I returned to Canberra 8 months ago after 6 years overseas, living in both Germany and the US (well, California!). Some things we are very glad to be back to and some leave me with a slack jaw.
Maybe you're just slack-jawed full stop. The referenced article is badly written - but it's still nothing to do with using UAVs to give out speeding fines. It's because the police aren't allowed to pursue people speeding in traffic - and it's too expensive to put up helicopters after them. The actual incident that triggered the request for UAVs was the death in Fyshwick earlier this year - where a serial car thief who delighted in baiting police (because the courts kept letting him off) hit and killed some of his friends after calling them to help escape the police pursuit. The police found that even if they had a UAV, pictures from it wouldn't be enough to (same as a helicopter) to convict in court (when the car is dumped at some Housing estate) - they need ground pictures that show the number plate and identify the driver (and occupants). Currently the law doesn't allow them to use the speed camera pictures - they'd like to change that. Hence the story.
Don't be an idiot. Someone "speeding" on an empty rural highway isn't a danger to anyone.
Like the fuckwits that come through my fences once a month? It says 90 kph but you dickheads always blame something else and talk about how speed limits are just to raise revenue. When my stock get out on the road because you lost control doing 140 kmph on a 90 kmph rural road is it still not a danger to anyone. The world isn't your road - you aren't the only one that uses the roads - if you think you need to speed - go to a racetrack or buy and alarm clock and get out of bed earlier.
You don't want speed limits - fuck off the Germany - but don't complain when your car doesn't pass muster for access to the autobahns. Speed limits are there to because that's the speed that can safely be done, in best conditions, in the lowest denominator registerable vehicle. Oh course, you'd be one of those dicks that calls the cops when you drive past and see me with a rifle - even though I'm not shooting in the direction of the road (and I'm not breaking the law).
FFS, just climb up the top of the parliament house flagpole and you can see the whole state
Dear retard - do you mean the "state" of Canberra or the "state" of ACT.
Either way - there's a bit more to it than Dickson, Civic, your flat over on Ainslie Avenue, Fyshwick, and maybe Manuka.
And the story in the Canberra Times is about how to safely pursue speeding criminal drivers.
The article misrepresents a police suggestion that they be able to use speed cameras to get additional evidence in situations where it's unsafe to pursue speeding drivers in a police car and if the pursuit is continued with a UAV (which they'd like, as helicopters are expensive) to then additionally use pictures from the ground based speed cameras (for evidence in prosecution). Presently the police are not allowed by law to use those pictures from speed cameras to help prosecute people being pursued by police, and police have to stop a pursuit if the car being chased - is in traffic, and exceeds the speed limit.
Any debate as to whether our education system is a fucking failure?
And does your girlfriend have any actual data to back that up or is this like when nerds say "i don't know anyone who uses windows" to try to claim that linux was a success on the desktop?
You're misquoting me - what I said was I don't associate with anyone who does Windows - I give them spare change and leave my old tech on the nature strip for them. I just don't associate with them - there's a difference.
"Everybody hates the new layout and are leaving". Seems odd FB would make such a change right as Google+ registration opens.
Isn't FB planning on some sort of a public share offering soon - won't that be when the whole venture starts to generate an income? Maybe they're just trying to protect and extremely speculative investment - whereas Google+ could go bellyup tomorrow without making much difference to Google's core business.
Facebook does not know my real email address, the contents of my address book, my phone number, or where I'm eating lunch.
Maybe not - but it's pretty trivial to obtain, for those they sell your data to. Facebook has a limited amount of data that you type in. Add in login times and ip address/es. Others data sources (the sort that Facebook sells information to, can add to, and validate that information. And proxies are only as anonymous as any of the routing hops. Then there's your Fffacebook fffriends (any of them use MS live?)
That's tin foil hat stuff of course and should be dismissed as paranoia.... Except it's also abilities currently being hawked for data mining - both for "anti-terrorism" and "marketing". You may believe you're only half serious - but it's likely you're much less so.
Surely they couldn't ever do anything wrong, right?
I see. So because not everything is done right, the government should have no power to shut down conterfeit operations, smugglers, scam outfits, etc.
Your local police have probably mis-handled at least one 911 call, too. I would recommend that you disband your local PD, since they can't be trusted. Better to have no police to take care of armed robbers, rapists, burglars, con artists and the rest than run the risk that they might make a judgement call you don't like somewhere along the way.
