I can understand anyone or any group not wanting to be impersonated and having said impostors make false statements or claims on your behalf, but this is ridiculous on the part of both the Canadian gov't & that hosting company. I don't know the specifics of Canuck law, but considering it's a parliamentary democracy, I can't imagine there aren't some due processes of law by which an aggrieved party, whether government department or private citizen, can ask the police/justice department to look into just that one specific website doing the impersonation, ask that just it and it alone be suspended/removed, not have a basic request not backed by any warrant result in an entire block of IP addresses being shut down. That is outrageous. If the article is to be believed, the government's next request is downright absurd...
Landreville also asked the ISP to "make every effort to prevent any further attempts concerning other environment-related domains (enviro, ec-gc, etc.) originating from your servers."
It's like the RIAA attitude is rubbing off everywhere. "Please act on our behalf to protect our image/intellectual property/etc, because we just don't feel like getting off our lazy asses to manage our own affairs." Ludicrous. I'm not advocating belligerence toward the law, but this kind of blind, sniveling compliance verges on the sort of grovelling a lackey does at the feet of his master. Whatever happened to "Get a warrant?"
They could have afforded all three gold-plated Humvees filled with whores and coke, instead of only springing for two per person. Poor deprived movie execs...
Bullshit. That was the invaders' mothership. Everyone will regret not scrambling their military forces when giant saucers appear over every major city. Quick, someone ready a Powerbook with a virus we'll upload to their computers!
No joke. What's next? "Next on Martha Stewart: How to line your walls with giant lcd screens. You'll never have to wallpaper again, just change it on your computer. It's a good thing."
"...welcome our new Anonymous Coward Overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a random/. poster I could be helpful in flamebaiting, hijacking discussions, and general trolling."
I guess it's a question of how much a given archive compression format can shrink an encapsulated document like a PDF. I'm not an expert, so I'll let someone else do the math. In any case, this is all kind of off-topic from the main point about the TSA's epic fail in actually omitting the data, and instead just, in effect, holding up a sign saying, "Censored - please don't look at what is behind this."
My apologies for the lateness of this reply, illness followed by Thanksgiving dinner took me offline for a while.
Let the bullshit begin.
Ann Coulter is an opinion-writer, not a news-source — just as Camille Paglia, whom I quoted earlier without any objections from you.
Obvious excuse is obvious. I'm asking what justification is there (aside from Right-wing paranoia of some vast takeover conspiracy) that we should flat out dissolve the DoE. You? You're bringing opinions to the table. For me, or anyone, to object to an opinion makes about as much sense as objecting to someone saying, "I don't like electronica music." My objection is that you have yet to answer my question, and I'm annoyed this isn't already clear as fucking day to you. Surprised? No. Just annoyed.
I didn't ask you for news citations,
Cheap dismissal technique for any citations you find inconvenient.
...and I didn't dispute the fact, that America's Public Schools education is declining —
LOLWUT? Wait, so you agree the educational system is going down the tubes, but somehow you require citations regarding misbehavior of States in handling their business, who just happen to, oh yeah, set state guidelines for education, direct funds to cities & local districts, and control the aforementioned to make sure children are properly educated... Take your grandstanding to make yourself look smart and fuck off. You can double that prescription while you're at it, considering all the details I've posted so far, and that all you can offer is "You Lie! I disagree! My opinion that I copied from Mann Coulter has more validity than reality!" As far as that Camille Paglia quote, it sounds a little like an out of context, snipped from a long, unrelated editorial, so again, that's just another red-herring.
...in fact, this was my whole point against rewarding failure at the Department of Education,
What reward? What the hell are you talking about? In case the concept has not sunk into your dense skull, THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CONTROLS GIVING MONEY TO STATES, MONEY THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY HAS. THEY ARE NOT A PRIVATE AND SEPARATE GROUP FROM THE REST OF THE GOVERNMENT. What crack have you been smoking?
What a smart person you are.
which we didn't even have until 1979, and the education was better before then.
