Palms are flexible, loads of software can be downloaded and installed and executed... You must be thinking of the PSP, but even that machine is hacked nowadays (=2.7 via modchip)
What I understood is that locking your doors (or putting an alarm system in your car) makes the thieves go for the unlocked doors (unprotected cars) because they're lazy, right? So, if _you_ lock your door and there is a _lot_ of lusers who use windows^W^W leave their doors unlocked: thieves will become dumber because they will go for the lusers and leave you alone AND for the foreseeable future they will leave you alone because they became dumber. So, no, when you eliminate "casual theft" you are in general upgrading the thieves IQ.
That it's always possible to teach old programs new tricks:-) like exploring buffer underruns or macro/scripting capabilities or borderline behaviour of many kinds. Such a system wouldn't be invulnerable at all -- just the fact that you _must_ have some way to upgrade the software (to plug any left holes) opens way to new holes... vide the PSP (2.5/2.6 already hacked, 2.7 probably on its way)
Because they are becoming so inefficient in doing whatever that sooner they won't have anything that others want for a price others are willing to pay. In that case, it wouldn't hurt to be self-sufficient...:-)
What a load of crap. This whole argument is premised on the notion that some elite cabal of sysadmins should control what everyone does on the network, because normal users are stupid and will screw stuff up. Maybe everyone should just use dumb clients plugged into the IT department's servers.
(emphasis mine) That is just pretty much it. Normal users are stupid, and they will screw stuff up. Believe me. I've been there.
The real reason these folks have a bug up their ass is that they have found themselves in the position of having to explain to the dollars and cents committee why the $50,000 application level firewall they purchased doesn't prevent people from using Skype. Especially if they are using Skype in lieue of, say, the metered phone service that they can bill for (like at a University).
That, too. But it's not just that... The fact is that the "stealth" thing that Skype does can -- and will -- be used for opening un-closeable botnets. If you are interested in the regular "1ncr3ase yr p3n15" thing, then you'll not be affected much.
The security argument is basically this: "We allow protocols like email, because we can monitor email for viruses and therefor are able to protect our users. We can't do that with Skype." Balony. You can't do it for email either, unless you have magic decryption powers. Ditto for web traffic. All the bandaids people put on email gateways and such are just that, bandaids. They don't address the root cause of most security problems in the slightest.
Yes... and no. With reasonably secure web browsers and e-mail clients, and some filtering, you pretty much can CYA and say: "now, if Luser01 got a 7zipped,encripted executable file over e-mail/web -- that passed thru our filters -- and decrypted it, expanded it, chmod+xed it, and executed it to install a virus in his workstation -- even though he has 100 hours of seminars where we did explain to him he shouldn't then he can be fired for the security breach, not us."
As we move into a future where more and more applications are built on web services protocols, we can only expect to see more applications stuffing their traffic through port 80 and (gasp) 443. I'm a network admin myself, and I really do wish I could do network magic that would protect everyone from everything. I can't. But I sure as hell don't want the solution to be that everyone has to expose every thing that they ever do on the network, so that I could ostensibly monitor the traffic and stomp every malicious packet. That would truly be terrible security.
I feel your pain on this, but the remaining fact is: when someone steals sensitive data from your enterprise, someone will be fired.
I do understand that smell recordings have practical uses -- what I don't believe for a second is that smell playbacks have practical uses other than making CSI audience faint and/or vomit. For instance: if you get a really qualified doctor to smell some wound and say "whoa! we got a problem here", and then you record the smell (and analyse it) then you know what to search with an electronic nose when a soldier needs to play doctor in the battlefield.
another reason: fenders are made of plastic those days. This is not only to protect the pedestrians (but it works! number of broken legs in low-speed car-hits-pedestrians accidents fell down to near 0), but the occupants of both vehicles (flexible plastic absorbs part of the impact, even in a high-speed crash... but the absortion is less than half if one of the cars has a hitch -- think neck injuries etc). The old "fender bender" bends the things, but they get right back in place... except when a guy that uses a trailer hitch (normally without ever tolling a trailer in the car's lifetime) and then the fscking thing breaks (or dents) and leaves you with a $500 bill to foot. My city has a quite caotic traffic, and I have been in three or four fender-benders... with no damage done to either car. IOW: trailer hitches are BAD. Have one in your car if you toll a trailer, say, at least 10% of the time; otherwise, you are inviting injuries to others and to yourself.
I lived all my adult life -- hell, since my teens -- wanting the things you wrote. Now I have a 6yo boy and a 2mo girl. And I have it all again. Everytime he smiles because of his new YuGiOh card -- he made himself in a piece of A4 paper with his color pencils -- and everytime she smiles satified after feeding and everytime I hug both of them at night when it's cold and the three of us just cuddle watching the Simpsons or the Fairy Oddparents on TV, I forget about all the crap that is being an adult, and I am just there with the two people I love most in the world, completely happy. A couple of years ago, the boy asked me "Dad, why do the adult make all the decisions", and I answered: "life is not fair -- adults got to make all the decisions, and children got to have all the fun."
