During WWII, Information about what really happened during and before Pearl Harbor was very restricted. Similar instances include the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Regardless what you beleive about these and other incidents, what is happening now is that the speed of communication through the net and other resources is much faster. Alot of details that would have fallen between the cracks are now becoming much more widely known. In an earlier age, the Anti Terrorist bills would have likely passed without much comment. Not today.
The behind the scenes connections of the major players are also widely available. Given the critical eye of many people, it is going to be more difficult to get a fast one by the public. It may still be possible, but it will not be as easy.
Sadly the majority of people still rely on just TV, etc for News. But the information is still available. And people go to the net for the other details that you do not see elsewhere.
Personally, I like collecting the odd bits of trivia. It makes for a more complete picture in the long run.
An Israeli friend recently informed me that the UK fought the Islamic terrorist attacks by burying the criminals with a pig. Apparently the
Islamic belief is that if ones' body is buried with a pig (because they are considered unclean) their soul will go to hell.
I did a little research into this subject matter and found it to be basically true. (at least for certain fundamentalists) This got me thinking. If we put a baby pig on every airline flight then all suicide terrorists would abort their missions as they would not want their souls to go to hell.
Well, it sounds like it'll be a big intranet. We could eventually be talking about thousands of sites, all over the country. Presumably all of
these links will operate over isolated (and hopefully secure) communications lines, which aren't cheap-- there shouldn't be any tunneling
over other networks, otherwise it you might as well just use a big VPN setup across the public Internet.
It's part of the internet as envisioned by Clinton, a complete private government network for Pr0n. Eventually all pr0n will be outlawed, available only in special government archives for use by government investigators and officials in thier research projects.
Eventually all the best pr0n will be there, leaving all of the junk out on the net as a collection of blind links going in an endless circle.
This is as good a reason as any for this network, to safeguard the government pr0n collection
I hate to mention it, but everyone you mentioned above "IS" the weirdos
so we shoot anyone who speaks up, and allow the complacent coach potato middle ground be the basis for normality. Hoooray for Apathy! Everyone else is under too much stress, and needs to be drugged out.
You can take a good thing too far.
My position is that at least people who care about politics will do something, will speak up. People who do not have time to think deserve the hell they create. I just don't want to be there with them. The "American Dream" has degenerated to "the Right to be Lazy." which is how MS got rich, by promising Laziness (It will be easier!)
Heck, even the Department of Homeland Security sounds like something out of Nazi Germany. This is unfortunate given the allegations that the Bush grandfather made his fortune in trade with that country.
There is a whole lot of political dirty laundry out there that needs to be washed.
Linux doesn't count, and never will count. Because users will never accept it. And the security risk inherent in a multi-user OS like Linux with such crude granular security (get Root and you have it all!) is staggering.
So your solution is to remove the concept of super user, User configuration tools, etc. and give all of that functionality to the Microsoft.NET under Passport??
Remember, XP ships with the equivalent of Root as the default setting for the system. All Users are Root.
You trapped yourself, given the actual practices of MS.
Actually, the solution the thing you call a problem is to keep more people clueless. now what would benefit humanity more, to increase the amount of cluelessness? or to decrease it?
I am simply shocked that that anyone at MS would do anything like this. Given the outstanding and excellent quality of Microsoft's products, you would expect the same high standards of quality product to apply to the legal and marketing departments.
There is no doubt that msft hurts other companies by integrating the best ideas in to the OS itself, but that must be a plus for the consumer.
I've said this before, but this idea is very much the Frankenstein Model of Design, with a bit of this, a bit of that.
Your logic does not hold much water, since the implication is that the best way to build a company is buy using immoral, unethical, and sometimes illegal actions.
Of course, with people avocating a morality nuetral perspective of life and business, this is to be expected.
Which is lethally silly in the long run. You would expect survival and quality of life to be increased by improving judgement, not by suspending it. You can't just say "That stuff and those rules don't apply to us because this is just business."
Since anyone who has read Slash for a while realises what a fiasco it can be sometimes.
But I think that the idea can be made to work if the back end processes in the Slash Code for submitting articles becomes sophisticated enough to handle that kind of thing. Right now they are "good enough" for the current job, and would need some work to allow for the discussion that the editors in such magazines obviously go through in choosing itmes for publication.
Maybe the Internet will help with a peer review system, but this asks for organisation and good practice...
Well they could always go with a Slash Based system for peer review.
But I do not know that this would be very organized. [smile]
and keeping out the non pros would also be an issue to some degree if it is a public forum. since the fruits, nuts, and flakes may want to congregate there to push their pet theories and agendas etc.