How is this relevant? In regards to the Southern social standards that said segregation and discrimination were "A-Okay!" prior to the Federal Government stepping in and saying something had to change? Or maybe this is in regards to literacy rates? I'm not here to give undue credit to the DoE, but it looks an awful lot like a broad social movement swept the nation to improve literacy and education across the board, formalized with the creation of the DoE. How do formal rules that say you can't arbitrarily give some people the short end of the stick regarding educational opportunities equal a "failure?" Explain.
What I asked you, was citations of the States not learning from each other's mistakes...
Once again, fuck off. I've already posted a number of links, some evidencing, among other things, that we are on average slipping in terms of skills. Simple knowledge of mathematical averaging tells you that either at one end, all districts are doing rather mediocre to poo, or on the other end some are doing very well, while the majority of others are crapping things up. This isn't a fucking College thesis, I'm not about to go chasing a billion citations around for your benefit, and the fucking issue IS FOR YOU TO ANSWER MY FUCKING QUESTION. Quit stalling.
This isn't news. This is fucking marketing. As good as this software may or may not be, this is not newsworthy, and is nothing more than shameless promotion of a product.
Lolwut? Did you just- You're actually trying to use Andy Coulter as a legitimate news citation? HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAA! And then you demand of me that I cite my sources? Alrighty, ifyouinsist. Not satisfied yet? Moarhere, and here. And one moar, because I can.
Waaaah! Waaah! Big bad guhv'nmint iz takin' our monieezzz! Dey shoodn't taxez mine, just the lib'rals dat i h8tez!
What I really don't get is why you continue to try to apply the dynamics of a plane to something that is obviously not one. This is essentially a solar powered glider. 'Nuff said.
And your proposal is exactly the argument I just tore down.
Please read the following slowly and carefully:
If a state education board is already mishandling the funds they currently receive, how will it help to give them even more money, but now WITHOUT ANY strings attached?
I have yet to see an answer to that question.
I just realized the most alarming part. You said "redisctribute all the funds back to the states." Technically, you're not even talking about it going to education, or any requirement that it be used as such. Just give it to the state. Dump it in a slush fund? Or maybe see that it gets earmarked by toot-sweet. Because, as we know, such funding has never been misused.Never ever,Amirite?
If/when a State's department screws up, only that State is affected, and the others learn, how not to do things. When the Federal department screws up, we are all affected and — having little to compare with — may not even know, how much better (or worse) the things could be.
Well, wouldn't that just be peaches and cream...if it were true. I'd love it if all our varying governmental institutions, from the local to the state level, took to heart the lessons taught by the failures of others. But let's be honest; how many can you say to yourself have actually followed this path? So far few, if any, local state education boards have implemented this "learn from others' mistakes" ideology, which, yes, would be a great benefit for them to endorse. We have yet, however, to see governmental institutions do so on any sort of broad scale. The current state of most of our schools, and so many other parts of our decaying infrastructure, makes that painfully self-evident.
As far as that last bit about how much better or worse things could be, I can only say this: I don't need to wait until a bullet is burrowing through my ribcage or my cranium to know I don't want to get shot, or predict what will happen if the trigger is pulled. You still fail to justify disbanding an entire federal department on the "basis of we don't know what will happen." You're wrong. Again. Wedo. In the words of George Santayana, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
More importantly, most of the modern "national" Departments violate the Constitution — if not in letter, then in spirit — by usurping the powers not explicitly enumerated as Federal by the document. Lip-service to that is still paid by Congress — the Federal attempts to regulate the maximum speed nationally, for example, are hidden behind "federal highway money": States don't have to set certain speed limits, but will not get federal funds, unless they cap the speeds...
LOLWUT? Been indulging in some "recreational substances" there, chief? State governments are more than free to NOT TAKE Federal money. No one forces the cash down states' throats. But guess what? If you want to feed at the Federal trough, you play by their rules. Same thing any responsible parent tells their snotty teenager: "As long as you're living under my roof..." I do believe the proper term for claiming rights to taxpayer money without strings is called...*ahem*... Entitlement.
Peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism.
Oops.
I don't understand the modern Left's obsession with the all-knowing and benevolent Central government. What happened to "stick it to the man", etc? I'm not alone in my puzzlement, BTW:
... somehow liberals have drifted into a strange servility toward big government, which they revere as a godlike foster father-mother who can dispense all bounty and magically heal all ills.
That's only part of the picture. Definitely, a good number do believe that Uncle Sam will do everything including providing a nice clean and soft wipe for their backside, followed by just the right amount of baby powder during their diaper change. Some of them are in the Republican Party, too. Remember all the tax cuts and bailouts for big business since 2000?
In the end, I'm just sick and tired of bullshit arguments being pushed as
I have relatives in the same boat. I'm lucky to be pretty close to the CO (don't know where it is exactly) and we get steady and speedy DSL service, but our relatives who live very near the city limits? Not gonna happen. Their house is also just outside of the cable companies' service limits/boundaries, so until a wimax service becomes feasible, they're on dialup. Satellite was discussed but quickly dropped due to the prohibitive cost and sketchy signal.
In case this hasn't become readily apparent, the telcos typically sit on the tech and business model they currently have largely because it's a guaranteed cash cow, only requires they meet what are right now "low-bar" guidelines from the government (thats local, state and Federal), and the fact they're selling to a fixed market. Once they've got the bid/been selected/whatever it is to provide for a neighborhood, it's not like the locals can opt for something different. So far, the only motivation I see for telcos to get with it and improve their service, not to mention expanding to rural areas previously without coverage, is when the big, evil government steps in and lays down the law. Corporations are driven by profit and shareholders, neither of which like risk very much. But without risk, we will continue to remain 15th in terms of broadband support.
...so, as the article suggests, AV's/firewalls will look for that. And if there's a library of some sort that contains the translations, mightn't the executable portion of the payload bear some similarities to an unpacker? I'd assume they'd be unpacking (probably into the same hidden portion of memory as it) some sort of lookup table/library in order to function properly, as, presumably, they wouldn't want to include the lookup values in the exe as it would increase size & risk of detection.
Your argument is crap. Let's rephrase that a bit, and then see how it sounds.
"The Department of Transportation hasn't so far done anything to ensure my State of Wiscaliforegonevadelawashingtohio fixed the roads here, so, instead of boosting it, restructuring it, or anything, and changing national laws to more tightly bind state DoT's to the national guidelines and making them more accountable both Federally and locally, let's do away with the Federal level Department and privatize/localize roads. Brilliant!"
Or how about this?
"Those parents aren't able to very well control their kids. Someone should just kill those idiot parents, I bet the kids would be right as rain and behave like angels if their parents were gone. They would not get any worse, and might get better."
Still not seeing it?
"Those cops aren't keeping criminals from breaking the law and murdering people. We should get rid of the police department..."
And so on, and so forth...
If the problem was that national dept A, did not ensure that state depts b through z or whatever acted responsibly, what leads you to believe the state departments will act any more responsibly if the national one controlling everything and its corresponding laws go bye-bye?
Exactly. I want to use myself as an anecdotal example. In no way, I'm sure, does this represent to experience of most people in terms of their education. Anyway, I grew up in the South, the so-called Bible-belt. For my first three years of school, I think, I went to a private school (that kindergarten, first and second), then public for the next one or two. Before fourth or fifth grade, can't remember which, my family moved to the Midwest, where I was in public through the rest of my schooling. Given this, I can definitely say there was a difference in the subjects taught, especially in things like history. I remember there being a lot taught about the Civil War in the South, particularly, Confederate Generals, whereas the remainder was a bit more well rounded, if not a bit overly focused on the Louisiana Purchase or Lewis and Clark.
Education is not something that needs decentralization. That's exactly the sort of thing that makes it so much easier to push creationism into schools, or any other ridiculous agenda. What's next, let companies that make a big enough donation make suggestions for the curriculum? Or they'll just supply the teacher along with all 'educational materials?' Where would it stop? The Principal from Dow? Would some districts, given the right circumstances, start testing the waters to see if they can bring back segregation? If anything, schools need baseline standards enforced to ensure all children are getting a sufficient education, not indoctrination.
