What about change is good in this case? Is the ribbon a better interface? I use it at work and I use office 2k3 at home (no ribbon). At work some things are really easy. Great. At home, all my menus are arranged in the exact order I like them because I've been using Excel for a LONG time. Even better. The ribbon makes page layout really easy, but fucks up text editing. The bottom line is that even if you don't have a problem with change, the ribbon isn't really an improvement, it's just DIFFERENT. Which is fine, some day it might turn out to be an improvement. But in the meantime, that means that MS office applications, and file explorer use an ENTIRELY different menu system than pretty much everything else on earth.
Used to be, you could swap back and forth through document editors (word, wordperfect, wordstar, etcetcetc) and the menus were all pretty much the same. Sure some stuff moved around a bit, but it was rational. If you wanted to save, you went to file. If you wanted to change fonts, you went to "format". The menus all worked the same, so they were easy to adjust to. Now Office has this ribbon thing and if you aren't a regular user you are pretty much going to look at it, and call it what it is, bullshit, where the fuck is the menu? What do you mean there isn't one? WTF?
The ribbon is a paradigm shift, but is it an improvement? That remains to be seen. It's not as if MS has a good track record innovating...
More importantly, it goes hand in hand with fatal car accidents. Actually, any way you look at it, your self professed driving habit is pushing for automation of driving. Why? Because assholes that can't see the big picture think it's fine to cut and weave and generally make a pain of themselves. Meanwhile, perfectly normal and reasonable drivers (I'm cutting you some slack here), pick up the attitude that "well if I don't, someone else will...." and presto! significant portions of the driving public are driving like morons.
The way I see it, the first company to offer a fully autonomous driving vehicle capable of passing a road test in any state (for license) wins all the money on earth. You will instantly have two classes of vehilce on the road. And once a significant portion of the cars on the road are capable of Auto-drive, you pass some laws like Rush Hour Auto Drive only, and Major highways go "auto only" Auto-drive that is. From this point forward, the cascade effect takes over. Insurance premiums plummet, fuel savings skyrocket, traffic congestion apparently disappears (with minor exceptions for terrible road design), auto fatalities plummet, the economy as a whole saves BILLIONS per year SOLELY on gasoline and auto repair/replacement. Of course, this is the rose tinted version. It doesn't include the lobbying/marketing/hysteria that you can expect to try and counter self driving automobiles. Plenty of people will say "I'm a better driver than that damn machine". Plenty of companies will try and make auto-drive illegal, mainly your insurance company. Because they can see the research and projections, auto driving cars don't make mistakes, they don't get into high speed wrecks and they don't incur thousands in damages from 5mph impacts in parking lots. Which means that insurance companies, car repair companies and whoever makes all those spare parts are going to fight this tooth and nail.
It's fairly clear you haven't got the slightest idea what you are talking about.
Your computer, the internet, refrigeration, cell phones, GPS, it's all based on the space program. The first IC was created by Texas Instruments, with NASA's Apollo program as the customer. Refrigeration in self contained systems was the result of ICBM research (you know, those big ass things they launch satellites with?), gotta keep that cryogenic gas cool now. I think I'll just leave off here before I have some kind of stroke. Maybe, though, you could google around a bit and inform yourself about all the wonderful things that NASA has brought to your life.
Furthermore, how is it that supposedly rational, educated peoples such as the populace of/. are unaware of the benefits of ANY kind of cutting edge research? Especially if it actually includes DOING anything, you know, like reaching other solar bodies. Do you live in such a vacuum that you can't fathom the benefit to dozens of fields of research?
When you were typing this out, it didn't occur to you that you just described the ISS and the transportation system used to staff it? Or is there some reason that a habitat in space, manned 24/7 for years doesn't qualify?
