Did these guys think that because they were the cops, they didn't have to answer to anybody? If the contents of the tape is what this family says it is, some hard lessons are going to be learned. Unfortunatly, the people who are going to pay are the taxpayers, and not the cops themselves.
but even after it has been limited it will grow up to be a bloody big CRL after time.
You can balance the size of your revocation list with appropriate certificate expiration dates. There is no need for your list to grow indefinatly. For high security environments, there is no reason to thing that expiration dates couldn't be kept *very* short for the majority of people. Got to work in a government facility 5 days a week? Why do you need your certificate to last longer than 7 days? Especially if there is an easy, automated way to update.
(albeit EFI, not BIOS-based) without making it look crappy like a PC. If only a Wintel BIOS-based PC could look as good.
The only reason to continue to use the IBM compatable BIOS is to be DOS-like, so why should vendors change? EFI is the future on the intel platform, and it's about time. For too long, the majority of PCs have been crippled by crappy firmware to maintain DOS compatability.
We shouldn't want Wintel-BIOS machines to look modern, we should want them to be modern. (At least up to 1990's standards) Ditch BIOS!
Seriously, that's how all the good Microsoft technologies of the last decade have come to be... And there certainly isn't any shortage of small companies with great OSs out there. Why play catch up?
Heck, why do you think the meters have 2 hour (or less) caps on them?
I don't know where you live, but near me the cap is generally set to the same amount of time you're legally allowed to park in the spot. Technically, in those spots you're not supposed to go 'feed the meter', and if you do you could get a ticket anyway.
The cap is so you don't stay parked in the same spot too long so the rest of us can have a chance at a place to park.
If they didn't remove DX9 support from Vista, game developers would be crazy not to continue writing DX9 games instead. What does DirectX 10 have to offer other than 0% market share for the forseeable future?
You know somebody isn't a repair tech if they're wearing a tie.
When I worked professionally as a repair tech, I wore a tie for exactly one day. They dangle, and get stuck to the pins on the back of a PCB like velcro. Work on one machine without being careful about your tie, and it's ruined with dozens of pulls. If you're lucky, you didn't ruin whatever it is you were working on.
Care to explain what's "right-wing" about the government funding a private policy initiative?
It sounds to me like you decided that you are left-wing and universally correct, so everything you disapprove of must be right-wing, even though you have no idea what differentiates the two.
Here's a hint though: If the governement is taking money from the citizens and spending it as they see fit on anything other than defence, that's left-wing, not right...
Two years ago you had a point. Today, not only is 2MB not nearly enough to store even a blank Word file (only a slight exageration), but most name brand PCs don't come with floppy drives standard. Most laptops haven't had them for years. With the advent of the $30 CD-RW drive, floppies have finally died. The only reason anybody uses them now is for legacy interoperability. Outside of insular, slow-changing corporate environments you'll probably never see one anymore.
I don't see how asking kids to leave their goddamn cellphones at home for summer camp is asking too much. Frankly, it's probably good for them to ditch the phone at home for a few weeks.
The spammers are the most important part of eBay. You've got to figure they generate a really high percentage of the listings fee revenue.
I've come to the realization long ago (after playing the sniping game and using sniping software) that the only items worth buying on eBay are the ones that nobody else wants, that are misspelled so badly that nobody else can bid on them, or the ones that people are unwilling to ship, but are close enough to where you live to be easily picked up. Everything else gets bid up well past it's actual value.
You would have a compelling argument if I believed for a second that was the case. In a few more years, he'll have aged enough that nobody will recognize him, even on the off chance that they actually remember anything about it.
Besides, 99.9999etc% of the crap that gets posted to the internet doesn't become nearly as widely viewed and recognized. So I maintain my position that it's only slightly worse.
We're talking peers here, boys and girls at the same camp, and not some pedophile starting with child porn before escalating to molestation, right? Then it seems to me that the harm, unless you've got some weird hangup, comes from the embarassment, right? You know, from being seen by people you know, and knowing they saw you? Sounds like 90% of the harm comes before the internet is even involved then....
In my experience, when somebody can't actually explain something and have to resort to saying "I assume that you see..", that person really has no rational reason for thinking what they think. Just an irrational belief. Stop thinking that something is 'obvious' and put some thought into why you're so certain. Please, tell me what actual harm comes from an anonymous picture ending up on the internet that is worse than what comes from being embarrased in front of all of your adolescent peers. Keep in mind that you probably never find out that the picture is on the internet, and nobody who sees it knows that it's you.
Really, it couldn't hurt for you to get professional help. But in the meantime you may want to learn some things that change your mindset a bit...