I suppose a sensible middle ground is completely out of the question? Or do you have an agenda/mental problem that prevents that possibility?
All governments are cocksuckers (History 101). The best you can hope for is lots of "honeymoon periods" when one type is overtaken/overthrown by another. Even then it can be personally bloody.
Seizure laws have been on the books since the 19th century. By the same token sites shouldn't be seized unless there is proof. Lets say the government thinks your car was used by your mother to deal drugs, then that's all they need to take it. I ain't no lawyer but I think innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply to property.
It's called "reversal of onus" - except that some Americans believe that by not calling it that, they can still be morally righteous. I wouldn't blame the whole problem on a degraded education system either...
I can write 1+1=3 on paper thousands of times and it doesn't make it right. It's reputable sources which matter.
I can write "US Navy and NSA" on a piece paper many times.. oh wait, it's already been done - what's these "funding" and "project" heading things mean? (duh). Your demand to be spoon-fed doesn't make you smart. Smug, stupid, and lazy - but not smart.
I can also write "everyone's opinions are equally valid" - but then I'd be a moron like you. Enjoy your opinion - you clearly deserve it.
The rest of the evolving planet thanks you for reminding us of the standards we are trying to raise.
Group had monopoly on popular music and controlled the musical preferences of millions of people alleged George Michaels - The Stones cooked their musical influences and gave preference to R&B whined Rick Astley and Wham. Today the Senate interviewed Keith Richards who failed to explain why drum machines didn't feature more prominently in his music. Expect new laws to be passed to protect [insert music production company name here] from unfair market monopolies by popular musicians. (don't worry about the deficit morons, watch more television, get fat, drink more beer - this is your wage earner's tax dollars at work)
Next week the Senate will be investigating Chinese claims that NASA controlled the space race, and unfairly denied Chinese companies manufacturing contracts for the Space Shuttle.
P.S. There's a lot of jobs currently available for market researchers needed to interview people about their views about how Google is evil...
Eg. sign up to gmail and dickhead@gmail.com - then sign up to slashdot as dick.head@gmail.com. All spam addressed to dick.head@gmail.com came via slashdot.
Richard Head probably didn't want his gmail address spewed around, you inconsiderate clod!
He's a prick - who cares. Hang on... my mother is a lump of dirt - find another insult.
But are those bugs being bred in the lab by researchers just to be led to the slaughter for a nice payday? Yes, yes they are. And that's a good thing.
There is ZERO evidence that the people writing the software cited in the article are intentionally introducing bugs. This guy should either produce a smidgen of evidence or FOADIAF.
Agreed - with a couple of points. The bounties are only for exploitable bugs, there's no mention of developers deliberately introducing bugs (let alone evidence), so researchers can "find" them and profit.
I like the quoted authors economics work - but this has zero to do with economics. Having done triage for bug reports I know single bugs can have multiple reports, and there are no shortage of fake bugs - but it has no bearing on bounties. (sigh) just another bullshit "hype my security conference that hypes security 'experts'".
So sending me a link to a "start free trial" page is supposed to show you are not a whining moron? Perhaps you'd like a refund on your free trial dickhead.
The problem with this approach is that once you get spammed you'll continue to get spammed (getting off spam lists is impossible once you're on one of the bottom feeding v!4gr4 lists), unless you set up special block rules. I like yahoo's throwaway addresses, you can have up to 500. If I get spammed, I chew out the ones who spread it then delete the address. It's a very simple and very final solution, only wish I'd used it earlier because my email already has a degree of spam from the "old days", plus various stupid people that cc 100 people at a time so it gets spread far and wide.
There are two compelling reasons to use that approach:-
You know who to smack upside the head with a teaching bat
You can filter all email with that dot arrangement
That's not to say you shouldn't run multiple email accounts.
Sign up using a throwaway account that is name-related to the site you are signing up to. That way you will always know who are the ones that send you spam, or sell your address to spammers.
gmail accounts don't care about dots in your email user name - which makes it easy to tell who leaks your email address to spammers. Eg. sign up to gmail and dickhead@gmail.com - then sign up to slashdot as dick.head@gmail.com. All spam addressed to dick.head@gmail.com came via slashdot. NOTE: slashdot doesn't sell email addresses - but I certainly caught companies doing using this technique.
Many people who contract HIV are neither stupid nor ignorant, but they are unfortunate enough to live in a country where protection is not available or is socially stigmatized (often due to religions imported from the western world) and are having promiscuous sex or sex with promiscuous people.
