How dare you compare our American heroes to terrorists!
I am an ex-New Yorker, I remember the World Trade Center!
People like you make me wish the stuff about Ashcroft putting American dissidents in camps was true. (but only for a bit, when I'm really angry - so don't flame me to death).
Seriously, Al-Qaeda hates freedom and wants us all dead. Far cry from a people that wanted to be free.
Fighting FOR freedom is MUCH different than fighting AGAINST freedom.
As politically incorrect as it may be here on Slashdot, and unfortunately most of society, I am still going to say it:
*GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!*
Ever wonder why people risk their lives trying to get IN to this country, and risk their lives trying to get OUT of many others?
Don't some devices destroy themselves when you try to print currency?
Or at least refuse to do anything until "serviced".
Is a self-destruct "feature" also mandated/encouraged by the gov't? Is an anti-copying "feature" mandated/encouraged by the gov't (without self-destruct)?
Direct deposit + a Visa check card means you can live quite nicely without handling any physical money (or even checks) at all. Heck, don't most Slashdotters live that way already?
BTW, more money is out there in non-physical form than there is physical money.
Having a machine fail and not restart is extreme. Makes a great denial of service attack, go to a library, (try to) copy a bill, and destroy the machine.
Do all the copy machines with this technology commit suicide, or do some of them just prevent the copy?
Even SCMS systems just block copies, they don't self-destruct.
Anything that intentionally stops working and won't do anything until it is "fixed" I count as self-destructing, even if the hardware is intact. A PC which wipes its own BIOS if I do something unacceptable would count.
What does the law require? Beyond requirements, are there any voluntary guidelines from the gov't? Any US Code, CFR, Federal Register, etc citations for blocking and/or self-destruct measures being required or suggested?
Cars have speed regulators, but they only cut fuel when you are trying to exceed the top speed, and reinstate it when you slow down. They don't trigger the engine to self-destruct. Yes, an ECM (electronic control module) can easily be made to destroy an engine and drivetrain. Full throttle, force transmission to neutral or first gear at high speed, or park or reverse when moving forward, extreme spark advance, run the engine "lean" and/or shut down the cooling fans and bypass the radiator. As far as I know, no car manufacturer has done such a thing.
Not only do you insult people and blame the victim, you obviously know very little about medicine.
Insulin does NOT come in a pill. It would get broken down (like any other protein) and not absorbed. And most type 2s do not start off by taking insulin. It's usually diet and exercise, then pills to make insulin work better (which helps save the pancreas) and force more to be released (which likely helps destroy the pancreas), and then insulin itself as the disease progresses.
The fact remains, even type 2 diabetics have permanent damage to their pancreas (which will progressively decline further), blood vessels, nerves and kidneys. This damage is slowed, but not stopped by even perfect blood sugar control after diabetes has developed. People still get diabetes specific complications even if they get their blood sugar totally normal.
Once your body breaks in this manner, it stays broken, and keeps breaking down.
Once you reach the point of being a full blown diabetic, it is TOO LATE to stop or reverse the damage, all that can be done is for it to be slowed down.
Diabetes slowly kills you, slowly takes away parts of your life (and in many cases, physical parts of your body), your health and your abilities. It is death, but over a long period of time.
Type 2 is due to a failure of the beta cells in the pancreas. Insulin resistance (which requires the production of more insulin to keep blood sugar down) can precipitate this failure by causing the beta cells to become overworked in trying to maintain the excessively high insulin level (hyperinsulinema) needed to keep the blood sugar down (this seems to be the current theory). However, for full blown diabetes to occur, the beta cell function must decline significantly to the point it cannot compensate for the insulin resistance, and thus produces an insufficient amount of insulin for the body's needs. Once it gets to that point, it appears that the damage is permanent and relentlessly progressive. Much in the same way an overworked heart goes into heart failure - fix the cause but the disease remains, along with all the secondary damage done to other parts of the body.
Also, high blood sugar itself damages the beta cells, setting up yet another vicious cycle.
For type 2 diabetics to be healthy, they'd have to reverse all the damage already done.
Stopping it before the damage is permanent is the alternative. Impaired fasting glucose (defined as over 110 mg/dl but under 126 mg/dl) or impaired glucose tolerance (at least 140 mg/dl but under 200 mg/dl at the 2 hour point in an oral glucose tolerance test) are very clear warning signs the system is about to break. Just like having the temperature gauge in your car in the red zone. You'd deal with that before your engine blows, you should deal with prediabetes before your pancreas blows.
Heck insulin resistance (aka Syndrome X, aka metabolic syndrome, aka dysmetabolic syndrome) itself can be measured, and it can also be strongly suspected due to other factors (low HDL, high tryglycerides, high BP, etc, etc).
And I have heard it said, even though the fasting blood glucose normal range goes to 110 mg/dl, anything over 90 is a sign of likely trouble down the road. Healthy is 70-90.
