How very Star Trekish of you. Boiled down, you're saying that the "needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many." James Kirk couldn't have overacted the line to a newly arisen Spock any better.
I don't buy it. Sorry, but you're attempting to ignore a ubiquitous problem in favor of a rarity. And the solution to one problem, lack of information, cannot be solved by ignoring the other problem. Information on STDs can be found at nearly all high schools in the nurse's office in the form of freely available pamphlets.
Besides, the logic of the scenario fails on this point: If this young woman wasn't shy about sex with her boyfriend, I can't see her being shy about getting information about any resulting STDs.
I'm not saying your scenario couldn't occur, and for all I know it did occur to you or someone you know, but your argument is frivolous in the face of giving parents control over what their children are exposed to while in school.
What does it matter if I put all the protections in the world on my home computers if my child can go to school and, intentionally or not, access sites that I feel will be detrimental to my child's mental, personal, and social development?
Actually, there is such a thing as Dry Water. It comes in a carton. It's actually a gel with a 96% water content. You cut the bottom out, stick it about 4 inches into the dirt next to a plant, and it keeps the plant hydrated. Bacterial action breaks down the gel and releases the water slowly. One carton is good for about 60 days. And in the uber-hot California central valley, continuous hydration of outdoor plants is key.
As for alcohol-free beer -- what the heck is that all about? And low cal beer? Dude, if I'm throwing down some cold ones with the guys, I *seriously* could not care less about the my caloric intake.
SCO just called, and they're going to sue you for using words foundin SCO Unix. Seems "bash", "news", and "odd" are contained in the source. They're asking for a million dollars per letter, but they say they'd be willing to settle for a handful of lottery tickets. Seems the odds of winning are better...
Google is popular, but Alta Vista rocks. And one step down for accuracy, but mucho points for organization, is Vivisimo. For performance and functionlity, Google is a high school project in comparison.
Sloppy seconds is a strategy? Hearing your darling wife call out the name of the highschool quarterback's name during coitus is a strategy? Beating your brains out nights and weekends to pay for her Porsche and your kids' braces only to find out she's banging her ex-boyfriend, the jock that has managed to work his way up to night manager at the local 24 hour grocery store, that's a strategy?!
Screw that. I'm a jock and and I'm nerd. All bases covered. *That*, my friend, is a strategy.
Good luck with this "catch'em on the rebound" thing. And tell Dee Dee I said to stop calling my house...
I hear SCO is suing. They're arguing that some of the gluons in a disk holding an AIX distro are exactly like those also found in a disk holding SCO Unix. They've multiplied the damages times the number of gluons in the disk, and they're filing documents with the court showing drawings of what SCO's attorneys say are actual gluons found in the compared disks.
Ok, nerd, calm down. Your pocket protector is askew. Here's a brown paper bag; breath deeply and try to control yourself.
To those of us that don't eat, sleep, and breath the tactical charts of the original Start Trek Enterprise, his meaning came across as more inspirational. Once man realized that he could leave the ground, a major limitation had been lifted. Then, given mankind's propensity for trying to outdo himself, it was inevitable that his machinations would carry him beyond the atmosphere, regardless of the devices required.
It seems that what you want is the benefits of IM (instant access to all your friends whenever you want) without the disadvantages (they have instant access to you) It seems a little unfair to me.
I'll tell my wife you said that. I always have my cell phone on when I leave the house. She only turns hers on to make calls, then turns it back off. It just burns me up. Finally, after hearing me kvetch about it for the umpteenth time, she cried, "My cell phone is not there so you can get in touch with me whenever you feel like it!"
Everyone in the car, her parents included, sat there for a moment, floored by this statement.
If you have Outlook 2000 (harder to exploit btw, I've had it since it came out and nobody in my company has been hit by a worm through it)
That would be amazing, if it wasn't impossible. If no on in your company has been hit with a virus, it's not Outlook you should admire; it's the sysadmin, the firewall, the filtering software on the mail server, etc., but definitely not Outlook. The design decisions used with Outlook were so bad, it's almost as though Microsoft intentionally decided to create an email portal for any hacker or cracker to jump through to take over your machine.