Yes it does. Like any other process that relies on masses of essentially unprotected machines, viruses/worms don't have the overhead to spare to include port hopping/scanning/anti-blocking systems. So when a new virus comes around, like this one, it very likely has the default port hard wired into itself. Why? Because it takes 4bits (give or take a bit) and hits 97% of all (RDP capable) machines on the net, while including a port scanner and the related intelligence / anti-security obfuscation and anti-detection would have required a bit more, and still only increased your hit rate by 3%, at best. Furthermore, this entire attack is based on weak passwords, which imply a lack of systemic security, which of course means default ports.
Ultimately, what follows is that if your RDP port is not the default port, you have an excellent chance of missing out on this worm entirely. Therefore, security through obscurity scores a win.
Um... so you wrote that with the implied assumption that that USA will in fact pay back those debts... something it has failed to do for the last 200 years or so. I'm just curious, you see, I'm not a math guy, so I'm just curious where you think the money to pay those debts is going to come from? Also while answering that question, I want you to find the GDP of the USA and compare it, on a graph, to the deficit go back at least 10 years.
What you will find, is that the USA economy is built on the principle of growth. A LOT of growth. In fact, growth that is utterly and completely unsustainable. Furthermore, the budget in effect right now, assumes that the money to pay off the debt is raises will come in a future generation/budget. It won't. It never has, and short of massive cuts, it never will (we've never cut more than 2% in a fiscal year). And arguably, any cut deep enough to really matter is going to fubar the economy so bad we would actually be worse off. (like taking 50% out of the military budget).
Now, like I said, I'm not a math guy... but I can read a projection just like anyone. The projections say that the USA will NEVER pay off that debt. In fact, any realistic person looking at international debt/income/payments would have to assume that the ENTIRE scheme is a ponzi scam. There is NO PLACE ON EARTH where the money to pay off international debt can come from, without creating A) more ACTUAL debt or B) economic restructuring.
This is right up there with "640k is enough for anyone" and other similar statements. Also, are you aware that the WHOLE of human recorded history shows you to be wrong? (how many libraries of congress is that now anyway?)
By that logic, the United States has no valid opinion on anything because large portions of the population believe in Sky Wizards. Both fan death and "god" are baseless, irrational and superstitious. What makes your world view more valid than theirs?
Unless you are a GM, you can't make another anything by just hitting a key on your keyboard. Due to abuse, even those powers are carefully monitored.
The marginal cost of any single item in the EVE universe... is roughly 1 super computer cluster, and 10 years of pay for a development team. Because that's what it took to get here. If you have the ability to bang out a new EVE cluster, populate it, breath life into that population, and then just pop new ships and items into being... well you go right on ahead and do so. You can reduce the ongoing costs to a trifle and pretend that makes the marginal cost of any (virtual) item zero, but that is a logically fallacy, because it assumes the existence of EVE and the player base and history, all of which had a cost and still does. If you want to debate real world versus "fake" money... head on over to congress or the house of commons, they have been debating fake money for weeks.
Did you know that the currency in EVE is backed by the EXACT same thing the currency in the united states is backed by? That's right, nothing what so ever. The promise of a government, that's it. It has value because a significant group of people say it does. Is this starting to sound familiar yet?
I want you to consider this a helpful post, not bashing on you.
The reason you are bored is because you aren't playing EVE yet. You are just playing in the baby area, with the toys we left there to keep the kids from pissing us off. I'm entirely serious. If you have been playing EVE for more than 6 months, and you haven't gotten involved in some form or another of PVP, then you are denying yourself the entire POINT of EVE. Not to whip out the old stereotypes, but carebearing has never really been the point of EVE, despite the fact that CCP recognizes it as a major contingent of the player base.
I've been playing EVE for a long time. (I'll spare you the self important listing of badassery). It seems to me that the reason EVE stands apart isn't its intricate market, or massive universe (although that helps), what really sets EVE apart is that you can actually BUILD something. I don't mean a space mining outpost attached to a moon like baby to a tit. I mean empires. I've seen more than a few come and go, and each one changed the landscape. Sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad. There are entire periods of EVE history where massive portions of the player base were repressed by overly powerful empires. (Moo, for instance) But back to my point, EVE lets the players build an empire... and then, just like the real world, you have to defend it, expand it, make it righteous, or, if it should not stand, if it is not good enough you can tear it down.
