Equal measures of religion given to various people will cause them to act in completely different ways:
One person may have a benign reaction and experience feelings of euphoria with enhanced stress reduction.
Another person may react with feelings of paranoia, persecution, and depression stemming from the loss of self-esteem.
Another person may have a dangerous reaction and experience homocidal or genocidal impulses. If this person becomes a charismatic leader, the result is often multple violent deaths and suicide.
Some people show an initial reaction and then become immune to religion.
There seems to be no way of knowing which reaction any given person will experience. Some evidence suggests the reactions are mostly non-violent.
So the question becomes: is the positive benefits of euphoria and stress reduction induced in some subjects worth the negative impact on those who do not tolerate the exposure as well.
And should anyone other than a parent or legal guardian make that decision for a minor.
Your money is fine until the banks and credit card companies give it to someone they are not supposed to. Security is the vendors responsibility.
They could provide you with endless measures to secure their systems. But because they are big and powerfull, they have convinced the people that they are the ones that have to "monitor their credit". Thats ridiculous!
When was the last time your bank or credit card company offered you special security features? Like the ability to restrict your account from access from WesternUnion. I never use that, so I would like to blacklist that from accessing my account. Some chance of that!
Or they could create a callback system that would ring your phone when a charge came through. Automated, it would say press one to approve and two to cancel. Three would say, this is a trusted vendor and you dont need to call me back for purchases made here.
Anyone wanna try to make their bank do that? Of course not. They dont have to do anything...Where else are you going to keep your money?
The loader for a computer would only load a program registered in a protected database.
That database can only be updated via a secure entry point. And the entry point is only through a installshield type interface that can be accessed through a registered program.
So no more "floating binaries" only a binary that is part of a registerd/installed software package can run on the processor.
But watch that doesnt get turned around on you..
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The case could be made just as easily that only licensed engineers should be able to write/produce software. After all, the whole world isnt infected. So why should the burden be on all people who never had or caused a problem.
It would be "easier" to restrict the development of software. It would require fewer people to be compliant. And it would be fairly easy to implement a technological lock to allow only "registered" compilers run by "registered" developers to run on a proprietary OS.
If a programmer uses is powers for ill, then he loses his license and any software generated by him is blacklisted.
After all, its not the users who are commiting injurious acts on purpose. Its the people compiling the programs.
A different standard could be set for people who just did a bad job that left a vulnerability in their code. Those people could be hung out to public shame.
Its a slippery slope. I suspect that sooner or later we will find out whats at the bottom.
After a "security patch" automatically downloaded by the world, the various MS competitors start experiencing problems. Then they just stop working altogether.
Software all over the industry is crappy. Its poorly developed, poorly tested, and fixed in the field. The Internet has become an avenue for fix-it-in-the-field software production. Just because its been formalized in the OS doesnt mean that its supposed to be that way. They shipped you broken stuff. Then they shipped you a tool that you can use to spend your bandwidth to fix it.
Its ALL over the place. With hard disks that get nuked after an OS upgrade, to lousy security design and implementation, to awful user interface glitches.
But you have no choice! You have to pay for this shit. And then pay more and every year for virus scanners and popup blockers and every tool under the world just to save your ass.
You cannot return the products. You cannot trust the products. And you cannot trust the companies who know they are screwups and are intent on making as much money as they can anyway.
So yes linux is not perfect. And maybe its got more warts than some others...or maybe you are just used to the other's warts.
But at least I dont HAVE to buy it. At least I dont HAVE to pay for it. At least I dont HAVE to license it. At least it wont phone home and rat me out.
Maybe they dont make some of them, but they pay for all of them. That gets them made.
I would sacrifice 100 of my channels to keep SCIFI running.
And science fiction is hurting right now because society is starting to feel hopeless and helpless. We are retreating into self-indulgence and paranoia. Scifi today is the Matrix (as if that were something to aspire to).
That same hopelessness gripped the 70s and was difficult to shrug off. Its brought on by a lack of leadership, vision, and trust.
At a minimum, they should do source address filtering. A packet should never leave your network that has a source address outside of your network.
There should be active testing from the internet authorities: if egress/source address filtering is not in place, an ISP should be blocked from the root nameservers and major email relays until they fix it.
