$200/yr, or less than $17/mo, sounds like a damn good deal to me.
However, I've always been told that with renters insurance you have to be extremely diligent, as many of the base policies don't really cover anything of value (like books or electronics), and to have those items covered you would have to purchase and additional 'rider' policy, which can get quite pricey.
You mean the folks that oppose even reasonable things like background checks and waiting periods on gun purchases? And hand wave away any effort to introduce reasonable limitation on magazine size?
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
Weapons, and in fact any inanimate objects, aren't dangerous. people with weapons have the potential to be dangerous to one another, but that doesn't make either the person nor the weapon inherently dangerous.
I expect you're quite the pacifist.
Generally, yea, I am, so long as I'm not being threatened. Most people probably won't expect to hear this from a firearm enthusiast such as myself, but I would love to live in a world where weapons were used solely for sport, and the need for personal protection was non-existent. Sadly, so long as there's at least 2 humans on the Earth, that world will likely never exist.
1) We use drones in countries we aren't at war with, daily. You are clearly so uneducated on the use of drones there isn't much reason to have a discussion with you about it. "We" can mean any and all of the above. Take your pick. Of course we need to determine how drones can be used. No one's arguing that. All I said was that drones aren't only used during "war". So to call drones "instruments of war" is misleading at best. It's fear mongering.
If the best you can muster, when asked for source citation, is a childish personal attack, I would rather you didn't bother responding anyway.
2) Irrelevant to what I said and somehow implies I disagree with any of that.
Please expound... actually, considering the nature of your response thus far, please don't.
3) Obviously the point.
What point? You make about as much sense as Charles Manson on mescaline.
4) Here I'll just choose to ignore your ad hominem attacks that are older than the internet.
FYI, Those of us who actually know what the term 'ad hominem attack' means are laughing our asses off at you.
Presumably why many of those sci-fi writers mentioned previously envisioned money-less societies - apparently, the best way to make space exploration cost effective is to effectively eliminate the concept of cost.
Money and cost are not the same.
No shit.
I figured that fiscal cost would be assumed, since I was talking about a money-less society.
Sorry that I presumed my reader didn't need me to spell out every single little detail.
(Different AC) I hope you realize that by being deliberately obtuse, you're only hurting any point you might have had.
What you see as "deliberately obtuse," I see as pointing out the issues that result from a culture that exhorts and promotes people getting into the business of others.
You apparently do not realize it, but this sort of behavior is precisely why we have so many goddamn stupid laws governing what we can or cannot do in the privacy of our own homes. I'm trying to fix that lack of understanding by bringing it to the forefront, so please try using your cognitive abilities instead of instantaneously writing off any opinion you don't necessarily agree with as 'obtuse.'
From the summary, the cracker has already compromised the submitter's network at least once, is trying again, and is doing the same to other networks in the submitter's neighborhood. The cracker has already breached that "good ol' Amer'can spirit" you speak of.
Too busy getting offended to read what I wrote, eh? Here', I'll be a nice guy and repost it:
IF, and only if, this person compromises your network (which would be your own fault, BTW), then you're welcome to redirect all traffic to goatse, or whatever.
While it's not his job, duty, or right to administer his neighbours, it is his responsibility to help protect the neighbourhood of which he is a part. If you spotted a stranger sneaking into your neighbours' houses, would you (a) lock your own doors and warn your neighbours / call the police, or (b) lock your own doors and go back to watching TV?
Leeching wifi != breaking and entering. Thus, I will not honor this false equivalence with a response.
Yeah - I don't happen to have one of those routers. Which is why I'd love to see a disk image.
You could also consider rolling your own solution, if you have a particular program or suite of apps in mind; basically, just install the distro of your choice, install and configure your apps, then add them to cron.
Right. But this seems like such an obvious and common problem - everyone has a router and many many geeks have a server box of some kind - that it seems like there should already be a pretty full-blown solution without my having to roll one.
Let me see if I've got this right - you want a Linux-based blackbox that does exactly what you want it to do, but you're not willing to make it yourself, based on your perception that someone else should have already done the work for you?
Methinks maybe you should just stick to Windows boxes.
Um... what does the NRA have to do with a bill sponsored by a Democratic Congressperson?
Take away movies like Rambo and Scareface
LOLZ - "Scareface." Best typo of the day.
Hunting as a past time has been on the decline for several decades now
That's a real shame, considering how important hunting is to conservation efforts.
without movies and video games only sporting enthusiasts from law enforcement and military backgrounds will have much serious interest in these sorts of weapons.
