I have no lost love for organized religion but name me another one that charges you money to learn the church doctrine.
A lot of Christian churches in the US, including some megachurches, the Mormon church, and some "home churches" actually DEMAND you pay the church leaders 10% of your income. If you don't pay, they don't let you come to church to learn their doctrine.
And if you think reading the Bible is enough to learn church doctrine, for ANY Christian church, you have been misinformed.
How much per year would it cost to hire armed security guards to protect your huge house from banditos? And to protect your daughter from rampant rape and molestation?
Also, when I travel, I really regret not having the FDA to make sure my food is safe.
This isn't "bias." This is a tech news site reporting about something that huge numbers of tech workers are spending huge amounts of time dealing with.
Patch Tuesday is an event which has effects felt throughout the IT world. Few other security-related events have such an impact.
If you are looking for statistical analysis of security flaws, don't do it by reading Slashdot headlines.
When I was in church as a child and was taught about stories from the Bible which seemed physically impossible, I would ask HOW god did it. The answer was always: magic.
I hope that answers your scientific questions so that you can quit wasting my tax dollars on pointless research and get back to praising jesus.
There is no need to get all metaphysical. Let's resolve this by posing this question in easy-to-understand terms.
Suppose, shortly after the Big Bang, two good christians synchronized their watches and made a suicide pact for a specific time in the future. As the universe expanded and matter flew apart, one of these people ended on a planet circling the star in question, and the other ended on Earth.
When their watches reach suicide time, and they both kill themselves, do their souls arrive in heaven simultaneously, or does one have to wait to meet the other?
Only by pondering this question can we properly understand whether an observed event "is happening" or "happened."
Alternatively, if you find the above scenario hard-to-swallow, rephrase the question and ask about whether two lawyers with a suicide pact arrive in hell simultaneously.
Have you heard of the technology hype curve? The basic idea is that when new tech is invented, the expectation of its usefulness goes way beyond its current practical usefulness. This could manifest itself in an investment bubble. Later, the expectation crashes down below the practical usefulness.
All the while, the practical usefulness is growing steadily.
Eventually people catch on again, and the expectation rises to match reality.
I don't think there is another bubble. I think all the hype about Web 2.0 is the result of people finally realizing that web technology has grown GREATLY in usefulness and revenue-generating potential over the past five years, and investors are finally starting to catch on.
If you think that's the way this works today, you are fooling yourself. NAT and dynamic IP addresses do NOT give you anonymity. They just make it tricky to identify you without a court order.
"In an ideal world, we would not need so many layers of security! The world should be ideal, damn-it!"
My response to you is that we don't live in an ideal world, and in the REAL world, defense in depth has proven to be an incredibly useful security model.
You can keep ranting against reality if you like, but you won't change anything.
Your reasoning for using NAT seems to be based on dogma and tradition, not actual... reason.
So it seems you have selected "die." Good luck with that, dinosaur!
As a security pro, I can't WAIT to see the death of NAT. I am concerned that some of the older people around here will make it a lot harder than it needs to be out of an irrational fear of change and (gasp) having to learn something new:-(
I have a French girlfriends. She keeps remarking on how strange it is that the country with the most noble constitution, founded on principles of freedom and separation of church and state, is constantly restricting freedom and using religious justification to do so.
I just keep telling her this is all Europe's fault for shipping all their religious loonies over here.
I know some poor people who value "hard work" above all else. Contrary to popular belief, there is no universal law of physics which transforms time or effort proportionately into wealth.
If you think investing in real estate somehow saves you from the volatility of market forces, your business plan is incomplete. If you had started buying and managing properties in Detroit a few years ago, you wouldn't be able to GIVE the property away, today.
You live at the mercy of the market like everybody else in a complex economy.
Buying land isn't amazingly different from buying companies (stocks). If you buy stock, you own a little piece of the buildings, chairs, computers, and bank accounts owned by that company. Those are real, tangible things. You also get to share in the profits the company makes from doing business. The big difference is: stock owners don't have to spend as much time managing the business.
As a bonus, the stock of large american companies typically grows in value at almost twice the rate as real estate. Of course, it is overall more volatile, so you need some sort of hedge in case you need to get money out while the market is down...
I am trying to enjoy life. I work one full time job and want no more. What good is wealth if you have to time to experience the luxuries it affords?
If your children inherit a steady income stream they may just become socialite tarts like Paris Hilton. Is that what you're going for? Enjoy your own life.
Keep investing, sure. Don't delude yourself into thinking buying land is fundamentally different from buying any other sort of revenue-generating entity.
