The eggshell skull rule is a piece of vindictive bullshit from 150 years ago.
On the other side of the spectrum I think we should treat *all* drunken drivers as if they had killed someone, because they have, just through indirect statistical accumulation.
There should be no difference between murder and attempted murder. In both cases the criminal did exactly the same fucking thing -- one of them happened to be lucky enough to pull off what they intended. I don't see why the unlucky one should get less of a sentence.
Religious base for your actions? That's definitely Snake Oil.
And this definitely applies to you:
> In these instances they are just opposed to whatever it is, and don't have any sort of alternative solution..and I mean you have no alternative solution other than to destroying those that are doing what you are opposing.
Be a damn shame to lose a few thousand dollars of gear because the closet roasted the hardware alive before you noticed that the cheap $20 fan failed.
This is why there's nothing but "aluminum external HDD enclosures" now, instead of those absolute p.o.s. ME-320's with their tiny 2cm fans that quietly die after a year and roast your drive to death. (I'd like to throttle the people responsible for the ME-320).
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I already do this basically. I have an encrypted OS on a USB key that I boot from when I want to do online banking, and in that OS image I do ONLY banking, no other websites of any kind. It's linux and it's firewall is on, auto-updates/etc are off. Nothing short of a full BIOS virus running a VM emulator can get at me, that or a hardware key logger. And that's unlikely, because I generally use a dis-used PC at work that has no hdd/os (spare in the corner of the equipment room), or a spare system at home that is generally off and never used as a desktop/etc.
Remember, they're not simply making the pricing more accurate based on demand, they are stealing money from BOTH the buyer and seller, buying from the actual interested sellers at a lower price than he/she would have gotten, and selling fractions of a second latter to the actual interested buyer at a higher price than he/she would have gotten. For NO ACCEPTABLE REASON other than some loophole (legal and technical) has allowed them to not only be in-between the two, but to also game the system to see exactly how big the trades are going to be and estimate the movement before the trading system moves the price.
> Static build up on your body, then when you go to... to the grounded casing around the USB connector.
Yup. I've got an OCZ Rally-2, you'd think since it was a bit more high end it'd be well designed. But nope, the external casing is plastic, and they've got a "fancy" (cheap) see-through plastic plug on the non-functional end, so you can see the million-watt highly-distracting LED.
So the end is sealed, but really it's not. More than enough microscopic room between the main body and the end piece for a big static charge to rip through and hit the internals on it's way to the f'ing case. Every single time during the winter when you reach for the end of it to unplug it. (You either have to remember to ground yourself first, or only touch the middle of the body).
The few times it happened to me the thing "went off" with the LED immediately going out, but after an unplug/plug-back-in, it was still detected and seems okay.
Next time I'll be looking for an all metal device, with rounded edges, and a subdued LED. Unfortunately I don't think such a thing exists. It's either fat and gaudy, slow, made by semi-generic company I don't trust, has sharp metal edges, or has a 1 watt LED on it.
> because everybody pays the same amount regardless of income.
He didn't say "amount", he said "proportionally". You've said NOTHING different than what you quoted him saying, because you used totally different terms to say the exact same thing.
Poor person pays 5% sales tax on half of everything they buy, they spend 100% of what they earn, they earn 20K per year, so they end up paying 2.5% of their income on that "flat" tax.
Rich person pays 5% sales tax on half of everything they buy (or more, for sake of argument let's say on everything they buy), but they only spend 30% of what they earn, they earn 200K per year, so they end up paying 1.5% of their income on that "flat" tax.
Rich person has spent PROPORTIONALLY more of their income.
(and I think you've got the two terms reversed, regressive and progressive, but that's not important)
I bet you it's got something to do with engineers and the companies that employing them realizing that EVERYTHING they do is built on the shoulders of the knowledge of everyone who came before them. If you didn't allow them to use old ideas in new products, there would be no new products.
People who create Intellectual Property are not as reliant on what came before them.
IBM and US Steel will never go squealing to congress demanding that patent terms be made (literally) five times longer. Can you imagine how slowly technology and industry would have grown if the patent term was "life plus 95"??
Just goes to show you how retarded current copyright terms are.
