First and foremost they're someone's push to get a.gov contract. Second, the scenarios outlined represent sensationalized what-if's that, if they ever happened, would be just as much the responsibility of the people who got hacked. You just can't put things on the internet and expect them to be secure. You can't. If you do, you're an idiot and you deserve to lose your job, get sued, and even go to prison for monumental stupidity.
My idea was to scale the gasoline tax according to the MPG of the vehicle. For that you need technical means, such as RFID chips on cars and pumps that can read them. The Oregon Governor's plan sounds a bit easier to implement. It could be modified to take MPG as an input into the tax equation, because if you tie the annual odometer reading to the VIN then you know what kind of MPG it gets, barring some fancy after-market kit.
Communications security in the US is a mission of the NSA, not the FBI. This contest should be shut down and the money used on it returned to the treasury. The FBI has no business doing this, no matter how "cool" it is.
When I see the word 'text' bastardized into a verb, as in 'texting', I am reminded that life is too short for most bullshit and I move on to another story/topic/conversation/channel/webpage, etc. (with the exception of this/. story I've already wasted 30 seconds too much on).
It's a tech fad that dumb people get sucked into. The carriers have found a way to separate fools from their money. This is news?
There IS no debate in the context cited. The Bill of Rights lays to rest any questions about what the.gov should be able to do. The fact that they are doing things that go AGAINST the Bill of Rights is something nobody disputes. The only debate should be about HOW to prosecute those officials who have enabled and participated in crimes against the our rights as American citizens.
Unfortunately we can't even get to the plateau where everyone agrees something needs to be done. This country IMO is done; it just took the financial aspects a while to catch up.
In years past it got so bad the USPTO had to institute a policy that certain types of inventions had to submit a working model along with the application. My guess is that there was funny business invloved with this patent application. Follow the money, as they say.
Always has been and always will be until X is either replaced or joined by another video subsystem. One that lets you program closer to the hardware in kernel space.
I was trying to view a couple of video presentations on the National Transportation Safety Board website last week. WMV and RealVideo were the only choices. I had to boot into XP to watch them.
X has made tremendous progress over the years. X.org is fairly well-run. X still needs to be relegated to remote-only tasks IMO.
This is all a bunch of bullshit. It's intended to prop up more spending for questionable gain. If I was head of cybersecurity for the.gov there would be no problem and it would cost next to nothing to make sure of that. Got sensitive information or control systems? Keep them off the public internet. Next?
My perpetual motion machine factory will provide every benefit that battery factory does, and more. My perpetual motion machines will allow water to flow downhill a la traditional hydropower, but with some of that generated electricity used to pump the water back up the hill again, to be used over and over in a never-ending cycle of very cheap electricity. And I can do all that for half what those battery dipsticks want!
Seriously, a trend that has been evident in the US that will probably aid in our demise is that we, as a society, value ignorance and a good line of bullshit over well-thought-out positions and opinions. The sad part is that with the right PR people and lobbyists, my perpetual motion idea might actually find support in Congress.
The saddest part of all is that such a scheme is no longer morally repugnant to too many Americans. See "Wall Street and the Banking Industry, 2008" for truly mind boggling fraud. Now see Paulson and Bernanke rip off the taxpayers to enrich their friends and get away with it.
My perpetual motion machine venture pales beside those corruptions in moral turptitude. It's going to be either that or start my own religion.
I, for one, agree that GW is most likely man made. I am not against cleaning up the environment, either. I want to drink clean water and breathe clean air, too (notwithstanding the fact that I live only 40 miles away from New Jersey).
Having said that, where, if you please, are the numbers that back up the contention that if we reduce emissions by x% that future GW will be ameliorated y% ? Any tax that's on something you can't see or touch, as in, "we have to pay this to combat global warming", is going to be a tough sell, especially if it's something that's to remain in place over generations.
Then there's the possibility that the GW trends are irreversible. That would really be throwing money away, if that were the case. But I don't really know. So where are the studies that show it's a. humanly possible to even do something about GW, and b. if it is possible, how much of a "fix" does it provide?
I'm in the same boat as of last week. I have 2 machines, an XP box and a Linux server, both with GbE adapters from different manufacturers (Intel and Broadcom). Last week I decided to reduce a few TV programs I had captured using the firewire connection from my cable box. One was about 12 GB. Nothing like transferring a 12 GB file to clue you in to the fact that the little router you THOUGHT was doing 100 Mbps is actually only doing 10 Mbps. What a nightmare. So now I'm also looking for something that can support my GbE adapters. The router I can replace, but even if it did handle 100 Mbps traffic, even that would be too slow for these files.
