But buy a GSM transceiver, host an Asterisk server, and manage it all for strangers who walk past my house? What a tech support pain in the ass.
Sure, but what if you run a company and want to un-wire your campus? Forget desk IP phones, just have a few picocells strewn about and have people use their own phones (or buy $20 GSM phones from some random reseller).
Are you serious? A lot of great literature has been banned. The point is, when we decide to let others decide what we can and can't read/say/do, it is a huge problem. You are focusing only on video games- The same forces that would ban certain types of "dirty/sexual/obscene" music, may also ban music that is anti-administration or makes a political statement the banners don't agree with. There is an entire world outside of video games my friend. Hopefully when you see the statemant in this light you will see that it is not immature.
I think that in some ways, banning books is good. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that universal censorship is needed or anything like that. But being blacklisted gives a book attention, and being banned tends to mean that you can't get ahold of it unless you're mature enough to have the skills and desire to do so. This, and the effort involved, will ensure your reading and concentrating on it more carefully. So I think, in a way, banning a book can help give it the attention it deserves - it will get radical concepts into the minds of people best suited to think on them.
And you'd also have bad information that you thought was right. Wikipedia is a fundamentally flawed idea. It simply can't work in the real world.
I think wikipedia works well, you just have the wrong idea of it. It is by no means a source I'd trust for anything important. It is, however, a source I'd use to get a vague possible idea of a topic, and use as a starting point to find reliable information from authoritative sources.
As a christian, my interpretation is that Jesus basically told us, forget about the old testament, it's obsolete now, and here's what's important: Love God, and Love your neighbor. If you follow those two rules, the 10 commandments basically become moot, because they all fall under those two. If you do your best to follow those two, you're going to be a good person, you can plug yourself into pretty much any marginally accepting culture/society, and no one really has a right to complain.
Though I think I mostly disagree with your first paragraph, I think the second is exactly how a lot more Christians should think. The way I see it, the OT is like a history, to give you an idea of where Jesus was coming from and who He was talking to, so you can understand what He was really getting at. It may or may not be literally true - I happen to believe it is - but it's not critical for being a Christian, it's one of the things we can agree to disagree on and find out for sure when we meet upstairs.
check out the silver solution freaks. they are using basic electrolisys to create a silver ion solution that they drink on a daily basis to kill the bacteria that lives in their digestive system.
I met a guy peddling this stuff. He is apparently a good friend of a good friend, so I politely kept my mouth shut. But the whole time I was standing there thinking "WTF is this guy thinking?". I never bothered to look it up. So it's just some suspension with a silver ion in it?
Slow down there buddy. Thats one step away from trusted computing you speak of there (if not all the way there). I'll take fighting off spyware personaly to that.
Well first, it's already there. Pretty hard to get away from it. And second, you retain complete control of it. I don't see much wrong with that.
For me, I am interested in open source spyware removal. I would like a product designed by people with a mindset like mine (anti all spyware). One of the issues is that anti-spyware/virus companies are getting sued by adware companies for slander etc. for calling the adware, well, adware.
The needed mechanism is already in windows. All we need to do is find and distribute hashes of known spyware (software permissions policy, or something like that, it works by hash, filename, certificate, and maybe location). Windows will then simply refuse to execute (if it's an executable, or load it if it's a library or control).
I understand perfectly. I used to ride one at least twice every work day (I now work about five minutes from home). I and many others used laptops on the ride. Why can't you?
Not only that, but not all launches go due east or southeast. For instance, a 40-degree launch from Brownsville would go directly over Washington, DC. That would make range safety real touchy.
Eh, I don't see how that would work. 40 degrees south of east from Brownsville would go over Havana. Unless I'm thinking way off here.
I'd think there'd be a lot of ditch room over the gulf and atlantic, even with a few islands in the way. I suppose the one of the bigger problems on this train though is that there's nothing 800 miles west of spain for emergency landings.
Politics is what put JSC in Houston. Geography by way of physics is what put KSC in Florida
Could have put it in Brownsville (very south tip of Texas) for similar results re geography. But yes, about the only thing JSC has going for it (besides the fact that it's a ten minute walk from me) is politics. There is otherwise really no reason to have it in Houston, unfortunately.