I am a distinction / high distinction student
The fact that your question starts with that tells me that you really focus on that... Perhaps to the point of obscession. Once you get that diploma, no employer that you'll ever want to work for is likely to ask you about your GPA or any of that crap. Some other people here are, both jokingly or not, telling you to give up on caring... You don't have to do that, but you can realize that there's nothing to worry about. Exams aren't going to ruin your life, even if you fail them.
More than anything though, you should talk to a professional. Most people here, myself included, are talking out their asses. There could be some serious medical consequences that you're not going to find out about here.
he doesn't believe that it's wrong to have money you didn't earn
He has to be fairly knowledgeable about the ways of finance to have gotten the reputation he has, and those billions of dollars. I'm sure he knows that, far from it being wrong to inherit money, providing for your loved ones with your life's work is one of the principle motivations for people to do the work that creates wealth. Without it, fortunes wouldn't exist except through windfall; including his.
Use a bit torrent style method of sharing bandwidth.
The latency for receiving any specific bit of data over these types of protocols is very high compared to what we're used to from the big name search engines.
Think of how (not) fast Coral Cache pages are... Sure, they're faster than the site you're trying to get to that went down 40 minutes ago, but they're damned slow compared to most average websites. Peer to Peer hosting of interactive content would have the same problems... and that's before you get into people being assholes and mucking with the data being returned by their machine for 'fun'.
Why can't search engines have user feedback... Click on a link that is obviously search engine spam, or that returns different results than what was fed to the spider? Click this link! If it gets enough 'no' votes it's thrown to the end of the list and has to work it's way back up. A little bit of tuning on how many 'no' votes a page has to get over any particular period of time, and it should be rare indeed for people to see search-spam.
Certain boxes with a background color are frequently printed with large opaque stripes across them... There are other compatability issues, but this is the one I hit most recently.
It's nice, but you still have to have a copy of Acrobat Reader around too.
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Did these guys think that because they were the cops, they didn't have to answer to anybody? If the contents of the tape is what this family says it is, some hard lessons are going to be learned. Unfortunatly, the people who are going to pay are the taxpayers, and not the cops themselves.
Don't loan them to people...
:)
They'll like them so much you'll probably never get it back.
but even after it has been limited it will grow up to be a bloody big CRL after time.
You can balance the size of your revocation list with appropriate certificate expiration dates. There is no need for your list to grow indefinatly. For high security environments, there is no reason to thing that expiration dates couldn't be kept *very* short for the majority of people. Got to work in a government facility 5 days a week? Why do you need your certificate to last longer than 7 days? Especially if there is an easy, automated way to update.
It says exactly what I meant...
I was not asserting that they *did* remove DX9...
(albeit EFI, not BIOS-based) without making it look crappy like a PC. If only a Wintel BIOS-based PC could look as good.
The only reason to continue to use the IBM compatable BIOS is to be DOS-like, so why should vendors change? EFI is the future on the intel platform, and it's about time. For too long, the majority of PCs have been crippled by crappy firmware to maintain DOS compatability.
We shouldn't want Wintel-BIOS machines to look modern, we should want them to be modern. (At least up to 1990's standards) Ditch BIOS!
Seriously, that's how all the good Microsoft technologies of the last decade have come to be... And there certainly isn't any shortage of small companies with great OSs out there. Why play catch up?
I say they should buy QNX and run with it.
Heck, why do you think the meters have 2 hour (or less) caps on them?
I don't know where you live, but near me the cap is generally set to the same amount of time you're legally allowed to park in the spot. Technically, in those spots you're not supposed to go 'feed the meter', and if you do you could get a ticket anyway.
The cap is so you don't stay parked in the same spot too long so the rest of us can have a chance at a place to park.
The issue here is that DX10 will not be released for Windows XP. /me hands you a captain obvious hat.
If they didn't remove DX9 support from Vista, game developers would be crazy not to continue writing DX9 games instead. What does DirectX 10 have to offer other than 0% market share for the forseeable future?
You know somebody isn't a repair tech if they're wearing a tie.
When I worked professionally as a repair tech, I wore a tie for exactly one day. They dangle, and get stuck to the pins on the back of a PCB like velcro. Work on one machine without being careful about your tie, and it's ruined with dozens of pulls. If you're lucky, you didn't ruin whatever it is you were working on.
Care to explain what's "right-wing" about the government funding a private policy initiative?
It sounds to me like you decided that you are left-wing and universally correct, so everything you disapprove of must be right-wing, even though you have no idea what differentiates the two.
