are back to clicking on stuff. And safe surfing habits have to adjust. rinse&repeat.
Virtual Machines and sandboxes are just useful tools, that reduce the amount of support a non-expert needs. Add the trend of rootkits being used by malware and VMs & sandboxes start to make more sense. Defense in layers.
Not really. The home situation is actually his neighbor's machine which is used also used by three kids.
Having the kids' use restricted to a virtual machine means the kids can monkey around with it as much as they like without them or the parents worrying about something breaking. The monkeying around bit covers spyware installs and other misc crap websites like to install.
This in turn greatly reduces support needs, which was the original motivation.
Funny but also interesting. Could one build a cluster using "lower lifeforms"? Maybe a tank full of fish? Or go another step further... genetically modified fish to have more grey matter. Or maybe a herd of cattle? Now there is a large pool of unused cycles.
Would this allow cross-species communication? e.g. Birds become spy planes ala BeastMaster mode.
The public access channels might have an "encrypted" field but it is probably set to null or "not encrypted".
I ran into this problem with my MythTV setup using Over The Air HDTV broadcasts. PBS turned to a black screen. MythTV saw the "encrypted/encoded" field and decided the broadcast was encrypted, when it actually wasn't.
I was able to find a forum posting on it but have since lost the link. sorry.
A few months later, all of my channels went black. Didn't really spend much time researching it, figured the rest of the broadcasters finally enabled the "encrypted" field(they all went black a couple minutes after midnight on 3/2/2006) and took it as a sign to finally upgrade. Upgraded to MythTV 0.19 on Gentoo and I was able to receive my HDTV broadcasts again./shrug
Operagost saidHave you heard of Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, or Alec Baldwin being put on a no-fly list? Do you know anyone personally? No? See, it turns out that it's just the usual sloppy work by bureaucrats who confused similar-sounding Arabic names. Joe Caucasian Liberal has nothing to fear, and once we get our representatives to implement proper review procedures maybe we can weed out the incompetents who have screwed up the no-fly list.
Wow. The "See, it turns out that it's just the usual sloppy work by bureaucrats who confused similar-sounding Arabic names." and "Joe Caucasian Liberal has nothing to fear" bits are quite racist. Got a problem with the "brown people" do we? Maybe scarier is the fact you've received +2 insightful.
Ahh yes only on slashdot could "The AK-47. When you absolutely, positively have to kill every single mutha-fucka in the room, accept NO substitutes." be rated +3 Informative
I only said the word once. You asked for evidence that the 9/11 commission's report was a white wash. I provided some pointers. Hopefully, you'll take the time to read them and maybe do some research on the subject yourself.
Illegal election. Illegal war. Illegal wiretapping.
When did I mention an illegal election or illegal war? Please don't put words in my mouth. I can speak for myself.
Chances are all these things you call illegal were carried out to the letter of the law, but I doubt that would make any difference to you.
The gov't doesn't deserve my blind allegience. The gov't is meant to be my servant, not my master. A citizen(regardless of country) should always be questioning the actions of their government, it is the first defense against tyranny.
So yes, it would make a difference to me. Which part of warrantless(illegal) wiretaps am I misunderstanding?
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act(FISA) lays down the law under which the President may do warrantless wiretaps. The first case is if the subject or location of the wiretap is solely foreign, i.e. no americans or american soil involved. The second case does allow Americans to be an involved subject. BUT these warrantless wiretaps can only last for 15 days after the declaration of War. Sadly we have been at war for much longer than 15 days.
The law here is actually pretty clear because the Fourth Amendment demands it.
Instead of trying to assinate my character, please provide me with some pointers & reference material so that I may educate myself. If you are just going to talk past those you disagree with, neither party will learn anything.
The 9/11 Commission was a bipartisan effort initiated not from Congress but from the families of 9/11 victims. Where is the evidence that they covered up or lied about this particular story?
Conspiracy theories are very tempting, but sometimes more logical explanations exist.
And the logical explanation for WTC7 collopse is? And how is it the ASTM E119 certified steel in the World Trade Towers weaken/melt after exposure to an uncontrolled & undirected jet fuel fire?
snip We know that the steel components were certified to ASTM E119. The time temperature curves for this standard require the samples to be exposed to temperatures around 2000F for several hours. And as we all agree, the steel applied met those specifications. Additionally, I think we can all agree that even un-fireproofed steel will not melt until reaching red-hot temperatures of nearly 3000F (2). Why Dr. Brown would imply that 2000F would melt the high-grade steel used in those buildings makes no sense at all./snip
If the buildings collapsed because fire weaken the steel support, then there are some serious safety issues that need to be addressed. But no one has really bothered with this. At the very least you would think building codes would have been updated to mandate better steel and UL would have to update it testing&certification process. Because clearly their certification that the steel used in the World Trade Towers was not up to snuff. Gee, that kinda smells like a lawsuit... but I haven't heard of one.