Anyone who thinks North Korea is a "potential adversary" of the United States is more of a problem in and of themselves than North Korea ever will be.
I hate these astroturfing dingbat conservative talking point stories. Guaranteed the OP thinks putting missiles in eastern Europe is a good idea, and that the gov of Alaska would have made a fine VP.
Everyone should realize that both sellers AND buyers are not very well protected. Sellers scream all the time but buyers are just as much at risk of being ripped off.
I didn't "do" ebay until a year ago. The first item I bought was a Sony stereo microphone at a great price. When I got it one of the channels didn't work. Result? I paid again for another one because it wasn't worth it to ship it back to the seller, and I also left the seller positive feedback because there was no way I was going to leave a neg for someone on MY VERY FIRST EBAY TRANSACTION! That was not an option IMO.
They just took up to the space station a machine that makes drinking water out of PISS. Now THAT'S impressive. This thing is a glorified de-humidifier. I had one when I was a kid in my room. Minus the fancy ultraviolet thingy. Something like this will appeal to Mac owners, maybe. All style with little else to justify the price tag. It's not even efficient or eco-friendly when you get right down to it.
The science of reconstructing what a person looked like from only their skull is a fascinating one and one I admire. I have no doubt they get at least 80% of it right. I have to wonder, though, how much of the Copernicus work is artist's conception, as opposed to scientifically supported by the evidence? There are no bones in the nose and cartilage doesn't last like bone. How did they determine the size and shape of the nose? It looks more like a caricature or a video game nose. I know people with big noses and I've never seen one that odd looking. And what about the ears? Those would be bigger, I imagine, again based on my experience with people who have long heads like our old friend here. Outsized ears, like prince Charles, or Chris Kraft. I bring up Kraft because I just saw him in a NASA documentary and, if anything, his ears today seem to have grown larger if that's humanyly possible.
Anyway, this is a cool development. Copernicus is the first example I use when I hear people telling stereotypical "dumb Polack" jokes. A truly revolutionary genius and one of my favorite historical figures.
I never use my real name online, or at least as little as possible. The reason is I don't want future potential employers to be able to Google up any dirt - real or perceived - on me. If I want to bring some of my OSS work to a prospective employer's attention I can do that. I can also pretty much prove that I am responsible for this feature on that program, or that my contributions are legit.
Having you real name associated online with just about anything is IMO a bad idea. The risks are high and the benefits are almost nonexistent. The odds are 10-1 (I just pulled that number out of my ass) that dirt will outrank achievments if you use your real name and someone Googles for you. That one time you got drunk and went off on some insane rant 5 years ago WILL come back to haunt you no matter how many other positive things there are.
And I've been administering Linux systems for awhile now. Step back for a moment and you'll find that "man pages" and "info" are actually a pretty awful way to distribute documentation. As a supplement they'd be fine, but as the main source of information on how to use many commands... not so much.
Nah, this DRM nonsense is just starting to heat up. There's a new Copyright Czar on the job now, and Hollywood will throw more cash than ever at lawmakers to try and shore up their busted protections. This will continue since US export numbers are propped up by Hollywood's entertainment distribution network. They'll see this as a "must-protect" industry. In the end they'll fail, but anyone who thinks the supporters of DRM are about to give up should think again.
And then they can run to the.gov for more protection from the Copyright Czar in the form of draconian penalties for DMCA violations. Whining to the.gov and bribing the Congress to bail them out of their broken business models is the latest fad, don'tcha know? And seeing as how one of the only things we still export for profit is our "entertainment culture", it's only a matter of time before they try yet again to put a stop to it. Not that they will be successful in the long run, but they will try anyway. DRM Rat Fuckers.
Nobody cares about that stuff. Only the BusyBox project seems to take any notice when their licensing terms are violated. GPL Violations is swamped with a backlog of complaints.
I maintain that for every initiative where the police or the government want to increase their powers of surveillance of the people, the people should put DOUBLE the amount of surveillance right back on the government. IMO webcams should be installed in every TSA location where bags are inspected and searched, and those webcams should be available for view on the public internet. The owners of the luggage remain anonymous while the names of the inspectors on duty should be in plain view and updated in real time as the shifts change.
They just want more money in their budgets. If.gov or.mil computers on the interet are resulting in any serious threat to national security, then GET THEM OFF THE INTERNET! It's the people who insist on putting them ON the internet who are doing the real damage, not the hackers from Bogie Land.
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First and foremost they're someone's push to get a .gov contract. Second, the scenarios outlined represent sensationalized what-if's that, if they ever happened, would be just as much the responsibility of the people who got hacked. You just can't put things on the internet and expect them to be secure. You can't. If you do, you're an idiot and you deserve to lose your job, get sued, and even go to prison for monumental stupidity.
