Why aren't you involved in acceptance testing, if you see a problem with how it's being done?
I am involved. It's open, right? So, I hereby declare myself to be involved. Further, I declare this release to be unacceptable. I do not certify it, and the release is hereby invalidated. That was easy!
No. The police cannot enforce the law even when the law is broken by someone working out of the same building as they do. That is someone who is bad at their job. If it isn't conspiracy it is incompetence.
The USA is closer to a police state because of the National Guard and the FBI? Are you fucking kidding me? I understand the point you are trying to make but you picked about the two dumbest examples you could have possibly picked. You should have stuck with ATF.
The fact that you are first and foremost concerned with what particular OS to install on these machines, and treat this as if it's some kind of deep philosophical question, is a sign that you are more interested in foisting ideology upon these children than actually helping them. Put something on there that has a good variety of useful software available and that they'll be able to figure out how to use. Any sort of consideration beyond that is inappropriate philosophical masturbation. You're here to help, not impose socio-political viewpoints on people.
No you don't, but you can't say what Shakespeare thought, you can only say what you think Shakespeare might have thought.
Uh... Duh? When someone says "Shakespeare might have intended to convey such and such," it takes a very special sort of pedant to assume the former and not the latter. I'm glad I studied a field that isn't full of such masturbatory bullshit.
Or, they just took every piece of technology in his home whether it was related to this operation or not. Governments seem to like to just steal people's shit these days, call it "evidence gathering" and then never give it back regardless of legal outcome.
Two arbitrary cubes in 4D space will meet with probability 1.0.
Two arbitrary cubes don't necessary intersect even in 3D space, why the hell would they in 4D space? The word you are looking for is not "cube" -- more like "3 dimensional subspace."
Evidence of what? Evidence of him having videotaped officers? This makes as much sense as when the police arrest someone on the sole charge of "resisting arrest." He was resisting arrest. Why were you arresting him? For resisting arrest. Do they really think anyone buys that?
Wow, your plan seems airtight. Please elaborate the portion where you explain how people who have been so "tagged" are able to find legitimate sources of income, so they do not return to crime.
So what's wrong with racial profiling if it accurately (e.g. passes statistical tests) for predicting crime rates in certain areas?
Because it is socially repugnant. A uniform penalty of death for all crimes would reduce recidivism to zero quite reliably too. Like racial profiling it is unacceptable to civilized peoples.
That is a poor criteria for "evidence". Check your filter for FPs often? Ever consider what those filters are costing you?
Nope, and I don't give a shit. Important communications are made in person, on the phone, or by letter.
You should. Your filters will not defeat spam; not now and not ever.
So... I should care about it because I should care about it. How convincing.
Just because it removes spam from your inbox does not mean it is working on the greater scale.
I find myself needing to repeat. The greater scale is not a concern of mine. If I want reliable private secure communication I have many methods at my disposal -- none of them are email. But if you feel like it, continue having a heart attack over the insecurity of inherently insecure technology.
the spammers will always find ways to get around the filter, or to obfuscate enough to make the filters cause more damage.
No they won't. Evidence: I have no spam in my inbox.
Spamming is an economic problem, and until we employ economic solutions, spamming will never truly be defeated.
I don't give a crap about "defeating" spam. I simply don't want any in my inbox. And I don't have any there. Let's see... I can go with a solution that works (spam filtering) or I can go with a "change the world" solution which more than likely involves government intervention in my life. Let me think about that.
Every time one of these stories pops somebody says that. And yet where are the stories about patents being overturned because of prior art? Maybe it happens but I never hear of it.
Such organisms consume food and excrete alcohol until the ambient concentration is too high for them to tolerate any longer. After years of selective breeding some yeasts have been produced that can tolerate up to about 22% ABV but it doesn't seem to go much higher than that.
How many days could you take a shit in your living room until you could no longer tolerate it? I doubt any amount of evolutionary pressure could enable you to swim in a diarrhea swimming pool.
Friends tag your face with your name. Only since you're not a member, you can't untag it.
Why do you have "friends" like that? Here's an idea, walk up to this "friend" and punch him in the fucking nuts.
I'm really baffled at what a lot of people mean when they say "friend." How can somebody who is that disrespectful of your wishes be your friend? Why are you so promiscuous with your friendship?
This is important because today we have the situation where large corporations are claiming patents on inventions that have been common knowledge for fifty years or more.
You can't have it both ways. You consider some vague reference in a work of fiction to be an "invention" yet a clearly spelled-out and technically detailed list of claims is not worthy of the same title? If the latter is not an invention then don't make me die of laughter claiming some piece of sci-fi is, either. Seriously, what the fuck.
You can sign the patches and make it impossible to inject update packets straight into the botnet. A more plausible line of attack would be to find a traditional security vulnerability and exploit it.
What isn't true? The statement that if 11 people select a digit between 0 and 9, at least two people will share a digit? Or if 10001 people select a four-digit sequence, at least two will share a sequence? Because both of those statements are fucking obviously true.
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Why aren't you involved in acceptance testing, if you see a problem with how it's being done?
I am involved. It's open, right? So, I hereby declare myself to be involved. Further, I declare this release to be unacceptable. I do not certify it, and the release is hereby invalidated. That was easy!
No. The police cannot enforce the law even when the law is broken by someone working out of the same building as they do. That is someone who is bad at their job. If it isn't conspiracy it is incompetence.