Don't forget that the Commission was opposed by the Bush Administration every step of the way!
And when W did final give testimony to the commission it wasn't under oath, it was behind closed doors and his vice-president was there to help him.
What kind of "War President" needs his vice president to help him testify? Why wasn't his testimony under oath and public? (we can't handle the truth?)
But hey the gov't put out a report, so that must be the end of it. Nothing to see here, move along. Oooo look over there the Vice President was out hunting, had a few beers and shot someone. What were we talking about?
This current administration is the most blantly & openly corrupt administration ever. Nixon was almost impeached(his resigned before they could impeach him) for bugging the DNC. Bush admits to illegal wiretaps on untold thousands of Americans on national TV and Congress has to have a meeting to decide if they even want to question Bush about it. WTF?!?!
True, weather plays a big factor in how often a location is likely to experience a power outage.
Heavy snow, strong winds(e.g. downed tree limbs), and ice storms are things that happen in the vast majority of the US. The Southwest US is probably the only place that doesn't experience at least one of those on a regular basis.
You also forgot critters getting into equipment&causing a short and hurricanes. Mother Nature has a wide variety of ways to disrupt power.:)
You are correct that the size of the area you are measuring does affect the odds of a power failure happening. Larger the area the better the odds.
Not really sure what your point is, tho. My reply to the original post was "what do you do when the power goes out". We are at odds on the frequency with which they happen but we are in agreement that they do happen.
I think your response to my question "what about power failures" is: don't worry about it, they don't happen often enough to be a concern.
Which to me is an unacceptable answer. Especially if getting in my house depends on the power being on.
On a side note: maybe you're just not around when a power outage happens. Get a clock, remove the batteries and plug it in. Several times I've been gone when a power outage happens but the clock shows it did happen(and how long it lasted).
My comment was directed at the Parent post stating his PKI system was better.
Power outages in the US actually happen fairly often. A storm can knock out the power to a neighborhood(downed wires). A drunk driver can have the same effect. Rumor has it a computer virus caused a "minor" power outage in the Northeast area of the US a few years back.:)
Hmmmm, being locked out because of an extended power outage or a bashed reader would be a real pain in the ass. Just how would one get in if all the readers were bashed? And why wouldn't an intruder just take that route?
If you dont want to pay for the fruits of other peoples labours, you are either a thief or a communist.
Yes, a person should be able to earn a living from their labor without being ripped off. But by the same token a society should gain something positive from that person's labor.
In the context of entertainment, it is the middle man(e.g. RIAA/MPAA) that is ripping off both the artist and society. The sooner RIAA/MPAA went away or just did promotion instead of promotion&distribution the better life will be.
An illicit download does not equal a lost sale. I believe it was Eminem that "leaked" a single off one his upcoming album prior to the ablum being released. When the ablum was released it went platinum. The "illegal" downloads generated alot of buzz. And if I remember correctly, the leaked song was the only good one on the whole album. Or look at Microsoft's action in China. By allowing their goods to be pirated, they gained marketshare. Most people in China can't afford Microsoft's product at legal/retail prices.
You missed the points. My points were 1) Bill of Rights is greater in value than any number of Brooklyn Bridges. 2) President commited a felony and the noise about domestic spying is "spin" to distract from the crime.
Let me put it this way, destroying civil rights is a greater act of terror than destroying a bridge or any physical object for that matter.
Roebling designed a bridge and truss system that was six times as strong as he thought it needed to be. Because of this, the Brooklyn Bridge is still standing when many of the bridges built around the same time have vanished into history and have been replaced. This is also in spite of the nefarious substitution of inferior quality wire in the cabling supplied by a contractor - by the time it was discovered it was too late to replace the cabling that had already been constructed. Roebling determined that the poorer wire would leave the bridge four rather than six times as strong as necessary, so it was eventually allowed to stand.
They're going to need to cut more than just a few cables to bring down the bridge. And the cables are HUGE, cutting them with torches will take a lot of time. Guys with blowtorches spending a lot time on a heavily used bridge will be noticed, especially after the first cable snaps(if they even get that far). Remember this is an old bridge and crews are working on it daily.