I think you've hit upon the rationale of the Democrat who sponsored the bill. It's stupid and not based in reality, but hey, this is 'Murican politics we're talking about, so that's actually par for the course.
You could also consider rolling your own solution, if you have a particular program or suite of apps in mind; basically, just install the distro of your choice, install and configure your apps, then add them to cron.
"...have the Librarian of Congress revisit that decision" != "Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal"
That is all.
The summary is poor. The petition itself actually states "We ask that the White House ask the Librarian of Congress to rescind this decision, and failing that, champion a bill that makes unlocking permanently legal."
Still.
It's my experience that "ask" does not get you too far when it comes to bureaucrats. "We demand that the White House demand the Librarian of Congress to..." would, IMO, be far more effective; especially if you throw in something about First Amendment grounds.
Do you know why [they're] doing this?[ ]It's because of the problem of so many people getting cells/droids under a [contracted] agreement[,] then deciding they want to switch to a [different] carrier without having to pay a large [fee] to get out of the original contract[,] so I can understand why the major [companies] want this law.
Whew, much better - that poorly typed shit is hard for me to read.
Here's the issue with your argument - cellular carriers already charge hefty fees for early contract termination, so your main talking point here is demonstrably false.
Also, this "law," which BTW isn't really a law as the Librarian of Congress is not a fucking Legislator, merely adds insult to injury by preventing everyone from unlocking their phones, up to and including folks who unwittingly bought a locked phone outright (it happens), and people like me that actually fulfilled our contractual obligation, and now possess a fully paid for, albeit nearly obsolete, device.
The people themselves are the reason this is happening,it is not the fault of the providers whatsoever,it is the fault of the users
Psychologists refer to this sort of behavior as victim blaming, and is oft employed exclusively by narcissistic assholes.
Not to mention that most of our refining techniques, e.g. floatation, will not work in microgravity, so completely new ones will have to be designed.
Excellent point, hadn't thought of that.
At the moment the startup costs kill the whole endeavour. We need cheaper lifting capacity first. Orders of magnitude cheaper.
Presumably why many of those sci-fi writers mentioned previously envisioned money-less societies - apparently, the best way to make space exploration cost effective is to effectively eliminate the concept of cost.
Isn't there FreeBSD or Linux disk image that'll solve this? <WIFI> <=> [Router] < routes only to > [IP address of solution] Where the solution does something like the standard coffeeshop login + * Special account gets unlimited time & bandwidth * Non-special account needs to sign up every hour & gets diminishing bandwidth (if you want to allow visitors)
Here's a novel concept - secure your network, then politely butt the fuck out of everyone else's business. It is not your job, duty, or right to administer the networks of other people, nor to hunt and/or harass an alleged leecher.
IF, and only if, this person compromises your network (which would be your own fault, BTW), then you're welcome to redirect all traffic to goatse, or whatever.
Seriously, whatever happened to the good ol' Amer'can spirit of, "Don't fuck with me, I won't fuck with you?"
Because any usable ore refinery would take up just about 1000 times the mass of the ISS and require a daily input of energy and consumables which no one can actually generate in situ respectively lift to orbit at a reasonable cost?
So, basically, it's a materials problem.
Wouldn't asteroid mining help to solve that very issue? Granted, there's going to be a significant startup cost in just getting the materials for the refinery/shipyard/whathaveyou into space, but once it's there, surely we can use space-based resources to make it nigh-perpetual?
C'mon, we're smart monkeys; if we can speculate as to the time and cause of the death of the entire universe, surely we can figure this one out.
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$200/yr, or less than $17/mo, sounds like a damn good deal to me.
However, I've always been told that with renters insurance you have to be extremely diligent, as many of the base policies don't really cover anything of value (like books or electronics), and to have those items covered you would have to purchase and additional 'rider' policy, which can get quite pricey.
You mean the folks that oppose even reasonable things like background checks and waiting periods on gun purchases? And hand wave away any effort to introduce reasonable limitation on magazine size?
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
http://realsentrygun.com/
What this petition is doing is asking the White House to get Congress to repeal a law they passed to make the act illegal.
Except, this isn't a law Congress passed - it's a mandate from the Librarian of Congress, who is not an elected legislator.
Hey, maybe that's what we need to make illegal: unelected bureaucrats creating laws by proxy.
