..because net-nanny software is ALWAYS so damned successful at what it does, and there's absolutely NO way to circumvent it or uninstall it, right? I'll just be over here, laughing my ass off while China learns the hard way what the rest of the world already knows: it doesn't work.
Try to live in a desert without water and tell me that resources aren't important.
Hey, my next door neighbor has beer, and I'm too broke to buy any. I asked politely but he doesn't want to share it with me, so I'll go conk him on the head with a stick and TAKE a beer from him. So this is acceptable to you? Might always makes right? I'm not saying that it's always as simple as that, but you get politicians and diplomats involved with things, and it somehow GETS that simple.
Oh and by the way: I'll post in my own style, TYVM, and if you don't like it, tough; don't presume to instruct ME on what style to post in.:p
People would probably get on a whole lot better if they had some aliens to hate.
More than likely, yes, it certainly would give them some perspective! The only problem with that idea is that, from an outsider's perspective, it might appear that we're just behaving well because we've got company over, if you take my meaning. I'd prefer that we learn to get along for our own sake first, and not just for appearances. I do agree with you though: if everyone had incontrovertable PROOF that We Are Not Alone, then they might re-prioritize their thinking.
Try to live in a desert without water and tell me that resources aren't important.
Hey, my next door neighbor has beer, and I'm too broke to buy any. I asked politely but he doesn't want to share it with me, so I'll go conk him on the head with a stick and TAKE a beer from him.
Oh and by the way: I'll post in my own style, TYVM, and if you don't like it, tough; don't presume to instruct ME on what style to post in.:p
Really? I say you've lived a sheltered life then, my freind, and/or you don't read the news.. or you just aren't paying attention.
Oh and by the way, I find it ironic for someone from the Anonymous crowd accusing me of being a troll when I'm NOT posting as Anonymous.:p You don't like my opinions, then fine, but don't accuse me of being a troll just because of that.
Didn't say they were. If they aren't, then why would WE want to know them? Remember the movie Independance Day? Want to get THEIR attention???:p What if WE look like the aliens in Independance Day to some other alien race? What makes you think THEY would want to know US, then?
I propose a dynamic approach: learn as much as possible about them first. We may decide it would be disasterous to attempt contact, and that "playing dead" is the way to go. In any case we might discover that one approach will be better received than another; first impressions may make or break the situation. All that being said, I don't think the human race is anywhere near the point where we SHOULD make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization AT ALL. We're still just slightly smarter animals at heart, once you strip away the thin veneer of technology and what we laughingly call "civilization". We can't even get along with OURSELVES and our own differences let alone a race that didn't evolve here. We're bigoted, racist, and sexist: We can't decide, AS A RACE, whether we owe our existence to one supernatural being or another, or did we evolve? We make war on our neighbors over resources and things that matter even less than that. We treat people differently, sometimes even ATTACKING them, because their skin is a different color. We treat our females as second-class citizens. Furthermore we mistreat and mismanage the biosphere we live in, poisoning it with our industrial wastes, destroying parts of it out of ignorance or greed, or because it suits us to do so, and damn the consequences. Never mind US contacting THEM! I say that if they're out there, they're AVOIDING and IGNORING us, because we're not worth knowing yet! Can't blame them if that's the case. Oh, and go ahead and mod me down to "-1, Troll"; I'll understand because there is no "-1, Uncomfortable Truth" button to use.
Put together a small, low-powered, skeletal machine (Atom processor or similar) to run their nonsense software on, then install 3proxy on the machine as well, and proxy your REAL computer through the low-powered machine. They can scan that one all they want and they won't find anything except an untouched installation of Windows, meanwhile you can browse all you want with no fear of your real machine being scanned. If your network traffic itself is a problem, then I'd recommend a commercial proxy or commercial VPN account.
They can't control the production and sales of games OUTSIDE of Germany. People who want them will just order them from elsewhere. What are they going to do, make it ILLEGAL to own games like that? Stupid and pointless. They should spend their time and energy solving REAL problems.