You're willing to sacrifice the Brooklyn Bridge (spared from attack because of spying)
From that statement, it sounds like you value the Brooklyn Bridge more than you value the Bill of Rights. Is that correct? An interesting choice but I would disagree with you. A thousand Brooklyn Bridges don't come close to the value of the Bill of Rights. Bridges are way easier to rebuild/restore than civil rights.
The problem isn't fear that someone might listen in on a conversation to Iraq or Afghanistan, the problem is that "King" George couldn't be bothered to follow the law. FISA provides for retroactive wiretapping warrents; listen to who want and get a warrent later, but he couldn't even do that. The fact that the current sitting President commited a felony(and even admitted to it on national tv) and hasn't be arrested or impeached is the problem. The hub-bub about domestic spying is a disattraction away from the actual crime.
And as for the "attack" on the Brooklyn Bridge.... Do you really believe the Brooklyn Bridge could be taken down with blowtorches?
From the article... "Several officials said the eavesdropping programme had helped uncover a plot by Iyman Faris, an Ohio trucker and naturalised citizen who pleaded guilty in 2003 to supporting al-Qaeda by planning to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with blowtorches.
From the US Dept. of Justice... According to Faris' admission, the operational leader then told Faris that al Qaeda was planning two simultaneous attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. The al Qaeda leader spoke with Faris about destroying a bridge in New York City by severing its suspension cables, and tasked Faris with obtaining the equipment needed for that operation.
Faris admitted that upon returning to the United States from Pakistan in April 2002, he researched "gas cutters" - the equipment for severing bridge suspension cables
I have a hard time believing a bunch of guys with blowtorches could cut enough cables on the bridge to make it fall. I'm going to go out on a limb and say someone would stop them well before they even got close.
Please make an effort to see past the talking heads and the spin. Commit some time to researching events, you'll be better informed and the world might be a better place for it.
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Who wants to invest money in developing a product, only to have the open source community go after you? And you get bashed for trying to earn a living.
I don't think the GPL crowd is "going after people for trying to earn a living", they are simply protecting their work. If you use GPL'd code, you have to make it available it... those are the conditions of use. Pretty simple.
I developed an embedded device using NetBSD. I would love to use Linux, but the agressive stance of the GPL license (Linksys!!) keeps me away. I know many others that share the same view.
I think Linksys's choice to use Linux actually helped them. Their wireless AP(WRT54G) is quite popular due to its openness. The openness allows for mods&add-ons and this in turns promotes a community around the product. One could say it helps build "Brand Loyalty" and provides free positive PR(for the product at least).
How much custom code you adding? From the sounds of it(worried about GPL) you aren't adding much; maybe a driver or two. And in the end you gave back to NetBSD anyways, so I don't really understand your complaint.
Beside if someone is going to rip you off, wouldn't it be another manufacturer? In which case if you had use GPL'd code, you could at least force them to provide the GPL'd code used. Level the playing field? With a BSD license, you'd know they ripped you off but had no way of forcing them to release the code.
Yes, completely ignoring if the device under a patent.
oh I do tech support in my spare time
:)
Ahhh, grasshopper. Don't waste too much of your spare time doing tech support. You'll get more than your fill of it when you join the work a day world. There are much better things to do in college.
There seems to be some misconception that any idiot should be able to use a computer and people don't realize that there are basic skills you should pick up before using one in an uncontrolled environment
:)
Sure but out in the real world, that doesn't happen very often. And isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
Be grateful that you haven't had provide tech support.
Agreed, the education is the priority. Part of the learning experience is making mistakes; both the freedom to make them and to learn from them.
I would much rather take the time to explain to them how to proplerly use stuff, and maybe get them using another browser like mozilla/firefox, then come up with some asinine solution like forcing them to run Vmware.
Setting up VMWare doesn't mean the parent gets out of educating their child. It just provides an easier to support&maintain computing environment. Which remember was the original point; instead of uninstall/removing crap just copy virgin image over and you're done.
A number of children websites just don't work in non-IE browsers, e.g. ToonTown. Even in a corporate/adult environment a large number of website don't work properly in Firefox. Or worst yet work in Firefox in Windows but don't work in Firefox in unix. MBNA ShopSafe is that beast.