Do you know who I'd trust with this kinda thing? Certain groups of people in the NSA*, NASA, and Education Instututions. If anyone knows how to make something bulletproof, if anyone knows how to do category-5 (CMM) software development, it'd be people from the first two agencies, and people from the latter are both smart and already incented to do things for the good of mankind. And it shouldn't be US centric, of course, everyone in the world should sign on and provide some money and people (I'm a Canuck right here.)
IF we established a federal government agency whose ENTIRE PURPOSE was to set the standards and issue certificates and handle really complicated really important things just like this, an agency that had no other job, and if you hired people from the NSA and NASA to do it... I think it'd kick ass.
The important thing would be to give them just the one job, not give them conflicting aims. Ala the NTSB vs the FAA. We want something as independent and effective as the NTSB, WITHOUT something like the FAA having a say, maybe even the teeth or authority to over-ride the real world equivalents of the FAA.
National Software Security and Certificate Agency
NSSCA
or NSCA
Somebody with the right connections should suggest this to the right aides or agency heads of Mr. Obama's new organization.
(*) Yes, the NSA. They're the ones that spend all the time on cryptography, who make unexplainable suggestions to encryption standards bodies that 10-20 years latter turn out to have avoided serious vulnerabilities, etc etc. They've got some kickass people in there.
Fuck you. Atheists are people who would be Agnostic, if only they were a bit more logical. Atheists don't know SHIT about pure logic or the scientific method, that's why they are Atheists.
> See how much nonsense it is to assume something starts in a state of "between"?
Starts? How about *exists* in a state of between? Like... oh I don't know, some kind of cat in a box. That'd be crazy shit, huh?
That's a neat idea. (I'd be worried about static electricity and the circuits on the bottom of the drive, at least when initially applying them).
But much worse - rubber bands do "wear out" and get brittle after a year or two, at which point all the bands will at some point just give out and drop your drive onto what's below. So make sure you replace them once a year.
> Some of us paid (and continue to pay) quite a bit of money for ARIN assignments.
And you're using all of them? You have a reasonable expectation of using them within 10 years? Because, you know, we can give you a refund.
Otherwise we're going to squat your ass down in front of a tribunal, just like the ones that decide whether a domain squatters is a domain squatter, or someone who's using said public resource in a valid just manner.
Funny thing about the internet, it eventually treats things like you* as damage and routes around them. Your "ARIN assignments" are going to be worthless if everyone else's routes for "YOUR" ip addresses don't route to or from you.
What!? What my network does with packets crossing MY NETWORK is none of your f'ing business.
BULLSHIT. It's called a faraday cage, and it totally excludes EMI. Even consumer devices are REQUIRED to handle any and all possible interference - and by handle I don't mean "continue to work" but rather "not catch fire and kill people".
If the avionics systems in airplanes are SO sensitive to interference that people can be maimed, then they are extremely susceptible to directed intentional interference (aka Terrorism). There is NO reason for a guidance system to rely entirely on GPS, it's not rocket science to force the GPS and a dead reckoning system with a gyro plus airspeed indicators to agree with one another or require pilot input, etc etc etc.
This solely comes down to aircraft manufacturers trying to save weight (not a bad thing, reduces ticket costs) but totally not thinking ahead to mobile devices and now they've got no options - it'd cost a stinking fortune to retrofit existing planes, it's probably not even possible without costing more than replacing them.
I know there is a requirement for future/new planes to be more resistant to EMI, but they really need someone to bite the bullet and force aircraft manufacturers to make their planes totally resistant so that someone can't take a homebuilt EMP gun and invisibly shoot down dozens of planes before anyone suspects anything - let alone all the injuries from accidental 'passenger forgot/doesn't-care/is-ignorant that this device emits, etc.'.
Tombstone technology. If you don't do it right, you'll be forced to admit you were wrong and do it right the day we need more tombstones. Mother nature doesn't respect "good effort" and "close my child" - you're either RIGHT, or you're dead fucking wrong.
What if we sent the captcha to them by e-mail as a two megabyte image attachment?
Anyone trying to do things with bots would need an e-mail server that can handle tens of thousands of 2 MB e-mails, and ALL e-mail service providers would be able to insta-ban them based on bandwidth usage. Heck we can even make it easy for e-mail service providers to recognize our 2MB capcha e-mail images, by naming them capcha.jpg. Any account that gets more than 10 captcha e-mails in a single day is banned by gmail/yahoo/etc.