The USA is closer to a police state because of the National Guard and the FBI? Are you fucking kidding me? I understand the point you are trying to make but you picked about the two dumbest examples you could have possibly picked. You should have stuck with ATF.
The fact that you are first and foremost concerned with what particular OS to install on these machines, and treat this as if it's some kind of deep philosophical question, is a sign that you are more interested in foisting ideology upon these children than actually helping them. Put something on there that has a good variety of useful software available and that they'll be able to figure out how to use. Any sort of consideration beyond that is inappropriate philosophical masturbation. You're here to help, not impose socio-political viewpoints on people.
No you don't, but you can't say what Shakespeare thought, you can only say what you think Shakespeare might have thought.
Uh... Duh? When someone says "Shakespeare might have intended to convey such and such," it takes a very special sort of pedant to assume the former and not the latter. I'm glad I studied a field that isn't full of such masturbatory bullshit.
Or, they just took every piece of technology in his home whether it was related to this operation or not. Governments seem to like to just steal people's shit these days, call it "evidence gathering" and then never give it back regardless of legal outcome.
Two arbitrary cubes in 4D space will meet with probability 1.0.
Two arbitrary cubes don't necessary intersect even in 3D space, why the hell would they in 4D space? The word you are looking for is not "cube" -- more like "3 dimensional subspace."
If universes can physically interact with each other, can each really be called a "Universe"?
If they could not physically interact, what would be the point? If something can't be seen, measured, felt, etc then how can it even be said to exist?
No one who has predicted the end of the world has been right, to date.
In other news, you always find something in the last place you look, I mean, what's up with that?
I see, so you are against the "sync it then built it" sort of working model. You'd rather have more steps in the process. Okay... I guess.
No, we're moving toward awareness of the police state we are already living in.
Evidence of what? Evidence of him having videotaped officers? This makes as much sense as when the police arrest someone on the sole charge of "resisting arrest." He was resisting arrest. Why were you arresting him? For resisting arrest. Do they really think anyone buys that?
There is a nonzero probability that any person will murder also, so we should kill everyone. Nice try, troll.
Wow, your plan seems airtight. Please elaborate the portion where you explain how people who have been so "tagged" are able to find legitimate sources of income, so they do not return to crime.
So what's wrong with racial profiling if it accurately (e.g. passes statistical tests) for predicting crime rates in certain areas?
Because it is socially repugnant. A uniform penalty of death for all crimes would reduce recidivism to zero quite reliably too. Like racial profiling it is unacceptable to civilized peoples.
That is a poor criteria for "evidence". Check your filter for FPs often? Ever consider what those filters are costing you?
Nope, and I don't give a shit. Important communications are made in person, on the phone, or by letter.
You should. Your filters will not defeat spam; not now and not ever.
So... I should care about it because I should care about it. How convincing.
Just because it removes spam from your inbox does not mean it is working on the greater scale.
I find myself needing to repeat. The greater scale is not a concern of mine. If I want reliable private secure communication I have many methods at my disposal -- none of them are email. But if you feel like it, continue having a heart attack over the insecurity of inherently insecure technology.
the spammers will always find ways to get around the filter, or to obfuscate enough to make the filters cause more damage.
No they won't. Evidence: I have no spam in my inbox.
Spamming is an economic problem, and until we employ economic solutions, spamming will never truly be defeated.
I don't give a crap about "defeating" spam. I simply don't want any in my inbox. And I don't have any there. Let's see... I can go with a solution that works (spam filtering) or I can go with a "change the world" solution which more than likely involves government intervention in my life. Let me think about that.
Every time one of these stories pops somebody says that. And yet where are the stories about patents being overturned because of prior art? Maybe it happens but I never hear of it.
From TFA:
IPventure was granted its patent on May 3, 2011 and the suit was filed on July 5.
Two months between grant and lawsuit. That is NOT submarining.
Some microbes literally shit alcohol.
Such organisms consume food and excrete alcohol until the ambient concentration is too high for them to tolerate any longer. After years of selective breeding some yeasts have been produced that can tolerate up to about 22% ABV but it doesn't seem to go much higher than that.
How many days could you take a shit in your living room until you could no longer tolerate it? I doubt any amount of evolutionary pressure could enable you to swim in a diarrhea swimming pool.
Wikipedia. The encyclopedia anyone can edit. Except when you can't. Yet again proving that silly slogans have little to do with reality.
Friends tag your face with your name. Only since you're not a member, you can't untag it.
Why do you have "friends" like that? Here's an idea, walk up to this "friend" and punch him in the fucking nuts.
I'm really baffled at what a lot of people mean when they say "friend." How can somebody who is that disrespectful of your wishes be your friend? Why are you so promiscuous with your friendship?
This is important because today we have the situation where large corporations are claiming patents on inventions that have been common knowledge for fifty years or more.
You can't have it both ways. You consider some vague reference in a work of fiction to be an "invention" yet a clearly spelled-out and technically detailed list of claims is not worthy of the same title? If the latter is not an invention then don't make me die of laughter claiming some piece of sci-fi is, either. Seriously, what the fuck.
You can sign the patches and make it impossible to inject update packets straight into the botnet. A more plausible line of attack would be to find a traditional security vulnerability and exploit it.
That's not true.
What isn't true? The statement that if 11 people select a digit between 0 and 9, at least two people will share a digit? Or if 10001 people select a four-digit sequence, at least two will share a sequence? Because both of those statements are fucking obviously true.