But no, the supermileage prizes are academic competitions which should be used to promote good ideas to lower the mileage of our day-by-day cars. Down here, for instance, we do have a tax deduction on the AVT for cars with less than 1000cc. Thanks to that, most of the cars you see on a street can make more than 15km/l (35 mpg) in urban traffic -- those cars are 20-30% cheaper than the same car, equipped with a 1400cc engine. If this was a competition like "yeah, let's see who comes with an engine that can propel a normal, compact urban car with four occupants at 60km/h (40 mph) and better mileage" I would think that it would be a better idea.
László Bíró, the journalist that invented the ballpoint pen, is a naturalised Argentine born in Hungary.
The wristwatch was invented by Alberto Santos Dumont (of "not-quite-first heavier-than-air flight" fame and "first to circle Eiffel Tower in a dirigible ballon" fame), a Brasilian.
Yeah, immediately after hitting submit I thought my grammar was terrible in the sentence; so, as you had the trouble to point it out, here it goes, corrected: "in some countries, the Constitution says that each private citizen can do anything not explicitly forbidden by law; and that the government can only do what the law prescribes."
Those that are supposed to represent the people can and will do anything that we let them get away with. When we re-elect the same people for decades, even if the make bad laws, who can be blamed for that? When a large percentage of people, especially those who tend to complain about government, don't bother to register and vote, whose fault is that?
There is only one kind of government, and it's democracy. Evil empires and dictatorships (and even the Third Reich) are sustained by a majority of the people wanting to collaborate and spy on their neighbours and be silent about government's errors and terrors and that's it. See Brasil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, URSS, etc, etc, etc (I should write present-day-USofA, but people would mod me flamebait... oops, I did it)
As for someone watching you in your backyard, just run Google Earth sometime and you'll know that that sort of watching has been going on for a long time. Modern satellite technology allows the reading of a newspaper headline from space.
Yeah, but someone has to point -- and keep trained on -- the damn thing to YOU. That someone is a wrongdoer and should be but in jail -- much more than the sympathetic old lady that used to sell pot in college.
we have written in our Constitutions "a private citizen can do anything that isn't forbidden by law, but the government can't do NOTHING that isn't authorized by law". Insane, isn't it?
I have read a lot of comments in the tone of "rms is un-hygienic". Can you inform me if that does have any truth in it? AFAIK, he has long and un-groomed, un-trimmed hair and beard, but -- at least in the close-ups I remember seeing, and in the reports I have heard of people who went in FS events in person -- they seemed to be normally washed and cleaned. No person that I know and went to any Free Software conference ever said to me, "oh, yes, and Stallman really smells bad"... Just as attire =/= responsibility, hygiene =/= trimmed hair + short or no beard. Now, I know people with cavagnacs (goatees) in USofAn movies are usually the villains or even the evil twins -- thank $DEITY the albinos are taking our place those days:-). And, as a disclaimer, I do wear a goatee, not always groomed or trimmed, but it's always clean and hygienic. Ah, and I wear black t-shirts and jeans to my day job, too -- almost every single day. I wear one t-shirt per day, a different set of underwear for the day and for the night, and my jeans are regularly washed (I use one or two pairs per week). I shower everyday, wash my hair almost every day, brush my teeth a number of times >= 3, floss, etc. Would you consider me un-hygienic?
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Palms are flexible, loads of software can be downloaded and installed and executed... You must be thinking of the PSP, but even that machine is hacked nowadays (=2.7 via modchip)
What I understood is that locking your doors (or putting an alarm system in your car) makes the thieves go for the unlocked doors (unprotected cars) because they're lazy, right? So, if _you_ lock your door and there is a _lot_ of lusers who use windows^W^W leave their doors unlocked: thieves will become dumber because they will go for the lusers and leave you alone AND for the foreseeable future they will leave you alone because they became dumber. So, no, when you eliminate "casual theft" you are in general upgrading the thieves IQ.
That it's always possible to teach old programs new tricks :-) like exploring buffer underruns or macro/scripting capabilities or borderline behaviour of many kinds.
Such a system wouldn't be invulnerable at all -- just the fact that you _must_ have some way to upgrade the software (to plug any left holes) opens way to new holes... vide the PSP (2.5/2.6 already hacked, 2.7 probably on its way)
Because they are becoming so inefficient in doing whatever that sooner they won't have anything that others want for a price others are willing to pay. In that case, it wouldn't hurt to be self-sufficient... :-)
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I do understand that smell recordings have practical uses -- what I don't believe for a second is that smell playbacks have practical uses other than making CSI audience faint and/or vomit.
