You are a fool to believe that this wall will keep you safe from terrorists and immigration. Especially terrorists, the terrorists that destroyed the WTC came into this country LEGALLY.....dumbass.
I said nothing about about terrorists, Mr. Coward. Strawman arguments indicate a weak position.
Because then people will just find 21-foot ladders.
The proposed wall or fence isn't the kind that you'd throw up around a construction site. It's a minimum of two barriers with sensors and cameras separated by @ 50 yards of graded road containing buried sensors, topped with barbed wire, and protected by trenches and razor wire. By the time you've managed to put your ladder against the first barrier, scaled it and gotten down the other side, then schlepped your ladder 50 yards to get over the next barrier, the Border Patrol is on top of you. Maybe a few people will succeed, but the overall flow will be cut to a trickle. Not being 100% effective doesn't mean it won't be a huge improvement.
he Texas economy in particular would fall over, die, and burst into flame if all the illegal immigrants vanished. Restaurants? Hotels? Ranches? Farms? If all these demonized immigrants just vanished the people would realize in short order why nothing was ever done about it before, despite all the big talk. Racism sells, but money is what matters.
So who's doing all those jobs in Hawaii, which has a very low percentage of illegals? How about North Dakota? Wisconsin? High-illegal states like Texas and California would feel a sudden lack of cheap labor for a time, but would rapidly adapt. Some jobs would start paying more, some would go overseas (using illegals is the equivalent of 'outsourcing' except we bring the cheap labor to the job instead of vice versa), some would vanish because they wouldn't be worth doing at higher wage levels. Lettuce would NOT be selling for $8 a head (it's currently $1 where I live). For an increase of $7 a head, they'd have to be packing each head in a UPS box and shipping it by air to my door.
Maybe there are a few areas where's there's so much regular activity that motion detection video processing can't be used, but since most of these cameras are going to be monitoring vast empty places, wouldn't it make sense to automate the detection of activity rather than relying on humans? In fact, I suspect that many people will do exactly that on their home PCs: they'll download images from many cameras, have the PC compare them and look for movement, then alert the human when something is found requiring attention.
It's not in TFA. Yes, it's in the summary, but, foolish me, I clicked on the link before reading the entire thing. I've found that the summaries aren't always that accurate, so I like to read the articles for myself. Given that it's Microsoft who's saying that they are expecting to be sued and not Adobe threatening them as the summary says, looks like I'm right about that even in this case.
Fuckwit.
Back atcha, Mr Coward. At least I have the guts to post with an identity.
Adobe wants Microsoft to remove the feature and offer Adobe's technology separately for a fee. Microsoft has agreed to remove the feature, but is unwilling to charge for it, the Journal reported.
Where is this alleged PDF writer in MSFT apps? I've got Office 2003 Enterprise Edition, and I had to go out and find and install a 3rd party PDF writer.
Modern radio networks use spread-spectrum techniques to combat jammers. You're effectively requiring the jammer to radiate impractical amounts of power to flood the entire band your equipment is using. That's unless he can figure out how to concentrate his power just in the part of the spectrum you're using at any given moment, which is similar in difficulty to a spy breaking your communications encryption.
All you really need is the reporter's phone numbers. Then you can do a search against outgoing call records from government phones. That might let calls by gov't officials from private phones get by (however, I'm not sure if high-security-clearance folks essentially sign away their rights to privacy in return for their clearances; if so, even calls from their private phones might be subject to this).
Let's say that "half a world away" is 10,000 km, and that the target missile is 3 meters wide. To hit within a 3-meter ring at 10,000 km, you'd have to point your laser with an accuracy of.000017 degrees. At a high-speed moving target. From a moving, vibrating aircraft. The laser may have the power to make the shot, but I seriously doubt that they've yet managed that kind of accuracy.
Remember all the dire predictions of "Nuclear Winter" some years ago? Supposedly when the nuke powers launched Armageddon, the dust kicked up and the burning forests and buildings were going to enshroud the planet with an impenetrable cloud, after which no crops would grow and we'd all starve. Well, maybe the answer to our global warming problem is a controlled mini-geddon® or what I like to call Nuclear Late Afternoon: just enough destruction and burning to raise the Earth's albedo to balance out man-made global warming. The scientists who have so accurately modeled global warming should be able to tell us exactly how many megatons it'll take to compensate.