That might sound overly romantic, because aren't we talking about spreadsheets in space? Maybe. I'm sure it's a matter of perspective. My perspective has been entertaining. I watched one man pull off a coupe and take down a 5k player alliance. Funny what putting the enemy jump scouts into your gang and opening a cyno can do. (and if you play eve and don't know what I mean, you are missing out)
I know not everyone wants to deal with the 'people' in EVE, and even less the alliance politics, but if you aren't involved, you'll never be intrigued, and you'll never have the fate of thousands resting on F1-F8. If you play the game, you should not deny yourself this experience.
My understanding is that centrifugal forces, combined with ION engines (or similar) would keep the satellite station up and in place. Of course, this sort of design requires the cable be nearly twice as long as it actually needs to be, and sending the other half out to suck up weight (through centrifugal force). Or even anchoring some dark matter (whatever is heavy enough) to the far end which we send out to high orbit. Also, I think you seem to be under a mistaken impression about the amount of force generated by sending off a "tail" of the cable into high orbit. Especially with any weight on the end of it. Now, I'm certain, through some simple experiments here on earth, that such a system works just fine. Ever used a Bolas? Anyway, from my ameture perspective, I'd assume that your biggest problem would be the "tail" either going faster or slower than the satellite station itself, which eventually leads to the cable snapping back, which, presumably, would be unpleasant.
If, as you suggest, it would be paid for by a large consortium of companies and governments... I think you'll find that Mars is not the target, but Jupiter is. I can almost taste the hydrocarbons already.
You aparently aren't aware that the police are taught that they are NOT ALLOWED to shoot to disarm/wound. Did you know that? They are actually told, in exactly these words, that they are not allowed to shoot to wound, or to disarm. They are ONLY allowed to shoot to protect their own life, or that of someone else. When they do shoot, they are required by the law and their job to shoot center mass.
The reasons for this are not particularly appetizing. Because these rules exist to limit legal liability. Can you imagine the lawsuit that comes when you've crippled a "suspect" with a couple shots to the legs? Your IAB rep can, and he's going to ream your ass and then run you off the force, in the slight hope that the city, police force, and DA's office can avoid getting named in the suit.
So no, the cops CAN'T actually shoot to disarm/wound someone. They simply aren't allowed. Nor are they trained for it.
Do you remember what the protests are about? Injustice? MURDER? You don't know do you? Because somehow, this became all about how some people asking for change in their world have disrupted your commute to work. Are you for real? Are you actually the self serving, self-centered little cunt you come off as? I know the Bay Area breeds guys like you, but I was kinda hoping you all (as a group) had enough sense to know when to keep your mouth shut. I guess not.
So, a BART employee murders a guy in cold blood, and the best you can come up with is "these asshole protesters better not screw up the trains schedule on monday". Well, I could spend the next several hundred words explaining where you went wrong and why this entire comment thread should be viewed as self serving trash... but it won't convince you or anyone else. One begins to wonder if the problem isn't the government, but in fact the people.
You are wrong. At least in California and Oregon and Washington, you are required to carry a state issued ID card at all times. Driving, walking, whatever, you are supposed to have a state ID card. I'm also pretty sure many many other states feel the same way.
Oh, and that bit about not being obliged to present your ID to police... good luck with that. I'd say let me know how it goes, but you'll be in lock up so you won't be able to. In fact, in most states, the ONLY thing you are obliged to do in regard to a police officer is identify yourself.
You mean like viral packages being inserted into the world wide internet so that they could seek and destroy uranium enriching centrifuges? The real world applications of a "cyber-war" are very very serious, and if you don't know that, HERE on this website, well then we are all fucked. Please, oh god please, tell me you don't run any infrastructure?