I prefer the lower time requirements and higher average returns of big companies, myself.
Yeah, I don't know the details. Such a large employment change would take a long time, I would think. Even he cut WAY back on the taxes, regulations, and beurocracy required of businesses, he will have to convince investors that the laws will STAY that way before they will sink serious money into french business.
I don't really know how I could have benefited from being in class with this person. He didn't talk. He just groaned, moaned, and squealed. Really, his mentality seemed more like that of an animal than that of a man, and when he got angry, he started smashing things with super-human strength. Where's the benefit in being around that?
Also, slashdot tends to discuss big ideas with society-wide implications. When discussing big ideas, we need to talk using the frameworks of economics, philosophy, and other such concepts. If we concern ourselves with face-to-face emotional reactions and of individuals at the expense of society at large, we accomplish nothing.
Your gross underestimation of the value of economic concerns is seriously misguided. Perhaps you don't understand what economics is. The reason YOU have food, education, and a computer to type on--and the reason retarded children are not left on a hillside to die--is because we have a highly-functioning economic system. Economic systems are continuously challenged and revised by philosophers and analysts, and men fight and die for economics. People who let interpersonal emotions control their decisions at the expens of the economy as a whole do a disservice to society. Fortunately, they rarely gain power.
My economic considerations may seem cold and heartless to you, but I can argue (and defend with LOGIC and EVIDENCE) that they are far more altruistic and moral toward humanity than your small-picture emotive concerns.
By default it has NO open ports. That means that unless a worm can hit the TCP/IP stack, I am invulnerable to them.
Bzzzt. Wrong.
First of all, I think you meant to say "unless a worm can hit the IP driver or the ethernet driver." Now that that's out of the way...
Does your computer ever receive and process data from other sources? If you use it, it almost certainly does.
Imagine, for example, someone finds a bof in a common image processing library. If you view an infected image, you're toast.
Imagine someone hacks one of the thousands of computers used by one of the thousands of package authors. Do you run apt-get upgrade? If so, you're toast.
There are many, many ways to get pwned. Having no listening ports is great. Using software written in languages that don't bof is also great. Using software and drivers written by companies which employ security experts at all stagest of the SDLC, and which use independant, external source code review is still better. Hiring IDS experts to scrutinize all your network traffic is one more requirement of you want to actually feel confident in your security.
Port exposure just makes sure you wont be the lowest haning fruit. You're still pretty vulnerable overall.
She said her big fear was that he would not make good on his economic reform plans, but it is better to have a good plan and poor execution than to have a bad plan and good execution...
As human kind learns to control genetics, I expect evolutionary fitness (as defined as: survival and reproduction in modern society) to accellerate dramatically, AND to be able to adapt much more effectively to changing physical environments if necessary.
Random mutation, deadly fitness pressures, and mass extinction are really a blunt and inefficient way of desigining self-replicating patterns (what life is). Now, we can actually start using the much more efficient process of intelligent design:-)
Let go of your old ways, you crazy evolutionary conservative! You're a dinosaur!
I don't know about your sister, but I can vouch for the fact that a lot of retards consume FAR more economic resources in a society than they produce.
In my high school, the state paid for a body guard to lead around a "special" student from class to class... and tackle the kid whenever he went nuts and started throwing desks.
This kid didn't have half a brain. There is no way he could ever do anything of economic value. There is no way he learned a DAMN THING by getting drug through high school interrupting class for everyone else.
His parents just wanted him to be "normal" and go to school like everyone else, and they got the state to pay to waste all these resources pretending he was capable of learning.
Maybe there are exceptions, but it seems that a large number of "retards" are an economic drain on society. I suspect that a government which encourages the abortion of seriously malfunctioning fetuses would be at an economic advantage compared to more empathetic governments.
We do provide free healthcare, just not preventative health care. You have to go to the ER to get free health care. If you use it, your credit rating will be destroyed and you will never qualify for a loan credit card.
The obvious, inevitable result of allowing genetic discrimination is that all people with no genetic diseases have ultra-cheap insurance, and people who have genetic diseases have ultra-expensive insurance.
Also, on dates, people will try to tactfully find out which insurance the other person has so that know if they want to mix genes with that expensive, disease-infested freak...
I would like to know what my genes have in for me. It would help me decide what to put in my 401k.
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And if you think reading the Bible is enough to learn church doctrine, for ANY Christian church, you have been misinformed.
What criteria do you use, o wise one?
If you live on 80% of your income in NYC, you have $20k left over every year.