Give me a break. Microsoft screwed its customers by allowing access by default. That has to be the most brain dead security decision in history.
but on slashdot, everyone uses a browser. and if they code... they're quite likely to have just picked up "php and mysql" at their local bookstore, and never looked for a -real- database. (isn't it sad that, even as good as postgresql is, and -known-, people still favor mysql? geeks, of all people, should know when they see a hack-job.)
I can't imagine why no one else bothered to point this out to you -- unless it's so obvious that no one wanted to take the time. A dozen trials tell the tale: MySQL stacks up right next to Oracle in performance tests, leaving the others, including PostgreSQL, in the dust. Do a simple search on Oracle, MySQL, and performance, and read the myriad papers on the topic.
So once performance and reliability are answered, all that's left is price. Lessee, hundreds of thousands of dollars... free.... hundreds of thousands of dollars... free....
Now, they have this "IP" issue with it. Initially they gave it away to the free software community, and now -- you have to pay for it which we didn't tell you about in the first place. The only other people with that sort of morality are drug dealers.
I'm not on SCO's side on this, but your statement is either uninformed or disingenuous. Software companies regularly give away software to get folks interested, then come out with a release that features lots of cool stuff and a price tag. Sometimes a hefty one. It's business as usual, and an effective business model given the right software and market.
Passe. To shock Hollywood, it would have to be filmed from the inside.
To impress Slashdotters, it would have to involve WiFi and a remote, miniature camera hooked up to super tiny web-server-on-a-chip. What would all that be mounted to? Why, a bran muffin, of course....
... an incredibly delicious and juicy stake. Yes, that's right. A nice -juicy- stake.
You meant "steak", I presume. Otherwise, this gets to sounding a bit vampirish. Perhaps rather than using a knife and fork I'll just sink my fangs into it.....?
"Excuse me, Lestat, would you mind passing the A-1?"
I've still got a copy of IBM Personal Editor 1.0 on my machine. It runs in the DOS window of XP on my dual Athlon 2000 computer. Quite a difference from running it on the original IBM PC at 4.77 MHz. I got a copy from a girlfriend in college whose Mom worked for IBM. Man, that was a while ago.
Why do I still use it occasionally? Because it has block editing features I've never seen in another editor. It rocks! Jim Wyllie, whereever you are, you da man!
Ok guys, who out there watched the trailer, saw the she-bot wrap her legs backwards around Arnie, and thought, "Oh yeah..... I'm in LOVE..." My mind is still racing with the possibilities.
Which makes me wonder... When women watch T2 and see the cop-bot changing shapes, do they start to imagine,... um... the possibilities? It would sure explain why Robert Patrick's career took off after 1991...
Is it right that teenagers get sent to jail for "hacking" when the state of IT security is so poor? If your bank left sacks of money outside it's doors, when they got stolen by a couple of kids would you think it was the kids were guilty of a crime, or the bank?
Wait a minute, Sparky, your analogy isn't working. I agree that not relying on security-friendly tools is almost criminally niave, but let's review for a minute.
It's not like kids get on their computers, log into AOL, and suddenly find themselves looking at a window that contains credit card information with two buttons at the bottom that say, "Steal these numbers" and "No thanks".
You leave your car in the driveway rather than putting it in the garage? Should *you* be held accountable when the radio comes up missing while the police just give the robber a slap on the wrist? I doubt it.
Yes, IT should do its job securing machines. No, crackers shouldn't get a slap on the wrist for breaking into computer systems.
And I don't agree with the author's premise that crackers can't be impressed with jail sentences. Look at terrorists. Rich countries don't generate terrorists. Why? Because people in general have more to lose. Violent religious extremism is the domain of the poor and disenfranchised. They have nothing to lose and they're pissed off about it, and much the way Hitler exploited the frustrations of the Germans, and Milosevich exploited the the frustrations of the Yugoslavs, bin Laden exploited the Afghanis, all for power. But give them a life worth defending and they will be more interested in defending that life than blowing themselves up to get back at their oppressors, real or imagined. Put bin Laden in Oakland and he'd be lost in the sea of 2-bit activists preaching about being put down by The Man. oops.... ok, end of rant....
The same holds for crackers. With the exception of the tiny percentage that are deranged and devoted to harming others for fun, most have lives they'd rather not trade for spending time in jail hoping Bubba doesn't think they're cute.