Your kiddy land concepts of so called "cyber-war" (the name is awful) are antiquated and foolhardy. In the last 6 months, we've seen dozens of individual cases of "hacking" affecting the real world. We've seen the release of secret documents, the uncovering of conspiracies, and the widespread disruption of commerce. That's just the tip of the iceberg, and the people here should know that. This storm is just getting started.
You say that like anyone outside the English department at your university would care even a little bit about a minor grammatical mistake in a factual article. Also, you probably caused some butthurt from some editor/contributor that thinks he actually knows how to write in the English language. (they almost never do)
The really scary part is that wasn't written as an overly long pun joke, like it would have been on any other forum on the internet. No, these guys are very seriously discussing fermented shit, and it's use as an intoxicant.:boggle:
They don't have to outspend the other lobbyists. All they have to do is start an information war. Google has the talent and infrastructure to plant any idea they want directly into the collective subconscious. Even better, their system is already regionalized, so it'd be easy as pie to keep the rhetoric in line with local politics and social views.
In case you don't have some idea what that looks like... imagine that every search results page has a paid ad the top from google (or shills) and that ad always talks about IP law, patent reform, getting involved, sending this form letter to your congressman, etc etc etc etc. Throw in a dozen community driven discussion sites (spawn them), and send in a couple "moderators" to keep the discussion going where you want it to....
Yes, it will work. No, of course you don't like thinking about this, because you realize that it's probable it's already being done on some scale or another.
I'm sure that a thorough search would show more than a few patents in IBM's vault that could be used as bludgeons against Apple and MS... but you have to remember, IBM's heyday was before the perfect storm of patent bullshit we have now. Back when engineers and programmers were busy actually building things. Things that did stuff. Stuff that people wanted to pay money to have done for them. It's an archaic business model by modern standards.
You are out of your mind. Don't take offense, I'm not trolling. But you are (insane, or trolling). We are not yet looking at the last generation of video game consoles. We actually already had that one. PS2 and Xbox were the last generation of "real" consoles. The PS3 and to a much greater extent, the Xbox360 are media consoles, not game consoles. This is not an accident. Back when MS got in the game, everyone was confused. Why would a computer software maker want to make a video game console? MS wasn't even big in games then. So why? "To put a Microsoft computer in every living room" Quoted straight from the top. They have been wildly successful too. Obviously they haven't reached every living room, but they have a good fat chunk, importantly, the chunk with disposable income, and a drive to spend that income on multi-media. (masses---opiates, etc etc).
We are not going to see a lot of media consoles replaced by dedicated computer systems. We just aren't. Again, why? Because it's too complicated. Why was the iphone originally popular among a crowd of phones that outperformed it at everything? Because it was dead fucking simple to use. Your grandma can pick it up, and 20 minutes later, be able to schedule a meeting, make a call, send an email and play with a pissed off avian. It takes nothing more, nothing less. Unless a (new) major OEM starts building HTPC systems with USABLE interfaces and AUTOMATIC everything else, then HTPCs will stay a niche for power users and people that like to fiddle.
I'm pretty much just going to point and laugh at you about the whole "phones will be the new game platform". If you think that's true, then you and I don't agree on what constitutes a gaming experience. For me, my phone is just a tiny itty bitty bit underpowered next to my 3x i7 systems with SLI running out to 6 monitors. IT'S A COMMAND CENTER! And in fact it is, I command a squadron of real people from 5-200 in numbers, every day from there. Give me a ring on my phone (which rings on my computer screen, and ties into my already active multi-channel voip system) when you've got a pocket sized version. In fact, I'm pretty sure my phone can't even handle all the coms channels that I run daily, much less the rest of the game. But there is an ap that lets me log in and chat from my phone, that's neat.
Yes, I play EVEonline, in case anyone here didn't guess already.