FTFY. Ok, yeah, people can be born with it (which sucks) or get it through rape or blood transfusions... but simply, you know, restraining yourself and not acting like a rabbit generally makes you invulnerable to, oh, every STD ever. God forbid we should oppose people's right to have as much sex as they want with whomever they want, though. I would argue that having promiscuous sex counts as "stupid" when you can't or don't use protection (or possibly know you partner is clean).
For that matter, HIV is supposed to have originated from monkeys. Yeah, I'll let your mind imagine how an STD migrated from a monkey to a human...
Do think bringing GOD into this makes your opinions any less repugnant (or wrong).
If GOD created man in his image how come you lumber around the planet?
Uh what? Because it doesn't kill you - just makes you wish you were dead.... fuck that! If I had a choice between syphillis or herpes (and no other choice) - I'd take syphillis. That I can get treated - and I could be honest about having it, use protection, and still get laid. You do not want to fuck with someone who would fuck you, if you had herpes.
I dunno how much AIDS scares y’all, but I got a theory: the day they come out with a cure for AIDS, a guaranteed one-shot cure, on that day there’s gonna be fucking in the streets, man.
If you'll note, that's not the heart of the complaint. It's google's behavior over the issue. There has been no commitment to the completion of the project. In fact, the only commitment that anyone from google has made has been "soon".
The lack of professionalism to committing to any kind of time frame for their paying customers is, frankly, unacceptable. I had been recommending small businesses take a look at google apps, but have since begun recommending o365. It's more expensive, but at least they seem to care about the customer.
Well - don't use the product you didn't pay for. I'm sure a beta-tester that doesn't test is no loss.
What was that fable about the fox's tail?
Suggestion - if you don't like something. Don't do it. But don't think playing Henny Penny is going to get you a daytime television chat show (or respect).
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I returned to Canberra 8 months ago after 6 years overseas, living in both Germany and the US (well, California!). Some things we are very glad to be back to and some leave me with a slack jaw.
Maybe you're just slack-jawed full stop. The referenced article is badly written - but it's still nothing to do with using UAVs to give out speeding fines. It's because the police aren't allowed to pursue people speeding in traffic - and it's too expensive to put up helicopters after them. The actual incident that triggered the request for UAVs was the death in Fyshwick earlier this year - where a serial car thief who delighted in baiting police (because the courts kept letting him off) hit and killed some of his friends after calling them to help escape the police pursuit. The police found that even if they had a UAV, pictures from it wouldn't be enough to (same as a helicopter) to convict in court (when the car is dumped at some Housing estate) - they need ground pictures that show the number plate and identify the driver (and occupants). Currently the law doesn't allow them to use the speed camera pictures - they'd like to change that. Hence the story.
Congratulations on being another Slashdot moron.
Don't be an idiot. Someone "speeding" on an empty rural highway isn't a danger to anyone.
Like the fuckwits that come through my fences once a month? It says 90 kph but you dickheads always blame something else and talk about how speed limits are just to raise revenue. When my stock get out on the road because you lost control doing 140 kmph on a 90 kmph rural road is it still not a danger to anyone. The world isn't your road - you aren't the only one that uses the roads - if you think you need to speed - go to a racetrack or buy and alarm clock and get out of bed earlier.
You don't want speed limits - fuck off the Germany - but don't complain when your car doesn't pass muster for access to the autobahns. Speed limits are there to because that's the speed that can safely be done, in best conditions, in the lowest denominator registerable vehicle. Oh course, you'd be one of those dicks that calls the cops when you drive past and see me with a rifle - even though I'm not shooting in the direction of the road (and I'm not breaking the law).
FFS, just climb up the top of the parliament house flagpole and you can see the whole state
Dear retard - do you mean the "state" of Canberra or the "state" of ACT.
Either way - there's a bit more to it than Dickson, Civic, your flat over on Ainslie Avenue, Fyshwick, and maybe Manuka.
And the story in the Canberra Times is about how to safely pursue speeding criminal drivers.
The article misrepresents a police suggestion that they be able to use speed cameras to get additional evidence in situations where it's unsafe to pursue speeding drivers in a police car and if the pursuit is continued with a UAV (which they'd like, as helicopters are expensive) to then additionally use pictures from the ground based speed cameras (for evidence in prosecution). Presently the police are not allowed by law to use those pictures from speed cameras to help prosecute people being pursued by police, and police have to stop a pursuit if the car being chased - is in traffic, and exceeds the speed limit.
