I dunno how UK phone companies bill, but why not list the URL's and the phone numbers accessed by each phone on the bill? That way Mom and Dad will know what Junior has been looking at.
It is morally bankrupt to explain away an individual's or a nation's behavior by reference to its history.
We are not unthinking automatons guided solely by historic, or economic, or societal circumstances.
Germany suffered the impact of losing the war it began in 1914. Germany chose Hitler as its leader. Describing the historical context surrounding those events, as you attempt, does not absolve Germany and Hitler of responsibility. Nor does it transfer responsibilty to those nations who defended themselves against Germany. That, however, is the thrust of your position.
Turning the other cheek is not an effective defnese against psychopathic killers. Perhaps it will be when humans become angels and the world becomes a utopia.
It's sophistic to blame Germany's WWII behavior on the results of another it started, WWI. I believe Hitler was simply a racists, anti-Semitic meglomaniac psychopath. Whatever motivations you choose to ascribe to him, hoever, they are irrelevant. It was Germany's behavior, not Germany's motivation, that the Allies went to war against.
"He started it" carries a lot of weight when Western civilization is at stake.
If the Germans had not placed Hitler in power, if the Germans had not sustained him in power, if Hitler had not plunged Europe into a war of conquest and genocide, then not a single Allied bomb would have ever fallen on German territory.
To use another cliche, you reap what you sow.
Hitler and the other fascists, including those ruling Japan, had to be stopped, at any cost. The cost of defeat was unthinkable.
Trying to take the moral high ground in war is pointless. Death is death, regardless of motive. But, that is no reason to avoid fighting to win.
They're not sacrificing "real science". Hubble wasn't intended to last forever. Given the popularity and emotional appeal of all those pretty images, people would whine if NASA did nothing else but nurse Hubble along for 50 years and then let it die. Everyone complains when their favorite project ends.
"Science" is a payload for the space effort. The best science payload is a person.
Local news is created by local news reporters. If an Evil Giant Corporation actually has reporters working in your town, then the location of the guy in the studio isn't of consequence.
Likewise, if your local Wholesome Mom and Pop Radio Station can't afford to hire reporters, then they're ripping and reading news from the same wire services the big guys use.
If you're offended because some disk jockey pretends to be in your city, that's another story.
Wake up and pay attention. This decision has been inevitable since the CAIB released its findings. All future Shuttle flights must be able to access the ISS for safety reasons. Flights to Hubble can't access ISS. End of story.
BTW, science is not the motivation for space travel. Nor are pretty pictures.
Since when do we need to pay students to confirm that they aren't cheating? If a third-party makes a profit while determining who's cheating, what's the problem?
>>Per CNN: Under CAPPS II, TSA will obtain the passenger's full name, home address, home telephone number, birth date and some information about that passenger's itinerary.
Except for the flight itinerary, this kind of information isn't really private. Everything is already a matter of public record. Once something is public, why worry about privacy?
Better known as SAS. Popular with medical personnel and other folks who stay on their feet for hours and hours. I've worn them for years.
A bit difficult to find, but worth it.
Generic advice: Regardless of brand, if your feet hurt you've got the wrong shoes. Don't buy cheaps shoes in a big-box store. Go to a real shoe store with staff that know how to fit shoes. Expect to pay two or three times what you'd pay at the cheap joint. If the shoes aren't comfortable in the shop, don't buy them thinking you can break them in.
>> An anti-spam law ought to ensure that people do not receive spam.
How would you propose doing that? Making something illegal doesn't make it go away. One might as well argue that "an anti-murder law ought to ensure that people do not commit murder."
Fine or arrest everyone who creates spam? OK. What's your definition of spam?
Mandate changes to SMTP? OK, but the cost of implementing the changes will be paid by you and me.
Mandate some kind of magic spam blocking code in all operating systems and mail programs? OK, but if legislation can compel you to use one kind of software, it can compel you not to use another.
No one likes spam. But, stompinmg your feet and decaliming that someone ought to make it go away isn't especially useful.
Similar extortion threats to individuals have been reported and are being "handled" by the authorities. You've no grounds for your post; it's based solely on your own preconceptions and prejudices.