Think of it this way: if you have a computer to do your hacking on, you probably have enough material items that you'd miss them badly if they were gone. Make jail sentences, fines, and other penalties stiff enough and the overwhelming majority of crackers will find other things to do with their time. As for the rest... Bubba needs love, too.
I was all fired up to send a message about this -- and found you'd hit it on the head. This is an abuse of monopolistic advantage.
Unless we use Linux alternatives.
The guys using VFP are certainly at a temporary disadvantage if they learn something new, but if M$ is going to take the position that VFP can only be used with their OS, and if cross platform alternatives exist, then what's the problem? They learn to use Delphi if they want a (semi) cross platform visual environment. Or any of a number of Java IDEs like JBuilder. And step up to the latest and greatest technology rather than dragging a dead horse around. For surely, if M$ wants to beat people up for using a different OS with their products, then a dead horse is what it deserves to be.
Hang on a minute. I'm old enough that I know I've seen that picture before. I'd be hard pressed to say what issue, but I know for a fact that that picture ran in National Geographic many years ago. What the heck?? I think someone is pulling the wool over someone else's eyes. What day did that site go up? Would it have been April 1st??
One thing I haven't found reference to is the fact that carbon nanotubes absorb light quickly but can't radiate the heat and thus tend to explode under intense light. Even if you paint the ribbon with high reflective index white paint, a micrometeor hit under full sunlight would have devastating effects. Perhaps the lack of oxygen would prevent an actual detonation, but under the intense and unfiltered light of the sun, wouldn't they at least melt very rapidly? You could end up with destabilizing hole in the ribbon.
Slashdot Mirror
You forgot one:
Blah, blah, blah = $Blah
Blah, yack, blah, blah = $Blah
Yack, blah, yack, blah, blah = $Blah
Blah, blah, blah, blah = Priceless
And even though you mentoned grits, you didn't put them down your pants.
And the latest: [fill in the blank] is a poison dwarf.
How very Star Trekish of you. Boiled down, you're saying that the "needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many." James Kirk couldn't have overacted the line to a newly arisen Spock any better.
I don't buy it. Sorry, but you're attempting to ignore a ubiquitous problem in favor of a rarity. And the solution to one problem, lack of information, cannot be solved by ignoring the other problem. Information on STDs can be found at nearly all high schools in the nurse's office in the form of freely available pamphlets.
Besides, the logic of the scenario fails on this point: If this young woman wasn't shy about sex with her boyfriend, I can't see her being shy about getting information about any resulting STDs.
I'm not saying your scenario couldn't occur, and for all I know it did occur to you or someone you know, but your argument is frivolous in the face of giving parents control over what their children are exposed to while in school.
What does it matter if I put all the protections in the world on my home computers if my child can go to school and, intentionally or not, access sites that I feel will be detrimental to my child's mental, personal, and social development?
Actually, there is such a thing as Dry Water. It comes in a carton. It's actually a gel with a 96% water content. You cut the bottom out, stick it about 4 inches into the dirt next to a plant, and it keeps the plant hydrated. Bacterial action breaks down the gel and releases the water slowly. One carton is good for about 60 days. And in the uber-hot California central valley, continuous hydration of outdoor plants is key.
As for alcohol-free beer -- what the heck is that all about? And low cal beer? Dude, if I'm throwing down some cold ones with the guys, I *seriously* could not care less about the my caloric intake.
SCO just called, and they're going to sue you for using words foundin SCO Unix. Seems "bash", "news", and "odd" are contained in the source. They're asking for a million dollars per letter, but they say they'd be willing to settle for a handful of lottery tickets. Seems the odds of winning are better...
Google is popular, but Alta Vista rocks. And one step down for accuracy, but mucho points for organization, is Vivisimo. For performance and functionlity, Google is a high school project in comparison.
Sloppy seconds is a strategy? Hearing your darling wife call out the name of the highschool quarterback's name during coitus is a strategy? Beating your brains out nights and weekends to pay for her Porsche and your kids' braces only to find out she's banging her ex-boyfriend, the jock that has managed to work his way up to night manager at the local 24 hour grocery store, that's a strategy?!
Screw that. I'm a jock and and I'm nerd. All bases covered. *That*, my friend, is a strategy.
Good luck with this "catch'em on the rebound" thing. And tell Dee Dee I said to stop calling my house...
