I hate to break it to you but the intersection of the set of people whom you consider to be the "bleating masses who so readily rushed to put their entire lives and details on social networking sites" and the set of people who read about the opensource project known as firesheep AND are really concerned about someone packet sniffing on their own network and then doing something malicious with it (just logging in is likely completely illegal) is probably incredibly small so no one is running around shouting now that the chickens have come home to roost. This is just a self satisfying notion that people want to believe from their nerd cave, that those dang sheep finally got their comeuppance for frolicking in the sun instead of hunkering down underground and now are all whaling why or why didn't we listen to the nerds, but this simply isn't the case. Not yet anyways.
Lastly, if you're going to mix animal metaphors at least make them make sense. Sheep don't give a shit about chickens roosting. Now wolves in sheep's clothing on the other hand, that's got some promise in this situation.
I feel like your comment is so misleading that I have to respond even though it's undoing previous moderation. You say "they were immediately replaced" completely out of context. The fact was they were unaccounted for for TWO MONTHS. They were only replaced at the standard 4-month replacement interval at which time the aid was FORCED to admit he had lost them because he had to turn them in for the replacement. It's like a mechanic knowingly letting an F-15 fly around for 2 months with a broken ejection system and when the pilot finds out and freaks the fuck out forcing it to be fixed and then someone saying "What's the big deal? It was 'immediately replaced'."
Calmly exit the building
For no reason, re-enter the building until given the OK by emergency responders
I had to re-read that like 5 times because I thought it meant I SHOULD randomly re-enter the building for the hell of it (without any reason to do so) until the Emergency Responders say it's OK. Then do whatever.
Does there currently exist a complete open source voting solution?
Yes, but you have to write it yourself. Oh, and once you finish if you wouldn't mind committing that back here that'd be great. God, don't you know anything about how open source works?;)
This should be modded -1 wrong, not interesting. Successful projects that DARPA creates are transferred to other Governmental Organizations as DARPA is focused on R&D. Their entire purpose is to get the R&D far enough that it CAN be transferred out of DARPA's hands. It wasn't "abandoned" in 1975 it was successfully transferred to the Defense Communications Agency. The ARPANET wasn't officially decommissioned until 1990.
And you could force-give me the same training as a professional flute soloist but since I'm not interested in it, I'm being forced to do it, and apparently people shoot guns at you during these particular flute solos, I'm not exactly going to be interested in doing a good job more then I am in simply getting my solo over with my hide intact.
And you believe unwilling, untrained officers from a draft will shoot less innocent people and act more professionally then trained volunteers?
I didn't realize the only options were thugs who want to shoot people without consequence or only unwilling officers. I figured there might be some people out there who through training and testing could be determined to both want to protect and serve and do so more proficiently and professionally then your average unwilling draftee. I seem to remember our unwilling and drafted army not exactly being shining examples of professionalism and respect towards civilians during Vietnam and I'd rather not inflict the same damage here.
For elected leaders I can maybe understand that logic, but that doesn't make the least bit of sense for police officers. Would you prefer there to be some sort of draft for police officers? So the cop responding to your 911 intruder call is some scared housewife or accountant who got drafted last month and is liable to shoot the first thing that moves when they come through the door?
it started out as just an application he was building that he thought was cool
Perhaps, but I have to wonder why, then, did he ignore calls for interoperability, even early on before he was a billionaire. Perhaps he didn't think interoperability was cool?
Yea, I know when I first start working on a cool project the thing that really gets my blood pumping is working on an export feature to satisfy people who don't want to use my project.
They'll probably introduce some sort of online system that makes it extremely easy to chat online with your friends while in separate games or party up and find/join/party up with each other in the same games. That would be really helpful in competing with the PS3 finally catching up with netflix;)
Speaking as someone who was in college when facebook first started being used I have the strong feeling it started out as just an application he was building that he thought was cool. You generally don't put such hard limits on your user-base if you're simply interested in money right off the bat. Of course, once it started getting used and taking off the natural question is how do I best make money of this, and the natural answer is advertisements and data. Then your little hobby project turns into a profit driven company. I really don't think he had the foresight to sit down and say "How can I best create an internet phenomenon that everyone will use in order to get everyone's user data and information and sell it to advertisers to make millions?" and then immediately bang out facebook. That's generally not how people/life works. There's a natural progression and a shifting of goals/values, the world is not binary.
