If that's the case, it's going to be a damned shame if Conservative-sponsored legislation makes all these biomedical discoveries illegal in the United States.
Heh. No, like everything atomic, it'll be illegal for CITIZENS of the United States - the military and the government will still get to play with all the nasty applications that they use to justify banning it for the private sector.
This is the essence of conservatism - anything new is evil for no better reason than because it is new, and anything old is good because we are accustomed to it.
Then please, explain the Pomeranian. Or the Chihuaha. WHAT RIGHT DID WE HAVE TO CREATE THESE CREATURES!? They're more of an afront to God and nature than any GM species, and we didn't need anything more than a few hundred years of breeding to create such abominations.
- Paid for by the SPBYD (Society to Prevent the Breeding of Yippy Dogs)
Here's my question to you - what should the doctors do?
Quit en masse. Walk out of their hospitals and offices and never come back. Let 10% of our population die from easily treatable conditions because there's no doctor to treat them, let half their profession get jailed for malpractice (even though they did what anyone should have a right to do - quit their job because they can't take it anymore), and let society teeter on the brink of collapse for a few months until people get it through their thick skulls that you can't get something for nothing, and usually can't even get something for what it's really worth.
Then come back and negotiate. Hell, it worked for the Teamsters.
Personally, I think that either option is just as bad as the other. No matter what happens, the little guy is always at the whim of those more powerful, and active coalitions of powerful people will always have more power than lone powerful people. Even if those coalitions are not a real "government" de jure, there really isn't much difference de facto - the common man still gets oppressed.
Nothing yet has ever changed that for more than a few years at a time. Slowed it, pushed it back a little, but oppression is hardwired into primate social instinct - it's not something that's just going to go away, no matter how hard we try.
Isn't it funny that those boxes have been neutered in reverse order?
We get gun control laws first, because noone "sane" would notice - they never get that far because it's not that bad yet.
Then, once there's enough gun control to make armed resistance too difficult to pull off, they start neutering the jury - re-working laws so jury notification can't happen, and twisting the legal system's procedures around until only idiots and sheep can get appointed to an actual trial jury.
Then they start disenfranchising everyone, finally moving on to trickery and outright ballot manipulation to get their way.
Then they start going after the protesters.
Sneak up slow enough, and you won't even be able to tell what's happening - after all, it's not like it's much worse than our parents had it, right?
Better it be the first thing so that it can be addressed than only discovered after some dedicated "evil-doer" realizes it in a private burst of creativity then abuses the hell out of it and all the work and money that had been invested must go to waste.
Hopefully they've thought of this and won't let it screw them up too badly. A shame that human nature is such that the first thing people think about when they see a nifty new service is how to shit in it and ruin it for everyone else. (witness/.)
The advantage of completely wiping the key logger is that if you destroy the evidence that they've been hacked, they'll never raise their suspicions, and you're much more likely to get away with whatever you're going to use those passwords for.
Otherwise some administrator browses through someone's machine two months later, trying to figure out why it's so slow, and says "oh, shit..." - and then security clamps down like a {pick useful crude metaphor here}. It's far easier to slip in when noone's the wiser.
Remember: If you're doing anything for profit, it may be illegal, but it's not wrong.
The US justice system is too busy going after benign infringement to dare tackle corrupt entrenched businessmen, and it's going to stay that way for awhile.
The scary conclusion one could draw from this is that Bill Gates intends to use his billions to create a dynastic empire, just like the Carnegies and the Rockefellers did - and he can't waste anything on having "fun".
There's two kinds of con artists - those who do it because they can get away with it consistently, and those who do it because they're desperate and have to find SOME way to not be a failure.
The first kind won't fall for the same tricks they use on others; in fact, they usually wind up running the show eventually (in politics, as CEOs, whatever). The second type just don't know any better, and will jump on any opportunity for the same reason they started scamming - they're hopelessly desperate, and ANY chance to finally 'make it' in life is better than the zero chance they have now.
Because becoming a CEO has nothing to do with training, skillset, or degrees - it's all about who you know, who your parents are, and what sort of luck you had as a teenager/young adult. You Can't Get There From Here.
I remember on case in wich a sister-in-laws car was "borrowed" by the boyfriend of her sister. Since she had not taken enough measures to stop the car from being used she was guilty of assisting drug trafficing. Blam, jailtime. (maybe something more was going on as these programs are hardly unbiased).
Nope, it's that simple. They'll try to cut a deal with you, too - report the car as stolen after-the-fact, and they'll let you go in exchange for being able to pin Grand Theft Auto on the drug trafficker as well as the drug charges - gets him one step closer to Three Strikes and an instant life sentence.
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Pointless? POINTLESS!?!?
I think not!
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton - progressives?
How about I claim some racist whackjob from Idaho is a compasionate conservative... sheesh!
s/Idaho/[Florida, Texas]
If that's the case, it's going to be a damned shame if Conservative-sponsored legislation makes all these biomedical discoveries illegal in the United States.
Heh. No, like everything atomic, it'll be illegal for CITIZENS of the United States - the military and the government will still get to play with all the nasty applications that they use to justify banning it for the private sector.
And has very little genetic diversity throughout the species. Result? All it takes is one virus....