My idea was to scale the gasoline tax according to the MPG of the vehicle. For that you need technical means, such as RFID chips on cars and pumps that can read them. The Oregon Governor's plan sounds a bit easier to implement. It could be modified to take MPG as an input into the tax equation, because if you tie the annual odometer reading to the VIN then you know what kind of MPG it gets, barring some fancy after-market kit.
Communications security in the US is a mission of the NSA, not the FBI. This contest should be shut down and the money used on it returned to the treasury. The FBI has no business doing this, no matter how "cool" it is.
If IBM open-sources a piece of crap like Notes and doesn't open-source a masterpiece like Workplace Shell, that's it. I'm out.
Oh wait, I'm not really an IBM customer in the first place....
When I see the word 'text' bastardized into a verb, as in 'texting', I am reminded that life is too short for most bullshit and I move on to another story/topic/conversation/channel/webpage, etc. (with the exception of this /. story I've already wasted 30 seconds too much on).
It's a tech fad that dumb people get sucked into. The carriers have found a way to separate fools from their money. This is news?
There IS no debate in the context cited. The Bill of Rights lays to rest any questions about what the .gov should be able to do. The fact that they are doing things that go AGAINST the Bill of Rights is something nobody disputes. The only debate should be about HOW to prosecute those officials who have enabled and participated in crimes against the our rights as American citizens.
Unfortunately we can't even get to the plateau where everyone agrees something needs to be done. This country IMO is done; it just took the financial aspects a while to catch up.
In years past it got so bad the USPTO had to institute a policy that certain types of inventions had to submit a working model along with the application. My guess is that there was funny business invloved with this patent application. Follow the money, as they say.
Always has been and always will be until X is either replaced or joined by another video subsystem. One that lets you program closer to the hardware in kernel space.
I was trying to view a couple of video presentations on the National Transportation Safety Board website last week. WMV and RealVideo were the only choices. I had to boot into XP to watch them.
X has made tremendous progress over the years. X.org is fairly well-run. X still needs to be relegated to remote-only tasks IMO.
This is all a bunch of bullshit. It's intended to prop up more spending for questionable gain. If I was head of cybersecurity for the .gov there would be no problem and it would cost next to nothing to make sure of that. Got sensitive information or control systems? Keep them off the public internet. Next?
My perpetual motion machine factory will provide every benefit that battery factory does, and more. My perpetual motion machines will allow water to flow downhill a la traditional hydropower, but with some of that generated electricity used to pump the water back up the hill again, to be used over and over in a never-ending cycle of very cheap electricity. And I can do all that for half what those battery dipsticks want!
Seriously, a trend that has been evident in the US that will probably aid in our demise is that we, as a society, value ignorance and a good line of bullshit over well-thought-out positions and opinions. The sad part is that with the right PR people and lobbyists, my perpetual motion idea might actually find support in Congress.
The saddest part of all is that such a scheme is no longer morally repugnant to too many Americans. See "Wall Street and the Banking Industry, 2008" for truly mind boggling fraud. Now see Paulson and Bernanke rip off the taxpayers to enrich their friends and get away with it.
My perpetual motion machine venture pales beside those corruptions in moral turptitude. It's going to be either that or start my own religion.
I, for one, agree that GW is most likely man made. I am not against cleaning up the environment, either. I want to drink clean water and breathe clean air, too (notwithstanding the fact that I live only 40 miles away from New Jersey).
Having said that, where, if you please, are the numbers that back up the contention that if we reduce emissions by x% that future GW will be ameliorated y% ? Any tax that's on something you can't see or touch, as in, "we have to pay this to combat global warming", is going to be a tough sell, especially if it's something that's to remain in place over generations.
Then there's the possibility that the GW trends are irreversible. That would really be throwing money away, if that were the case. But I don't really know. So where are the studies that show it's a. humanly possible to even do something about GW, and b. if it is possible, how much of a "fix" does it provide?
I'm in the same boat as of last week. I have 2 machines, an XP box and a Linux server, both with GbE adapters from different manufacturers (Intel and Broadcom). Last week I decided to reduce a few TV programs I had captured using the firewire connection from my cable box. One was about 12 GB. Nothing like transferring a 12 GB file to clue you in to the fact that the little router you THOUGHT was doing 100 Mbps is actually only doing 10 Mbps. What a nightmare. So now I'm also looking for something that can support my GbE adapters. The router I can replace, but even if it did handle 100 Mbps traffic, even that would be too slow for these files.