Yea, we should scrap them and go back to B-17's. 100% of the ordinance they dropped hit their intended targets. Course it's pretty hard to miss the ground...
In all seriousness though, you're aiming a missile at a spot on the ground and you have a flying video camera that can stick around. It's not very hard to figure out if you hit the spot on the ground you were aiming at. Anything beyond that is a target selection/ordinance effectiveness issue and would have absolutely nothing to do with the predator software, pirated or not. In addition, I'm not that well versed with the predator company, but they just make the plane right? If that's the case if whatever ordinance it's carrying detaches from the mount correctly it's done it's job. Wouldn't the missile guidance/software belong to whatever company manufactures the missile?
Most of the airlines I've flown on recently, if they serve you an actual meal, has been sandwiches wrapped in saran wrap containing meat and lettuce and tomatoes all of which would spoil rather quickly, certainly not what I would classify long life shit. They are usually loaded on to that plane at the terminal by a catering truck during boarding. Not extremely excellent food, but not terrible instant tv dinner type stuff that seems like it might be months/years old either.
Yea, I'd say so: J2EE Statistics. Considering it's more fitting for larger clustered applications I'm actually surprised it shows up as high as it does on there. It's definately not the choice technology to crank out a quick lightweight webpage but for larger projects with interconnected applications J2EE fills in nicely.
If we lived in a utopia your statement that they are "non value producing citizens" might be correct. But we do not, and those of use who understand human nature, and wish to live in a civilized society, appreciate the value provided by our civil justice system over the old ways of who has more power/men/guns. And before everyone gets all snappy about it still being the same so they can get modded +5 snappy remark about the system, yes, it's not perfect. But it's a hell of a lot better then when the only recourse was to draw fast and shoot straight.
If North Carolina can retroactively cut teachers salaries (As in, oh, that money we already paid you during the last couple months, we're taking it back out of your next check) in order to balance their budget I'm pretty sure other places can find a way to "unraise" employees.
and if you actually read *all* of TFA the scientist says 300 as well. so now we have three numbers: 325, 315, 300. If they keep this up they'll get down to 1 and their product will be a lot cheaper;)
Of course we can assume he rounded there for ease of explaining.
I think you underestimate how much Americans love to see "Fuck you, I'll do what I want - I'm America! Americaaaaa, FUCK YEAH!!!" whether it's serious or to poke fun at them. There's a reason the Colbert Show is so popular, that stuff cracks them up;)
Any Guardsmen that can intentionally pick out, hit, and kill a target lying prone 100 yards away in the middle of an angry crowd with an M1 Garand should be reassigned to Delta as a Sniper. I wasn't making excuses for the guard I was simply explaining what the debate was about, but Jesus, use your head. It's insanely unlikely that the guardsmen that made that shot was intentionally aiming for him. That in no way excuses their actions, but lets not assign specific intention where it's incredibly unlikely.
No one, the Ohio National Guard included, is debating whether the guard opened fired and killed protesters. This is unequivocally true. The question here is whether sometime before the guardsmen open fire if someone else in the crowd fired shots contributing to the shooting by either riling the crowd towards violence or causing the guardsmen to feel threatened and thus clear the area with violence or both.
Yes, my friend teaches graphics/game design at a community college and they got to try one out and play with. He said he was pretty impressed by it. He's a fairly new teacher and it's a community college so it's not like they're keeping the things under lock and key only giving access to "high-ranking" press members as you insinuate.
Welcome to 1995, where websites with user accounts email the user before they allow a change of email to prevent account stealing. It's a brave new world of distrust.
Your doing it wrong. Or at least applying it wrong. In your want to find something incorrect with Facebook you're ignoring the fact that sending an email to the user to confirm they are who they say they are before they are allowed to do things like change their password or download all their data is a tenet of website security in and of itself. These emails are always accompanied by the message "If you did not request this change/email then disregard this message and contact our fraud/tech/blah department". It would be neigh impossible for a spammer to somehow manage to send such a spam email that would show up next to the real one the very instant the user requested the feature that told them they will receive this email..
What's the benefit of stopping to pick them up when you can instead be the very first people to the new planet and get to place your armies in Australia?