Actually you're not cynical enough. Children are not the motivation, they're the excuse. Think of it as a soft terror-tactic: pay us $0.15 per month, or little Timmy will become the victim of online predators! EVERYBODY PANIC! It's basic social engineering: If you can panic people, make them give in to fear, their higher brain functions turn off; then you've GOT them.
So they want to sell only a LICENSE for a game, which is not transferrable? Screw them! We're not talking about a $10,000USD business software package here, we're talking about a fuckin' GAME. Greedy fucks.
Is she old enough to be responsible with a cellphone? Just do that. If you want to know where she is, you call her, and if something unexpected happens she can call you. Simple.
My apologies for the previous post, knee-jerk reaction.. I've searched Google News and I can't find ANYTHING about this on any reliable news source (I don't count O'Reilly or anybody's blog, thank-you-very-much). I think this a hoax, Slashdot, and I wouldn't get upset about it until there is some news from a reliable source.
THIS is the kind of nonsense we have to stand up against, damnit! How is it that DHS can do something right out in the open that a private citizen can't do without being arrested and convicted as a sex offender???!? It's complete and utter bullshit and we have to say no to it!!!
I'm not terribly surprised, really.
Theoretically, given the availability of replacement parts, you can just keep replacing parts on a machine ad infinitum, and it will continue functioning; if you do everything right, it's performance will always be at the level it was when the machine was brand-new. I have practiced this to a certain level myself -- much to the horror and amazement of most of the people in my social orbit. The biggest drawback to this philosophy is that it's usually not cost-effective. I had an old car that I eventually replaced the engine, transmission, and that I spent about $1000 and an entire weekend rebuilding the front suspension and steering, and given time would have gotten it re-painted as well; I spent several times in excess of what the Blue-Book value of the car was. It would have served me well for many years afterwards if it wasn't for one single accident that completely totalled it. Naturally I got less than $1000 from the insurance company for my trouble; my time and expense was worth nothing in the real world. All that being said, I feel that practicing this philosophy of renewal-rather-than-replace makes much more sense for one-of-a-kind items like a space station. After all, look at aircraft: there are still 747's in service with major airlines, and the US Armed Forces keep planes and tanks rebuilt and upgraded for decades. It only really seems to be the consumer culture that has been trained by the corporate world to believe that "new is better than old" and that you should replace rather than rebuild, and they design and produce consumer goods with that short-sighted philosophy in mind.
So you're just corroborating what I've been saying for years now, that as a species we're not very 'evolved' at all, and that the average IQ is actually dropping instead of going up. Thanks so much for that, really effing makes my Friday for me.:-/
Fine. Whatever. Doesn't make it right. I don't give a flying FUCK if they fire me, I'll make trouble for them if they did. I'm not going to knuckle under just because they can "fire me". If nobody stands up for their rights then you effectively forfeit those rights. Fuck them, and the fucking horse they rode in on. I don't even WANT to work for a company that has a policy like that, and if enough quality people stand up to it as well companies WILL DROP IT because they'll find themselves short of quality people to hire.
TFA is more than a little light on details, likely because there aren't any yet, but an obvious question: What do they do at night? Is this a daytime-only train service? Or do they plan on building power-storage as part of the system?
On the one hand, I applaud them as Magnificent Bastards for devising a plan by which they can stick it to the big corps.. but on the other hand, I wonder whether it's really wise at this point to poke them with a stick like that.
I would think that it's full name would be: "Lala I'M NOT LISTENING!" because that's about how well received something like this is going to be. Additionally, they're forgetting the immutable fact: Whatever it is, it'll be cracked within a matter of DAYS of going live. Not to worry though: NOBODY is going to get roped into this shit. MEMO TO MUSIC INDUSTRY: GIVE UP already!
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..because net-nanny software is ALWAYS so damned successful at what it does, and there's absolutely NO way to circumvent it or uninstall it, right? I'll just be over here, laughing my ass off while China learns the hard way what the rest of the world already knows: it doesn't work.
Try to live in a desert without water and tell me that resources aren't important.