Make sure everyone knows who the infected machine belongs to. Measure the number of offending packets and explain why this is making the network slow. And then give out their room number.
It would also be good to find out who got infected first.
I suspect intelligent college students will find some creative way to provide the proper attitude adjustment. The problem should solve itself.
I am a liberal too, but I think that you are wrong to want federal funding for anything. In that way lay massive waste and corruption.
The federal government should be reduced to a entity that provides services and protection to the states. And only the states should be taxed by the federal government. The only income tax that I should pay is to my state (why do the paperwork twice?).
Let the federal government regulate the states and international corporate entities. They can set some standards, but leave the majority of the work and the money in the state.
The rate that each state can be taxed can be based on its GDP or something for each state.
For instance, the Federal Government sets limits on the amount of money I can set aside for retirement. But perhaps each state would like to do that instead. Some states have more people retiring soon. Different demographics. I think our concentration on Federal this and Supreme that has been a major flaw in our search for liberty and equality.
To put it another way. I would rather move to another state if I dont agree with the leaders than have to move to another country. And I would rather have the state leaders compete for my business than the Federal ones. Smaller shop, better service.
Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple.
It seems clear that religion is about Love for God and hate for everyone else. And it seems to be working great.
Their spam protection is excellent and its much more difficult to "automatically" execute a binary if you have to download it first. Combine that with Firefox and ymessenger and they have a lot of what makes Internet great without much risk.
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Equal measures of religion given to various people will cause them to act in completely different ways:
One person may have a benign reaction and experience feelings of euphoria with enhanced stress reduction.
Another person may react with feelings of paranoia, persecution, and depression stemming from the loss of self-esteem.
Another person may have a dangerous reaction and experience homocidal or genocidal impulses. If this person becomes a charismatic leader, the result is often multple violent deaths and suicide.
Some people show an initial reaction and then become immune to religion.
There seems to be no way of knowing which reaction any given person will experience. Some evidence suggests the reactions are mostly non-violent.
So the question becomes: is the positive benefits of euphoria and stress reduction induced in some subjects worth the negative impact on those who do not tolerate the exposure as well.
And should anyone other than a parent or legal guardian make that decision for a minor.
Yahoo mail, groups, personalization, homepages, is all very mature and well structured.
Too bad it doesnt get much notice here compared to google.
Trademark infringment probably
Maybe some benchmarks that have been run recently are compromised by this stupidity?
It should be possible to find out by looking at the binaries which "benchmark" programs are compiled with the Intel compiler.
For instance, many websites post FPS and other types of metrics from games and application programs as measures of real world CPU performance.
Perhaps AMDs performance is even better than the current reviewers claim.
Your money is fine until the banks and credit card companies give it to someone they are not supposed to. Security is the vendors responsibility.
They could provide you with endless measures to secure their systems. But because they are big and powerfull, they have convinced the people that they are the ones that have to "monitor their credit". Thats ridiculous!
When was the last time your bank or credit card company offered you special security features? Like the ability to restrict your account from access from WesternUnion. I never use that, so I would like to blacklist that from accessing my account. Some chance of that!
Or they could create a callback system that would ring your phone when a charge came through. Automated, it would say press one to approve and two to cancel. Three would say, this is a trusted vendor and you dont need to call me back for purchases made here.
Anyone wanna try to make their bank do that? Of course not. They dont have to do anything...Where else are you going to keep your money?
to the front page of slashdot!
Only a registered program can set execute permissions on a file.
The loader for a computer would only load a program registered in a protected database.
That database can only be updated via a secure entry point. And the entry point is only through a installshield type interface that can be accessed through a registered program.
So no more "floating binaries" only a binary that is part of a registerd/installed software package can run on the processor.
The case could be made just as easily that only licensed engineers should be able to write/produce software. After all, the whole world isnt infected. So why should the burden be on all people who never had or caused a problem.
It would be "easier" to restrict the development of software. It would require fewer people to be compliant. And it would be fairly easy to implement a technological lock to allow only "registered" compilers run by "registered" developers to run on a proprietary OS.
If a programmer uses is powers for ill, then he loses his license and any software generated by him is blacklisted.
After all, its not the users who are commiting injurious acts on purpose. Its the people compiling the programs.