Well, I wonder if by the time they get their way, it may become irrelevant.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if everyone who disagreed with them got to send them a little jolt of static electriciy, just to remind them they were not liked.
I have other ideas, but they are not proper in a public forum like this.
How do you propose to police, if at all, the potential of abuse from the imposition of fees, so that the interests of all parties, especially simple users and developers are protected.
Examples of abuse that I would want to avoid include the Fiasco with the licensing fees for implementing.GIF files many years AFTER they became a standard, and the recent action by MS to enforce a two year upgrade cycle for use of their software in businesses, when many companies are much more comfortable with a three or four year upgrade cycle. (ZDNet has had several articles critical in the extreme of that action)
I would very much prefer the situation to be similar, say, to domain name registration, where many parties can provide that service.
First they lift it, then they secure it, they they transport it.
They are not securing while they are transporting it Murmansk.
As it say if you dig into it a bit:
The Kursk was hoisted under the Giant 4 at 17.30 hours Dutch time. Transport to Murmansk at a speed of four nautical miles per hour will commence within two hours of the Kursk being firmly secured to the pontoon. The Giant is expected to arrive at Murmansk with the Kursk on Wednesday
a nit pick on how the story was originally posted. but it is sort of important.
Thank God they got it up before the Winter Ice closed in.
The aero dynamics get more and more closer to a design where it resembles something like a streached out water balloon, a slick shell encasing the rider. After that, it is a matter of physical conditioning for the sprints, as well as judicious choice of gear ratios
Given open ground, I do not doubt that the speed record will eventually go much higher if you had a sufficient distance to ramp up to speed.
If they get a number of supporters who say that they will donoate to a candidate who supports a particular position, then that really gets their attention.
Representatives now get thousands of emails daily from every action group and special interest on the planet.
It is a very low signal to noise ratio, in the wrong direction. Low Signal, High Noise.
Being a Representative is like being an Offical Spam Recipient for the US Government. They are automatically opted-in for everything, with no ability to opt out.
Therefore, the old hand written letter with a stamp is uber-effective, because it sort of proclaims itself as a not spam.
Of course, there is nothing like a personal visit by a civil, literate, but angry constituent to their office, followed up by a letter citing the visit.
What we seem to have here is the result of constantly wanting to add just one more thing to a script.
Of course we have seen this in other areas, such as coding.
Think of it as the movie equivalent of Feature Creep. Like all things, sometime you get away with it, and sometimes you don't. Alot depends on your taste.
But it sounds like the original idea was in the first hour of the flick and the rest was added in the infamous studio writing process.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/alot.html
but that's a'right.
;-)
If people keep using it, it will become legit.
There is also this page of things people thing are errors in english, but are not:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/nonerrors.h tml
And to think that Halloween is just around the corner. If you have enough of them, do they try to "collect" larger floating particles [smile]?
Side Note, Intertran is also decent as an online translator.
and here's a nice list of various robot competitions
You are a bad man. a very bad man.
I love it.
Too bad most people do not have the education needed to appreciate it fully.
Regardless what you beleive about these and other incidents, what is happening now is that the speed of communication through the net and other resources is much faster. Alot of details that would have fallen between the cracks are now becoming much more widely known. In an earlier age, the Anti Terrorist bills would have likely passed without much comment. Not today.
The behind the scenes connections of the major players are also widely available. Given the critical eye of many people, it is going to be more difficult to get a fast one by the public. It may still be possible, but it will not be as easy.
Sadly the majority of people still rely on just TV, etc for News. But the information is still available. And people go to the net for the other details that you do not see elsewhere.
Personally, I like collecting the odd bits of trivia. It makes for a more complete picture in the long run.
I did a little research into this subject matter and found it to be basically true. (at least for certain fundamentalists) This got me thinking. If we put a baby pig on every airline flight then all suicide terrorists would abort their missions as they would not want their souls to go to hell.
So who was it that won the cold war again?
It's part of the internet as envisioned by Clinton, a complete private government network for Pr0n. Eventually all pr0n will be outlawed, available only in special government archives for use by government investigators and officials in thier research projects.
Eventually all the best pr0n will be there, leaving all of the junk out on the net as a collection of blind links going in an endless circle.
This is as good a reason as any for this network, to safeguard the government pr0n collection
so we shoot anyone who speaks up, and allow the complacent coach potato middle ground be the basis for normality. Hoooray for Apathy! Everyone else is under too much stress, and needs to be drugged out.
You can take a good thing too far.