Hey, my next door neighbor has beer, and I'm too broke to buy any. I asked politely but he doesn't want to share it with me, so I'll go conk him on the head with a stick and TAKE a beer from him. So this is acceptable to you? Might always makes right? I'm not saying that it's always as simple as that, but you get politicians and diplomats involved with things, and it somehow GETS that simple. :p
Oh and by the way: I'll post in my own style, TYVM, and if you don't like it, tough; don't presume to instruct ME on what style to post in.
People would probably get on a whole lot better if they had some aliens to hate.
More than likely, yes, it certainly would give them some perspective! The only problem with that idea is that, from an outsider's perspective, it might appear that we're just behaving well because we've got company over, if you take my meaning. I'd prefer that we learn to get along for our own sake first, and not just for appearances. I do agree with you though: if everyone had incontrovertable PROOF that We Are Not Alone, then they might re-prioritize their thinking.
Try to live in a desert without water and tell me that resources aren't important.
Hey, my next door neighbor has beer, and I'm too broke to buy any. I asked politely but he doesn't want to share it with me, so I'll go conk him on the head with a stick and TAKE a beer from him. Oh and by the way: I'll post in my own style, TYVM, and if you don't like it, tough; don't presume to instruct ME on what style to post in. :p
I have lived in the southern US all my life..
Really? I say you've lived a sheltered life then, my freind, and/or you don't read the news.. or you just aren't paying attention. :p You don't like my opinions, then fine, but don't accuse me of being a troll just because of that.
Oh and by the way, I find it ironic for someone from the Anonymous crowd accusing me of being a troll when I'm NOT posting as Anonymous.
What makes you think they're so much better?
Didn't say they were. If they aren't, then why would WE want to know them? Remember the movie Independance Day? Want to get THEIR attention??? :p What if WE look like the aliens in Independance Day to some other alien race? What makes you think THEY would want to know US, then?
I propose a dynamic approach: learn as much as possible about them first. We may decide it would be disasterous to attempt contact, and that "playing dead" is the way to go. In any case we might discover that one approach will be better received than another; first impressions may make or break the situation.
All that being said, I don't think the human race is anywhere near the point where we SHOULD make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization AT ALL. We're still just slightly smarter animals at heart, once you strip away the thin veneer of technology and what we laughingly call "civilization". We can't even get along with OURSELVES and our own differences let alone a race that didn't evolve here. We're bigoted, racist, and sexist: We can't decide, AS A RACE, whether we owe our existence to one supernatural being or another, or did we evolve? We make war on our neighbors over resources and things that matter even less than that. We treat people differently, sometimes even ATTACKING them, because their skin is a different color. We treat our females as second-class citizens. Furthermore we mistreat and mismanage the biosphere we live in, poisoning it with our industrial wastes, destroying parts of it out of ignorance or greed, or because it suits us to do so, and damn the consequences.
Never mind US contacting THEM! I say that if they're out there, they're AVOIDING and IGNORING us, because we're not worth knowing yet! Can't blame them if that's the case.
Oh, and go ahead and mod me down to "-1, Troll"; I'll understand because there is no "-1, Uncomfortable Truth" button to use.
Put together a small, low-powered, skeletal machine (Atom processor or similar) to run their nonsense software on, then install 3proxy on the machine as well, and proxy your REAL computer through the low-powered machine. They can scan that one all they want and they won't find anything except an untouched installation of Windows, meanwhile you can browse all you want with no fear of your real machine being scanned. If your network traffic itself is a problem, then I'd recommend a commercial proxy or commercial VPN account.
I've recited the mantra a million times: You can't stop the signal, Mal!
They can't control the production and sales of games OUTSIDE of Germany. People who want them will just order them from elsewhere. What are they going to do, make it ILLEGAL to own games like that? Stupid and pointless. They should spend their time and energy solving REAL problems.
Actually you're not cynical enough. Children are not the motivation, they're the excuse. Think of it as a soft terror-tactic: pay us $0.15 per month, or little Timmy will become the victim of online predators! EVERYBODY PANIC! It's basic social engineering: If you can panic people, make them give in to fear, their higher brain functions turn off; then you've GOT them.
