FUCK YOU GUYS. And don't gimme any shit about "national security" because I will just throw up on your shoes. Oh yeah, we live in a free country. As long as you don't mind the fact that the government regularly compiles information on people that they don't like, even if they are peace loving activists like the goddamn Princess of Wales.
Just to play devil's advocate, and to add another POV to this. Compiling this information on Princess Diana was extreme, but do you want the other extreme? Where we are completely in the dark about potential threats to US policy and or security? Just so you can download your porn without anyone knowing? The fact is, there are people out there that don't give a damn about you, your freedoms, or your life. I firmly believe that the only reason that the US has not had a nuclear explosion on the mainland from a small nuclear bomb is because the intelligence community is running some hellacious interference that we never hear about. We know that there are people out there with nuclear material to construct highly destructive WMD which I have no doubt will, eventually, be used. The only other obstacle would be the engineering required to construct the bomb, but honestly, how hard would it be to find a corrupt engineer and pay him big bucks?
So the question is, don't you think that it is wrong NOT to keep tabs on information that could prevent terrorist attacks or otherwise put the lives of people at risk? The government has an obligation and a contract with the people to protect them from attack from both foreign and domestic enemies. It would be absolutely irresponsible to ignore this aspect of the equation.
You may be upset that the system makes mistakes, or that the system can be abused... that makes me upset, and rightfully so. But not having one in place at all would be ridiculous as well. And irresponsible. It is not an easy answer, never will be, but that is the nature of the world we live in.
I have found that most people with only one system partition are those that are most surprised when they lose all their data due to a random disk formatting, they tend to be secretaries, businessmen, and those who find multiple partitions confusing.
While I know AOL is no friend of open source (and I also don't like AOL)... it should be pointed out that they have not made any moves against Mozilla nor have they prevented Transmeta from releasing their Midori Linux with open source... they ARE using it, which I believe is perfectly acceptable under the GPL... they are allow to make closed source software for use on open source systems, correct?
Is not the security hole... we all know M$ considers security matters a complete joke. People are at their mercy as to when to release fixes, if at all.
What raises a red flag with me is that the wording of the article indicates the password backdoor was put there intentionally... and we're supposed to trust M$ with our valuable and oftentimes, priceless data?
I have to disagree with you. The student was told "If you were an adult, you could have gone to jail." Notice the qualification in front. It's true, had he done this as an adult, he would likely have been hauled off. Not to sound insensitive or anything, but this gives a false impression of WWP. I graduated from the system in 1997, and I went there K-12. I'm not positive if anything has really changed, but that school nurtures bright minds. Geeks there have some really nice, maybe not the best, equipment to enrich their minds with. They generally hire top-notch teachers, and are generally fair in their punishments. I remember getting away with murder while I was there, but because I "didn't cause many problems", they generally let me off. I think laying the blame squarely at the feet of the school is incredibly unfair in light of how lenient they really are.
As to the family, I'm truly sorry for their loss, but don't go crucifying WWP.
First off, yeah... that reaction pretty much sums it up. "Wow."
But I find it interesting that their method was so simple. It didn't involve any real complicated methods... basically a glorified text scanner. Yet, it was able to predict some new interactions that hadn't existed before. Still, it was only 7 times better than random guessing... I wonder if that could be improved any?
Aren't ring tones sort of like a reinterpretation of a song? IANAL, but is this a legally valid claim?
In a more broad sense...
Are lawyers really that devoid of ethical and moral sense that they'll spend time on this? I know I know, all lawyers are not bad... but...This is the kind of crap that gives them a bad name.
It's not being in shape or not. I'm by most standards in shape (6 miles every other day at a medium fast pace, recumbant bike and weight training on the offdays). Yet, my wrists still bothered me at the beginning of the year. When I got an ergo keyboard, the pain stopped.
I started using a kinesiscontoured keyboard about 4 months ago. it was a little difficult to get used to the layout, and yes, it is kinda pricey. However, since I do so much typing, my wrists were starting to really bother me on the standard keyboard. Especially when I was writing non-stop for a couple of hours or so. This keyboard allows me to type incessantly for long durations of time, usually when I have to go to the bathroom.:-)
Just imagine... something that small containing all the tax records of all the people living in the united states.... getting lost on the subway.
Like all those lapstops filled with classified secrets that keep getting left around...
On the more humorous note, I can also imagine an agent with one of these cubes sitting down for coffee and dumping the datacube instead of the sugar cube in...