Why, again, are NASA launches based in Florida? They always seem to schedule launches during the 'hurricane season' Why don't they pack up shop and move to Texas or New Mexico? If they can set off a nuke there, I think a rocket accident is the least of their worries. It needs to be at low lattitudes, to reduce the push required to get into orbit, and being on the east coast makes it easier to ship lots of stuff in by barge.
How does clicking on a web page bring infection? Surely the browser shouldn't execute anything directly like a spyware installer?
He probably just has no idea how to use a computer. Logging in as an administrator, setting your web browser to automatically run executables, etc. He also left out a couple of steps he would have had to take. Basically, he's the non-technical user they're talking about up there.
The bottom line (get it? line? ghoti?) is that I, personally, could care less which language you use as long as it is used properly. Enough of this econo-speak - how you say and spell things does make a difference in how what you are communicating.
Your own use of the language fails to support your stated position.
Well, that just goes to show how lacking I am in recent windows experience.
Is it so broken that its not workable, or is it developer lethargy? Developer idiocy, really. For an example of how this works, get any of the MS powertoys for windows xp. You get the choice to install it for just you, or for everyone on the computer (making the public property ALLUSERS 1 or 2).
Obviously a user couldn't do something like installing a service, but most installs don't need to make system-wide changes to work.
Ideally there should be a common location to install user programs that is not connected to the admin stuff, and whose individual user launch icons should contain the path to the configuration info that user has setup. Well, actually there is, but nobody bothers to use it.
It isn't the unfriendliness of the UI or the help file.
By default, new accounts created during a windows install/first use interface are administrator accounts. As are new accounts created through the generic, task view Control Panel interface for account management.
It's one of the reasons that Windows is unsecure out of the box.
If MS merely made accounts user only be default, that would take care of it.
Of course, then you'd have to fix all of the crappy software out there that can only run as admin. And there's a lot of it. Major software packages like WordPerfect still don't handle user accounts and preferences correctly and it's a very simple thing to do.
Actually, only the first account made in windows setup is an admin. The rest are regular user accounts.
And what is MS going to do about programs that don't run right? Outright prevent them? They've tried that, people whine and bitch to no end, claiming MS is trying to destroy the competition. They already have the "made for windows" logo program, but nobody ever bothers to actually LOOK at the list.
Considering I live in Houston, I doubt I'll be seeing anything. Light pollution is atrocious. When I want to see the night sky, I have to go camping.
Posh. I live in Clear Lake (far SE side of Houston for non-locals) and I could easily see saturn and venus last night. Driving a half hour longer would get me a full view.
Huh? What in the world does "this low in the sky" mean? Can it get any lower than "right on the horizon?" That happens each and every day/night and when it's sitting right on the horizon, it's no lower or higher than when it was sitting right on the horizon every day since 1987
They mean a full moon, I believe. Something about it coinciding with sunset on the past couple of days. I'm not sure of the specifics though.
How about in some standard format? HTML would be nice. There's absolutely no reason to put this in a pdf unless you're getting kickback for installs of the adware reader.
And those people are raised by parents who think the schools should be the parents, so the schools are so busy teaching Johnny how to Share His Feelings that they never get around to teaching him where his Cartoon Network signal comes from. Don't blame NASA, blame parents.
You're at least partly dead wrong. I'm formerly home schooled, and I'd crap my pants to get into NASA (I live five minutes from JSC, so I'm ready when they are). I will home school my own children, and I'll make good and sure they know how important NASA and associated programs are to us. I'm not alone, I know many home schooled kids who take astronomy classes from an aerospace engineer and astronomer.
You might be more on target if you aimed that at the california village-grown fools.
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But buy a GSM transceiver, host an Asterisk server, and manage it all for strangers who walk past my house? What a tech support pain in the ass.
Sure, but what if you run a company and want to un-wire your campus? Forget desk IP phones, just have a few picocells strewn about and have people use their own phones (or buy $20 GSM phones from some random reseller).