I swear, I'm a fucking genius. This only took me 30 seconds to think of.
Digg is now a small list of stories dugg by the MASSES/plebs all from mainstream sites like cnn and business week and sports illustrated. Almost every story there I've already read on other mainstream sites, it's now just a copy of existing news, and not an interesting copy either. It's rare to see a cool story whose initial source was a blog or a non-mainstream site. And it used to be a near flood of stories, now it's what, 20 stories a day?
Digg is no longer of ANY use to me.
Thus Slashdot is now better than Digg. However slashdot is still low bandwidth as well, and the editors occasionally post moron stories like this.
So where's the next place not populated by the plebs and the morons?
What the **** does that mean? It doesn't sound like a good thing. You know there are lots of "real business situations" where both the company and the company's customers LOSE because the "business men" are greedy morons or idiots or both.
> S.O.P. in many places.
Yeah, it's SOP for submarines to dive and airplanes to go up and come down...
> is exactly what I would expect from Red Hat from a business angle
Are you criticizing them, congratulating them, or making excuses?
> It's just not what's expected from a community angle
So if there's a community involved, somehow right and wrong and good and bad are different?
I can't figure out what you mean to say, and so far you have said NOTHING of value. No offence, I honestly can't tell what you're saying.
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The eggshell skull rule is a piece of vindictive bullshit from 150 years ago.
On the other side of the spectrum I think we should treat *all* drunken drivers as if they had killed someone, because they have, just through indirect statistical accumulation.
There should be no difference between murder and attempted murder. In both cases the criminal did exactly the same fucking thing -- one of them happened to be lucky enough to pull off what they intended. I don't see why the unlucky one should get less of a sentence.
So we can identify them by exclusion!
Are you saying we have to run up and down the streets screaming about something and creating action plans because it's not 100.000000% perfect?
I dispute the usefulness of your action plan. Or... your innuendo... or whatever it is you are doing.
btw - you do realize that a non-negligible portion of everything is actually feces, right?
Religious base for your actions? That's definitely Snake Oil.
And this definitely applies to you:
> In these instances they are just opposed to whatever it is, and don't have any sort of alternative solution ..and I mean you have no alternative solution other than to destroying those that are doing what you are opposing.
You're clearly middle class.
How many exhaust fans?
Be a damn shame to lose a few thousand dollars of gear because the closet roasted the hardware alive before you noticed that the cheap $20 fan failed.
This is why there's nothing but "aluminum external HDD enclosures" now, instead of those absolute p.o.s. ME-320's with their tiny 2cm fans that quietly die after a year and roast your drive to death. (I'd like to throttle the people responsible for the ME-320).
I already do this basically. I have an encrypted OS on a USB key that I boot from when I want to do online banking, and in that OS image I do ONLY banking, no other websites of any kind. It's linux and it's firewall is on, auto-updates/etc are off. Nothing short of a full BIOS virus running a VM emulator can get at me, that or a hardware key logger. And that's unlikely, because I generally use a dis-used PC at work that has no hdd/os (spare in the corner of the equipment room), or a spare system at home that is generally off and never used as a desktop/etc.
Remember, they're not simply making the pricing more accurate based on demand, they are stealing money from BOTH the buyer and seller, buying from the actual interested sellers at a lower price than he/she would have gotten, and selling fractions of a second latter to the actual interested buyer at a higher price than he/she would have gotten. For NO ACCEPTABLE REASON other than some loophole (legal and technical) has allowed them to not only be in-between the two, but to also game the system to see exactly how big the trades are going to be and estimate the movement before the trading system moves the price.
Cost - zero
Flexible organization - priceless
Shit, I'm a bit drunk, that first ratio is reversed, should be 5:1. Shit, so is the second, should be 3:1.
I download 5 times as much porn as I watch, and I watch 3 times as much Hollywood as porn.
I could download 15 times less, and be okay.
Phhhht... it just means I won't download as much porn that I can't watch in my lifetime.
My porn to hollywood ratio is no higher than 1:5, whereas my watching hollywood to porn ratio (considering my stamina) is probably 1:3.
So I could reduce my bandwidth usage by a factor of 10:1 with no change in lifestyle. :)
> Static build up on your body, then when you go to ... to the grounded casing around the USB connector.