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What about change is good in this case? Is the ribbon a better interface? I use it at work and I use office 2k3 at home (no ribbon). At work some things are really easy. Great. At home, all my menus are arranged in the exact order I like them because I've been using Excel for a LONG time. Even better. The ribbon makes page layout really easy, but fucks up text editing. The bottom line is that even if you don't have a problem with change, the ribbon isn't really an improvement, it's just DIFFERENT. Which is fine, some day it might turn out to be an improvement. But in the meantime, that means that MS office applications, and file explorer use an ENTIRELY different menu system than pretty much everything else on earth.
Used to be, you could swap back and forth through document editors (word, wordperfect, wordstar, etcetcetc) and the menus were all pretty much the same. Sure some stuff moved around a bit, but it was rational. If you wanted to save, you went to file. If you wanted to change fonts, you went to "format". The menus all worked the same, so they were easy to adjust to. Now Office has this ribbon thing and if you aren't a regular user you are pretty much going to look at it, and call it what it is, bullshit, where the fuck is the menu? What do you mean there isn't one? WTF?
The ribbon is a paradigm shift, but is it an improvement? That remains to be seen. It's not as if MS has a good track record innovating...
More importantly, it goes hand in hand with fatal car accidents. Actually, any way you look at it, your self professed driving habit is pushing for automation of driving. Why? Because assholes that can't see the big picture think it's fine to cut and weave and generally make a pain of themselves. Meanwhile, perfectly normal and reasonable drivers (I'm cutting you some slack here), pick up the attitude that "well if I don't, someone else will...." and presto! significant portions of the driving public are driving like morons.
The way I see it, the first company to offer a fully autonomous driving vehicle capable of passing a road test in any state (for license) wins all the money on earth. You will instantly have two classes of vehilce on the road. And once a significant portion of the cars on the road are capable of Auto-drive, you pass some laws like Rush Hour Auto Drive only, and Major highways go "auto only" Auto-drive that is. From this point forward, the cascade effect takes over. Insurance premiums plummet, fuel savings skyrocket, traffic congestion apparently disappears (with minor exceptions for terrible road design), auto fatalities plummet, the economy as a whole saves BILLIONS per year SOLELY on gasoline and auto repair/replacement. Of course, this is the rose tinted version. It doesn't include the lobbying/marketing/hysteria that you can expect to try and counter self driving automobiles. Plenty of people will say "I'm a better driver than that damn machine". Plenty of companies will try and make auto-drive illegal, mainly your insurance company. Because they can see the research and projections, auto driving cars don't make mistakes, they don't get into high speed wrecks and they don't incur thousands in damages from 5mph impacts in parking lots. Which means that insurance companies, car repair companies and whoever makes all those spare parts are going to fight this tooth and nail.
It's fairly clear you haven't got the slightest idea what you are talking about.
/. are unaware of the benefits of ANY kind of cutting edge research? Especially if it actually includes DOING anything, you know, like reaching other solar bodies. Do you live in such a vacuum that you can't fathom the benefit to dozens of fields of research?
Your computer, the internet, refrigeration, cell phones, GPS, it's all based on the space program. The first IC was created by Texas Instruments, with NASA's Apollo program as the customer. Refrigeration in self contained systems was the result of ICBM research (you know, those big ass things they launch satellites with?), gotta keep that cryogenic gas cool now. I think I'll just leave off here before I have some kind of stroke. Maybe, though, you could google around a bit and inform yourself about all the wonderful things that NASA has brought to your life.
Furthermore, how is it that supposedly rational, educated peoples such as the populace of
When you were typing this out, it didn't occur to you that you just described the ISS and the transportation system used to staff it? Or is there some reason that a habitat in space, manned 24/7 for years doesn't qualify?
Yes it does. Like any other process that relies on masses of essentially unprotected machines, viruses/worms don't have the overhead to spare to include port hopping/scanning/anti-blocking systems. So when a new virus comes around, like this one, it very likely has the default port hard wired into itself. Why? Because it takes 4bits (give or take a bit) and hits 97% of all (RDP capable) machines on the net, while including a port scanner and the related intelligence / anti-security obfuscation and anti-detection would have required a bit more, and still only increased your hit rate by 3%, at best. Furthermore, this entire attack is based on weak passwords, which imply a lack of systemic security, which of course means default ports.