A different standard could be set for people who just did a bad job that left a vulnerability in their code. Those people could be hung out to public shame.
Its a slippery slope. I suspect that sooner or later we will find out whats at the bottom.
After a "security patch" automatically downloaded by the world, the various MS competitors start experiencing problems. Then they just stop working altogether.
Software all over the industry is crappy. Its poorly developed, poorly tested, and fixed in the field. The Internet has become an avenue for fix-it-in-the-field software production. Just because its been formalized in the OS doesnt mean that its supposed to be that way. They shipped you broken stuff. Then they shipped you a tool that you can use to spend your bandwidth to fix it.
Its ALL over the place. With hard disks that get nuked after an OS upgrade, to lousy security design and implementation, to awful user interface glitches.
But you have no choice! You have to pay for this shit. And then pay more and every year for virus scanners and popup blockers and every tool under the world just to save your ass.
You cannot return the products. You cannot trust the products. And you cannot trust the companies who know they are screwups and are intent on making as much money as they can anyway.
So yes linux is not perfect. And maybe its got more warts than some others...or maybe you are just used to the other's warts.
But at least I dont HAVE to buy it. At least I dont HAVE to pay for it. At least I dont HAVE to license it. At least it wont phone home and rat me out.
Nothings perfect.
I would like to see a comparison of hardware only. Linux on PowerPC vs Opteron
Farscape
Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
Battlestar Galactica
Babylon-5
Outer Limits
Maybe they dont make some of them, but they pay for all of them. That gets them made.
I would sacrifice 100 of my channels to keep SCIFI running.
And science fiction is hurting right now because society is starting to feel hopeless and helpless. We are retreating into self-indulgence and paranoia. Scifi today is the Matrix (as if that were something to aspire to).
That same hopelessness gripped the 70s and was difficult to shrug off. Its brought on by a lack of leadership, vision, and trust.
Those things are still out there and going strong. They really knew how to build them back then.
Well Done!
They will be apeshit over security for a while...
We need a new energy source here much more than we need air on the freakin moon.
At a minimum, they should do source address filtering. A packet should never leave your network that has a source address outside of your network.
There should be active testing from the internet authorities: if egress/source address filtering is not in place, an ISP should be blocked from the root nameservers and major email relays until they fix it.
Make sure everyone knows who the infected machine belongs to. Measure the number of offending packets and explain why this is making the network slow. And then give out their room number.
It would also be good to find out who got infected first.
I suspect intelligent college students will find some creative way to provide the proper attitude adjustment. The problem should solve itself.
I am a liberal too, but I think that you are wrong to want federal funding for anything. In that way lay massive waste and corruption.
The federal government should be reduced to a entity that provides services and protection to the states. And only the states should be taxed by the federal government. The only income tax that I should pay is to my state (why do the paperwork twice?).
Let the federal government regulate the states and international corporate entities. They can set some standards, but leave the majority of the work and the money in the state.
The rate that each state can be taxed can be based on its GDP or something for each state.
For instance, the Federal Government sets limits on the amount of money I can set aside for retirement. But perhaps each state would like to do that instead. Some states have more people retiring soon. Different demographics. I think our concentration on Federal this and Supreme that has been a major flaw in our search for liberty and equality.
To put it another way. I would rather move to another state if I dont agree with the leaders than have to move to another country. And I would rather have the state leaders compete for my business than the Federal ones. Smaller shop, better service.
The Foghorn Leghorn cartoon chicken! Think about it....
"What's the big, I say what's the big idea. "
" No no no, ya doin' it all wrong."
"I've been a good sport about this up 'til now, but that boy's forcin' me to use stronger measures."
You get the idea. Except Foghorn was much cooler than Longhorn will ever be.
funded by a screamingly massive debt bubble.
Luke 14:25
Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple.
It seems clear that religion is about Love for God and hate for everyone else. And it seems to be working great.
Their spam protection is excellent and its much more difficult to "automatically" execute a binary if you have to download it first.
Combine that with Firefox and ymessenger and they have a lot of what makes Internet great without much risk.
One where I can completely restore a system by installing from CDRs that were burned with a boot sector and all the files on the system?
The CDROM filesystem should be treated differently. It should not lock the CDROM into the machine.