I hear SCO is suing. They're arguing that some of the gluons in a disk holding an AIX distro are exactly like those also found in a disk holding SCO Unix. They've multiplied the damages times the number of gluons in the disk, and they're filing documents with the court showing drawings of what SCO's attorneys say are actual gluons found in the compared disks.
Ok, nerd, calm down. Your pocket protector is askew. Here's a brown paper bag; breath deeply and try to control yourself.
To those of us that don't eat, sleep, and breath the tactical charts of the original Start Trek Enterprise, his meaning came across as more inspirational. Once man realized that he could leave the ground, a major limitation had been lifted. Then, given mankind's propensity for trying to outdo himself, it was inevitable that his machinations would carry him beyond the atmosphere, regardless of the devices required.
It seems that what you want is the benefits of IM (instant access to all your friends whenever you want) without the disadvantages (they have instant access to you) It seems a little unfair to me.
I'll tell my wife you said that. I always have my cell phone on when I leave the house. She only turns hers on to make calls, then turns it back off. It just burns me up. Finally, after hearing me kvetch about it for the umpteenth time, she cried, "My cell phone is not there so you can get in touch with me whenever you feel like it!"
Everyone in the car, her parents included, sat there for a moment, floored by this statement.
To which I replied, "Yes, hell, it is!"
If you have Outlook 2000 (harder to exploit btw, I've had it since it came out and nobody in my company has been hit by a worm through it)
That would be amazing, if it wasn't impossible. If no on in your company has been hit with a virus, it's not Outlook you should admire; it's the sysadmin, the firewall, the filtering software on the mail server, etc., but definitely not Outlook. The design decisions used with Outlook were so bad, it's almost as though Microsoft intentionally decided to create an email portal for any hacker or cracker to jump through to take over your machine.
Give me a break. Microsoft screwed its customers by allowing access by default. That has to be the most brain dead security decision in history.
Rebooting helmet procedure: pull both earlobes and knock on the top of the helmet at the same time.
but on slashdot, everyone uses a browser. and if they code ... they're quite likely to have just picked up "php and mysql" at their local bookstore, and never looked for a -real- database. (isn't it sad that, even as good as postgresql is, and -known-, people still favor mysql? geeks, of all people, should know when they see a hack-job.)
I can't imagine why no one else bothered to point this out to you -- unless it's so obvious that no one wanted to take the time. A dozen trials tell the tale: MySQL stacks up right next to Oracle in performance tests, leaving the others, including PostgreSQL, in the dust. Do a simple search on Oracle, MySQL, and performance, and read the myriad papers on the topic.
So once performance and reliability are answered, all that's left is price. Lessee, hundreds of thousands of dollars... free.... hundreds of thousands of dollars... free....
Hmmmmmm......
Now, they have this "IP" issue with it. Initially they gave it away to the free software community, and now -- you have to pay for it which we didn't tell you about in the first place. The only other people with that sort of morality are drug dealers.
I'm not on SCO's side on this, but your statement is either uninformed or disingenuous. Software companies regularly give away software to get folks interested, then come out with a release that features lots of cool stuff and a price tag. Sometimes a hefty one. It's business as usual, and an effective business model given the right software and market.
...explicit close-ups of anal sex...
Passe. To shock Hollywood, it would have to be filmed from the inside.
To impress Slashdotters, it would have to involve WiFi and a remote, miniature camera hooked up to super tiny web-server-on-a-chip. What would all that be mounted to? Why, a bran muffin, of course....
... an incredibly delicious and juicy stake. Yes, that's right. A nice -juicy- stake.
You meant "steak", I presume. Otherwise, this gets to sounding a bit vampirish. Perhaps rather than using a knife and fork I'll just sink my fangs into it.....?
"Excuse me, Lestat, would you mind passing the A-1?"
I've still got a copy of IBM Personal Editor 1.0 on my machine. It runs in the DOS window of XP on my dual Athlon 2000 computer. Quite a difference from running it on the original IBM PC at 4.77 MHz. I got a copy from a girlfriend in college whose Mom worked for IBM. Man, that was a while ago.
Why do I still use it occasionally? Because it has block editing features I've never seen in another editor. It rocks! Jim Wyllie, whereever you are, you da man!
Shouldn't you at least give credit where it's due? Is this all it takes to get some karma -- rip off someone else's humor?