Any debate as to whether our education system is a fucking failure?
And does your girlfriend have any actual data to back that up or is this like when nerds say "i don't know anyone who uses windows" to try to claim that linux was a success on the desktop?
You're misquoting me - what I said was I don't associate with anyone who does Windows - I give them spare change and leave my old tech on the nature strip for them. I just don't associate with them - there's a difference.
"Everybody hates the new layout and are leaving". Seems odd FB would make such a change right as Google+ registration opens.
Isn't FB planning on some sort of a public share offering soon - won't that be when the whole venture starts to generate an income? Maybe they're just trying to protect and extremely speculative investment - whereas Google+ could go bellyup tomorrow without making much difference to Google's core business.
Facebook does not know my real email address, the contents of my address book, my phone number, or where I'm eating lunch.
Maybe not - but it's pretty trivial to obtain, for those they sell your data to. Facebook has a limited amount of data that you type in. Add in login times and ip address/es. Others data sources (the sort that Facebook sells information to, can add to, and validate that information. And proxies are only as anonymous as any of the routing hops. Then there's your Fffacebook fffriends (any of them use MS live?)
That's tin foil hat stuff of course and should be dismissed as paranoia.... Except it's also abilities currently being hawked for data mining - both for "anti-terrorism" and "marketing". You may believe you're only half serious - but it's likely you're much less so.
Surely they couldn't ever do anything wrong, right?
I see. So because not everything is done right, the government should have no power to shut down conterfeit operations, smugglers, scam outfits, etc. Your local police have probably mis-handled at least one 911 call, too. I would recommend that you disband your local PD, since they can't be trusted. Better to have no police to take care of armed robbers, rapists, burglars, con artists and the rest than run the risk that they might make a judgement call you don't like somewhere along the way.
I suppose a sensible middle ground is completely out of the question? Or do you have an agenda/mental problem that prevents that possibility?
USA != PRC
Different dog - same leg action.
All governments are cocksuckers (History 101). The best you can hope for is lots of "honeymoon periods" when one type is overtaken/overthrown by another. Even then it can be personally bloody.
And how many sites were actually shutdown for that reason? Oh right, none of them.
True, but some sites were shut down because they had downloads of music that were sent to the site by the record companies for promotion of the music.
Unfortunately, the lawyers don't bother talking to the promotion people.
Um, maybe they do, and maybe Marketing thought the whole thing was a good idea.
Seizure laws have been on the books since the 19th century. By the same token sites shouldn't be seized unless there is proof. Lets say the government thinks your car was used by your mother to deal drugs, then that's all they need to take it. I ain't no lawyer but I think innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply to property.
It's called "reversal of onus" - except that some Americans believe that by not calling it that, they can still be morally righteous. I wouldn't blame the whole problem on a degraded education system either...
I can write 1+1=3 on paper thousands of times and it doesn't make it right. It's reputable sources which matter.
I can write "US Navy and NSA" on a piece paper many times.. oh wait, it's already been done - what's these "funding" and "project" heading things mean? (duh). Your demand to be spoon-fed doesn't make you smart. Smug, stupid, and lazy - but not smart.
I can also write "everyone's opinions are equally valid" - but then I'd be a moron like you. Enjoy your opinion - you clearly deserve it.
The rest of the evolving planet thanks you for reminding us of the standards we are trying to raise.
I shed a tear for the poor souls who can't have their Angry Birds needs met. It's as if their lives have no meaning.
Oh yeah? What do you propose to fill potholes with Mr Smarty Pants? Morons are useful (and cheap).
Group had monopoly on popular music and controlled the musical preferences of millions of people alleged George Michaels - The Stones cooked their musical influences and gave preference to R&B whined Rick Astley and Wham. Today the Senate interviewed Keith Richards who failed to explain why drum machines didn't feature more prominently in his music. Expect new laws to be passed to protect [insert music production company name here] from unfair market monopolies by popular musicians. (don't worry about the deficit morons, watch more television, get fat, drink more beer - this is your wage earner's tax dollars at work)
Next week the Senate will be investigating Chinese claims that NASA controlled the space race, and unfairly denied Chinese companies manufacturing contracts for the Space Shuttle.
P.S. There's a lot of jobs currently available for market researchers needed to interview people about their views about how Google is evil...
Eg. sign up to gmail and dickhead@gmail.com - then sign up to slashdot as dick.head@gmail.com. All spam addressed to dick.head@gmail.com came via slashdot.