Ultimately, what follows is that if your RDP port is not the default port, you have an excellent chance of missing out on this worm entirely. Therefore, security through obscurity scores a win.
Um... so you wrote that with the implied assumption that that USA will in fact pay back those debts... something it has failed to do for the last 200 years or so. I'm just curious, you see, I'm not a math guy, so I'm just curious where you think the money to pay those debts is going to come from? Also while answering that question, I want you to find the GDP of the USA and compare it, on a graph, to the deficit go back at least 10 years.
What you will find, is that the USA economy is built on the principle of growth. A LOT of growth. In fact, growth that is utterly and completely unsustainable. Furthermore, the budget in effect right now, assumes that the money to pay off the debt is raises will come in a future generation/budget. It won't. It never has, and short of massive cuts, it never will (we've never cut more than 2% in a fiscal year). And arguably, any cut deep enough to really matter is going to fubar the economy so bad we would actually be worse off. (like taking 50% out of the military budget).
Now, like I said, I'm not a math guy... but I can read a projection just like anyone. The projections say that the USA will NEVER pay off that debt. In fact, any realistic person looking at international debt/income/payments would have to assume that the ENTIRE scheme is a ponzi scam. There is NO PLACE ON EARTH where the money to pay off international debt can come from, without creating A) more ACTUAL debt or B) economic restructuring.
GAH! I would kill for mod points today. MOD: FUNNY!!!
"At some point it does indeed stop increasing."
This is right up there with "640k is enough for anyone" and other similar statements. Also, are you aware that the WHOLE of human recorded history shows you to be wrong? (how many libraries of congress is that now anyway?)
Except that the capture device is BEHIND the screen not in front of it. Was that really a difficult leap for you guys to make?
By that logic, the United States has no valid opinion on anything because large portions of the population believe in Sky Wizards. Both fan death and "god" are baseless, irrational and superstitious. What makes your world view more valid than theirs?
Unless you are a GM, you can't make another anything by just hitting a key on your keyboard. Due to abuse, even those powers are carefully monitored.
The marginal cost of any single item in the EVE universe... is roughly 1 super computer cluster, and 10 years of pay for a development team. Because that's what it took to get here. If you have the ability to bang out a new EVE cluster, populate it, breath life into that population, and then just pop new ships and items into being... well you go right on ahead and do so. You can reduce the ongoing costs to a trifle and pretend that makes the marginal cost of any (virtual) item zero, but that is a logically fallacy, because it assumes the existence of EVE and the player base and history, all of which had a cost and still does. If you want to debate real world versus "fake" money... head on over to congress or the house of commons, they have been debating fake money for weeks.
Did you know that the currency in EVE is backed by the EXACT same thing the currency in the united states is backed by? That's right, nothing what so ever. The promise of a government, that's it. It has value because a significant group of people say it does. Is this starting to sound familiar yet?
The pirates can only take what you bring out into space with you. The white collar criminals take everything you left back at home.
I want you to consider this a helpful post, not bashing on you.
The reason you are bored is because you aren't playing EVE yet. You are just playing in the baby area, with the toys we left there to keep the kids from pissing us off. I'm entirely serious. If you have been playing EVE for more than 6 months, and you haven't gotten involved in some form or another of PVP, then you are denying yourself the entire POINT of EVE. Not to whip out the old stereotypes, but carebearing has never really been the point of EVE, despite the fact that CCP recognizes it as a major contingent of the player base.