Wait, you mean the language the Microsoft is prostituting around? Like hell I'm going to let them tie me to a platform with that crap.
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You make some good points, but one thing that always amazed me and still amazes me about China is how well they scale up. Yes, there are still problems, but somehow they either cover them up or they've solved them.
That said, I can just imagine an earthquake one day causing that building and its occupants hell.
Not to mention that, but what about the sway? Ever been to the top of a really tall building? The top bends over quite a bit...
"But your fear is already doomed to be realized. Inheritance preserves wealth almost as surely as Trust does. We're already overrun with inbred billionaire brats. So whether their parents are popsicles or worm-food is moot."
What is wrong with giving your own money to your own children?
There is a difference between AOL Users and AIM Users. An AIM user is not necessarily an AOL user. AIM is easy and fast and that's why people use it to communicate.
No, it's seperate from the tone markings. "wong" in pinyin is pronounced closer to "woong", sort of like a long O sound (as opposed to the short O sound which is like "ah"). "wang" is like "wahng", so the difference is fairly major.
For a good discussion on pinyin pronounciation, go to this
link.
The transliteration is by the standard way of romanizing Chinese characters. In the standard system "wong" and "wang" are prounounced very differently. It's akin to telling a French person to spell their words in a more English-pronounciation friendly manner. Furthermore, the bastardization of Chinese surnames came about because of the habit of immigration officials early on of writing down whatever they damn well pleased for the spelling of the name.
I'm not sure of the details, I just started dealing with Telocity/Northpoint a couple weeks ago when I moved into a house with a shared DSL line, but apparently, but apparently customers were under the impression that network operations would continue after they were bought. Now, if they had been planning to cut the network off before, they should've warned people. Instead, one day a lot of people just found themselves without net access. Two weeks later we get a press release or whatever the fuck they want to call it. Companies should at least have some common fucking courtesy.
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Just to play devil's advocate, and to add another POV to this. Compiling this information on Princess Diana was extreme, but do you want the other extreme? Where we are completely in the dark about potential threats to US policy and or security? Just so you can download your porn without anyone knowing? The fact is, there are people out there that don't give a damn about you, your freedoms, or your life. I firmly believe that the only reason that the US has not had a nuclear explosion on the mainland from a small nuclear bomb is because the intelligence community is running some hellacious interference that we never hear about. We know that there are people out there with nuclear material to construct highly destructive WMD which I have no doubt will, eventually, be used. The only other obstacle would be the engineering required to construct the bomb, but honestly, how hard would it be to find a corrupt engineer and pay him big bucks?
So the question is, don't you think that it is wrong NOT to keep tabs on information that could prevent terrorist attacks or otherwise put the lives of people at risk? The government has an obligation and a contract with the people to protect them from attack from both foreign and domestic enemies. It would be absolutely irresponsible to ignore this aspect of the equation.
You may be upset that the system makes mistakes, or that the system can be abused... that makes me upset, and rightfully so. But not having one in place at all would be ridiculous as well. And irresponsible. It is not an easy answer, never will be, but that is the nature of the world we live in.
I don't see any harm in losing the Baldwin's... I would consider it a service to the country! =)
I have found that most people with only one system partition are those that are most surprised when they lose all their data due to a random disk formatting, they tend to be secretaries, businessmen, and those who find multiple partitions confusing.
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While I know AOL is no friend of open source (and I also don't like AOL)... it should be pointed out that they have not made any moves against Mozilla nor have they prevented Transmeta from releasing their Midori Linux with open source... they ARE using it, which I believe is perfectly acceptable under the GPL... they are allow to make closed source software for use on open source systems, correct?
Shouldn't that be "... base ..." If you're gonna do it, do it right!
Where is grammar_nazi when we need him most?
The correct badly translated Japanese is: "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!"
"HOT TIPS HERE!" -- deepthroat@hotmail.com
Is not the security hole... we all know M$ considers security matters a complete joke. People are at their mercy as to when to release fixes, if at all.
What raises a red flag with me is that the wording of the article indicates the password backdoor was put there intentionally... and we're supposed to trust M$ with our valuable and oftentimes, priceless data?
"Against our policy"... right. To hell with them.