My position is that at least people who care about politics will do something, will speak up. People who do not have time to think deserve the hell they create. I just don't want to be there with them. The "American Dream" has degenerated to "the Right to be Lazy." which is how MS got rich, by promising Laziness (It will be easier!)
feh
The is a petition to retain your Civil Rights at Defend Your Freedom dot org. I have seen stuff on this sort of thing from everyone including the KKK to the ACLU, Pat Buchanon, and Common Cause. Something strange is going on when people across the spectrum are bitching, not just the wierdos.
Heck, even the Department of Homeland Security sounds like something out of Nazi Germany. This is unfortunate given the allegations that the Bush grandfather made his fortune in trade with that country.
There is a whole lot of political dirty laundry out there that needs to be washed.
So your solution is to remove the concept of super user, User configuration tools, etc. and give all of that functionality to the Microsoft .NET under Passport??
Remember, XP ships with the equivalent of Root as the default setting for the system. All Users are Root.
You trapped yourself, given the actual practices of MS.
Actually, the solution the thing you call a problem is to keep more people clueless. now what would benefit humanity more, to increase the amount of cluelessness? or to decrease it?
of course, a system crash or a reboot would do about the same thing.
This by itself would would preclude many script kiddies using notoriously unstable OSen, never mind systems that get infected by trojens etc.
"issue the reboot command now!"
heh
I am simply shocked that that anyone at MS would do anything like this. Given the outstanding and excellent quality of Microsoft's products, you would expect the same high standards of quality product to apply to the legal and marketing departments.
Wait, it looks like they do.
And the Gobernment was making alot of big noises bout arresting the people, etc. I wonder what happened there?
This is the link for the earlier story in the UK:3 .html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/1820
But they haven't finished discussing what sort of reports to print out from the data. Which is a typical problem.
I've said this before, but this idea is very much the Frankenstein Model of Design, with a bit of this, a bit of that.
Your logic does not hold much water, since the implication is that the best way to build a company is buy using immoral, unethical, and sometimes illegal actions.
Of course, with people avocating a morality nuetral perspective of life and business, this is to be expected.
Which is lethally silly in the long run. You would expect survival and quality of life to be increased by improving judgement, not by suspending it. You can't just say "That stuff and those rules don't apply to us because this is just business."
Since anyone who has read Slash for a while realises what a fiasco it can be sometimes.
But I think that the idea can be made to work if the back end processes in the Slash Code for submitting articles becomes sophisticated enough to handle that kind of thing. Right now they are "good enough" for the current job, and would need some work to allow for the discussion that the editors in such magazines obviously go through in choosing itmes for publication.
Well they could always go with a Slash Based system for peer review.
But I do not know that this would be very organized. [smile]
and keeping out the non pros would also be an issue to some degree if it is a public forum. since the fruits, nuts, and flakes may want to congregate there to push their pet theories and agendas etc.
But can it be any worse than here?
Personally, I wouldn't mind if everyone who disagreed with them got to send them a little jolt of static electriciy, just to remind them they were not liked.
I have other ideas, but they are not proper in a public forum like this.
I am waiting for the thing to hit a continous tone.
Why doesn't someone at MIT set up a video camera to record everything?
It would be fun to see the movie on the net as the smoke starts to pore out of the display unit.
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2001/10/08/file _monopoly/print.html
should do the trick
Examples of abuse that I would want to avoid include the Fiasco with the licensing fees for implementing .GIF files many years AFTER they became a standard, and the recent action by MS to enforce a two year upgrade cycle for use of their software in businesses, when many companies are much more comfortable with a three or four year upgrade cycle. (ZDNet has had several articles critical in the extreme of that action)
I would very much prefer the situation to be similar, say, to domain name registration, where many parties can provide that service.
They are not securing while they are transporting it Murmansk.
As it say if you dig into it a bit:
a nit pick on how the story was originally posted. but it is sort of important.Thank God they got it up before the Winter Ice closed in.
Given open ground, I do not doubt that the speed record will eventually go much higher if you had a sufficient distance to ramp up to speed.
This is very true...
If they get a number of supporters who say that they will donoate to a candidate who supports a particular position, then that really gets their attention.
It is a very low signal to noise ratio, in the wrong direction. Low Signal, High Noise.
Being a Representative is like being an Offical Spam Recipient for the US Government. They are automatically opted-in for everything, with no ability to opt out.
Therefore, the old hand written letter with a stamp is uber-effective, because it sort of proclaims itself as a not spam.
Of course, there is nothing like a personal visit by a civil, literate, but angry constituent to their office, followed up by a letter citing the visit.
Of course we have seen this in other areas, such as coding.
Think of it as the movie equivalent of Feature Creep. Like all things, sometime you get away with it, and sometimes you don't. Alot depends on your taste.
But it sounds like the original idea was in the first hour of the flick and the rest was added in the infamous studio writing process.