Trickle Down Economics: Since 1981, Reaganomics has been unzipping the secrets to arcing, golden streams of wealth, allowing it to flow freely and splash down on all peoples of the middle and working class, so we may bathe in its warm and slightly bitter essence, and glory in the amber fountains of our masters. Here, have a towel. Wait, go buy your own.
Oh boy! Nice cheap shot there! So glad we've all moved past that. Now lets talk about the time that GWB was so classy that he flipped the bird to that camera. How about when he oh-so-slickly commented about a certain member of the press, Adam Clymer, not minding that the microphone was still on? Or when Chanukah cards were sent with Christmas trees on them? I could go on if you'd like.
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Inconceivable!
It's like the RIAA attitude is rubbing off everywhere. "Please act on our behalf to protect our image/intellectual property/etc, because we just don't feel like getting off our lazy asses to manage our own affairs." Ludicrous. I'm not advocating belligerence toward the law, but this kind of blind, sniveling compliance verges on the sort of grovelling a lackey does at the feet of his master. Whatever happened to "Get a warrant?"
They could have afforded all three gold-plated Humvees filled with whores and coke, instead of only springing for two per person. Poor deprived movie execs...
No, really...
I'm shocked.
I am...
Honest.
I'm being super-cereal!
This should be simple enough to resolve. We just use Photoshop to swirl the opposite direction...
Bullshit. That was the invaders' mothership. Everyone will regret not scrambling their military forces when giant saucers appear over every major city. Quick, someone ready a Powerbook with a virus we'll upload to their computers!
No joke. What's next? "Next on Martha Stewart: How to line your walls with giant lcd screens. You'll never have to wallpaper again, just change it on your computer. It's a good thing."
Of all the things to post about, and we get stories on how to waste technology? Insert joke about the phone having a 'paperweight mode' here...
"...welcome our new Anonymous Coward Overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a random /. poster I could be helpful in flamebaiting, hijacking discussions, and general trolling."
You did it wrong.
I guess it's a question of how much a given archive compression format can shrink an encapsulated document like a PDF. I'm not an expert, so I'll let someone else do the math. In any case, this is all kind of off-topic from the main point about the TSA's epic fail in actually omitting the data, and instead just, in effect, holding up a sign saying, "Censored - please don't look at what is behind this."
Let the bullshit begin.
Obvious excuse is obvious. I'm asking what justification is there (aside from Right-wing paranoia of some vast takeover conspiracy) that we should flat out dissolve the DoE. You? You're bringing opinions to the table. For me, or anyone, to object to an opinion makes about as much sense as objecting to someone saying, "I don't like electronica music." My objection is that you have yet to answer my question, and I'm annoyed this isn't already clear as fucking day to you. Surprised? No. Just annoyed.
Cheap dismissal technique for any citations you find inconvenient.
LOLWUT? Wait, so you agree the educational system is going down the tubes, but somehow you require citations regarding misbehavior of States in handling their business, who just happen to, oh yeah, set state guidelines for education, direct funds to cities & local districts, and control the aforementioned to make sure children are properly educated... Take your grandstanding to make yourself look smart and fuck off. You can double that prescription while you're at it, considering all the details I've posted so far, and that all you can offer is "You Lie! I disagree! My opinion that I copied from Mann Coulter has more validity than reality!" As far as that Camille Paglia quote, it sounds a little like an out of context, snipped from a long, unrelated editorial, so again, that's just another red-herring.
What reward? What the hell are you talking about? In case the concept has not sunk into your dense skull, THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CONTROLS GIVING MONEY TO STATES, MONEY THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY HAS. THEY ARE NOT A PRIVATE AND SEPARATE GROUP FROM THE REST OF THE GOVERNMENT. What crack have you been smoking?
What a smart person you are.