Are you serious? A lot of great literature has been banned. The point is, when we decide to let others decide what we can and can't read/say/do, it is a huge problem. You are focusing only on video games- The same forces that would ban certain types of "dirty/sexual/obscene" music, may also ban music that is anti-administration or makes a political statement the banners don't agree with. There is an entire world outside of video games my friend. Hopefully when you see the statemant in this light you will see that it is not immature.
I think that in some ways, banning books is good. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that universal censorship is needed or anything like that. But being blacklisted gives a book attention, and being banned tends to mean that you can't get ahold of it unless you're mature enough to have the skills and desire to do so. This, and the effort involved, will ensure your reading and concentrating on it more carefully. So I think, in a way, banning a book can help give it the attention it deserves - it will get radical concepts into the minds of people best suited to think on them.
And you'd also have bad information that you thought was right. Wikipedia is a fundamentally flawed idea. It simply can't work in the real world.
I think wikipedia works well, you just have the wrong idea of it. It is by no means a source I'd trust for anything important. It is, however, a source I'd use to get a vague possible idea of a topic, and use as a starting point to find reliable information from authoritative sources.
bare nothing can no more produce any real being than it can be equal to two right angles
Reads to me like the second law of thermodynamics. I fail to see a problem.
As a christian, my interpretation is that Jesus basically told us, forget about the old testament, it's obsolete now, and here's what's important: Love God, and Love your neighbor. If you follow those two rules, the 10 commandments basically become moot, because they all fall under those two. If you do your best to follow those two, you're going to be a good person, you can plug yourself into pretty much any marginally accepting culture/society, and no one really has a right to complain.
Though I think I mostly disagree with your first paragraph, I think the second is exactly how a lot more Christians should think. The way I see it, the OT is like a history, to give you an idea of where Jesus was coming from and who He was talking to, so you can understand what He was really getting at. It may or may not be literally true - I happen to believe it is - but it's not critical for being a Christian, it's one of the things we can agree to disagree on and find out for sure when we meet upstairs.
I wonder if this would qualify as an end run around the subpoena needed for a wire tap?
Pretty sure you don't need a subpoena to collect and submit evidence that's been released to or broadcast in the public domain.
check out the silver solution freaks. they are using basic electrolisys to create a silver ion solution that they drink on a daily basis to kill the bacteria that lives in their digestive system.
I met a guy peddling this stuff. He is apparently a good friend of a good friend, so I politely kept my mouth shut. But the whole time I was standing there thinking "WTF is this guy thinking?". I never bothered to look it up. So it's just some suspension with a silver ion in it?
Yeah the Nord Center http://www.nordcenter.org/
Wow, their web site is a piece of junk too. Local government/municipality? Someone needs to beat them with a cluestick.
Slow down there buddy. Thats one step away from trusted computing you speak of there (if not all the way there). I'll take fighting off spyware personaly to that.
Well first, it's already there. Pretty hard to get away from it. And second, you retain complete control of it. I don't see much wrong with that.
For me, I am interested in open source spyware removal. I would like a product designed by people with a mindset like mine (anti all spyware). One of the issues is that anti-spyware/virus companies are getting sued by adware companies for slander etc. for calling the adware, well, adware.
The needed mechanism is already in windows. All we need to do is find and distribute hashes of known spyware (software permissions policy, or something like that, it works by hash, filename, certificate, and maybe location). Windows will then simply refuse to execute (if it's an executable, or load it if it's a library or control).
I got tired of Microsoft and its obsession with digital rights management schemes - for ebooks, for music, for video - you name it.
Me too. So I use what I prefer, and rip all the digital restrictions management off the media.
I understand perfectly. I used to ride one at least twice every work day (I now work about five minutes from home). I and many others used laptops on the ride. Why can't you?
Not only that, but not all launches go due east or southeast. For instance, a 40-degree launch from Brownsville would go directly over Washington, DC. That would make range safety real touchy.
Eh, I don't see how that would work. 40 degrees south of east from Brownsville would go over Havana. Unless I'm thinking way off here.
I'd think there'd be a lot of ditch room over the gulf and atlantic, even with a few islands in the way. I suppose the one of the bigger problems on this train though is that there's nothing 800 miles west of spain for emergency landings.
