Well, the thing you're missing is that it is connected to the brain via the optic nerve. None of the image processing is done in the eye, it just signals the nerve which signals the brain to process. I'm not sure that simply being neurons qualifies the retinas as being part of the brain.
Uh, yeah.... sure. You lack serious thinking skills if you really believe that the opportunity to advertise music on the internet is going to disappear. That means they would have to be able to sniff out and control all streaming of all media, inspect all images, inspect all text. This forum right here could be used to advertise, youtube videos of starcraft replays could have music playing in the background with a little watermark attributing the music to whoever with an email address or website you can reach. Do you honestly believe they are going to make it illegal to distribute your own copyrighted materials on the internet? Do you honestly believe they will have the technology to block it?
Dude.... how are you 100% positive none of these people frequently work with each other? It seems pretty bizarre of you to be faced with an article about how these three guys frequently worked together under the Anonymous name and you are insisting there is no grouping. Groupings don't have to be permanent, but you're in an article about three people who were caught working together under the name of anonymous telling me that I have a rotten brain because I don't see that none of them ever work together as a group? What the fuck, your point of view isn't even verifiable in any manner. They're anonymous, how can you know some of them don't work together frequently? You can't, so don't spew this shit at me, that I'm the one who is retarded. You're the one spouting off unverifiable bullshit that you can't know as fact, I'm the one looking at facts and commenting on them. I'm the one who is mentally ill?
Your attitude is exactly what pisses me off about any discussion involving Anonymous. I'm not saying they're one monolithic, top-down organization with secret decoder rings that you can send away for when you've collected 5 Guy Fawkes masks. To deny any grouping or association at all is fucking retarded in the face of proof from multiple countries of multiple people working together in the name of Anonymous. Your logic is flawed, your assertions have no backing (and by their very nature can't be proved, but can be disproved as they have been [which you ignore while accusing others of ignoring your proof by assertion]), and you sit there covering your fucking ears like a little baby, screaming at the top of your lungs trying so hard to be heard that you've long since stopped listening.
And the worst part is instead of concluding you were wrong and there are sub-groupings under the banner of Anonymous that can be taken out (especially the vocal ones that harp on a subject repeatedly) you and others like you will conclude that since there are no sub-groupings this must be false arrest. Sure, you can't defeat Anonymous any more than you can defeat "Hippies", it doesn't work that way. That doesn't mean you can't track clusters of them that commonly associate. And when you find a cluster, what should we call them? Three members of anonymous with ties to each other that are not a cell, cluster, group, clique, platoon, commune, council, panel, herd, flock, pride, or blessing [of Unicorns]?
No, it's just a much easier way to express "not equal to". =/= looks much more ridiculous than !=. Sure, it's a C thing, but you see the not operator (!) in tags here all the time, people know what it means. It has nothing to do with being a developer and everything to do with being widely understood, concise, and not looking like ASCII art. Add to it the fact that the original thought was a complete waste of space, and that just makes it worse. Really?! Anonymous as a literal word means you haven't been identified?! We're all fucking shocked. The poster even knew it had been beaten to death that's why they said "it's been said before". I don't blame the GP for pointing out the dumb practice of using three characters to visually mimic what two characters means to express a useless thought.
Oh just shut up already. You get blasted if you call Anonymous one group, you get blasted if you refer to different independent groups (which we would call cells) because terrorists have been referred to as cells. There's just no pleasing people.
We've only got two choices and they're both completely crap.
You're doing it wrong.