Weapons, and in fact any inanimate objects, aren't dangerous.
Hmm.
That should read, "Weapons, and in fact most inanimate objects..."
Forgot to account for thing like unstable explosives.
given that weapons are generally dangerous
Weapons, and in fact any inanimate objects, aren't dangerous. people with weapons have the potential to be dangerous to one another, but that doesn't make either the person nor the weapon inherently dangerous.
I expect you're quite the pacifist.
Generally, yea, I am, so long as I'm not being threatened. Most people probably won't expect to hear this from a firearm enthusiast such as myself, but I would love to live in a world where weapons were used solely for sport, and the need for personal protection was non-existent. Sadly, so long as there's at least 2 humans on the Earth, that world will likely never exist.
1) We use drones in countries we aren't at war with, daily. You are clearly so uneducated on the use of drones there isn't much reason to have a discussion with you about it. "We" can mean any and all of the above. Take your pick. Of course we need to determine how drones can be used. No one's arguing that. All I said was that drones aren't only used during "war". So to call drones "instruments of war" is misleading at best. It's fear mongering.
If the best you can muster, when asked for source citation, is a childish personal attack, I would rather you didn't bother responding anyway.
2) Irrelevant to what I said and somehow implies I disagree with any of that.
Please expound... actually, considering the nature of your response thus far, please don't.
3) Obviously the point.
What point? You make about as much sense as Charles Manson on mescaline.
4) Here I'll just choose to ignore your ad hominem attacks that are older than the internet.
FYI, Those of us who actually know what the term 'ad hominem attack' means are laughing our asses off at you.
Right, because it was the "bureaucrats" who made this decision, not the politicians.
And, of course, a demand from 0.0003% of the population will cause them to spring into action to meet your demands...
Hey, it works for the 1% who are member of the NRA, right?
Oh, wait, they have shit-tons of money...
Presumably why many of those sci-fi writers mentioned previously envisioned money-less societies - apparently, the best way to make space exploration cost effective is to effectively eliminate the concept of cost.
Money and cost are not the same.
No shit.
I figured that fiscal cost would be assumed, since I was talking about a money-less society.
Sorry that I presumed my reader didn't need me to spell out every single little detail.
(Different AC)
I hope you realize that by being deliberately obtuse, you're only hurting any point you might have had.
What you see as "deliberately obtuse," I see as pointing out the issues that result from a culture that exhorts and promotes people getting into the business of others.
You apparently do not realize it, but this sort of behavior is precisely why we have so many goddamn stupid laws governing what we can or cannot do in the privacy of our own homes. I'm trying to fix that lack of understanding by bringing it to the forefront, so please try using your cognitive abilities instead of instantaneously writing off any opinion you don't necessarily agree with as 'obtuse.'
From the summary, the cracker has already compromised the submitter's network at least once, is trying again, and is doing the same to other networks in the submitter's neighborhood. The cracker has already breached that "good ol' Amer'can spirit" you speak of.
Too busy getting offended to read what I wrote, eh? Here', I'll be a nice guy and repost it:
While it's not his job, duty, or right to administer his neighbours, it is his responsibility to help protect the neighbourhood of which he is a part. If you spotted a stranger sneaking into your neighbours' houses, would you (a) lock your own doors and warn your neighbours / call the police, or (b) lock your own doors and go back to watching TV?
Leeching wifi != breaking and entering. Thus, I will not honor this false equivalence with a response.
Yeah - I don't happen to have one of those routers. Which is why I'd love to see a disk image.
You could also consider rolling your own solution, if you have a particular program or suite of apps in mind; basically, just install the distro of your choice, install and configure your apps, then add them to cron.
Right. But this seems like such an obvious and common problem - everyone has a router and many many geeks have a server box of some kind - that it seems like there should already be a pretty full-blown solution without my having to roll one.
Let me see if I've got this right - you want a Linux-based blackbox that does exactly what you want it to do, but you're not willing to make it yourself, based on your perception that someone else should have already done the work for you?
Methinks maybe you should just stick to Windows boxes.
The NRA's new policy of blaming video games...
Um... what does the NRA have to do with a bill sponsored by a Democratic Congressperson?
Take away movies like Rambo and Scareface
LOLZ - "Scareface." Best typo of the day.
Hunting as a past time has been on the decline for several decades now
That's a real shame, considering how important hunting is to conservation efforts.
without movies and video games only sporting enthusiasts from law enforcement and military backgrounds will have much serious interest in these sorts of weapons.