I've been playing EVE for a long time. (I'll spare you the self important listing of badassery). It seems to me that the reason EVE stands apart isn't its intricate market, or massive universe (although that helps), what really sets EVE apart is that you can actually BUILD something. I don't mean a space mining outpost attached to a moon like baby to a tit. I mean empires. I've seen more than a few come and go, and each one changed the landscape. Sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad. There are entire periods of EVE history where massive portions of the player base were repressed by overly powerful empires. (Moo, for instance) But back to my point, EVE lets the players build an empire... and then, just like the real world, you have to defend it, expand it, make it righteous, or, if it should not stand, if it is not good enough you can tear it down.
That might sound overly romantic, because aren't we talking about spreadsheets in space? Maybe. I'm sure it's a matter of perspective. My perspective has been entertaining. I watched one man pull off a coupe and take down a 5k player alliance. Funny what putting the enemy jump scouts into your gang and opening a cyno can do. (and if you play eve and don't know what I mean, you are missing out)
I know not everyone wants to deal with the 'people' in EVE, and even less the alliance politics, but if you aren't involved, you'll never be intrigued, and you'll never have the fate of thousands resting on F1-F8. If you play the game, you should not deny yourself this experience.
My understanding is that centrifugal forces, combined with ION engines (or similar) would keep the satellite station up and in place. Of course, this sort of design requires the cable be nearly twice as long as it actually needs to be, and sending the other half out to suck up weight (through centrifugal force). Or even anchoring some dark matter (whatever is heavy enough) to the far end which we send out to high orbit. Also, I think you seem to be under a mistaken impression about the amount of force generated by sending off a "tail" of the cable into high orbit. Especially with any weight on the end of it. Now, I'm certain, through some simple experiments here on earth, that such a system works just fine. Ever used a Bolas? Anyway, from my ameture perspective, I'd assume that your biggest problem would be the "tail" either going faster or slower than the satellite station itself, which eventually leads to the cable snapping back, which, presumably, would be unpleasant.
If, as you suggest, it would be paid for by a large consortium of companies and governments... I think you'll find that Mars is not the target, but Jupiter is. I can almost taste the hydrocarbons already.
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.
You aparently aren't aware that the police are taught that they are NOT ALLOWED to shoot to disarm/wound. Did you know that? They are actually told, in exactly these words, that they are not allowed to shoot to wound, or to disarm. They are ONLY allowed to shoot to protect their own life, or that of someone else. When they do shoot, they are required by the law and their job to shoot center mass.
The reasons for this are not particularly appetizing. Because these rules exist to limit legal liability. Can you imagine the lawsuit that comes when you've crippled a "suspect" with a couple shots to the legs? Your IAB rep can, and he's going to ream your ass and then run you off the force, in the slight hope that the city, police force, and DA's office can avoid getting named in the suit.
So no, the cops CAN'T actually shoot to disarm/wound someone. They simply aren't allowed. Nor are they trained for it.
Do you remember what the protests are about? Injustice? MURDER? You don't know do you? Because somehow, this became all about how some people asking for change in their world have disrupted your commute to work. Are you for real? Are you actually the self serving, self-centered little cunt you come off as? I know the Bay Area breeds guys like you, but I was kinda hoping you all (as a group) had enough sense to know when to keep your mouth shut. I guess not.
So, a BART employee murders a guy in cold blood, and the best you can come up with is "these asshole protesters better not screw up the trains schedule on monday". Well, I could spend the next several hundred words explaining where you went wrong and why this entire comment thread should be viewed as self serving trash... but it won't convince you or anyone else. One begins to wonder if the problem isn't the government, but in fact the people.
You are wrong. At least in California and Oregon and Washington, you are required to carry a state issued ID card at all times. Driving, walking, whatever, you are supposed to have a state ID card. I'm also pretty sure many many other states feel the same way.
Oh, and that bit about not being obliged to present your ID to police... good luck with that. I'd say let me know how it goes, but you'll be in lock up so you won't be able to. In fact, in most states, the ONLY thing you are obliged to do in regard to a police officer is identify yourself.