Candidates in the 2010 Ohio Senate election:
Rob Portman (R)
Lee Fisher (D)
Dan La Botz (Socialist Party)
Eric Deaton (Constitution Party)
Michael Pryce (Independent)
2008 Presidential Candidates On Enough State Ballots to Reach 270 Points:
Barrack Obama (D)
John McCain (R)
Ralph Nader (Independent)
Bob Barr (Libertarian)
Chuck Baldwin (Constitution)
Cynthia McKinney (Green)
Incidentally, in the 2008 presidential election 1,623,078 people voted for a 3rd party out of 131,014,789 votes (not counting "others"). 1,623,078 people voted for what they believe. Do you think that many people will revolt when they have food in their bellies and a roof over their heads? Two party system? That's the defeatist attitude that ensures a two party system. If it doesn't matter who wins, democrat or republican, focus on raising that number. 1,623,078 people voted 3rd party in 2008, in 2012 don't focus on which R or D wins (in presidential elections or congressional elections), focus on raising the number of 3rd party votes. That's the real victory. Every election with less votes for R and D is a triumph for freedom. Democracy sometimes takes a long time to change direction, don't give up now on the idea that men can govern men with ideas instead of violence.
If all the stupid pirates would just STOP, it wouldn't be a problem. Forget the RIAA, forget the MPAA. See how long they last without internet exposure. See how many people give a crap about anybody they manufacture when nobody can hear their songs. These organizations don't serve a purpose. But pirates (hah, butt pirates) keep giving these people exposure, keeping the enemy alive while thinking they're fighting it. Don't pirate music, ignore it when it is copyright protected. See the rise of independent musicians smart enough to know they don't need some stupid organization controlling their content and stealing their money. If there is no piracy, there is no reason to attack the internet. If there is no exposure to RIAA musicians the RIAA will die. Exposure is their business. The same has always gone for DRM, whether on software, music or videos. Don't purchase it, period. Don't pirate it, period. If nobody wants DRMed media, , guess what. There is no reason to buy a law to protect it, and there is no reason to keep the DRM on it.
Pirates cause their own problems and blame the RIAA. Every time somebody complains about the RIAA trying to control the internet, I want to scream at the pirates giving them the power and the reason.
No, the rest of the world isn't undergoing blackrification where the white women want to upset their racist fathers by dating a black man, thus causing white guys to act like black guys, who mostly are impoverished and therefore likely to commit violent crimes (out of desperation/anger/lack of options) which are glorified by the culture (because they get the women), spurred on by the original racism, and therefore intensified. It's a cultural thing.
Ok, that was a joke but honestly more laws don't change criminal behavior. Change the culture to change the laws, don't change the laws to change the culture. Failure to understand this is our major flaw. People make the decision to kill people, that's the problem. The problem isn't that they have viable options for killing people. Since the US has a culture of some people thinking it is ok to kill other people, they want to be able to have guns to protect them from the murderers. If the culture were different, we wouldn't feel the need for guns, and would likely allow them to be more tightly controlled.
Uh! No! Don't know you reading a 3 sentence paragraph qualifies all of us arm-chair EEs to know exactly where 12 cent parts can save billions for an application we know nothing about?!
I was pricing phone plans with Verizon just yesterday, actually and I was able to get "Unlimited" data + Unlimited Text + 400 anytime minutes + free nights and weekends + free mobile-to-mobile (I assume within Verizon's network) for $79.99. Since I'm at work where they provide me with a phone all day, 400 any time minutes is virtually unlimited when you consider all the calls during the night and weekend and to other verizon users don't count against it. That's almost half of your "150+" number.
You missed my point, perhaps I should have phrased it better. Sticking with my gun analogy I didn't say "gun's shouldn't have safeties, people will put them to their head and pull the trigger", I said:
Building an OS that supposedly is safe to plug anything in to is just like teaching people they can hold a gun up to their head and pull the trigger just because the safety is on
To clarify, I mean it is not the Operating System's fault people do dumb things, and the goal for operating systems shouldn't be an unrealistic 100% safe. Gun safeties are not 100% safe, and there is always the case where the user thought they had the safety on when they didn't. Even if Operating Systems don't trust USBs by default that doesn't fix the problem. You need to teach them USBs are dangerous! Otherwise they will just trust the stupid thing anyway. I didn't mean don't put the feature in, it will improve security, but to say that the user isn't to blame and we can just fix it in the OS? That's retarded. To go with your analogy that's like saying "Don't worry, go to any bad part of town you choose to go to, you can always yell for help when somebody attacks you."