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I hate to break it to you but the intersection of the set of people whom you consider to be the "bleating masses who so readily rushed to put their entire lives and details on social networking sites" and the set of people who read about the opensource project known as firesheep AND are really concerned about someone packet sniffing on their own network and then doing something malicious with it (just logging in is likely completely illegal) is probably incredibly small so no one is running around shouting now that the chickens have come home to roost. This is just a self satisfying notion that people want to believe from their nerd cave, that those dang sheep finally got their comeuppance for frolicking in the sun instead of hunkering down underground and now are all whaling why or why didn't we listen to the nerds, but this simply isn't the case. Not yet anyways.
Lastly, if you're going to mix animal metaphors at least make them make sense. Sheep don't give a shit about chickens roosting. Now wolves in sheep's clothing on the other hand, that's got some promise in this situation.
I feel like your comment is so misleading that I have to respond even though it's undoing previous moderation. You say "they were immediately replaced" completely out of context. The fact was they were unaccounted for for TWO MONTHS. They were only replaced at the standard 4-month replacement interval at which time the aid was FORCED to admit he had lost them because he had to turn them in for the replacement. It's like a mechanic knowingly letting an F-15 fly around for 2 months with a broken ejection system and when the pilot finds out and freaks the fuck out forcing it to be fixed and then someone saying "What's the big deal? It was 'immediately replaced'."
Calmly exit the building
For no reason, re-enter the building until given the OK by emergency responders
I had to re-read that like 5 times because I thought it meant I SHOULD randomly re-enter the building for the hell of it (without any reason to do so) until the Emergency Responders say it's OK. Then do whatever.
Does there currently exist a complete open source voting solution?
Yes, but you have to write it yourself. Oh, and once you finish if you wouldn't mind committing that back here that'd be great. God, don't you know anything about how open source works? ;)
This should be modded -1 wrong, not interesting. Successful projects that DARPA creates are transferred to other Governmental Organizations as DARPA is focused on R&D. Their entire purpose is to get the R&D far enough that it CAN be transferred out of DARPA's hands. It wasn't "abandoned" in 1975 it was successfully transferred to the Defense Communications Agency. The ARPANET wasn't officially decommissioned until 1990.
And you could force-give me the same training as a professional flute soloist but since I'm not interested in it, I'm being forced to do it, and apparently people shoot guns at you during these particular flute solos, I'm not exactly going to be interested in doing a good job more then I am in simply getting my solo over with my hide intact.
And you believe unwilling, untrained officers from a draft will shoot less innocent people and act more professionally then trained volunteers?
I didn't realize the only options were thugs who want to shoot people without consequence or only unwilling officers. I figured there might be some people out there who through training and testing could be determined to both want to protect and serve and do so more proficiently and professionally then your average unwilling draftee. I seem to remember our unwilling and drafted army not exactly being shining examples of professionalism and respect towards civilians during Vietnam and I'd rather not inflict the same damage here.
For elected leaders I can maybe understand that logic, but that doesn't make the least bit of sense for police officers. Would you prefer there to be some sort of draft for police officers? So the cop responding to your 911 intruder call is some scared housewife or accountant who got drafted last month and is liable to shoot the first thing that moves when they come through the door?
it started out as just an application he was building that he thought was cool
Perhaps, but I have to wonder why, then, did he ignore calls for interoperability, even early on before he was a billionaire. Perhaps he didn't think interoperability was cool?
Yea, I know when I first start working on a cool project the thing that really gets my blood pumping is working on an export feature to satisfy people who don't want to use my project.
They'll probably introduce some sort of online system that makes it extremely easy to chat online with your friends while in separate games or party up and find/join/party up with each other in the same games. That would be really helpful in competing with the PS3 finally catching up with netflix ;)
Speaking as someone who was in college when facebook first started being used I have the strong feeling it started out as just an application he was building that he thought was cool. You generally don't put such hard limits on your user-base if you're simply interested in money right off the bat. Of course, once it started getting used and taking off the natural question is how do I best make money of this, and the natural answer is advertisements and data. Then your little hobby project turns into a profit driven company. I really don't think he had the foresight to sit down and say "How can I best create an internet phenomenon that everyone will use in order to get everyone's user data and information and sell it to advertisers to make millions?" and then immediately bang out facebook. That's generally not how people/life works. There's a natural progression and a shifting of goals/values, the world is not binary.
