Informative? Read the writeup. It doesn't matter which browser you use. Opening email overwrites your hosts file (for you nooobz: your hosts file is like a local DNS server). Any browser that tries to go to your bank (by domain name) will go to their fake site instead.
If we were at war with an enemy capable of launching sats, I think a little disruption in US business transactions would be an acceptable price to pay.
How is everyone blaming the US and talking about US law? If that estate makes some stupid claim about US jurisdiction, blaim the estate, not the US. Place blame where it belongs, instead of taking the idiot's way out and always blaming the USA.
You need to look up the difference between freedom and privacy. I can read whatever book I want, I can say anything I want... but I have to identify myself when I check out a book at the library.
I think a world without privacy would actually be good. It would keep people honest, and we would still have the same freedoms.
Normal users don't need root? Maybe you don't get out much. Sure, HR doesn't need Admin rights, but developers and support types actually do need to be able to install software. There are a slew of other IT-relate roles that would be much harder if you can't install or modify the system.
That's an interesting way to think of it. If I am already subsidizing the workers of Wal-Mart, I should start shopping there so I can at least benefit from what I am already paying for.
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Consider the average slashdotter. Now realize that half of the slashdotters understands statistics even worse than he. Including finkployd.
There is no lag on my ultra-cheap Daewoo 17" LCD. It is actually great for games. Time to ask Dell for a refund. You don't need to pay big bucks for a good quality LCD. You just need the big bucks for a quality LCD with digital input.
Uh, minutes is a valid measurement of distance. Its used in measuring fractions of a degree on the surface of the globe... so may I be the first to say that you have one hell of a huge closet.
Wow. You make a pedantic joke and feel like such a wise-ass, only to discover there is always an ass with more wisdom than you out there.
Well, to reclaim my honor, I subimt that minutes is a radial measurement, and is completely worthless as a measurement of distance unless altitude is also known. The joke stands again as funny. Wiseass.
If it were very slow-moving, we could indeed get to it in time. Sure, they usually are going much faster, but our space program has the potential to save the planet.
That sounds silly to me. If something came toward Terra from the north or south, Jupiter could not do shit about it. Jupiter could only protect us if something were passing through Jupiter's orbit at the exact time Jupiter were at that point it its solar year. There is an incredibly small chance of that. If you don't believe me, install celestia (probably the coolest OpenGL software for linux) to see what a small spec even Jupiter is with respect to the size of the solar system.
They definately ARE primitive. Lack of technology (by choice or not) is primitive. The dinosaurs were primitive, and when a meteor came to destroy earth, they couldn't do anything about it. The amish are just as primitive in the respect. The more advanced nations among us have the ability to detect and in some cases deflect such a threat with fusion bombs. This is just one example of why the amish are primitive, and why chosing to be primitive is a very bad thing.
Someone will just write a program called "Launcher" which starts every program as a sub-process of itself. It will have it's own built-in scheduler, which will probably be better than Microsoft's.
Suppose they have their own, private network. It would need wires running all around the country. Nobody could DoS it from the Internet, but if someone tried to take it down, all they would have to do is cut a few wires!
Now suppose they do it over the Internet. Someone DoSs a major backbone. I can't check my email, but the Fed has a lot of HIGHLY payed engineers rerouting their traffice over a satelite connection, or over a bunch of long-distance dial-ups to route around the busted backbone. In fact, they will probably have this infractructure in place long before a backbone is DoSd.
And confidentiality is not a problem. The Fed can exchange keys via armored trucks.
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Informative? Read the writeup. It doesn't matter which browser you use. Opening email overwrites your hosts file (for you nooobz: your hosts file is like a local DNS server). Any browser that tries to go to your bank (by domain name) will go to their fake site instead.
If we were at war with an enemy capable of launching sats, I think a little disruption in US business transactions would be an acceptable price to pay.
You damn torrie!
How is everyone blaming the US and talking about US law? If that estate makes some stupid claim about US jurisdiction, blaim the estate, not the US. Place blame where it belongs, instead of taking the idiot's way out and always blaming the USA.