I know that a lot of Americans sometimes think of Canada as the 51st state, but they're a separate country with their own laws and everything. I know this is hard to believe, but the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has NO validity there.
And this makes them immune to criticism? Canadians are always sniping at us about things like our "lax" gun laws and non-governmental health care, so we get to do the same. Or would that be more "hate speech" as far as Canadians are concerned?
How much energy can we pack into a small package before we need to start treating it like thermite? If we're putting many watt-hours into a cartridge and it malfunctions, could it, for example, end up melting its way through the cabin floor and skin (and the fuel lines) of an aircraft?
Freedom of expression is intended to protect things that offend somebody, whether it be a government or other people. If it's uncontroversial, it's in no need of defense. Canadians should be asking themselves if they're OK with having their right to express themselves in offensive terms squashed whenever some pressure group or governmental entity doesn't like it.
Erm, this is news for nerds. You ought to know what Snort is.
How? Because, being nerds, it's encoded in our DNA? We're not born with the knowledge of all things technical, we have to acquire it, and where better than Slashdot? The best posts on the forum don't assume that the reader automatically knows what's being referred to, they spell it all out.
I don't know which school system you're familiar with, but here in California, the money that should go to the classroom is being wasted. Given the amount we spend, we should be able to buy every kid a laptop running Windows XP Pro. Take a look at "A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools" for an analysis of why our educational system isn't "cash strapped." I suspect those of most other states aren't either.
Why can't the National Archives provide this service? I would like to see public property in the hand of the public.
For the same reason the Department of Homeland Security parks 'emergency' trailers to sink in the mud in Arkansas, while Wal-Mart manages to deliver every conceivable commodity to the area of a disaster within hours of its occurrence.
If you want to do something postive for the planet, don't have children, or only have one. That will have a more far-reaching impact than anything else.
That's the approach Europe is taking; the birthrate of EU natives is far below replacement, while recent Muslim immigrants maintain high birth rates. The natives are seeing their numbers halved every 40 years or so, and the EU will be predominantly Muslim in about 20 years as the natives die off, are out-reproduced, or flee to other nations(as many Danes are presently doing). Hard to know what the consequences of that will be, but based on recent events, including rioting, killings of infidels and jews, calls to substitute Sharia law for Western Democratic legal traditions, etc., I'm guessing that they overall won't be "something positive for the planet".
I'm a registered "decline to state." These guys weren't policing morality in the religious sense, they were attempting to enforce the neo-puritanical "sexual harrassment" laws, as they interpreted them. They evidently subscribe to the viewpoint that looking at anything of a sexual nature is harrassment of someone, somewhere. Under that interpretation, they could equally have taken the stance that viewing anti-Muslim websites would be harrassment of Muslims. It isn't the GOP endowing these bozos with the tools they use in their attempts to become Thought Police, it's the "it's your Constitutional right to never be offended" types and their fellow travelers in government (some of whom are members of the GOP, admittedly, but along with plenty of Democrats as well).
You've described the original implementation of USENET. Participating machines would dial each other up and exchange current traffic. A message injected at one machine would eventually end up in the rec.practicaljokes.hotfoot newsgroup on every participating machine within a day or two, just by this simple machine-to-to-machine exchange.
Apparently they even used bloggers as part of the operation, as relayers of misinformation!"
That would explain the "Nude Paris Hilton demonstrates latest version of FireFox while denouncing Bush administration" links that mysteriously went to the Bonneville Power Administration.
Put some money in a stock index fund then climb aboard your spaceship. Accelerate to near-light speed and take a cruise of some nearby solar systems for a few hundred years. Come back, having aged little, and collect your fortune.
It's evident from this incident that the county government isn't spending what's needed to provide necessary services, it's spending whatever it gets. That tells me that nobody is looking at what the money is being spent on and saying, "do we really need to be doing that?" This pretty much assures that taxpayer money will get wasted on things that the voters would never approve if they were on a ballot.