This is a HUGE difference--it's the difference between being able to retire at age 45 and being able to retire at age 70.
And, only an incredibly poor or incredibly stupid person spends 100% of his income in the local economy.
Not to mention, $100k in NYC is more like $70k in urban Kansas.
How much per year would it cost to hire armed security guards to protect your huge house from banditos? And to protect your daughter from rampant rape and molestation?
Also, when I travel, I really regret not having the FDA to make sure my food is safe.
My water bill is about $5 per month. I have zero motivation to give a shit about water consumption.
Perhaps if you live in a desert or an area with bad water management, this matters. But water conservation is a waste of resources in my area.
This isn't "bias." This is a tech news site reporting about something that huge numbers of tech workers are spending huge amounts of time dealing with.
Patch Tuesday is an event which has effects felt throughout the IT world. Few other security-related events have such an impact.
If you are looking for statistical analysis of security flaws, don't do it by reading Slashdot headlines.
When I was in church as a child and was taught about stories from the Bible which seemed physically impossible, I would ask HOW god did it. The answer was always: magic.
I hope that answers your scientific questions so that you can quit wasting my tax dollars on pointless research and get back to praising jesus.
There is no need to get all metaphysical. Let's resolve this by posing this question in easy-to-understand terms.
Suppose, shortly after the Big Bang, two good christians synchronized their watches and made a suicide pact for a specific time in the future. As the universe expanded and matter flew apart, one of these people ended on a planet circling the star in question, and the other ended on Earth.
When their watches reach suicide time, and they both kill themselves, do their souls arrive in heaven simultaneously, or does one have to wait to meet the other?
Only by pondering this question can we properly understand whether an observed event "is happening" or "happened."
Alternatively, if you find the above scenario hard-to-swallow, rephrase the question and ask about whether two lawyers with a suicide pact arrive in hell simultaneously.
Have you heard of the technology hype curve? The basic idea is that when new tech is invented, the expectation of its usefulness goes way beyond its current practical usefulness. This could manifest itself in an investment bubble. Later, the expectation crashes down below the practical usefulness.
All the while, the practical usefulness is growing steadily.
Eventually people catch on again, and the expectation rises to match reality.
I don't think there is another bubble. I think all the hype about Web 2.0 is the result of people finally realizing that web technology has grown GREATLY in usefulness and revenue-generating potential over the past five years, and investors are finally starting to catch on.
Childishness hasn't truly begun until we start mentioning alleged encounters with each other's mothers.
Say hi to the old gal for me, will ya?
If you think that's the way this works today, you are fooling yourself. NAT and dynamic IP addresses do NOT give you anonymity. They just make it tricky to identify you without a court order.
People who want anonymity can buy anonymizing services. If there is enough demand, it might be offered by consumer ISPs directly.
Let me translate what you said.
"In an ideal world, we would not need so many layers of security! The world should be ideal, damn-it!"
My response to you is that we don't live in an ideal world, and in the REAL world, defense in depth has proven to be an incredibly useful security model.
You can keep ranting against reality if you like, but you won't change anything.
In the tech world, you must adapt or die.
:-(
Your reasoning for using NAT seems to be based on dogma and tradition, not actual... reason.
So it seems you have selected "die." Good luck with that, dinosaur!
As a security pro, I can't WAIT to see the death of NAT. I am concerned that some of the older people around here will make it a lot harder than it needs to be out of an irrational fear of change and (gasp) having to learn something new
I have a French girlfriends. She keeps remarking on how strange it is that the country with the most noble constitution, founded on principles of freedom and separation of church and state, is constantly restricting freedom and using religious justification to do so.
I just keep telling her this is all Europe's fault for shipping all their religious loonies over here.
I know some poor people who value "hard work" above all else. Contrary to popular belief, there is no universal law of physics which transforms time or effort proportionately into wealth.
If you think investing in real estate somehow saves you from the volatility of market forces, your business plan is incomplete. If you had started buying and managing properties in Detroit a few years ago, you wouldn't be able to GIVE the property away, today.
You live at the mercy of the market like everybody else in a complex economy.
Buying land isn't amazingly different from buying companies (stocks). If you buy stock, you own a little piece of the buildings, chairs, computers, and bank accounts owned by that company. Those are real, tangible things. You also get to share in the profits the company makes from doing business. The big difference is: stock owners don't have to spend as much time managing the business.
As a bonus, the stock of large american companies typically grows in value at almost twice the rate as real estate. Of course, it is overall more volatile, so you need some sort of hedge in case you need to get money out while the market is down...