So they want to sell only a LICENSE for a game, which is not transferrable? Screw them! We're not talking about a $10,000USD business software package here, we're talking about a fuckin' GAME. Greedy fucks.
AvantGo will transition from a mobile web service, to an SMS advertising and content delivery system
Just what we all need: someone spamming our goddamned cellphones with junk SMS. Die in a fire, AvantGo.
Is she old enough to be responsible with a cellphone? Just do that. If you want to know where she is, you call her, and if something unexpected happens she can call you. Simple.
Oh and by the way, to the ASSHOLE who modded me down as a 'troll': FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.
My apologies for the previous post, knee-jerk reaction.. I've searched Google News and I can't find ANYTHING about this on any reliable news source (I don't count O'Reilly or anybody's blog, thank-you-very-much). I think this a hoax, Slashdot, and I wouldn't get upset about it until there is some news from a reliable source.
THIS is the kind of nonsense we have to stand up against, damnit! How is it that DHS can do something right out in the open that a private citizen can't do without being arrested and convicted as a sex offender???!? It's complete and utter bullshit and we have to say no to it!!!
I'm not terribly surprised, really.
Theoretically, given the availability of replacement parts, you can just keep replacing parts on a machine ad infinitum, and it will continue functioning; if you do everything right, it's performance will always be at the level it was when the machine was brand-new. I have practiced this to a certain level myself -- much to the horror and amazement of most of the people in my social orbit. The biggest drawback to this philosophy is that it's usually not cost-effective. I had an old car that I eventually replaced the engine, transmission, and that I spent about $1000 and an entire weekend rebuilding the front suspension and steering, and given time would have gotten it re-painted as well; I spent several times in excess of what the Blue-Book value of the car was. It would have served me well for many years afterwards if it wasn't for one single accident that completely totalled it. Naturally I got less than $1000 from the insurance company for my trouble; my time and expense was worth nothing in the real world. All that being said, I feel that practicing this philosophy of renewal-rather-than-replace makes much more sense for one-of-a-kind items like a space station. After all, look at aircraft: there are still 747's in service with major airlines, and the US Armed Forces keep planes and tanks rebuilt and upgraded for decades. It only really seems to be the consumer culture that has been trained by the corporate world to believe that "new is better than old" and that you should replace rather than rebuild, and they design and produce consumer goods with that short-sighted philosophy in mind.
So you're just corroborating what I've been saying for years now, that as a species we're not very 'evolved' at all, and that the average IQ is actually dropping instead of going up. Thanks so much for that, really effing makes my Friday for me. :-/
Fine. Whatever. Doesn't make it right. I don't give a flying FUCK if they fire me, I'll make trouble for them if they did. I'm not going to knuckle under just because they can "fire me". If nobody stands up for their rights then you effectively forfeit those rights. Fuck them, and the fucking horse they rode in on. I don't even WANT to work for a company that has a policy like that, and if enough quality people stand up to it as well companies WILL DROP IT because they'll find themselves short of quality people to hire.
There's no way I'd agree to something like that, I have a right to freedom of speech!
TFA is more than a little light on details, likely because there aren't any yet, but an obvious question: What do they do at night? Is this a daytime-only train service? Or do they plan on building power-storage as part of the system?
What's the point in having a stick if you can't poke something with it?
Because they have a BIGGER STICK. :p
On the one hand, I applaud them as Magnificent Bastards for devising a plan by which they can stick it to the big corps.. but on the other hand, I wonder whether it's really wise at this point to poke them with a stick like that.
I would think that it's full name would be: "Lala I'M NOT LISTENING!" because that's about how well received something like this is going to be. Additionally, they're forgetting the immutable fact: Whatever it is, it'll be cracked within a matter of DAYS of going live. Not to worry though: NOBODY is going to get roped into this shit. MEMO TO MUSIC INDUSTRY: GIVE UP already!