So will a federal spidering engine honor the robots.txt file and not search for terrorists in "unauthorized" areas? If so, that seems pretty wimpish if human life is at stake. If not, they're likely to get their spider shut out by irritated web admins. Either way, seems like the effort isn't going to be as effective as it otherwise might.
I was completely unaware of Meehan's weaseling out of his term limits pledge until this. Screwing around with Wikipedia has brought this issue to the fore. Hope his opponents point out that he's way past his self-assigned Sell-By date in office.
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I said nothing about about terrorists, Mr. Coward. Strawman arguments indicate a weak position.
The proposed wall or fence isn't the kind that you'd throw up around a construction site. It's a minimum of two barriers with sensors and cameras separated by @ 50 yards of graded road containing buried sensors, topped with barbed wire, and protected by trenches and razor wire. By the time you've managed to put your ladder against the first barrier, scaled it and gotten down the other side, then schlepped your ladder 50 yards to get over the next barrier, the Border Patrol is on top of you. Maybe a few people will succeed, but the overall flow will be cut to a trickle. Not being 100% effective doesn't mean it won't be a huge improvement.
So who's doing all those jobs in Hawaii, which has a very low percentage of illegals? How about North Dakota? Wisconsin? High-illegal states like Texas and California would feel a sudden lack of cheap labor for a time, but would rapidly adapt. Some jobs would start paying more, some would go overseas (using illegals is the equivalent of 'outsourcing' except we bring the cheap labor to the job instead of vice versa), some would vanish because they wouldn't be worth doing at higher wage levels. Lettuce would NOT be selling for $8 a head (it's currently $1 where I live). For an increase of $7 a head, they'd have to be packing each head in a UPS box and shipping it by air to my door.
Maybe there are a few areas where's there's so much regular activity that motion detection video processing can't be used, but since most of these cameras are going to be monitoring vast empty places, wouldn't it make sense to automate the detection of activity rather than relying on humans? In fact, I suspect that many people will do exactly that on their home PCs: they'll download images from many cameras, have the PC compare them and look for movement, then alert the human when something is found requiring attention.
It's not in TFA. Yes, it's in the summary, but, foolish me, I clicked on the link before reading the entire thing. I've found that the summaries aren't always that accurate, so I like to read the articles for myself. Given that it's Microsoft who's saying that they are expecting to be sued and not Adobe threatening them as the summary says, looks like I'm right about that even in this case.
Fuckwit.
Back atcha, Mr Coward. At least I have the guts to post with an identity.
Where is this alleged PDF writer in MSFT apps? I've got Office 2003 Enterprise Edition, and I had to go out and find and install a 3rd party PDF writer.
Modern radio networks use spread-spectrum techniques to combat jammers. You're effectively requiring the jammer to radiate impractical amounts of power to flood the entire band your equipment is using. That's unless he can figure out how to concentrate his power just in the part of the spectrum you're using at any given moment, which is similar in difficulty to a spy breaking your communications encryption.
All you really need is the reporter's phone numbers. Then you can do a search against outgoing call records from government phones. That might let calls by gov't officials from private phones get by (however, I'm not sure if high-security-clearance folks essentially sign away their rights to privacy in return for their clearances; if so, even calls from their private phones might be subject to this).
Let's say that "half a world away" is 10,000 km, and that the target missile is 3 meters wide. To hit within a 3-meter ring at 10,000 km, you'd have to point your laser with an accuracy of .000017 degrees. At a high-speed moving target. From a moving, vibrating aircraft. The laser may have the power to make the shot, but I seriously doubt that they've yet managed that kind of accuracy.
Remember all the dire predictions of "Nuclear Winter" some years ago? Supposedly when the nuke powers launched Armageddon, the dust kicked up and the burning forests and buildings were going to enshroud the planet with an impenetrable cloud, after which no crops would grow and we'd all starve. Well, maybe the answer to our global warming problem is a controlled mini-geddon® or what I like to call Nuclear Late Afternoon: just enough destruction and burning to raise the Earth's albedo to balance out man-made global warming. The scientists who have so accurately modeled global warming should be able to tell us exactly how many megatons it'll take to compensate.