Yup. I've got an OCZ Rally-2, you'd think since it was a bit more high end it'd be well designed. But nope, the external casing is plastic, and they've got a "fancy" (cheap) see-through plastic plug on the non-functional end, so you can see the million-watt highly-distracting LED.
So the end is sealed, but really it's not. More than enough microscopic room between the main body and the end piece for a big static charge to rip through and hit the internals on it's way to the f'ing case. Every single time during the winter when you reach for the end of it to unplug it. (You either have to remember to ground yourself first, or only touch the middle of the body).
The few times it happened to me the thing "went off" with the LED immediately going out, but after an unplug/plug-back-in, it was still detected and seems okay.
Next time I'll be looking for an all metal device, with rounded edges, and a subdued LED. Unfortunately I don't think such a thing exists. It's either fat and gaudy, slow, made by semi-generic company I don't trust, has sharp metal edges, or has a 1 watt LED on it.
> because everybody pays the same amount regardless of income.
He didn't say "amount", he said "proportionally". You've said NOTHING different than what you quoted him saying, because you used totally different terms to say the exact same thing.
Poor person pays 5% sales tax on half of everything they buy, they spend 100% of what they earn, they earn 20K per year, so they end up paying 2.5% of their income on that "flat" tax.
Rich person pays 5% sales tax on half of everything they buy (or more, for sake of argument let's say on everything they buy), but they only spend 30% of what they earn, they earn 200K per year, so they end up paying 1.5% of their income on that "flat" tax.
Rich person has spent PROPORTIONALLY more of their income.
(and I think you've got the two terms reversed, regressive and progressive, but that's not important)
And we're not even asking you to bleed. Just get tazed a little bit, bro.
I bet you it's got something to do with engineers and the companies that employing them realizing that EVERYTHING they do is built on the shoulders of the knowledge of everyone who came before them. If you didn't allow them to use old ideas in new products, there would be no new products.
People who create Intellectual Property are not as reliant on what came before them.
IBM and US Steel will never go squealing to congress demanding that patent terms be made (literally) five times longer. Can you imagine how slowly technology and industry would have grown if the patent term was "life plus 95"??
Just goes to show you how retarded current copyright terms are.
Do you know who I'd trust with this kinda thing? Certain groups of people in the NSA*, NASA, and Education Instututions. If anyone knows how to make something bulletproof, if anyone knows how to do category-5 (CMM) software development, it'd be people from the first two agencies, and people from the latter are both smart and already incented to do things for the good of mankind. And it shouldn't be US centric, of course, everyone in the world should sign on and provide some money and people (I'm a Canuck right here.)
IF we established a federal government agency whose ENTIRE PURPOSE was to set the standards and issue certificates and handle really complicated really important things just like this, an agency that had no other job, and if you hired people from the NSA and NASA to do it... I think it'd kick ass.
The important thing would be to give them just the one job, not give them conflicting aims. Ala the NTSB vs the FAA. We want something as independent and effective as the NTSB, WITHOUT something like the FAA having a say, maybe even the teeth or authority to over-ride the real world equivalents of the FAA.
National Software Security and Certificate Agency
NSSCA
or
NSCA
Somebody with the right connections should suggest this to the right aides or agency heads of Mr. Obama's new organization.
(*) Yes, the NSA. They're the ones that spend all the time on cryptography, who make unexplainable suggestions to encryption standards bodies that 10-20 years latter turn out to have avoided serious vulnerabilities, etc etc. They've got some kickass people in there.
> because I pointed out a side that does not match the circumstances being discussed and in general violates the beliefs of the entire free world?
There, fixed that for you.
Debate clubs are just that, clubs, where arguing for or against "a side" doesn't matter. In the real world, it does matter. It matters a lot.
Fuck you. Atheists are people who would be Agnostic, if only they were a bit more logical. Atheists don't know SHIT about pure logic or the scientific method, that's why they are Atheists.
> See how much nonsense it is to assume something starts in a state of "between"?
Starts? How about *exists* in a state of between? Like... oh I don't know, some kind of cat in a box. That'd be crazy shit, huh?
By who's priority?
Sales and Marketing?
Engineering?
Support?
Regulators and Lawyers?
System Administrators?
And what field/application is this with regards to?
That's a neat idea. (I'd be worried about static electricity and the circuits on the bottom of the drive, at least when initially applying them).