Politics is what put JSC in Houston. Geography by way of physics is what put KSC in Florida
Could have put it in Brownsville (very south tip of Texas) for similar results re geography. But yes, about the only thing JSC has going for it (besides the fact that it's a ten minute walk from me) is politics. There is otherwise really no reason to have it in Houston, unfortunately.
Why, again, are NASA launches based in Florida? They always seem to schedule launches during the 'hurricane season'
Why don't they pack up shop and move to Texas or New Mexico? If they can set off a nuke there, I think a rocket accident is the least of their worries.
It needs to be at low lattitudes, to reduce the push required to get into orbit, and being on the east coast makes it easier to ship lots of stuff in by barge.
But most importantly, politics.
How does clicking on a web page bring infection? Surely the browser shouldn't execute anything directly like a spyware installer?
He probably just has no idea how to use a computer. Logging in as an administrator, setting your web browser to automatically run executables, etc. He also left out a couple of steps he would have had to take. Basically, he's the non-technical user they're talking about up there.
The bottom line (get it? line? ghoti?) is that I, personally, could care less which language you use as long as it is used properly. Enough of this econo-speak - how you say and spell things does make a difference in how what you are communicating.
Your own use of the language fails to support your stated position.
Well, that just goes to show how lacking I am in recent windows experience.
Is it so broken that its not workable, or is it developer lethargy?
Developer idiocy, really. For an example of how this works, get any of the MS powertoys for windows xp. You get the choice to install it for just you, or for everyone on the computer (making the public property ALLUSERS 1 or 2).
Obviously a user couldn't do something like installing a service, but most installs don't need to make system-wide changes to work.
Ideally there should be a common location to install user programs that is not connected to the admin stuff, and whose individual user launch icons should contain the path to the configuration info that user has setup.
Well, actually there is, but nobody bothers to use it.
It isn't the unfriendliness of the UI or the help file.
By default, new accounts created during a windows install/first use interface are administrator accounts. As are new accounts created through the generic, task view Control Panel interface for account management.
It's one of the reasons that Windows is unsecure out of the box.
If MS merely made accounts user only be default, that would take care of it.
Of course, then you'd have to fix all of the crappy software out there that can only run as admin. And there's a lot of it. Major software packages like WordPerfect still don't handle user accounts and preferences correctly and it's a very simple thing to do.
Actually, only the first account made in windows setup is an admin. The rest are regular user accounts.
And what is MS going to do about programs that don't run right? Outright prevent them? They've tried that, people whine and bitch to no end, claiming MS is trying to destroy the competition. They already have the "made for windows" logo program, but nobody ever bothers to actually LOOK at the list.
Considering I live in Houston, I doubt I'll be seeing anything. Light pollution is atrocious. When I want to see the night sky, I have to go camping.
Posh. I live in Clear Lake (far SE side of Houston for non-locals) and I could easily see saturn and venus last night. Driving a half hour longer would get me a full view.
Huh? What in the world does "this low in the sky" mean? Can it get any lower than "right on the horizon?" That happens each and every day/night and when it's sitting right on the horizon, it's no lower or higher than when it was sitting right on the horizon every day since 1987
They mean a full moon, I believe. Something about it coinciding with sunset on the past couple of days. I'm not sure of the specifics though.
How about in some standard format? HTML would be nice. There's absolutely no reason to put this in a pdf unless you're getting kickback for installs of the adware reader.
I know I'm not as smart as I should be, but I don't know what I'm unaware of :/. Hows that for a shitty oxymoron. *grumpy*
A wise man once told me that one of the first steps toward wisdom is realizing how little you know now, and how little you will ever know.
And those people are raised by parents who think the schools should be the parents, so the schools are so busy teaching Johnny how to Share His Feelings that they never get around to teaching him where his Cartoon Network signal comes from. Don't blame NASA, blame parents.
You're at least partly dead wrong. I'm formerly home schooled, and I'd crap my pants to get into NASA (I live five minutes from JSC, so I'm ready when they are). I will home school my own children, and I'll make good and sure they know how important NASA and associated programs are to us. I'm not alone, I know many home schooled kids who take astronomy classes from an aerospace engineer and astronomer.
You might be more on target if you aimed that at the california village-grown fools.