-Hentai's girlfriend
This is the essence of conservatism - anything new is evil for no better reason than because it is new, and anything old is good because we are accustomed to it.
Then please, explain the Pomeranian. Or the Chihuaha. WHAT RIGHT DID WE HAVE TO CREATE THESE CREATURES!? They're more of an afront to God and nature than any GM species, and we didn't need anything more than a few hundred years of breeding to create such abominations.
- Paid for by the SPBYD (Society to Prevent the Breeding of Yippy Dogs)
Here's my question to you - what should the doctors do?
Quit en masse. Walk out of their hospitals and offices and never come back. Let 10% of our population die from easily treatable conditions because there's no doctor to treat them, let half their profession get jailed for malpractice (even though they did what anyone should have a right to do - quit their job because they can't take it anymore), and let society teeter on the brink of collapse for a few months until people get it through their thick skulls that you can't get something for nothing, and usually can't even get something for what it's really worth.
Then come back and negotiate. Hell, it worked for the Teamsters.
Personally, I think that either option is just as bad as the other. No matter what happens, the little guy is always at the whim of those more powerful, and active coalitions of powerful people will always have more power than lone powerful people. Even if those coalitions are not a real "government" de jure, there really isn't much difference de facto - the common man still gets oppressed.
Nothing yet has ever changed that for more than a few years at a time. Slowed it, pushed it back a little, but oppression is hardwired into primate social instinct - it's not something that's just going to go away, no matter how hard we try.
Isn't it funny that those boxes have been neutered in reverse order?
We get gun control laws first, because noone "sane" would notice - they never get that far because it's not that bad yet.
Then, once there's enough gun control to make armed resistance too difficult to pull off, they start neutering the jury - re-working laws so jury notification can't happen, and twisting the legal system's procedures around until only idiots and sheep can get appointed to an actual trial jury.
Then they start disenfranchising everyone, finally moving on to trickery and outright ballot manipulation to get their way.
Then they start going after the protesters.
Sneak up slow enough, and you won't even be able to tell what's happening - after all, it's not like it's much worse than our parents had it, right?
Better it be the first thing so that it can be addressed than only discovered after some dedicated "evil-doer" realizes it in a private burst of creativity then abuses the hell out of it and all the work and money that had been invested must go to waste.
Amen to that.
Let no good deed go unpunished.
/.)
Hopefully they've thought of this and won't let it screw them up too badly. A shame that human nature is such that the first thing people think about when they see a nifty new service is how to shit in it and ruin it for everyone else. (witness
Left... right... all irrelevant. The actual conspiracy is the top, against the bottom.
Heh. Talking about terrorist actions against corporate interests on a subversive internet site? Welcome to the DHS's watch-list.
The advantage of completely wiping the key logger is that if you destroy the evidence that they've been hacked, they'll never raise their suspicions, and you're much more likely to get away with whatever you're going to use those passwords for.
Otherwise some administrator browses through someone's machine two months later, trying to figure out why it's so slow, and says "oh, shit..." - and then security clamps down like a {pick useful crude metaphor here}. It's far easier to slip in when noone's the wiser.
This is funny until it happens to you. Then it's only funny to everyone else.
Remember: If you're doing anything for profit, it may be illegal, but it's not wrong.
The US justice system is too busy going after benign infringement to dare tackle corrupt entrenched businessmen, and it's going to stay that way for awhile.
The scary conclusion one could draw from this is that Bill Gates intends to use his billions to create a dynastic empire, just like the Carnegies and the Rockefellers did - and he can't waste anything on having "fun".
The reason for this is as sad as it is simple.
There's two kinds of con artists - those who do it because they can get away with it consistently, and those who do it because they're desperate and have to find SOME way to not be a failure.
The first kind won't fall for the same tricks they use on others; in fact, they usually wind up running the show eventually (in politics, as CEOs, whatever). The second type just don't know any better, and will jump on any opportunity for the same reason they started scamming - they're hopelessly desperate, and ANY chance to finally 'make it' in life is better than the zero chance they have now.
Well, a virus can't eat oil - virii require biological entities to survive in. You could make a species of bacteria that eats oil, though.
Because becoming a CEO has nothing to do with training, skillset, or degrees - it's all about who you know, who your parents are, and what sort of luck you had as a teenager/young adult. You Can't Get There From Here.
What I'm tired of seeing:
.NET.
In 1995 it was 5 years experience in COM/DCOM. In 1997 it was 5 years experience in Java. In 2002 it was 5 years experience in
Why the hell do these companies keep asking for 5 years experience in technologies less than 3 years old?
I remember on case in wich a sister-in-laws car was "borrowed" by the boyfriend of her sister. Since she had not taken enough measures to stop the car from being used she was guilty of assisting drug trafficing. Blam, jailtime. (maybe something more was going on as these programs are hardly unbiased).
Nope, it's that simple. They'll try to cut a deal with you, too - report the car as stolen after-the-fact, and they'll let you go in exchange for being able to pin Grand Theft Auto on the drug trafficker as well as the drug charges - gets him one step closer to Three Strikes and an instant life sentence.
So what does up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A do?
*nods* How would I go about finding out? I drive by these guys' fab plant every day, and I'm really curious.
Are we sure this is new?
Note the company profile doesn't mention ANY connection to Microsoft. But note the font. Note the logo. Note the colors.