Seasoned programmers manage YOU. Now gimme those bailout bucks and shut up.
Anyone who thinks North Korea is a "potential adversary" of the United States is more of a problem in and of themselves than North Korea ever will be.
I hate these astroturfing dingbat conservative talking point stories. Guaranteed the OP thinks putting missiles in eastern Europe is a good idea, and that the gov of Alaska would have made a fine VP.
Everyone should realize that both sellers AND buyers are not very well protected. Sellers scream all the time but buyers are just as much at risk of being ripped off.
I didn't "do" ebay until a year ago. The first item I bought was a Sony stereo microphone at a great price. When I got it one of the channels didn't work. Result? I paid again for another one because it wasn't worth it to ship it back to the seller, and I also left the seller positive feedback because there was no way I was going to leave a neg for someone on MY VERY FIRST EBAY TRANSACTION! That was not an option IMO.
They just took up to the space station a machine that makes drinking water out of PISS. Now THAT'S impressive. This thing is a glorified de-humidifier. I had one when I was a kid in my room. Minus the fancy ultraviolet thingy. Something like this will appeal to Mac owners, maybe. All style with little else to justify the price tag. It's not even efficient or eco-friendly when you get right down to it.
The science of reconstructing what a person looked like from only their skull is a fascinating one and one I admire. I have no doubt they get at least 80% of it right. I have to wonder, though, how much of the Copernicus work is artist's conception, as opposed to scientifically supported by the evidence? There are no bones in the nose and cartilage doesn't last like bone. How did they determine the size and shape of the nose? It looks more like a caricature or a video game nose. I know people with big noses and I've never seen one that odd looking. And what about the ears? Those would be bigger, I imagine, again based on my experience with people who have long heads like our old friend here. Outsized ears, like prince Charles, or Chris Kraft. I bring up Kraft because I just saw him in a NASA documentary and, if anything, his ears today seem to have grown larger if that's humanyly possible.
Anyway, this is a cool development. Copernicus is the first example I use when I hear people telling stereotypical "dumb Polack" jokes. A truly revolutionary genius and one of my favorite historical figures.
I never use my real name online, or at least as little as possible. The reason is I don't want future potential employers to be able to Google up any dirt - real or perceived - on me. If I want to bring some of my OSS work to a prospective employer's attention I can do that. I can also pretty much prove that I am responsible for this feature on that program, or that my contributions are legit.
Having you real name associated online with just about anything is IMO a bad idea. The risks are high and the benefits are almost nonexistent. The odds are 10-1 (I just pulled that number out of my ass) that dirt will outrank achievments if you use your real name and someone Googles for you. That one time you got drunk and went off on some insane rant 5 years ago WILL come back to haunt you no matter how many other positive things there are.
And I've been administering Linux systems for awhile now. Step back for a moment and you'll find that "man pages" and "info" are actually a pretty awful way to distribute documentation. As a supplement they'd be fine, but as the main source of information on how to use many commands... not so much.
Whoever modded that post "Troll", thanks for letting me know it's OK to troll-rate a post for absolutely no reason other than "I feel like it".
Nah, this DRM nonsense is just starting to heat up. There's a new Copyright Czar on the job now, and Hollywood will throw more cash than ever at lawmakers to try and shore up their busted protections. This will continue since US export numbers are propped up by Hollywood's entertainment distribution network. They'll see this as a "must-protect" industry. In the end they'll fail, but anyone who thinks the supporters of DRM are about to give up should think again.
And then they can run to the .gov for more protection from the Copyright Czar in the form of draconian penalties for DMCA violations. Whining to the .gov and bribing the Congress to bail them out of their broken business models is the latest fad, don'tcha know? And seeing as how one of the only things we still export for profit is our "entertainment culture", it's only a matter of time before they try yet again to put a stop to it. Not that they will be successful in the long run, but they will try anyway. DRM Rat Fuckers.
Nobody cares about that stuff. Only the BusyBox project seems to take any notice when their licensing terms are violated. GPL Violations is swamped with a backlog of complaints.
I maintain that for every initiative where the police or the government want to increase their powers of surveillance of the people, the people should put DOUBLE the amount of surveillance right back on the government. IMO webcams should be installed in every TSA location where bags are inspected and searched, and those webcams should be available for view on the public internet. The owners of the luggage remain anonymous while the names of the inspectors on duty should be in plain view and updated in real time as the shifts change.
They just want more money in their budgets. If .gov or .mil computers on the interet are resulting in any serious threat to national security, then GET THEM OFF THE INTERNET! It's the people who insist on putting them ON the internet who are doing the real damage, not the hackers from Bogie Land.