You mean like viral packages being inserted into the world wide internet so that they could seek and destroy uranium enriching centrifuges? The real world applications of a "cyber-war" are very very serious, and if you don't know that, HERE on this website, well then we are all fucked. Please, oh god please, tell me you don't run any infrastructure?
Your kiddy land concepts of so called "cyber-war" (the name is awful) are antiquated and foolhardy. In the last 6 months, we've seen dozens of individual cases of "hacking" affecting the real world. We've seen the release of secret documents, the uncovering of conspiracies, and the widespread disruption of commerce. That's just the tip of the iceberg, and the people here should know that. This storm is just getting started.
You say that like anyone outside the English department at your university would care even a little bit about a minor grammatical mistake in a factual article. Also, you probably caused some butthurt from some editor/contributor that thinks he actually knows how to write in the English language. (they almost never do)
The really scary part is that wasn't written as an overly long pun joke, like it would have been on any other forum on the internet. No, these guys are very seriously discussing fermented shit, and it's use as an intoxicant. :boggle:
They don't have to outspend the other lobbyists. All they have to do is start an information war. Google has the talent and infrastructure to plant any idea they want directly into the collective subconscious. Even better, their system is already regionalized, so it'd be easy as pie to keep the rhetoric in line with local politics and social views.
In case you don't have some idea what that looks like... imagine that every search results page has a paid ad the top from google (or shills) and that ad always talks about IP law, patent reform, getting involved, sending this form letter to your congressman, etc etc etc etc. Throw in a dozen community driven discussion sites (spawn them), and send in a couple "moderators" to keep the discussion going where you want it to....
Yes, it will work. No, of course you don't like thinking about this, because you realize that it's probable it's already being done on some scale or another.
I'm sure that a thorough search would show more than a few patents in IBM's vault that could be used as bludgeons against Apple and MS... but you have to remember, IBM's heyday was before the perfect storm of patent bullshit we have now. Back when engineers and programmers were busy actually building things. Things that did stuff. Stuff that people wanted to pay money to have done for them. It's an archaic business model by modern standards.
You are out of your mind. Don't take offense, I'm not trolling. But you are (insane, or trolling). We are not yet looking at the last generation of video game consoles. We actually already had that one. PS2 and Xbox were the last generation of "real" consoles. The PS3 and to a much greater extent, the Xbox360 are media consoles, not game consoles. This is not an accident. Back when MS got in the game, everyone was confused. Why would a computer software maker want to make a video game console? MS wasn't even big in games then. So why? "To put a Microsoft computer in every living room" Quoted straight from the top. They have been wildly successful too. Obviously they haven't reached every living room, but they have a good fat chunk, importantly, the chunk with disposable income, and a drive to spend that income on multi-media. (masses---opiates, etc etc).
We are not going to see a lot of media consoles replaced by dedicated computer systems. We just aren't. Again, why? Because it's too complicated. Why was the iphone originally popular among a crowd of phones that outperformed it at everything? Because it was dead fucking simple to use. Your grandma can pick it up, and 20 minutes later, be able to schedule a meeting, make a call, send an email and play with a pissed off avian. It takes nothing more, nothing less. Unless a (new) major OEM starts building HTPC systems with USABLE interfaces and AUTOMATIC everything else, then HTPCs will stay a niche for power users and people that like to fiddle.
I'm pretty much just going to point and laugh at you about the whole "phones will be the new game platform". If you think that's true, then you and I don't agree on what constitutes a gaming experience. For me, my phone is just a tiny itty bitty bit underpowered next to my 3x i7 systems with SLI running out to 6 monitors. IT'S A COMMAND CENTER! And in fact it is, I command a squadron of real people from 5-200 in numbers, every day from there. Give me a ring on my phone (which rings on my computer screen, and ties into my already active multi-channel voip system) when you've got a pocket sized version. In fact, I'm pretty sure my phone can't even handle all the coms channels that I run daily, much less the rest of the game. But there is an ap that lets me log in and chat from my phone, that's neat.
Yes, I play EVEonline, in case anyone here didn't guess already.