Richard Head probably didn't want his gmail address spewed around, you inconsiderate clod!
He's a prick - who cares. Hang on... my mother is a lump of dirt - find another insult.
The conclusion is false:
There is ZERO evidence that the people writing the software cited in the article are intentionally introducing bugs. This guy should either produce a smidgen of evidence or FOADIAF.
Agreed - with a couple of points. The bounties are only for exploitable bugs, there's no mention of developers deliberately introducing bugs (let alone evidence), so researchers can "find" them and profit.
I like the quoted authors economics work - but this has zero to do with economics. Having done triage for bug reports I know single bugs can have multiple reports, and there are no shortage of fake bugs - but it has no bearing on bounties. (sigh) just another bullshit "hype my security conference that hypes security 'experts'".
Your arrogance is based on ignorance. Might want to look to fixing that.
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/features.html
So sending me a link to a "start free trial" page is supposed to show you are not a whining moron? Perhaps you'd like a refund on your free trial dickhead.
The problem with this approach is that once you get spammed you'll continue to get spammed (getting off spam lists is impossible once you're on one of the bottom feeding v!4gr4 lists), unless you set up special block rules. I like yahoo's throwaway addresses, you can have up to 500. If I get spammed, I chew out the ones who spread it then delete the address. It's a very simple and very final solution, only wish I'd used it earlier because my email already has a degree of spam from the "old days", plus various stupid people that cc 100 people at a time so it gets spread far and wide.
There are two compelling reasons to use that approach:-
That's not to say you shouldn't run multiple email accounts.
Sign up using a throwaway account that is name-related to the site you are signing up to. That way you will always know who are the ones that send you spam, or sell your address to spammers.
gmail accounts don't care about dots in your email user name - which makes it easy to tell who leaks your email address to spammers. Eg. sign up to gmail and dickhead@gmail.com - then sign up to slashdot as dick.head@gmail.com. All spam addressed to dick.head@gmail.com came via slashdot. NOTE: slashdot doesn't sell email addresses - but I certainly caught companies doing using this technique.
Many people who contract HIV are neither stupid nor ignorant, but they are unfortunate enough to live in a country where protection is not available or is socially stigmatized (often due to religions imported from the western world) and are having promiscuous sex or sex with promiscuous people.
FTFY. Ok, yeah, people can be born with it (which sucks) or get it through rape or blood transfusions... but simply, you know, restraining yourself and not acting like a rabbit generally makes you invulnerable to, oh, every STD ever. God forbid we should oppose people's right to have as much sex as they want with whomever they want, though. I would argue that having promiscuous sex counts as "stupid" when you can't or don't use protection (or possibly know you partner is clean).
For that matter, HIV is supposed to have originated from monkeys. Yeah, I'll let your mind imagine how an STD migrated from a monkey to a human...
Do think bringing GOD into this makes your opinions any less repugnant (or wrong).
If GOD created man in his image how come you lumber around the planet?
Most Americans can afford those now.
I get the point - do you?
Nobody ever expected computers to be affordable to the masses either.
And they're not affordable "to" the masses either. When the majority (masses) can afford computers you will still be a dick.
Genital herpes is a non issue for the most part
Uh what? Because it doesn't kill you - just makes you wish you were dead.... fuck that! If I had a choice between syphillis or herpes (and no other choice) - I'd take syphillis. That I can get treated - and I could be honest about having it, use protection, and still get laid. You do not want to fuck with someone who would fuck you, if you had herpes.
I dunno how much AIDS scares y’all, but I got a theory: the day they come out with a cure for AIDS, a guaranteed one-shot cure, on that day there’s gonna be fucking in the streets, man.
If you'll note, that's not the heart of the complaint. It's google's behavior over the issue. There has been no commitment to the completion of the project. In fact, the only commitment that anyone from google has made has been "soon".
The lack of professionalism to committing to any kind of time frame for their paying customers is, frankly, unacceptable. I had been recommending small businesses take a look at google apps, but have since begun recommending o365. It's more expensive, but at least they seem to care about the customer.
Well - don't use the product you didn't pay for. I'm sure a beta-tester that doesn't test is no loss.
What was that fable about the fox's tail?
Suggestion - if you don't like something. Don't do it. But don't think playing Henny Penny is going to get you a daytime television chat show (or respect).
You can trust an individual you've known for a long time
Aaaah - I see the problem, you never studied history.