You need to look up the difference between freedom and privacy. I can read whatever book I want, I can say anything I want... but I have to identify myself when I check out a book at the library.
I think a world without privacy would actually be good. It would keep people honest, and we would still have the same freedoms.
Normal users don't need root? Maybe you don't get out much. Sure, HR doesn't need Admin rights, but developers and support types actually do need to be able to install software. There are a slew of other IT-relate roles that would be much harder if you can't install or modify the system.
Moderators: Please mod the parent comment up! He makes some very good points, even if they don't support your own view.
FAQs existed in the BBS days, bud. Don't forget (or do you call that 'networking?)
That's an interesting way to think of it. If I am already subsidizing the workers of Wal-Mart, I should start shopping there so I can at least benefit from what I am already paying for.
Consider the average slashdotter. Now realize that half of the slashdotters understands statistics even worse than he. Including finkployd.
Citing the navy isn't the best or oldest example. Think about the Zebra (or many other African animals) /just got back from a safari
Yeah. You need to change your phaser wavelength to be able to get around the adaptive borg shields. I thought everyone knew that.
There is no lag on my ultra-cheap Daewoo 17" LCD. It is actually great for games. Time to ask Dell for a refund. You don't need to pay big bucks for a good quality LCD. You just need the big bucks for a quality LCD with digital input.
"When common folk's computer is still infested with adware/trojan/god-knows-what
This just creates an illusion of security."
Wrong. You could have a damn key logger on their computer, it doesn't matter. The SecurID password expires every minute.
Uh, minutes is a valid measurement of distance. Its used in measuring fractions of a degree on the surface of the globe... so may I be the first to say that you have one hell of a huge closet.
Wow. You make a pedantic joke and feel like such a wise-ass, only to discover there is always an ass with more wisdom than you out there.
Well, to reclaim my honor, I subimt that minutes is a radial measurement, and is completely worthless as a measurement of distance unless altitude is also known. The joke stands again as funny. Wiseass.
If it were very slow-moving, we could indeed get to it in time. Sure, they usually are going much faster, but our space program has the potential to save the planet.
That sounds silly to me. If something came toward Terra from the north or south, Jupiter could not do shit about it. Jupiter could only protect us if something were passing through Jupiter's orbit at the exact time Jupiter were at that point it its solar year. There is an incredibly small chance of that. If you don't believe me, install celestia (probably the coolest OpenGL software for linux) to see what a small spec even Jupiter is with respect to the size of the solar system.
They definately ARE primitive. Lack of technology (by choice or not) is primitive. The dinosaurs were primitive, and when a meteor came to destroy earth, they couldn't do anything about it. The amish are just as primitive in the respect. The more advanced nations among us have the ability to detect and in some cases deflect such a threat with fusion bombs. This is just one example of why the amish are primitive, and why chosing to be primitive is a very bad thing.
A 1 gigabyte transfer speed! That is so fast! I could store this new disk in my new 12-minute wide closet.
Because even if you win, you're still a loser.
I thought that we were in the milky way. What do you men by "get a glimpse of the milky way?" Do you mean the other parts of the milky way?
Actually, the US changed patent law in order to sync with the EU. Now patents last 20 years from filing.
Someone will just write a program called "Launcher" which starts every program as a sub-process of itself. It will have it's own built-in scheduler, which will probably be better than Microsoft's.
Suppose they have their own, private network. It would need wires running all around the country. Nobody could DoS it from the Internet, but if someone tried to take it down, all they would have to do is cut a few wires!
Now suppose they do it over the Internet. Someone DoSs a major backbone. I can't check my email, but the Fed has a lot of HIGHLY payed engineers rerouting their traffice over a satelite connection, or over a bunch of long-distance dial-ups to route around the busted backbone. In fact, they will probably have this infractructure in place long before a backbone is DoSd.
And confidentiality is not a problem. The Fed can exchange keys via armored trucks.
How ironic that you think everything you read on slashdot is said by the same person.