Here's a hint though: If the governement is taking money from the citizens and spending it as they see fit on anything other than defence, that's left-wing, not right...
Not true. You can build a windows CD with the drivers you need included. Of course... You need a working Windows system to create the CD.
You can stick a DVD into your HD-DVD player.
And in many cases, the other way around...
Two years ago you had a point. Today, not only is 2MB not nearly enough to store even a blank Word file (only a slight exageration), but most name brand PCs don't come with floppy drives standard. Most laptops haven't had them for years. With the advent of the $30 CD-RW drive, floppies have finally died. The only reason anybody uses them now is for legacy interoperability. Outside of insular, slow-changing corporate environments you'll probably never see one anymore.
I don't see how asking kids to leave their goddamn cellphones at home for summer camp is asking too much. Frankly, it's probably good for them to ditch the phone at home for a few weeks.
That's something we can both agree on.
The spammers are the most important part of eBay. You've got to figure they generate a really high percentage of the listings fee revenue.
I've come to the realization long ago (after playing the sniping game and using sniping software) that the only items worth buying on eBay are the ones that nobody else wants, that are misspelled so badly that nobody else can bid on them, or the ones that people are unwilling to ship, but are close enough to where you live to be easily picked up. Everything else gets bid up well past it's actual value.
You would have a compelling argument if I believed for a second that was the case. In a few more years, he'll have aged enough that nobody will recognize him, even on the off chance that they actually remember anything about it.
Besides, 99.9999etc% of the crap that gets posted to the internet doesn't become nearly as widely viewed and recognized. So I maintain my position that it's only slightly worse.
I don't know, what's worse, being embarassed in front of 10 people or 10 million? Remeber that "Star Wars Kid" with the light saber video?
My assertion is that 10 million is worse, but only very slightly.
We're talking peers here, boys and girls at the same camp, and not some pedophile starting with child porn before escalating to molestation, right? Then it seems to me that the harm, unless you've got some weird hangup, comes from the embarassment, right? You know, from being seen by people you know, and knowing they saw you? Sounds like 90% of the harm comes before the internet is even involved then....
In my experience, when somebody can't actually explain something and have to resort to saying "I assume that you see..", that person really has no rational reason for thinking what they think. Just an irrational belief. Stop thinking that something is 'obvious' and put some thought into why you're so certain. Please, tell me what actual harm comes from an anonymous picture ending up on the internet that is worse than what comes from being embarrased in front of all of your adolescent peers. Keep in mind that you probably never find out that the picture is on the internet, and nobody who sees it knows that it's you.
Really, it couldn't hurt for you to get professional help. But in the meantime you may want to learn some things that change your mindset a bit...
I am a distinction / high distinction student
The fact that your question starts with that tells me that you really focus on that... Perhaps to the point of obscession. Once you get that diploma, no employer that you'll ever want to work for is likely to ask you about your GPA or any of that crap. Some other people here are, both jokingly or not, telling you to give up on caring... You don't have to do that, but you can realize that there's nothing to worry about. Exams aren't going to ruin your life, even if you fail them.
More than anything though, you should talk to a professional. Most people here, myself included, are talking out their asses. There could be some serious medical consequences that you're not going to find out about here.
he doesn't believe that it's wrong to have money you didn't earn
He has to be fairly knowledgeable about the ways of finance to have gotten the reputation he has, and those billions of dollars. I'm sure he knows that, far from it being wrong to inherit money, providing for your loved ones with your life's work is one of the principle motivations for people to do the work that creates wealth. Without it, fortunes wouldn't exist except through windfall; including his.
There are dozens of ways to prevent that.
Use a bit torrent style method of sharing bandwidth.
The latency for receiving any specific bit of data over these types of protocols is very high compared to what we're used to from the big name search engines.
Think of how (not) fast Coral Cache pages are... Sure, they're faster than the site you're trying to get to that went down 40 minutes ago, but they're damned slow compared to most average websites. Peer to Peer hosting of interactive content would have the same problems... and that's before you get into people being assholes and mucking with the data being returned by their machine for 'fun'.
Why can't search engines have user feedback... Click on a link that is obviously search engine spam, or that returns different results than what was fed to the spider? Click this link! If it gets enough 'no' votes it's thrown to the end of the list and has to work it's way back up. A little bit of tuning on how many 'no' votes a page has to get over any particular period of time, and it should be rare indeed for people to see search-spam.
Certain boxes with a background color are frequently printed with large opaque stripes across them... There are other compatability issues, but this is the one I hit most recently.
It's nice, but you still have to have a copy of Acrobat Reader around too.