The expectation that a computer is safe and won't break without obvious signs is the problem. Building an OS that supposedly is safe to plug anything in to is just like teaching people they can hold a gun up to their head and pull the trigger just because the safety is on, and gets us in to the situation we have now where people do stupid, unsafe things because they have the expectation of safety. Don't give them that expectation, and you will see people be more responsible.
If you think this changes anything you're wrong. It's not like web developers didn't know about SQL injection. It's not like web developers didn't know they shouldn't just trust values in a query string (or in the post, Fiddler is easy as shit to use). They just don't do it because it's slightly more inconvenient. Manager's still don't know what the hell SQL injection is or how to protect against it, they just take their developers word for it that it is secure.
Try to get a security fix in to a site you develop for by explaining "In case somebody like LulzSec comes around, we should probably spend a release cycle cleaning up all of our database calls by validating the user's access to any given data item and any given action before performing it" and management will laugh at you. The same for sanitizing inputs to SQL queries, and/or converting to stored procedures.
The problem isn't representative democracy, the problem is a bloated federal goverment. People like to look at people who are opposed to big federal programs as anarchist/libertarians who believe in no government, when in reality the problem is that the country is too big and too diverse to operate with so much power and so many programs going on at a FEDERAL level. Notice how when you step down to state and local governments it is more representative of the people it.... represents. That's not an argument to get rid of representative democracy, it's an argument to stop doing everything as a federal mandate.
I would just like to point out that 7 feet of flooding is A LOT as the water has more and more places to go horizontally before it has to go up. Not that that a big deal, just saying it's probably a lot more margin than it sounds like, though that still may not be enough.
Thank you for pointing that out. That phrase slipped past me when reading the law (I guess I read reasonable suspicion as probable cause). I will need to look in to that further. Thank you for making sense on a subject that is so hotly politicized. And you didn't imply I or the people of Arizona were racist. Double points!
When you begin arguing in this fashion you've pretty much lost. You have no idea who I am or what kind of living I make, that is just an insult that is not relevant to the discussion. I have helped this country in numerous ways, including paying taxes, teaching students, and writing code that is exported to other countries as well as helps with our medical and IT infrastructure. Yeah, it's not much but it's something. However none of that is as important as the fact that I am here, I've lived here all my life, my parents lived here all of their lives, and their parents. What they have accomplished, the things they fought for, the programs they funded, and the charity they've given were important to them and are important to me. The social and justice systems and the rights we want to protect are products of their beliefs and their work. We can not just simply give those things away or the system will break down under its own weight. You seem to acknowledge that, why are you being so fucking aggressive and insulting?
Now lets get to the real meat here. Arizona is their own state and should be able to enforce their border. I firmly believe that a state has the right to choose their own destiny and define the community they want. There is room in this country for states like California, and states like Arizona, states like Connecticut and states like Georgia. Different cultures, different beliefs, different ideas, different laws.
Now go to this link and tell me which line is the "show-me-your-papers-because-you-look-brown" part: http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf. Don't give me this bullshit where you are assuming "probable cause" means "brown". Because you and I both know that isn't true and has never been true. Show me the wording in the law you object to, otherwise just shut the hell up and stop running your ignorant little mouth.
Some of us like the country we have made. Not everybody wants to just let the whole neighborhood in to the house, even if they don't have the right to choose what is on TV or for dinner, and especially if they don't have to clean up after themselves or pay rent. Do you really think immigration regulation is somehow wrong? If so, you're a complete fucking moron.
If I were to visit Arizona, and some cop looks at me, he might decide that he has "probable cause" to ask for papers, because I look foreign.