Hmm, so we have a major source of power and massive amounts of data all in one location? Terrific target for terrorists. TTFT? =)
I have to disagree with you. The student was told "If you were an adult, you could have gone to jail." Notice the qualification in front. It's true, had he done this as an adult, he would likely have been hauled off. Not to sound insensitive or anything, but this gives a false impression of WWP. I graduated from the system in 1997, and I went there K-12. I'm not positive if anything has really changed, but that school nurtures bright minds. Geeks there have some really nice, maybe not the best, equipment to enrich their minds with. They generally hire top-notch teachers, and are generally fair in their punishments. I remember getting away with murder while I was there, but because I "didn't cause many problems", they generally let me off. I think laying the blame squarely at the feet of the school is incredibly unfair in light of how lenient they really are.
As to the family, I'm truly sorry for their loss, but don't go crucifying WWP.
Someone needs to check their funny bone. I wonder if he can ping it? Would fingering it help?
Doctors getting it wrong, we want internet enabled brains... a little slot in the temple for a wireless nic.
Hmmm... what if there was an annual subscription for the use of your heart ala Windows XP? =)
"Honey, did you pay the heart fee? Honey???"
First off, yeah... that reaction pretty much sums it up. "Wow."
But I find it interesting that their method was so simple. It didn't involve any real complicated methods... basically a glorified text scanner. Yet, it was able to predict some new interactions that hadn't existed before. Still, it was only 7 times better than random guessing... I wonder if that could be improved any?
Aren't ring tones sort of like a reinterpretation of a song? IANAL, but is this a legally valid claim?
In a more broad sense...
Are lawyers really that devoid of ethical and moral sense that they'll spend time on this? I know I know, all lawyers are not bad... but...This is the kind of crap that gives them a bad name.
It's not being in shape or not. I'm by most standards in shape (6 miles every other day at a medium fast pace, recumbant bike and weight training on the offdays). Yet, my wrists still bothered me at the beginning of the year. When I got an ergo keyboard, the pain stopped.
I started using a kinesis contoured keyboard about 4 months ago. it was a little difficult to get used to the layout, and yes, it is kinda pricey. However, since I do so much typing, my wrists were starting to really bother me on the standard keyboard. Especially when I was writing non-stop for a couple of hours or so. This keyboard allows me to type incessantly for long durations of time, usually when I have to go to the bathroom. :-)
Because a mini-Schwarzenegger could still beat the begeezus out of a full-size Taco. :-)
Just imagine... something that small containing all the tax records of all the people living in the united states.... getting lost on the subway.
Like all those lapstops filled with classified secrets that keep getting left around...
On the more humorous note, I can also imagine an agent with one of these cubes sitting down for coffee and dumping the datacube instead of the sugar cube in...
Wait, you mean the language the Microsoft is prostituting around? Like hell I'm going to let them tie me to a platform with that crap.
You make some good points, but one thing that always amazed me and still amazes me about China is how well they scale up. Yes, there are still problems, but somehow they either cover them up or they've solved them.
That said, I can just imagine an earthquake one day causing that building and its occupants hell.
Not to mention that, but what about the sway? Ever been to the top of a really tall building? The top bends over quite a bit...
"But your fear is already doomed to be realized. Inheritance preserves wealth almost as surely as Trust does. We're already overrun with inbred billionaire brats. So whether their parents are popsicles or worm-food is moot." What is wrong with giving your own money to your own children?
There is a difference between AOL Users and AIM Users. An AIM user is not necessarily an AOL user. AIM is easy and fast and that's why people use it to communicate.
For a good discussion on pinyin pronounciation, go to this link.
The transliteration is by the standard way of romanizing Chinese characters. In the standard system "wong" and "wang" are prounounced very differently. It's akin to telling a French person to spell their words in a more English-pronounciation friendly manner. Furthermore, the bastardization of Chinese surnames came about because of the habit of immigration officials early on of writing down whatever they damn well pleased for the spelling of the name.
They're the type of idiot that makes "ching chong chang" noises whenever they see an Asian person.
It's supposed to be pronounced "wong". Americans are too stupid or insensitive and pronounce it "wang".
I'm not sure of the details, I just started dealing with Telocity/Northpoint a couple weeks ago when I moved into a house with a shared DSL line, but apparently, but apparently customers were under the impression that network operations would continue after they were bought. Now, if they had been planning to cut the network off before, they should've warned people. Instead, one day a lot of people just found themselves without net access. Two weeks later we get a press release or whatever the fuck they want to call it. Companies should at least have some common fucking courtesy.