A lot of children & game websites install a lot of crap. The crap isn't malware but will degrade the performance of the machine over time. If the virtual machine is configured to start from a virgin machine each time it avoids your "what if they hose it?" problem. But this can also being a pain for the user, as they would need to keep re-installing stuff(e.g. ToonTown).
What if they hose their install and you're not there? Suddenly they fire up the browser in the host OS and go to town.
This is really a trust issue. If they are only allowed to use the virtual machine and it got hosed, they need to wait for an adult to repair it. If they disobey a rule, then they get punished.
Going back to your education theme, you could teach them how to restore the virtual machine to a virgin state. e.g. if your virtual machine breaks, run this batch file. The batch file overwrites their virtual machine with the virgin image and they are back in business. This is the beauty of VMWare&virtual machines.
VMWare is basically being used in place of a seperate kids PC.
Maybe people could expend a lot less effort with this kind of ridiculous setup if they learned how to surf the internet without clicking on every shiny thing that pops up in their face.
Well, those would be the rubs. It takes time to learn safe surfing, especially when there isn't much in the way of instruction and/or interest on the part of the surfer. And add to that the fact that people are actually trying to selling stuff on the internets. Lets call it marketing. The whole point of "marketing" is to get people to click on links to buy stuff or install something.
When a particular style(shiny stuff) of marketing gets picked up on by "the unwashed masses", then the marketing style changes and people are back to clicking on stuff. And safe surfing habits have to adjust. rinse&repeat.
Virtual Machines and sandboxes are just useful tools, that reduce the amount of support a non-expert needs. Add the trend of rootkits being used by malware and VMs & sandboxes start to make more sense. Defense in layers.
Not really. The home situation is actually his neighbor's machine which is used also used by three kids.
Having the kids' use restricted to a virtual machine means the kids can monkey around with it as much as they like without them or the parents worrying about something breaking. The monkeying around bit covers spyware installs and other misc crap websites like to install.
This in turn greatly reduces support needs, which was the original motivation.
Al Gore isn't a member of "Skull & Bones" but John Kerry(presidental candidate in the 2004 election) is.
Funny but also interesting. Could one build a cluster using "lower lifeforms"? Maybe a tank full of fish? Or go another step further... genetically modified fish to have more grey matter. Or maybe a herd of cattle? Now there is a large pool of unused cycles.
Would this allow cross-species communication? e.g. Birds become spy planes ala BeastMaster mode.
I think what you are describing is Onion routing. Go setup Tor and help out. :)
The public access channels might have an "encrypted" field but it is probably set to null or "not encrypted".
/shrug
I ran into this problem with my MythTV setup using Over The Air HDTV broadcasts. PBS turned to a black screen. MythTV saw the "encrypted/encoded" field and decided the broadcast was encrypted, when it actually wasn't.
I was able to find a forum posting on it but have since lost the link. sorry.
A few months later, all of my channels went black. Didn't really spend much time researching it, figured the rest of the broadcasters finally enabled the "encrypted" field(they all went black a couple minutes after midnight on 3/2/2006) and took it as a sign to finally upgrade. Upgraded to MythTV 0.19 on Gentoo and I was able to receive my HDTV broadcasts again.
Operagost saidHave you heard of Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, or Alec Baldwin being put on a no-fly list? Do you know anyone personally? No? See, it turns out that it's just the usual sloppy work by bureaucrats who confused similar-sounding Arabic names. Joe Caucasian Liberal has nothing to fear, and once we get our representatives to implement proper review procedures maybe we can weed out the incompetents who have screwed up the no-fly list.
Wow. The "See, it turns out that it's just the usual sloppy work by bureaucrats who confused similar-sounding Arabic names." and "Joe Caucasian Liberal has nothing to fear" bits are quite racist. Got a problem with the "brown people" do we? Maybe scarier is the fact you've received +2 insightful.
Senator Ted Kennedy on no-fly list. I didn't realize Ted Kennedy had an Arabic sounding name.
Not knocking the post, it made me laugh.
A company doesn't enjoy the protections of the Bill of Rights, its not a real person.
You're right. And thank you. was directed at Oligonicella post
You're right. And thank you.
You keep saying that word[illegal]
I only said the word once. You asked for evidence that the 9/11 commission's report was a white wash. I provided some pointers. Hopefully, you'll take the time to read them and maybe do some research on the subject yourself.
Illegal election.
Illegal war.
Illegal wiretapping.
When did I mention an illegal election or illegal war? Please don't put words in my mouth. I can speak for myself.
