Any proof that he was detained and that this happened? Otherwise I'm tempted to believe that it is a stunt to advertise his comic.
I'm tempted to believe that you believe that the President wasn't actually born in Hawaii.
Ok, I'll bite. The answer is no in the case of Obama's citizenship, because they presented reasonable evidence that they had looked into it and presented valid documents. If I wanted to be a conspiracy theorist I might start saying things like "But those documents might have been fake, false testimony" blah blah blah. But because I'm not willing to investigate the matter myself, I have to take what is presented at face value and its a waste of ones time to think about it any more if you're not going to look into it yourself.
This article however has no investigative journalism to it. No visible attempt was made to contact the TSA for their comment on the matter and it only appears that they listened to what Mark Sable had to say about it and wrote an article based on only that. This is why good journalism is important and why blogs can be bad at times. After reading the article Slashdot linked too, I did a search on news.google.com for Mark Sable and couldn't find much else about it other than the same story. This makes me skeptical about whether it actually happened and thus my initial inquiry.
And since things like this have happened many times before (PR stunts), proof needs to be asked for.
Expressing a cynical perspective by default does not automatically make you sound any smarter (even if/. and the internet makes it seem that way).
I wasn't trying to sound smart, I was trying to draw attention to myself because I'm deprived of it. And I'm a karma whore too, a cheap one. That's why I pay Slashdot $5 for a subscription, so I can use my limited mental capacity that is the result of lack of interaction with others to think of something interesting to say and make sure I get the first comment on a story if I want to. Only then do I feel good about myself. Other people? Who cares about them.
There is a fundamental difference between Youtube and something like The Pirate Bay or The Video Bay. Youtube isn't about piracy, the initial purpose of it was social networking and it continues to try to strive for that. People may use it to upload movies, etc. and split them into parts to get around it, but Youtube does what it can to remove copyrighted material so its not at fault.
So when they say that they are trying to make a competitor to Youtube, I can see that they are very misguided.
Right now the results of the/. poll are showing the majority of votes as him being forgettable. Obviously the current young generation has no idea the impact MJ had on the world. Perhaps in time they will learn.
Usability? What the hell is he talking about? The user doesn't see the dots, only other people see those. The user should see their own password when they type it. Maybe he should check his glasses because those characters must be so blurry to him that they look like dots.
Like all other technologies, its not the features, its what you do with them. I've taken good pictures and some Interesting things with my $600 Canon digital rebel xti. I recently bought a cheap $33 remote timer made by a Hong Kong company so that I can do more time lapse stuff. You don't need to spend a lot, you just need to be innovative. $2000 won't buy you that.
I think what will be the big irony of the digital revolution is that we haven't tackled the technological problems yet like getting people to back things up and store them for long periods of time. One might think that with the advent of digital that in 100 years we'll have pictures of virtually everything from this era, but because of the problems people face, we will probably yet again have a gapping hole in time filled with lost pictures.
Yes, I agree. I've seen a handful of attacks like this over the years. Maybe not exactly this one, but Apache has been vulnerable to this for years and I thought all webservers were. And I thought people just knew about it already. This one is a tough one to fix, its not like Apache can just patch something. It sounds like an architectural change is needed.
You know, that's interesting because I remember a Nissan Z commercial from the 90s that showed the car on the German Autobahn and then it drove out on a dock on the ocean and the narrator said "Too bad you can't go to Europe". So perhaps they thought Britain is Europe?
Are those recent prices? And, is any of this gear actually "enterprise" level quality, or just expensive crap you can get for cheaper down at the best buy? Either way, that is some fucked up shit.
As far as I'm concerned, its all a big scam. The only thing I can really compare apples to apples is the hard drives. The hard drives that they put in those FND SANs cost something like $1500 for a 500GB SATA (these prices were from like 1-2 years ago). They say that the drives are certified, but as far as I'm concerned, if they don't last for 20+ years and go 10 times faster (which they don't) then they are not worth that price. Unfortunately, I guess if you want to get support and the whole 9 yards on support, you have to go through them. You can't just buy your own hard drives from DEX or something. So yeah, its a big scam. When we spent the million on a 40TB SAN (included large switches too, etc.) I sat down and calculated how much it would cost to buy some 15 bay chasis with fiber channel cards and fill those up like DAEs. For 1 million, we could have had a 1PB SAN. Or we could have had 40TB for like $40,000.
Oh totally. Until I started working in an enterprise 4 years ago, I had no idea how big of an industry there is for ripping off large companies.
* $1500 for a 500GB SATA2 hard drive * $60,000/year for a search engine * About the same for a web analysis program * $1,000,000 for a 40TB SAN * $6000 for a KVM that sucks and $100 a dongle.
And that's not even getting into what I've seen the Windows admins go through.
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Any proof that he was detained and that this happened? Otherwise I'm tempted to believe that it is a stunt to advertise his comic.
I'm tempted to believe that you believe that the President wasn't actually born in Hawaii.
Ok, I'll bite. The answer is no in the case of Obama's citizenship, because they presented reasonable evidence that they had looked into it and presented valid documents. If I wanted to be a conspiracy theorist I might start saying things like "But those documents might have been fake, false testimony" blah blah blah. But because I'm not willing to investigate the matter myself, I have to take what is presented at face value and its a waste of ones time to think about it any more if you're not going to look into it yourself.