Security people have a responsibility to tell their employers about potential vulnerabilities. They have no responsibility to compel their employees to pay attention to their advise. If that's what you're interested in, become a cop.
Blackmail is blackmail and extortion is extortion. And what you're advocating is simple vigalantism.
This is not surveillance. This is just identifying the IP address of the recipient of email. Seems to me that's rather similar to using ping or whois. IP addresses and domain registrations are public, not private.
It's also rather similar to your local mail carrier knowing where you live. Is that surveillance, too, or are you simply paranoid?
If Best Buy had received the same threat via snail mail, and the FBI looked at the return address on the envelope, would you be screaming about surveillance?
The Internet is not some mystical land that exists apart from reality and the law, contrary to the constant stream of silly/. posts that sxeem to believe otherwise. Get over it. The Internet is not special and people don't get a free pass because they use it for criminal behavior.
Next time, please think bekore exposing yourself as a paranoid llon, OK?
Spirit was designed to operate for 90 days, so I'm sure we'll see lots of photos, once the first few days of engineering checks are concluded. Gusev Crater is very flat, so mountain vistas are unlikely.
Agree re: nuclear power. We need to put a spacecraft depot in low-Earth orbit to build and maintain the things, and get on with it.
The landing site was not selected because it might offer photogenic panoramas. It was selected because it appears to be a likely place where water once exist on the Martian surface.
We aren't going to Mars to take pretty pictures, you know.
If you want pictures of Martain mountain scenery, tell your government you want to send people there.
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I dunno how UK phone companies bill, but why not list the URL's and the phone numbers accessed by each phone on the bill? That way Mom and Dad will know what Junior has been looking at.
Don't be too sure. Lot's of submarines out there.
We have war crimes because it is to the advantage of the victors to "proscecute" the losers.
Only a legitimate and democractically elected global legislature and executive can make and enforce legitmate war crimes legislation.
It is morally bankrupt to explain away an individual's or a nation's behavior by reference to its history.
We are not unthinking automatons guided solely by historic, or economic, or societal circumstances.
Germany suffered the impact of losing the war it began in 1914. Germany chose Hitler as its leader. Describing the historical context surrounding those events, as you attempt, does not absolve Germany and Hitler of responsibility. Nor does it transfer responsibilty to those nations who defended themselves against Germany. That, however, is the thrust of your position.
Turning the other cheek is not an effective defnese against psychopathic killers. Perhaps it will be when humans become angels and the world becomes a utopia.
It's sophistic to blame Germany's WWII behavior on the results of another it started, WWI. I believe Hitler was simply a racists, anti-Semitic meglomaniac psychopath. Whatever motivations you choose to ascribe to him, hoever, they are irrelevant. It was Germany's behavior, not Germany's motivation, that the Allies went to war against.
There's always one demented loon in the bunch. Thanks for showing up.
"He started it" carries a lot of weight when Western civilization is at stake.
If the Germans had not placed Hitler in power, if the Germans had not sustained him in power, if Hitler had not plunged Europe into a war of conquest and genocide, then not a single Allied bomb would have ever fallen on German territory.
To use another cliche, you reap what you sow.
Hitler and the other fascists, including those ruling Japan, had to be stopped, at any cost. The cost of defeat was unthinkable.
Trying to take the moral high ground in war is pointless. Death is death, regardless of motive. But, that is no reason to avoid fighting to win.
They're not sacrificing "real science". Hubble wasn't intended to last forever. Given the popularity and emotional appeal of all those pretty images, people would whine if NASA did nothing else but nurse Hubble along for 50 years and then let it die. Everyone complains when their favorite project ends.
"Science" is a payload for the space effort. The best science payload is a person.
The second shuttle plan has been rejected as too risky and not, itself, in compliance with the CAIB's recommendations.
Sure, science is a motivation, but it is not the motivation.
Local news is created by local news reporters. If an Evil Giant Corporation actually has reporters working in your town, then the location of the guy in the studio isn't of consequence.
Likewise, if your local Wholesome Mom and Pop Radio Station can't afford to hire reporters, then they're ripping and reading news from the same wire services the big guys use.