Yea, we should scrap them and go back to B-17's. 100% of the ordinance they dropped hit their intended targets. Course it's pretty hard to miss the ground...
In all seriousness though, you're aiming a missile at a spot on the ground and you have a flying video camera that can stick around. It's not very hard to figure out if you hit the spot on the ground you were aiming at. Anything beyond that is a target selection/ordinance effectiveness issue and would have absolutely nothing to do with the predator software, pirated or not. In addition, I'm not that well versed with the predator company, but they just make the plane right? If that's the case if whatever ordinance it's carrying detaches from the mount correctly it's done it's job. Wouldn't the missile guidance/software belong to whatever company manufactures the missile?
Most of the airlines I've flown on recently, if they serve you an actual meal, has been sandwiches wrapped in saran wrap containing meat and lettuce and tomatoes all of which would spoil rather quickly, certainly not what I would classify long life shit. They are usually loaded on to that plane at the terminal by a catering truck during boarding. Not extremely excellent food, but not terrible instant tv dinner type stuff that seems like it might be months/years old either.
Yea, I'd say so: J2EE Statistics. Considering it's more fitting for larger clustered applications I'm actually surprised it shows up as high as it does on there. It's definately not the choice technology to crank out a quick lightweight webpage but for larger projects with interconnected applications J2EE fills in nicely.
What the fuck do iPhone owners do with their phones? Crack open coconuts with them?
Try REALLY hard to shove their iPhone into their incredibly tight hipster jeans? ;)
I actually own one, but I just couldn't resist.
If we lived in a utopia your statement that they are "non value producing citizens" might be correct. But we do not, and those of use who understand human nature, and wish to live in a civilized society, appreciate the value provided by our civil justice system over the old ways of who has more power/men/guns. And before everyone gets all snappy about it still being the same so they can get modded +5 snappy remark about the system, yes, it's not perfect. But it's a hell of a lot better then when the only recourse was to draw fast and shoot straight.
If North Carolina can retroactively cut teachers salaries (As in, oh, that money we already paid you during the last couple months, we're taking it back out of your next check) in order to balance their budget I'm pretty sure other places can find a way to "unraise" employees.
and if you actually read *all* of TFA the scientist says 300 as well. so now we have three numbers: 325, 315, 300. If they keep this up they'll get down to 1 and their product will be a lot cheaper ;)
Of course we can assume he rounded there for ease of explaining.
I think you underestimate how much Americans love to see "Fuck you, I'll do what I want - I'm America! Americaaaaa, FUCK YEAH!!!" whether it's serious or to poke fun at them. There's a reason the Colbert Show is so popular, that stuff cracks them up ;)
Any Guardsmen that can intentionally pick out, hit, and kill a target lying prone 100 yards away in the middle of an angry crowd with an M1 Garand should be reassigned to Delta as a Sniper. I wasn't making excuses for the guard I was simply explaining what the debate was about, but Jesus, use your head. It's insanely unlikely that the guardsmen that made that shot was intentionally aiming for him. That in no way excuses their actions, but lets not assign specific intention where it's incredibly unlikely.
No one, the Ohio National Guard included, is debating whether the guard opened fired and killed protesters. This is unequivocally true. The question here is whether sometime before the guardsmen open fire if someone else in the crowd fired shots contributing to the shooting by either riling the crowd towards violence or causing the guardsmen to feel threatened and thus clear the area with violence or both.
Yes, my friend teaches graphics/game design at a community college and they got to try one out and play with. He said he was pretty impressed by it. He's a fairly new teacher and it's a community college so it's not like they're keeping the things under lock and key only giving access to "high-ranking" press members as you insinuate.
Welcome to 1995, where websites with user accounts email the user before they allow a change of email to prevent account stealing. It's a brave new world of distrust.
Your doing it wrong. Or at least applying it wrong. In your want to find something incorrect with Facebook you're ignoring the fact that sending an email to the user to confirm they are who they say they are before they are allowed to do things like change their password or download all their data is a tenet of website security in and of itself. These emails are always accompanied by the message "If you did not request this change/email then disregard this message and contact our fraud/tech/blah department". It would be neigh impossible for a spammer to somehow manage to send such a spam email that would show up next to the real one the very instant the user requested the feature that told them they will receive this email. .
What's the benefit of stopping to pick them up when you can instead be the very first people to the new planet and get to place your armies in Australia?