This article however has no investigative journalism to it. No visible attempt was made to contact the TSA for their comment on the matter and it only appears that they listened to what Mark Sable had to say about it and wrote an article based on only that. This is why good journalism is important and why blogs can be bad at times. After reading the article Slashdot linked too, I did a search on news.google.com for Mark Sable and couldn't find much else about it other than the same story. This makes me skeptical about whether it actually happened and thus my initial inquiry.
And since things like this have happened many times before (PR stunts), proof needs to be asked for.
Expressing a cynical perspective by default does not automatically make you sound any smarter (even if /. and the internet makes it seem that way).
I wasn't trying to sound smart, I was trying to draw attention to myself because I'm deprived of it. And I'm a karma whore too, a cheap one. That's why I pay Slashdot $5 for a subscription, so I can use my limited mental capacity that is the result of lack of interaction with others to think of something interesting to say and make sure I get the first comment on a story if I want to. Only then do I feel good about myself. Other people? Who cares about them.
That we have mob mentality? That isn't just today, that has been the case since we learned to use tools.
Any proof that he was detained and that this happened? Otherwise I'm tempted to believe that it is a stunt to advertise his comic.
There is a fundamental difference between Youtube and something like The Pirate Bay or The Video Bay. Youtube isn't about piracy, the initial purpose of it was social networking and it continues to try to strive for that. People may use it to upload movies, etc. and split them into parts to get around it, but Youtube does what it can to remove copyrighted material so its not at fault.
So when they say that they are trying to make a competitor to Youtube, I can see that they are very misguided.
Right now the results of the /. poll are showing the majority of votes as him being forgettable. Obviously the current young generation has no idea the impact MJ had on the world. Perhaps in time they will learn.
I've never even seen my password in plain text. I don't want to either. Ever.
That's good, only your hands should know your password.
Hmm... I always thought the forums I frequent had some censor for bad words, but I guess it's a password filter. That's neat.
I wonder if /. also has a feature like that, let me try it. *****
Hey that worked, try some of your other passwords.
You know who else says that? Governments with nuclear weapons.
Usability? What the hell is he talking about? The user doesn't see the dots, only other people see those. The user should see their own password when they type it. Maybe he should check his glasses because those characters must be so blurry to him that they look like dots.
Its a Yongnuo Digital Timer TC-80N3a. You can get them on Amazon and Ebay.
I was making a joke, jerk.
Parent and you didn't know what Kodachrome was? Sounds more like you are the child.
Like all other technologies, its not the features, its what you do with them. I've taken good pictures and some Interesting things with my $600 Canon digital rebel xti. I recently bought a cheap $33 remote timer made by a Hong Kong company so that I can do more time lapse stuff. You don't need to spend a lot, you just need to be innovative. $2000 won't buy you that.
I think what will be the big irony of the digital revolution is that we haven't tackled the technological problems yet like getting people to back things up and store them for long periods of time. One might think that with the advent of digital that in 100 years we'll have pictures of virtually everything from this era, but because of the problems people face, we will probably yet again have a gapping hole in time filled with lost pictures.
Yes, I agree. I've seen a handful of attacks like this over the years. Maybe not exactly this one, but Apache has been vulnerable to this for years and I thought all webservers were. And I thought people just knew about it already. This one is a tough one to fix, its not like Apache can just patch something. It sounds like an architectural change is needed.
Hey, that's the combination to my luggage!
ur right. i'm from youtube show me how to make a linux filesystem
<AOL>Me too!</AOL>
Want to make it worth it?
Let's all go into comp.lang.c and start top posting to threads. They LOVE IT when you do that.
You know, that's interesting because I remember a Nissan Z commercial from the 90s that showed the car on the German Autobahn and then it drove out on a dock on the ocean and the narrator said "Too bad you can't go to Europe". So perhaps they thought Britain is Europe?
2/5ths of Americans can't see their own toes.
Where is the ability to sort the records by columns? I mean duh?!?
Are those recent prices? And, is any of this gear actually "enterprise" level quality, or just expensive crap you can get for cheaper down at the best buy? Either way, that is some fucked up shit.
As far as I'm concerned, its all a big scam. The only thing I can really compare apples to apples is the hard drives. The hard drives that they put in those FND SANs cost something like $1500 for a 500GB SATA (these prices were from like 1-2 years ago). They say that the drives are certified, but as far as I'm concerned, if they don't last for 20+ years and go 10 times faster (which they don't) then they are not worth that price. Unfortunately, I guess if you want to get support and the whole 9 yards on support, you have to go through them. You can't just buy your own hard drives from DEX or something. So yeah, its a big scam. When we spent the million on a 40TB SAN (included large switches too, etc.) I sat down and calculated how much it would cost to buy some 15 bay chasis with fiber channel cards and fill those up like DAEs. For 1 million, we could have had a 1PB SAN. Or we could have had 40TB for like $40,000.
Oh totally. Until I started working in an enterprise 4 years ago, I had no idea how big of an industry there is for ripping off large companies.
* $1500 for a 500GB SATA2 hard drive
* $60,000/year for a search engine
* About the same for a web analysis program
* $1,000,000 for a 40TB SAN
* $6000 for a KVM that sucks and $100 a dongle.
And that's not even getting into what I've seen the Windows admins go through.