But much worse - rubber bands do "wear out" and get brittle after a year or two, at which point all the bands will at some point just give out and drop your drive onto what's below. So make sure you replace them once a year.
Hmm, actually, I should explicitly address your specific comparison.
We need to build a superhighway here.
It's currently your land. ...
Can you guess what comes next?
> Some of us paid (and continue to pay) quite a bit of money for ARIN assignments.
And you're using all of them?
You have a reasonable expectation of using them within 10 years?
Because, you know, we can give you a refund.
Otherwise we're going to squat your ass down in front of a tribunal, just like the ones that decide whether a domain squatters is a domain squatter, or someone who's using said public resource in a valid just manner.
Funny thing about the internet, it eventually treats things like you* as damage and routes around them. Your "ARIN assignments" are going to be worthless if everyone else's routes for "YOUR" ip addresses don't route to or from you.
What!? What my network does with packets crossing MY NETWORK is none of your f'ing business.
Funny how associative organizations work :)
(*) (censorship is just one example)
BULLSHIT. It's called a faraday cage, and it totally excludes EMI. Even consumer devices are REQUIRED to handle any and all possible interference - and by handle I don't mean "continue to work" but rather "not catch fire and kill people".
If the avionics systems in airplanes are SO sensitive to interference that people can be maimed, then they are extremely susceptible to directed intentional interference (aka Terrorism). There is NO reason for a guidance system to rely entirely on GPS, it's not rocket science to force the GPS and a dead reckoning system with a gyro plus airspeed indicators to agree with one another or require pilot input, etc etc etc.
This solely comes down to aircraft manufacturers trying to save weight (not a bad thing, reduces ticket costs) but totally not thinking ahead to mobile devices and now they've got no options - it'd cost a stinking fortune to retrofit existing planes, it's probably not even possible without costing more than replacing them.
I know there is a requirement for future/new planes to be more resistant to EMI, but they really need someone to bite the bullet and force aircraft manufacturers to make their planes totally resistant so that someone can't take a homebuilt EMP gun and invisibly shoot down dozens of planes before anyone suspects anything - let alone all the injuries from accidental 'passenger forgot/doesn't-care/is-ignorant that this device emits, etc.'.
Tombstone technology. If you don't do it right, you'll be forced to admit you were wrong and do it right the day we need more tombstones. Mother nature doesn't respect "good effort" and "close my child" - you're either RIGHT, or you're dead fucking wrong.
What if we sent the captcha to them by e-mail as a two megabyte image attachment?
Anyone trying to do things with bots would need an e-mail server that can handle tens of thousands of 2 MB e-mails, and ALL e-mail service providers would be able to insta-ban them based on bandwidth usage. Heck we can even make it easy for e-mail service providers to recognize our 2MB capcha e-mail images, by naming them capcha.jpg. Any account that gets more than 10 captcha e-mails in a single day is banned by gmail/yahoo/etc.
I swear, I'm a fucking genius. This only took me 30 seconds to think of.
Digg is now a small list of stories dugg by the MASSES/plebs all from mainstream sites like cnn and business week and sports illustrated. Almost every story there I've already read on other mainstream sites, it's now just a copy of existing news, and not an interesting copy either. It's rare to see a cool story whose initial source was a blog or a non-mainstream site. And it used to be a near flood of stories, now it's what, 20 stories a day?
Digg is no longer of ANY use to me.
Thus Slashdot is now better than Digg. However slashdot is still low bandwidth as well, and the editors occasionally post moron stories like this.
So where's the next place not populated by the plebs and the morons?
> That would be "risk management"
Whose risk does it manage?
> it's a real business situation
What the **** does that mean? It doesn't sound like a good thing. You know there are lots of "real business situations" where both the company and the company's customers LOSE because the "business men" are greedy morons or idiots or both.
> S.O.P. in many places.
Yeah, it's SOP for submarines to dive and airplanes to go up and come down...
> is exactly what I would expect from Red Hat from a business angle
Are you criticizing them, congratulating them, or making excuses?
> It's just not what's expected from a community angle
So if there's a community involved, somehow right and wrong and good and bad are different?
I can't figure out what you mean to say, and so far you have said NOTHING of value. No offence, I honestly can't tell what you're saying.