How is this relevant? In regards to the Southern social standards that said segregation and discrimination were "A-Okay!" prior to the Federal Government stepping in and saying something had to change? Or maybe this is in regards to literacy rates? I'm not here to give undue credit to the DoE, but it looks an awful lot like a broad social movement swept the nation to improve literacy and education across the board, formalized with the creation of the DoE. How do formal rules that say you can't arbitrarily give some people the short end of the stick regarding educational opportunities equal a "failure?" Explain.
Once again, fuck off. I've already posted a number of links, some evidencing, among other things, that we are on average slipping in terms of skills. Simple knowledge of mathematical averaging tells you that either at one end, all districts are doing rather mediocre to poo, or on the other end some are doing very well, while the majority of others are crapping things up. This isn't a fucking College thesis, I'm not about to go chasing a billion citations around for your benefit, and the fucking issue IS FOR YOU TO ANSWER MY FUCKING QUESTION. Quit stalling.
short of a trip for him to pull a Steve Fossett.
This isn't news. This is fucking marketing. As good as this software may or may not be, this is not newsworthy, and is nothing more than shameless promotion of a product.
At least there is a fix posted. Protip to Anon Cow: No one likes trolls that post blind links.
fix'd
/bullshit or GTFO.
And your true colors shine through.
Because, as we all know, flight has nothing to do with lift and drag, amirite?
What I really don't get is why you continue to try to apply the dynamics of a plane to something that is obviously not one. This is essentially a solar powered glider. 'Nuff said.
And your proposal is exactly the argument I just tore down.
Please read the following slowly and carefully:
If a state education board is already mishandling the funds they currently receive, how will it help to give them even more money, but now WITHOUT ANY strings attached?
I have yet to see an answer to that question.
I just realized the most alarming part. You said "redisctribute all the funds back to the states." Technically, you're not even talking about it going to education, or any requirement that it be used as such. Just give it to the state. Dump it in a slush fund? Or maybe see that it gets earmarked by toot-sweet. Because, as we know, such funding has never been misused. Never ever, Amirite?
Well, wouldn't that just be peaches and cream...if it were true. I'd love it if all our varying governmental institutions, from the local to the state level, took to heart the lessons taught by the failures of others. But let's be honest; how many can you say to yourself have actually followed this path? So far few, if any, local state education boards have implemented this "learn from others' mistakes" ideology, which, yes, would be a great benefit for them to endorse. We have yet, however, to see governmental institutions do so on any sort of broad scale. The current state of most of our schools, and so many other parts of our decaying infrastructure, makes that painfully self-evident.
As far as that last bit about how much better or worse things could be, I can only say this: I don't need to wait until a bullet is burrowing through my ribcage or my cranium to know I don't want to get shot, or predict what will happen if the trigger is pulled. You still fail to justify disbanding an entire federal department on the "basis of we don't know what will happen." You're wrong. Again. We do.
In the words of George Santayana, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
LOLWUT? Been indulging in some "recreational substances" there, chief? State governments are more than free to NOT TAKE Federal money. No one forces the cash down states' throats. But guess what? If you want to feed at the Federal trough, you play by their rules. Same thing any responsible parent tells their snotty teenager: "As long as you're living under my roof..." I do believe the proper term for claiming rights to taxpayer money without strings is called...*ahem*... Entitlement.
Oops.
I don't understand the modern Left's obsession with the all-knowing and benevolent Central government. What happened to "stick it to the man", etc? I'm not alone in my puzzlement, BTW:
That's only part of the picture. Definitely, a good number do believe that Uncle Sam will do everything including providing a nice clean and soft wipe for their backside, followed by just the right amount of baby powder during their diaper change. Some of them are in the Republican Party, too. Remember all the tax cuts and bailouts for big business since 2000?
In the end, I'm just sick and tired of bullshit arguments being pushed as
I have relatives in the same boat. I'm lucky to be pretty close to the CO (don't know where it is exactly) and we get steady and speedy DSL service, but our relatives who live very near the city limits? Not gonna happen. Their house is also just outside of the cable companies' service limits/boundaries, so until a wimax service becomes feasible, they're on dialup. Satellite was discussed but quickly dropped due to the prohibitive cost and sketchy signal.