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(Yeah, I'm being a spoil sport -- my Tomcat server is screwed up after an "upgrade" and I'm feelin' a bit pissy right now.)
Anyway, this has been on slashdot a dozen times, and it's even out on the web:
http://www.spiralx.co.uk/texts/troll1.html
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Come on, dude, get some coffee and make up your own stuff....
Ok guys, who out there watched the trailer, saw the she-bot wrap her legs backwards around Arnie, and thought, "Oh yeah..... I'm in LOVE..." My mind is still racing with the possibilities.
... um... the possibilities? It would sure explain why Robert Patrick's career took off after 1991...
Which makes me wonder... When women watch T2 and see the cop-bot changing shapes, do they start to imagine,
Offtopic, but...
In your sig, what Fermi said boils down to, "A sufficiently advanced civilization will either kill itself or... it won't."
Yeah, that's deep. Nothing like being famous for stating the bleeding obvious...
Is it right that teenagers get sent to jail for "hacking" when the state of IT security is so poor? If your bank left sacks of money outside it's doors, when they got stolen by a couple of kids would you think it was the kids were guilty of a crime, or the bank?
Wait a minute, Sparky, your analogy isn't working. I agree that not relying on security-friendly tools is almost criminally niave, but let's review for a minute.
It's not like kids get on their computers, log into AOL, and suddenly find themselves looking at a window that contains credit card information with two buttons at the bottom that say, "Steal these numbers" and "No thanks".
You leave your car in the driveway rather than putting it in the garage? Should *you* be held accountable when the radio comes up missing while the police just give the robber a slap on the wrist? I doubt it.
Yes, IT should do its job securing machines. No, crackers shouldn't get a slap on the wrist for breaking into computer systems.
And I don't agree with the author's premise that crackers can't be impressed with jail sentences. Look at terrorists. Rich countries don't generate terrorists. Why? Because people in general have more to lose. Violent religious extremism is the domain of the poor and disenfranchised. They have nothing to lose and they're pissed off about it, and much the way Hitler exploited the frustrations of the Germans, and Milosevich exploited the the frustrations of the Yugoslavs, bin Laden exploited the Afghanis, all for power. But give them a life worth defending and they will be more interested in defending that life than blowing themselves up to get back at their oppressors, real or imagined. Put bin Laden in Oakland and he'd be lost in the sea of 2-bit activists preaching about being put down by The Man. oops.... ok, end of rant....
The same holds for crackers. With the exception of the tiny percentage that are deranged and devoted to harming others for fun, most have lives they'd rather not trade for spending time in jail hoping Bubba doesn't think they're cute.
Think of it this way: if you have a computer to do your hacking on, you probably have enough material items that you'd miss them badly if they were gone. Make jail sentences, fines, and other penalties stiff enough and the overwhelming majority of crackers will find other things to do with their time. As for the rest... Bubba needs love, too.
I was all fired up to send a message about this -- and found you'd hit it on the head. This is an abuse of monopolistic advantage.
Unless we use Linux alternatives.
The guys using VFP are certainly at a temporary disadvantage if they learn something new, but if M$ is going to take the position that VFP can only be used with their OS, and if cross platform alternatives exist, then what's the problem? They learn to use Delphi if they want a (semi) cross platform visual environment. Or any of a number of Java IDEs like JBuilder. And step up to the latest and greatest technology rather than dragging a dead horse around. For surely, if M$ wants to beat people up for using a different OS with their products, then a dead horse is what it deserves to be.
Thrown in lasers and it sounds like a rave to me...
Possibly whatever it was that made the gas cloud.
Sorry.... that was another fart joke.... I'll just go now....
Hang on a minute. I'm old enough that I know I've seen that picture before. I'd be hard pressed to say what issue, but I know for a fact that that picture ran in National Geographic many years ago. What the heck?? I think someone is pulling the wool over someone else's eyes. What day did that site go up? Would it have been April 1st??
One thing I haven't found reference to is the fact that carbon nanotubes absorb light quickly but can't radiate the heat and thus tend to explode under intense light. Even if you paint the ribbon with high reflective index white paint, a micrometeor hit under full sunlight would have devastating effects. Perhaps the lack of oxygen would prevent an actual detonation, but under the intense and unfiltered light of the sun, wouldn't they at least melt very rapidly? You could end up with destabilizing hole in the ribbon.
Anyone given any thought to this?