EXERCISE (probably the MOST important factor), eat a reasonable diet, and go to a good doctor (many are quacks) regularly. And pray. Oh, and stay away from corticosteriods, beta blockers, diuretics and other diabetogenic drugs if at all possible.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and this is not to be taken as official medical advice.
Getting back into the game will be really hard if he can't get a good reference from his former employer.
Not being able to get a reference, or being told someone was fired for being a security risk isn't exactly conducive to getting hired.
He should use one of those companies that checks what kind of reference the former employer gives out. If it is bad and untrue, he could sue for slander. That would be at least partial compensation for having one's chances in the industry hurt so bad, and give him something to live off during the long search for a new job.
extract a price too heavy to be described in monetary terms, as they scorch your very soul, slowly dragging you bodily into a spiritual nether-world where you live as a wraith, neither dead nor alive, eternally locked in a heck-like existence where you live only to serve your dark master
Some people here would rather have 20 years in prison with Internet access (it wouldn't surprise me if that actually exists) than 20 years free without it.:)
Simply routing all packets from China and Korea to the bit bucket would cut spam by 50%.
Maybe we should have every international router add an IP option that indicates what country it came from - so we could write firewall rules to toss packets from places where spam is rampant and one isn't getting any legitimate email from.
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How dare you compare our American heroes to terrorists!
I am an ex-New Yorker, I remember the World Trade Center!
People like you make me wish the stuff about Ashcroft putting American dissidents in camps was true. (but only for a bit, when I'm really angry - so don't flame me to death).
Seriously, Al-Qaeda hates freedom and wants us all dead. Far cry from a people that wanted to be free.
Fighting FOR freedom is MUCH different than fighting AGAINST freedom.
As politically incorrect as it may be here on Slashdot, and unfortunately most of society, I am still going to say it:
*GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!*
Ever wonder why people risk their lives trying to get IN to this country, and risk their lives trying to get OUT of many others?
He got what he deserved. People should NOT cheat on their wives or husbands!
Well the good news is if you get CJD, you won't remember or care that your wife hates you.
Considering the Federal system does not allow parole, yes a Federal crime is much worse.
And with lesser state crimes, the state you committed the crime in might not bother with extradition proceedings.
With Federal crimes, you aren't safe anywhere in the US.
Don't some devices destroy themselves when you try to print currency?
Or at least refuse to do anything until "serviced".
Is a self-destruct "feature" also mandated/encouraged by the gov't? Is an anti-copying "feature" mandated/encouraged by the gov't (without self-destruct)?
Quit whining and format your hard drive if you hate Windows so much. Surely you know about the alternative, being a /. reader and all.
Do you mean NetBSD? ;)
Just kidding!
It's spelt "grammar", not "grammer".
Let me guess, the reason was a new kernel just came out and you needed to get home to install it ASAP! ;)
Just pay for the repairs via a credit card and do a chargeback the next time something like that happens.
These links are booby trapped!
They abuse the FTC's scripts to do a nasty redirect.
And the parent post is quite likely illegal as a result.
You can actually do this and live quite well.
Direct deposit + a Visa check card means you can live quite nicely without handling any physical money (or even checks) at all. Heck, don't most Slashdotters live that way already?
BTW, more money is out there in non-physical form than there is physical money.
Why do the machines have to commit suicide?
Wouldn't blocking the copy attempt be enough?
Having a machine fail and not restart is extreme. Makes a great denial of service attack, go to a library, (try to) copy a bill, and destroy the machine.
Do all the copy machines with this technology commit suicide, or do some of them just prevent the copy?
Even SCMS systems just block copies, they don't self-destruct.
Anything that intentionally stops working and won't do anything until it is "fixed" I count as self-destructing, even if the hardware is intact. A PC which wipes its own BIOS if I do something unacceptable would count.
What does the law require? Beyond requirements, are there any voluntary guidelines from the gov't? Any US Code, CFR, Federal Register, etc citations for blocking and/or self-destruct measures being required or suggested?
Cars have speed regulators, but they only cut fuel when you are trying to exceed the top speed, and reinstate it when you slow down. They don't trigger the engine to self-destruct. Yes, an ECM (electronic control module) can easily be made to destroy an engine and drivetrain. Full throttle, force transmission to neutral or first gear at high speed, or park or reverse when moving forward, extreme spark advance, run the engine "lean" and/or shut down the cooling fans and bypass the radiator. As far as I know, no car manufacturer has done such a thing.
Not only do you insult people and blame the victim, you obviously know very little about medicine.
Insulin does NOT come in a pill. It would get broken down (like any other protein) and not absorbed. And most type 2s do not start off by taking insulin. It's usually diet and exercise, then pills to make insulin work better (which helps save the pancreas) and force more to be released (which likely helps destroy the pancreas), and then insulin itself as the disease progresses.