Chances are all these things you call illegal were carried out to the letter of the law, but I doubt that would make any difference to you.
The gov't doesn't deserve my blind allegience. The gov't is meant to be my servant, not my master. A citizen(regardless of country) should always be questioning the actions of their government, it is the first defense against tyranny.
So yes, it would make a difference to me. Which part of warrantless(illegal) wiretaps am I misunderstanding?
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act(FISA) lays down the law under which the President may do warrantless wiretaps. The first case is if the subject or location of the wiretap is solely foreign, i.e. no americans or american soil involved. The second case does allow Americans to be an involved subject. BUT these warrantless wiretaps can only last for 15 days after the declaration of War. Sadly we have been at war for much longer than 15 days.
The law here is actually pretty clear because the Fourth Amendment demands it.
Instead of trying to assinate my character, please provide me with some pointers & reference material so that I may educate myself. If you are just going to talk past those you disagree with, neither party will learn anything.
And since you mentioned an illegal war maybe you would be interested to know that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan did tell the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.
The 9/11 Commission was a bipartisan effort initiated not from Congress but from the families of 9/11 victims. Where is the evidence that they covered up or lied about this particular story?
/snip
The Families of 9/11 victims are still looking for answers.
Press Release from 10/26/2004 demanding a better investigation Note: the 9/11 Commission was published July of 2004
The top 15 reasons to doubt the official story of Sept. 11, 2001 Number 1: Conflict of interest of those on the commission.
Conspiracy theories are very tempting, but sometimes more logical explanations exist.
And the logical explanation for WTC7 collopse is?
And how is it the ASTM E119 certified steel in the World Trade Towers weaken/melt after exposure to an uncontrolled & undirected jet fuel fire?
See Letter from Underwriters Laboratories(UL) to NIST
snip
We know that the steel components were certified to ASTM E119. The time temperature curves for this standard require the samples to be exposed to temperatures around 2000F for several hours. And as we all agree, the steel applied met those specifications. Additionally, I think we can all agree that even un-fireproofed steel will not melt until reaching red-hot temperatures of nearly 3000F (2). Why Dr. Brown would imply that 2000F would melt the high-grade steel used in those buildings makes no sense at all.
If the buildings collapsed because fire weaken the steel support, then there are some serious safety issues that need to be addressed. But no one has really bothered with this. At the very least you would think building codes would have been updated to mandate better steel and UL would have to update it testing&certification process. Because clearly their certification that the steel used in the World Trade Towers was not up to snuff. Gee, that kinda smells like a lawsuit... but I haven't heard of one.
Don't forget that the Commission was opposed by the Bush Administration every step of the way!
And when W did final give testimony to the commission it wasn't under oath, it was behind closed doors and his vice-president was there to help him.
What kind of "War President" needs his vice president to help him testify?
Why wasn't his testimony under oath and public? (we can't handle the truth?)
But hey the gov't put out a report, so that must be the end of it. Nothing to see here, move along. Oooo look over there the Vice President was out hunting, had a few beers and shot someone. What were we talking about?
This current administration is the most blantly & openly corrupt administration ever. Nixon was almost impeached(his resigned before they could impeach him) for bugging the DNC. Bush admits to illegal wiretaps on untold thousands of Americans on national TV and Congress has to have a meeting to decide if they even want to question Bush about it. WTF?!?!
True, weather plays a big factor in how often a location is likely to experience a power outage.
:)
Heavy snow, strong winds(e.g. downed tree limbs), and ice storms are things that happen in the vast majority of the US. The Southwest US is probably the only place that doesn't experience at least one of those on a regular basis.
You also forgot critters getting into equipment&causing a short and hurricanes. Mother Nature has a wide variety of ways to disrupt power.
You are correct that the size of the area you are measuring does affect the odds of a power failure happening. Larger the area the better the odds.
Not really sure what your point is, tho. My reply to the original post was "what do you do when the power goes out". We are at odds on the frequency with which they happen but we are in agreement that they do happen.
I think your response to my question "what about power failures" is: don't worry about it, they don't happen often enough to be a concern.
Which to me is an unacceptable answer. Especially if getting in my house depends on the power being on.
On a side note: maybe you're just not around when a power outage happens. Get a clock, remove the batteries and plug it in. Several times I've been gone when a power outage happens but the clock shows it did happen(and how long it lasted).
My comment was directed at the Parent post stating his PKI was a better system than the device in the article.
My comment was directed at the Parent post stating his PKI system was better.