I think you've hit upon the rationale of the Democrat who sponsored the bill. It's stupid and not based in reality, but hey, this is 'Murican politics we're talking about, so that's actually par for the course.
I can't believe people are actually stupid enough to fall into line for the scare of the day anymore.
Really?
Have you met any of them?
The other person has already gone the "fucking with you" route by changing his SSID name to serve as a trap.
You don't own that SSID. Nobody does.
Enough with the hyperbole.
so it's basically a glue gun that squirts out colored glue.
Uh, wouldn't that mean that 3D printers are basically just CNC mills with glue guns mounted where the mandrel should be?
This, perhaps?
Uh. Nope. I'm looking for a disk image I could fire up on a tiny pc (or in a VM) that'd meter wifi...
DD-WRT or Tomato then?
You could also consider rolling your own solution, if you have a particular program or suite of apps in mind; basically, just install the distro of your choice, install and configure your apps, then add them to cron.
"...have the Librarian of Congress revisit that decision" != "Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal"
That is all.
The summary is poor. The petition itself actually states "We ask that the White House ask the Librarian of Congress to rescind this decision, and failing that, champion a bill that makes unlocking permanently legal."
Still.
It's my experience that "ask" does not get you too far when it comes to bureaucrats. "We demand that the White House demand the Librarian of Congress to..." would, IMO, be far more effective; especially if you throw in something about First Amendment grounds.
Do you know why [they're] doing this?[ ]It's because of the problem of so many people getting cells/droids under a [contracted] agreement[,] then deciding they want to switch to a [different] carrier without having to pay a large [fee] to get out of the original contract[,] so I can understand why the major [companies] want this law.
Whew, much better - that poorly typed shit is hard for me to read.
Here's the issue with your argument - cellular carriers already charge hefty fees for early contract termination, so your main talking point here is demonstrably false.
Also, this "law," which BTW isn't really a law as the Librarian of Congress is not a fucking Legislator , merely adds insult to injury by preventing everyone from unlocking their phones, up to and including folks who unwittingly bought a locked phone outright (it happens), and people like me that actually fulfilled our contractual obligation, and now possess a fully paid for, albeit nearly obsolete, device.
The people themselves are the reason this is happening,it is not the fault of the providers whatsoever,it is the fault of the users
Psychologists refer to this sort of behavior as victim blaming, and is oft employed exclusively by narcissistic assholes.
"...have the Librarian of Congress revisit that decision" != "Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal"
That is all.
Not to mention that most of our refining techniques, e.g. floatation, will not work in microgravity, so completely new ones will have to be designed.
Excellent point, hadn't thought of that.
At the moment the startup costs kill the whole endeavour. We need cheaper lifting capacity first. Orders of magnitude cheaper.
Presumably why many of those sci-fi writers mentioned previously envisioned money-less societies - apparently, the best way to make space exploration cost effective is to effectively eliminate the concept of cost.
... can Kinect 2.0 run Linux?
Preferably as a Beowulf Cluster.
Isn't there FreeBSD or Linux disk image that'll solve this?
<WIFI> <=> [Router] < routes only to > [IP address of solution]
Where the solution does something like the standard coffeeshop login +
* Special account gets unlimited time & bandwidth
* Non-special account needs to sign up every hour & gets diminishing bandwidth (if you want to allow visitors)
Something like http://dev.wifidog.org/, but under active development?
This, perhaps?
Here's a novel concept - secure your network, then politely butt the fuck out of everyone else's business. It is not your job, duty, or right to administer the networks of other people, nor to hunt and/or harass an alleged leecher.
IF, and only if, this person compromises your network (which would be your own fault, BTW), then you're welcome to redirect all traffic to goatse, or whatever.
Seriously, whatever happened to the good ol' Amer'can spirit of, "Don't fuck with me, I won't fuck with you?"
Because any usable ore refinery would take up just about 1000 times the mass of the ISS and require a daily input of energy and consumables which no one can actually generate in situ respectively lift to orbit at a reasonable cost?
So, basically, it's a materials problem.
Wouldn't asteroid mining help to solve that very issue? Granted, there's going to be a significant startup cost in just getting the materials for the refinery/shipyard/whathaveyou into space, but once it's there, surely we can use space-based resources to make it nigh-perpetual?
C'mon, we're smart monkeys; if we can speculate as to the time and cause of the death of the entire universe, surely we can figure this one out.