This reminds me of that forearm thing that Leela on Futurama wore.
And this makes them immune to criticism? Canadians are always sniping at us about things like our "lax" gun laws and non-governmental health care, so we get to do the same. Or would that be more "hate speech" as far as Canadians are concerned?
How much energy can we pack into a small package before we need to start treating it like thermite? If we're putting many watt-hours into a cartridge and it malfunctions, could it, for example, end up melting its way through the cabin floor and skin (and the fuel lines) of an aircraft?
Freedom of expression is intended to protect things that offend somebody, whether it be a government or other people. If it's uncontroversial, it's in no need of defense. Canadians should be asking themselves if they're OK with having their right to express themselves in offensive terms squashed whenever some pressure group or governmental entity doesn't like it.
How? Because, being nerds, it's encoded in our DNA? We're not born with the knowledge of all things technical, we have to acquire it, and where better than Slashdot? The best posts on the forum don't assume that the reader automatically knows what's being referred to, they spell it all out.
I don't know which school system you're familiar with, but here in California, the money that should go to the classroom is being wasted. Given the amount we spend, we should be able to buy every kid a laptop running Windows XP Pro. Take a look at "A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools" for an analysis of why our educational system isn't "cash strapped." I suspect those of most other states aren't either.
For the same reason the Department of Homeland Security parks 'emergency' trailers to sink in the mud in Arkansas, while Wal-Mart manages to deliver every conceivable commodity to the area of a disaster within hours of its occurrence.
That's the approach Europe is taking; the birthrate of EU natives is far below replacement, while recent Muslim immigrants maintain high birth rates. The natives are seeing their numbers halved every 40 years or so, and the EU will be predominantly Muslim in about 20 years as the natives die off, are out-reproduced, or flee to other nations(as many Danes are presently doing). Hard to know what the consequences of that will be, but based on recent events, including rioting, killings of infidels and jews, calls to substitute Sharia law for Western Democratic legal traditions, etc., I'm guessing that they overall won't be "something positive for the planet".
I'm a registered "decline to state." These guys weren't policing morality in the religious sense, they were attempting to enforce the neo-puritanical "sexual harrassment" laws, as they interpreted them. They evidently subscribe to the viewpoint that looking at anything of a sexual nature is harrassment of someone, somewhere. Under that interpretation, they could equally have taken the stance that viewing anti-Muslim websites would be harrassment of Muslims. It isn't the GOP endowing these bozos with the tools they use in their attempts to become Thought Police, it's the "it's your Constitutional right to never be offended" types and their fellow travelers in government (some of whom are members of the GOP, admittedly, but along with plenty of Democrats as well).
You've described the original implementation of USENET. Participating machines would dial each other up and exchange current traffic. A message injected at one machine would eventually end up in the rec.practicaljokes.hotfoot newsgroup on every participating machine within a day or two, just by this simple machine-to-to-machine exchange.
That would explain the "Nude Paris Hilton demonstrates latest version of FireFox while denouncing Bush administration" links that mysteriously went to the Bonneville Power Administration.
Put some money in a stock index fund then climb aboard your spaceship. Accelerate to near-light speed and take a cruise of some nearby solar systems for a few hundred years. Come back, having aged little, and collect your fortune.
It's evident from this incident that the county government isn't spending what's needed to provide necessary services, it's spending whatever it gets. That tells me that nobody is looking at what the money is being spent on and saying, "do we really need to be doing that?" This pretty much assures that taxpayer money will get wasted on things that the voters would never approve if they were on a ballot.
So will a federal spidering engine honor the robots.txt file and not search for terrorists in "unauthorized" areas? If so, that seems pretty wimpish if human life is at stake. If not, they're likely to get their spider shut out by irritated web admins. Either way, seems like the effort isn't going to be as effective as it otherwise might.
I was completely unaware of Meehan's weaseling out of his term limits pledge until this. Screwing around with Wikipedia has brought this issue to the fore. Hope his opponents point out that he's way past his self-assigned Sell-By date in office.