:)
Power outages in the US actually happen fairly often. A storm can knock out the power to a neighborhood(downed wires). A drunk driver can have the same effect. Rumor has it a computer virus caused a "minor" power outage in the Northeast area of the US a few years back.
Hmmmm, being locked out because of an extended power outage or a bashed reader would be a real pain in the ass. Just how would one get in if all the readers were bashed? And why wouldn't an intruder just take that route?
If you dont want to pay for the fruits of other peoples labours, you are either a thief or a communist.
Yes, a person should be able to earn a living from their labor without being ripped off. But by the same token a society should gain something positive from that person's labor.
In the context of entertainment, it is the middle man(e.g. RIAA/MPAA) that is ripping off both the artist and society. The sooner RIAA/MPAA went away or just did promotion instead of promotion&distribution the better life will be.
An illicit download does not equal a lost sale. I believe it was Eminem that "leaked" a single off one his upcoming album prior to the ablum being released. When the ablum was released it went platinum. The "illegal" downloads generated alot of buzz. And if I remember correctly, the leaked song was the only good one on the whole album. Or look at Microsoft's action in China. By allowing their goods to be pirated, they gained marketshare. Most people in China can't afford Microsoft's product at legal/retail prices.
The best development manager I ever worked for was a philosophy major in university.
;)
Someone actually trained/schooled in logic made for the best development manager you experienced? shocking, just shocking.
You missed the points. My points were
1) Bill of Rights is greater in value than any number of Brooklyn Bridges.
2) President commited a felony and the noise about domestic spying is "spin" to distract from the crime.
Let me put it this way, destroying civil rights is a greater act of terror than destroying a bridge or any physical object for that matter.
As for guys with blowtorches.....
From the Wikipedia...
Roebling designed a bridge and truss system that was six times as strong as he thought it needed to be. Because of this, the Brooklyn Bridge is still standing when many of the bridges built around the same time have vanished into history and have been replaced. This is also in spite of the nefarious substitution of inferior quality wire in the cabling supplied by a contractor - by the time it was discovered it was too late to replace the cabling that had already been constructed. Roebling determined that the poorer wire would leave the bridge four rather than six times as strong as necessary, so it was eventually allowed to stand.
If you don't like the Wikipedia, here another source of information on the Brooklyn Bridge
They're going to need to cut more than just a few cables to bring down the bridge. And the cables are HUGE, cutting them with torches will take a lot of time. Guys with blowtorches spending a lot time on a heavily used bridge will be noticed, especially after the first cable snaps(if they even get that far). Remember this is an old bridge and crews are working on it daily.
From that statement, it sounds like you value the Brooklyn Bridge more than you value the Bill of Rights. Is that correct? An interesting choice but I would disagree with you. A thousand Brooklyn Bridges don't come close to the value of the Bill of Rights. Bridges are way easier to rebuild/restore than civil rights.
The problem isn't fear that someone might listen in on a conversation to Iraq or Afghanistan, the problem is that "King" George couldn't be bothered to follow the law. FISA provides for retroactive wiretapping warrents; listen to who want and get a warrent later, but he couldn't even do that. The fact that the current sitting President commited a felony(and even admitted to it on national tv) and hasn't be arrested or impeached is the problem. The hub-bub about domestic spying is a disattraction away from the actual crime.
And as for the "attack" on the Brooklyn Bridge.... Do you really believe the Brooklyn Bridge could be taken down with blowtorches?
BBC article about Bush/NSA domestic spying
From the article...
"Several officials said the eavesdropping programme had helped uncover a plot by Iyman Faris, an Ohio trucker and naturalised citizen who pleaded guilty in 2003 to supporting al-Qaeda by planning to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with blowtorches.
US DoJ statement about Iyman Faris
From the US Dept. of Justice...
According to Faris' admission, the operational leader then told Faris that al Qaeda was planning two simultaneous attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. The al Qaeda leader spoke with Faris about destroying a bridge in New York City by severing its suspension cables, and tasked Faris with obtaining the equipment needed for that operation.
Faris admitted that upon returning to the United States from Pakistan in April 2002, he researched "gas cutters" - the equipment for severing bridge suspension cables
I have a hard time believing a bunch of guys with blowtorches could cut enough cables on the bridge to make it fall. I'm going to go out on a limb and say someone would stop them well before they even got close.
Please make an effort to see past the talking heads and the spin. Commit some time to researching events, you'll be better informed and the world might be a better place for it.