If you're offended because some disk jockey pretends to be in your city, that's another story.
Wake up and pay attention. This decision has been inevitable since the CAIB released its findings. All future Shuttle flights must be able to access the ISS for safety reasons. Flights to Hubble can't access ISS. End of story.
BTW, science is not the motivation for space travel. Nor are pretty pictures.
Trust? Students cheat and then whine about trust?? Come on.
Since when do we need to pay students to confirm that they aren't cheating? If a third-party makes a profit while determining who's cheating, what's the problem?
If you cheat, you flunk. That's it. No excuses.
>>Per CNN: Under CAPPS II, TSA will obtain the passenger's full name, home address, home telephone number, birth date and some information about that passenger's itinerary.
Except for the flight itinerary, this kind of information isn't really private. Everything is already a matter of public record. Once something is public, why worry about privacy?
Better known as SAS. Popular with medical personnel and other folks who stay on their feet for hours and hours. I've worn them for years.
A bit difficult to find, but worth it.
Generic advice: Regardless of brand, if your feet hurt you've got the wrong shoes. Don't buy cheaps shoes in a big-box store. Go to a real shoe store with staff that know how to fit shoes. Expect to pay two or three times what you'd pay at the cheap joint. If the shoes aren't comfortable in the shop, don't buy them thinking you can break them in.
>> An anti-spam law ought to ensure that people do not receive spam.
How would you propose doing that? Making something illegal doesn't make it go away. One might as well argue that "an anti-murder law ought to ensure that people do not commit murder."
Fine or arrest everyone who creates spam? OK. What's your definition of spam?
Mandate changes to SMTP? OK, but the cost of implementing the changes will be paid by you and me.
Mandate some kind of magic spam blocking code in all operating systems and mail programs? OK, but if legislation can compel you to use one kind of software, it can compel you not to use another.
No one likes spam. But, stompinmg your feet and decaliming that someone ought to make it go away isn't especially useful.
Tsk, tsk. Why bother looking for the "right" anser when none exists?
Life is not a "problem" waiting for you to find the correct solution. Neither is literature.
Presumably, it would have affected life anywhere in the Solar System, so long as the life forms were exposed to the UV.
You still think there's a "System", eh?
As other posters have pointed out, whther or not the feds get involved depends on the nature of the crime and the dollar amount involved.
Posters who assume the contrary are speaking from ignorance and bias.
Similar extortion threats to individuals have been reported and are being "handled" by the authorities. You've no grounds for your post; it's based solely on your own preconceptions and prejudices.
Security people have a responsibility to tell their employers about potential vulnerabilities. They have no responsibility to compel their employees to pay attention to their advise. If that's what you're interested in, become a cop.
Blackmail is blackmail and extortion is extortion. And what you're advocating is simple vigalantism.
This is not surveillance. This is just identifying the IP address of the recipient of email. Seems to me that's rather similar to using ping or whois. IP addresses and domain registrations are public, not private.
/. posts that sxeem to believe otherwise. Get over it. The Internet is not special and people don't get a free pass because they use it for criminal behavior.
It's also rather similar to your local mail carrier knowing where you live. Is that surveillance, too, or are you simply paranoid?
If Best Buy had received the same threat via snail mail, and the FBI looked at the return address on the envelope, would you be screaming about surveillance?
The Internet is not some mystical land that exists apart from reality and the law, contrary to the constant stream of silly
Next time, please think bekore exposing yourself as a paranoid llon, OK?
Happy to see you're on the right side. :-)
Spirit was designed to operate for 90 days, so I'm sure we'll see lots of photos, once the first few days of engineering checks are concluded. Gusev Crater is very flat, so mountain vistas are unlikely.
Agree re: nuclear power. We need to put a spacecraft depot in low-Earth orbit to build and maintain the things, and get on with it.
The landing site was not selected because it might offer photogenic panoramas. It was selected because it appears to be a likely place where water once exist on the Martian surface.
We aren't going to Mars to take pretty pictures, you know.
If you want pictures of Martain mountain scenery, tell your government you want to send people there.