In case this hasn't become readily apparent, the telcos typically sit on the tech and business model they currently have largely because it's a guaranteed cash cow, only requires they meet what are right now "low-bar" guidelines from the government (thats local, state and Federal), and the fact they're selling to a fixed market. Once they've got the bid/been selected/whatever it is to provide for a neighborhood, it's not like the locals can opt for something different. So far, the only motivation I see for telcos to get with it and improve their service, not to mention expanding to rural areas previously without coverage, is when the big, evil government steps in and lays down the law. Corporations are driven by profit and shareholders, neither of which like risk very much. But without risk, we will continue to remain 15th in terms of broadband support.
...so, as the article suggests, AV's/firewalls will look for that. And if there's a library of some sort that contains the translations, mightn't the executable portion of the payload bear some similarities to an unpacker? I'd assume they'd be unpacking (probably into the same hidden portion of memory as it) some sort of lookup table/library in order to function properly, as, presumably, they wouldn't want to include the lookup values in the exe as it would increase size & risk of detection.
Your argument is crap. Let's rephrase that a bit, and then see how it sounds.
"The Department of Transportation hasn't so far done anything to ensure my State of Wiscaliforegonevadelawashingtohio fixed the roads here, so, instead of boosting it, restructuring it, or anything, and changing national laws to more tightly bind state DoT's to the national guidelines and making them more accountable both Federally and locally, let's do away with the Federal level Department and privatize/localize roads. Brilliant!"
Or how about this?
"Those parents aren't able to very well control their kids. Someone should just kill those idiot parents, I bet the kids would be right as rain and behave like angels if their parents were gone. They would not get any worse, and might get better."
Still not seeing it?
"Those cops aren't keeping criminals from breaking the law and murdering people. We should get rid of the police department..."
And so on, and so forth...
If the problem was that national dept A, did not ensure that state depts b through z or whatever acted responsibly, what leads you to believe the state departments will act any more responsibly if the national one controlling everything and its corresponding laws go bye-bye?
Exactly. I want to use myself as an anecdotal example. In no way, I'm sure, does this represent to experience of most people in terms of their education. Anyway, I grew up in the South, the so-called Bible-belt. For my first three years of school, I think, I went to a private school (that kindergarten, first and second), then public for the next one or two. Before fourth or fifth grade, can't remember which, my family moved to the Midwest, where I was in public through the rest of my schooling. Given this, I can definitely say there was a difference in the subjects taught, especially in things like history. I remember there being a lot taught about the Civil War in the South, particularly, Confederate Generals, whereas the remainder was a bit more well rounded, if not a bit overly focused on the Louisiana Purchase or Lewis and Clark.
Education is not something that needs decentralization. That's exactly the sort of thing that makes it so much easier to push creationism into schools, or any other ridiculous agenda. What's next, let companies that make a big enough donation make suggestions for the curriculum? Or they'll just supply the teacher along with all 'educational materials?' Where would it stop? The Principal from Dow? Would some districts, given the right circumstances, start testing the waters to see if they can bring back segregation? If anything, schools need baseline standards enforced to ensure all children are getting a sufficient education, not indoctrination.
Trickle Down Economics: Since 1981, Reaganomics has been unzipping the secrets to arcing, golden streams of wealth, allowing it to flow freely and splash down on all peoples of the middle and working class, so we may bathe in its warm and slightly bitter essence, and glory in the amber fountains of our masters. Here, have a towel. Wait, go buy your own.
Oh boy! Nice cheap shot there! So glad we've all moved past that. Now lets talk about the time that GWB was so classy that he flipped the bird to that camera. How about when he oh-so-slickly commented about a certain member of the press, Adam Clymer, not minding that the microphone was still on? Or when Chanukah cards were sent with Christmas trees on them? I could go on if you'd like.
Paranoia much?