For instance: if you get a really qualified doctor to smell some wound and say "whoa! we got a problem here", and then you record the smell (and analyse it) then you know what to search with an electronic nose when a soldier needs to play doctor in the battlefield.
another reason: fenders are made of plastic those days. This is not only to protect the pedestrians (but it works! number of broken legs in low-speed car-hits-pedestrians accidents fell down to near 0), but the occupants of both vehicles (flexible plastic absorbs part of the impact, even in a high-speed crash... but the absortion is less than half if one of the cars has a hitch -- think neck injuries etc). The old "fender bender" bends the things, but they get right back in place... except when a guy that uses a trailer hitch (normally without ever tolling a trailer in the car's lifetime) and then the fscking thing breaks (or dents) and leaves you with a $500 bill to foot. My city has a quite caotic traffic, and I have been in three or four fender-benders... with no damage done to either car.
IOW: trailer hitches are BAD. Have one in your car if you toll a trailer, say, at least 10% of the time; otherwise, you are inviting injuries to others and to yourself.
When I was a pot-smoking teen, I had a great motivation to get off the couch (and drive somewhere)... when my stash was almost ended!!!!
Do you really own/use a trailer?
"thank you for all the fish."
They also may want to eat us or to conquer us. Never mind, I voted for Kang anyway.
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He vomits some cookies and milk in the process. :-)
I lived all my adult life -- hell, since my teens -- wanting the things you wrote.
Now I have a 6yo boy and a 2mo girl. And I have it all again.
Everytime he smiles because of his new YuGiOh card -- he made himself in a piece of A4 paper with his color pencils -- and everytime she smiles satified after feeding and everytime I hug both of them at night when it's cold and the three of us just cuddle watching the Simpsons or the Fairy Oddparents on TV, I forget about all the crap that is being an adult, and I am just there with the two people I love most in the world, completely happy.
A couple of years ago, the boy asked me "Dad, why do the adult make all the decisions", and I answered: "life is not fair -- adults got to make all the decisions, and children got to have all the fun."
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189) let others keep their reputation, keep their money.
But no, the supermileage prizes are academic competitions which should be used to promote good ideas to lower the mileage of our day-by-day cars. Down here, for instance, we do have a tax deduction on the AVT for cars with less than 1000cc. Thanks to that, most of the cars you see on a street can make more than 15km/l (35 mpg) in urban traffic -- those cars are 20-30% cheaper than the same car, equipped with a 1400cc engine. If this was a competition like "yeah, let's see who comes with an engine that can propel a normal, compact urban car with four occupants at 60km/h (40 mph) and better mileage" I would think that it would be a better idea.
László Bíró, the journalist that invented the ballpoint pen, is a naturalised Argentine born in Hungary.
The wristwatch was invented by Alberto Santos Dumont (of "not-quite-first heavier-than-air flight" fame and "first to circle Eiffel Tower in a dirigible ballon" fame), a Brasilian.
Finally a countermeasure for those pesky speeding-ticket cameras that plague my city!!!! Down with the 60km/h (~37mph) limit!!!
ask him to explain the mysterious "process that wasn't explained". And post it here.
"in some countries, the Constitution says that each private citizen can do anything not explicitly forbidden by law; and that the government can only do what the law prescribes."
There is only one kind of government, and it's democracy. Evil empires and dictatorships (and even the Third Reich) are sustained by a majority of the people wanting to collaborate and spy on their neighbours and be silent about government's errors and terrors and that's it. See Brasil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, URSS, etc, etc, etc (I should write present-day-USofA, but people would mod me flamebait... oops, I did it)
Yeah, but someone has to point -- and keep trained on -- the damn thing to YOU. That someone is a wrongdoer and should be but in jail -- much more than the sympathetic old lady that used to sell pot in college.
did forget about Poland. Thanks for coming, I'll be here all eternity.
whatever branch appears when you do a search or follow a link should point to the other in a big pink box at the top of the page. simple...
we have written in our Constitutions "a private citizen can do anything that isn't forbidden by law, but the government can't do NOTHING that isn't authorized by law". Insane, isn't it?
I have read a lot of comments in the tone of "rms is un-hygienic". Can you inform me if that does have any truth in it? AFAIK, he has long and un-groomed, un-trimmed hair and beard, but -- at least in the close-ups I remember seeing, and in the reports I have heard of people who went in FS events in person -- they seemed to be normally washed and cleaned. No person that I know and went to any Free Software conference ever said to me, "oh, yes, and Stallman really smells bad"... :-). And, as a disclaimer, I do wear a goatee, not always groomed or trimmed, but it's always clean and hygienic. Ah, and I wear black t-shirts and jeans to my day job, too -- almost every single day. I wear one t-shirt per day, a different set of underwear for the day and for the night, and my jeans are regularly washed (I use one or two pairs per week). I shower everyday, wash my hair almost every day, brush my teeth a number of times >= 3, floss, etc. Would you consider me un-hygienic?
Just as attire =/= responsibility, hygiene =/= trimmed hair + short or no beard.
Now, I know people with cavagnacs (goatees) in USofAn movies are usually the villains or even the evil twins -- thank $DEITY the albinos are taking our place those days