I am trying to enjoy life. I work one full time job and want no more. What good is wealth if you have to time to experience the luxuries it affords?
If your children inherit a steady income stream they may just become socialite tarts like Paris Hilton. Is that what you're going for? Enjoy your own life.
Keep investing, sure. Don't delude yourself into thinking buying land is fundamentally different from buying any other sort of revenue-generating entity.
I prefer the lower time requirements and higher average returns of big companies, myself.
Yeah, I don't know the details. Such a large employment change would take a long time, I would think. Even he cut WAY back on the taxes, regulations, and beurocracy required of businesses, he will have to convince investors that the laws will STAY that way before they will sink serious money into french business.
I don't really know how I could have benefited from being in class with this person. He didn't talk. He just groaned, moaned, and squealed. Really, his mentality seemed more like that of an animal than that of a man, and when he got angry, he started smashing things with super-human strength. Where's the benefit in being around that?
Also, slashdot tends to discuss big ideas with society-wide implications. When discussing big ideas, we need to talk using the frameworks of economics, philosophy, and other such concepts. If we concern ourselves with face-to-face emotional reactions and of individuals at the expense of society at large, we accomplish nothing.
Your gross underestimation of the value of economic concerns is seriously misguided. Perhaps you don't understand what economics is. The reason YOU have food, education, and a computer to type on--and the reason retarded children are not left on a hillside to die--is because we have a highly-functioning economic system. Economic systems are continuously challenged and revised by philosophers and analysts, and men fight and die for economics. People who let interpersonal emotions control their decisions at the expens of the economy as a whole do a disservice to society. Fortunately, they rarely gain power.
My economic considerations may seem cold and heartless to you, but I can argue (and defend with LOGIC and EVIDENCE) that they are far more altruistic and moral toward humanity than your small-picture emotive concerns.
First of all, I think you meant to say "unless a worm can hit the IP driver or the ethernet driver." Now that that's out of the way...
Does your computer ever receive and process data from other sources? If you use it, it almost certainly does.
Imagine, for example, someone finds a bof in a common image processing library. If you view an infected image, you're toast.
Imagine someone hacks one of the thousands of computers used by one of the thousands of package authors. Do you run apt-get upgrade? If so, you're toast.
There are many, many ways to get pwned. Having no listening ports is great. Using software written in languages that don't bof is also great. Using software and drivers written by companies which employ security experts at all stagest of the SDLC, and which use independant, external source code review is still better. Hiring IDS experts to scrutinize all your network traffic is one more requirement of you want to actually feel confident in your security.
Port exposure just makes sure you wont be the lowest haning fruit. You're still pretty vulnerable overall.
She said her big fear was that he would not make good on his economic reform plans, but it is better to have a good plan and poor execution than to have a bad plan and good execution...
As human kind learns to control genetics, I expect evolutionary fitness (as defined as: survival and reproduction in modern society) to accellerate dramatically, AND to be able to adapt much more effectively to changing physical environments if necessary.
:-)
Random mutation, deadly fitness pressures, and mass extinction are really a blunt and inefficient way of desigining self-replicating patterns (what life is). Now, we can actually start using the much more efficient process of intelligent design
Let go of your old ways, you crazy evolutionary conservative! You're a dinosaur!
I don't know about your sister, but I can vouch for the fact that a lot of retards consume FAR more economic resources in a society than they produce.
In my high school, the state paid for a body guard to lead around a "special" student from class to class... and tackle the kid whenever he went nuts and started throwing desks.
This kid didn't have half a brain. There is no way he could ever do anything of economic value. There is no way he learned a DAMN THING by getting drug through high school interrupting class for everyone else.
His parents just wanted him to be "normal" and go to school like everyone else, and they got the state to pay to waste all these resources pretending he was capable of learning.
Maybe there are exceptions, but it seems that a large number of "retards" are an economic drain on society. I suspect that a government which encourages the abortion of seriously malfunctioning fetuses would be at an economic advantage compared to more empathetic governments.
We do provide free healthcare, just not preventative health care. You have to go to the ER to get free health care. If you use it, your credit rating will be destroyed and you will never qualify for a loan credit card.
The obvious, inevitable result of allowing genetic discrimination is that all people with no genetic diseases have ultra-cheap insurance, and people who have genetic diseases have ultra-expensive insurance.
Also, on dates, people will try to tactfully find out which insurance the other person has so that know if they want to mix genes with that expensive, disease-infested freak...
I would like to know what my genes have in for me. It would help me decide what to put in my 401k.