The fact remains, even type 2 diabetics have permanent damage to their pancreas (which will progressively decline further), blood vessels, nerves and kidneys. This damage is slowed, but not stopped by even perfect blood sugar control after diabetes has developed. People still get diabetes specific complications even if they get their blood sugar totally normal.
Once your body breaks in this manner, it stays broken, and keeps breaking down.
Once you reach the point of being a full blown diabetic, it is TOO LATE to stop or reverse the damage, all that can be done is for it to be slowed down.
Diabetes slowly kills you, slowly takes away parts of your life (and in many cases, physical parts of your body), your health and your abilities. It is death, but over a long period of time.
Type 2 is due to a failure of the beta cells in the pancreas. Insulin resistance (which requires the production of more insulin to keep blood sugar down) can precipitate this failure by causing the beta cells to become overworked in trying to maintain the excessively high insulin level (hyperinsulinema) needed to keep the blood sugar down (this seems to be the current theory). However, for full blown diabetes to occur, the beta cell function must decline significantly to the point it cannot compensate for the insulin resistance, and thus produces an insufficient amount of insulin for the body's needs. Once it gets to that point, it appears that the damage is permanent and relentlessly progressive. Much in the same way an overworked heart goes into heart failure - fix the cause but the disease remains, along with all the secondary damage done to other parts of the body.
Also, high blood sugar itself damages the beta cells, setting up yet another vicious cycle.
For type 2 diabetics to be healthy, they'd have to reverse all the damage already done.
Stopping it before the damage is permanent is the alternative. Impaired fasting glucose (defined as over 110 mg/dl but under 126 mg/dl) or impaired glucose tolerance (at least 140 mg/dl but under 200 mg/dl at the 2 hour point in an oral glucose tolerance test) are very clear warning signs the system is about to break. Just like having the temperature gauge in your car in the red zone. You'd deal with that before your engine blows, you should deal with prediabetes before your pancreas blows.
Heck insulin resistance (aka Syndrome X, aka metabolic syndrome, aka dysmetabolic syndrome) itself can be measured, and it can also be strongly suspected due to other factors (low HDL, high tryglycerides, high BP, etc, etc).
And I have heard it said, even though the fasting blood glucose normal range goes to 110 mg/dl, anything over 90 is a sign of likely trouble down the road. Healthy is 70-90.
EXERCISE (probably the MOST important factor), eat a reasonable diet, and go to a good doctor (many are quacks) regularly. And pray. Oh, and stay away from corticosteriods, beta blockers, diuretics and other diabetogenic drugs if at all possible.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and this is not to be taken as official medical advice.
Answer this question, who has more money, you or the cable company.
Then you'll be able to figure out if it will be considered fair use or not.
It really can be so easy to figure out who will win any given legal battle in the USA.
Getting back into the game will be really hard if he can't get a good reference from his former employer.
Not being able to get a reference, or being told someone was fired for being a security risk isn't exactly conducive to getting hired.
He should use one of those companies that checks what kind of reference the former employer gives out. If it is bad and untrue, he could sue for slander. That would be at least partial compensation for having one's chances in the industry hurt so bad, and give him something to live off during the long search for a new job.
You mean like when I throw my copy of Applied Cryptography at people's heads?
Or force them to read it! :)
You don't have the DMCA down there.
Just making a post like you did up here could possibly be considered illegal under our laws.
Yeah, but with most items, if price discrimination or the inability to do anything about it bothers you, you can go to a competitor.
With intellectual "property", that is not legal, since only one entity has the "right" to distribute copies and there are no (legal) competitors.
With copyright and other restrictions, our system is more merchantilist than capitalist.
Much of what Slashdot posters say is bad about captialism is not capitalism at all, but is actually anti-capitalist and pro-merchantilist.
extract a price too heavy to be described in monetary terms, as they scorch your very soul, slowly dragging you bodily into a spiritual nether-world where you live as a wraith, neither dead nor alive, eternally locked in a heck-like existence where you live only to serve your dark master
Sounds sort of like Windows.
If gcc hasn't been ported to that system, why should you bother porting your own code?
The platform is probably not very popular or open in this case.
Some people insist on using only K&R type function declarations so it will work with legacy compilers. Ugh.
The cool sql*kitten username probably helped. :)
It is called the X11 Windowing System, not X Windows.
:)
They get kinda uptight about being called "X Windows".
Some people here would rather have 20 years in prison with Internet access (it wouldn't surprise me if that actually exists) than 20 years free without it. :)
Simply routing all packets from China and Korea to the bit bucket would cut spam by 50%.
Maybe we should have every international router add an IP option that indicates what country it came from - so we could write firewall rules to toss packets from places where spam is rampant and one isn't getting any legitimate email from.