Well see, this is the problem. That is not probable cause. That would be illegal. I can make the same argument about traffic stops. Let me explain. A cop can pull me over because I look young and demand to see my papers, if I don't comply he can arrest me! How the FUCK is that constitutional?
Every complaint against the Arizona law is based on the premise that "looking foreign" is probable cause, and it is explicitly NOT probable cause. Maybe if he saw you going North about a mile away from the border in the back of a truck with 6 or 7 other "foreign" looking people and none of you speak English, but that's a far cry from your example of just looking foreign and going to jail for not showing your papers.
Side projects, they're everywhere. I didn't have.Net experience either until I started doing my own dev. No.Net experience doesn't mean shit when you show them your prowess with some demos or some articles or even giving your stack overflow name on your resume. Sorry jobs aren't just falling in your lap, but come on, do a little work. And odds are if you don't have any of those things to show off, you aren't as good as you think you are anyway. Development is a career, put in more than 9 - 5 and you'll get more than a crappy job out of it.
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All of my circles are named after what kind of jokes I can show those people. It's going to help a lot.
Well, the thing you're missing is that it is connected to the brain via the optic nerve. None of the image processing is done in the eye, it just signals the nerve which signals the brain to process. I'm not sure that simply being neurons qualifies the retinas as being part of the brain.
Uh, yeah.... sure. You lack serious thinking skills if you really believe that the opportunity to advertise music on the internet is going to disappear. That means they would have to be able to sniff out and control all streaming of all media, inspect all images, inspect all text. This forum right here could be used to advertise, youtube videos of starcraft replays could have music playing in the background with a little watermark attributing the music to whoever with an email address or website you can reach. Do you honestly believe they are going to make it illegal to distribute your own copyrighted materials on the internet? Do you honestly believe they will have the technology to block it?
Uh.... The internet?
Dude.... how are you 100% positive none of these people frequently work with each other? It seems pretty bizarre of you to be faced with an article about how these three guys frequently worked together under the Anonymous name and you are insisting there is no grouping. Groupings don't have to be permanent, but you're in an article about three people who were caught working together under the name of anonymous telling me that I have a rotten brain because I don't see that none of them ever work together as a group? What the fuck, your point of view isn't even verifiable in any manner. They're anonymous, how can you know some of them don't work together frequently? You can't, so don't spew this shit at me, that I'm the one who is retarded. You're the one spouting off unverifiable bullshit that you can't know as fact, I'm the one looking at facts and commenting on them. I'm the one who is mentally ill?
Your attitude is exactly what pisses me off about any discussion involving Anonymous. I'm not saying they're one monolithic, top-down organization with secret decoder rings that you can send away for when you've collected 5 Guy Fawkes masks. To deny any grouping or association at all is fucking retarded in the face of proof from multiple countries of multiple people working together in the name of Anonymous. Your logic is flawed, your assertions have no backing (and by their very nature can't be proved, but can be disproved as they have been [which you ignore while accusing others of ignoring your proof by assertion]), and you sit there covering your fucking ears like a little baby, screaming at the top of your lungs trying so hard to be heard that you've long since stopped listening.
And the worst part is instead of concluding you were wrong and there are sub-groupings under the banner of Anonymous that can be taken out (especially the vocal ones that harp on a subject repeatedly) you and others like you will conclude that since there are no sub-groupings this must be false arrest. Sure, you can't defeat Anonymous any more than you can defeat "Hippies", it doesn't work that way. That doesn't mean you can't track clusters of them that commonly associate. And when you find a cluster, what should we call them? Three members of anonymous with ties to each other that are not a cell, cluster, group, clique, platoon, commune, council, panel, herd, flock, pride, or blessing [of Unicorns]?
No, it's just a much easier way to express "not equal to". =/= looks much more ridiculous than !=. Sure, it's a C thing, but you see the not operator (!) in tags here all the time, people know what it means. It has nothing to do with being a developer and everything to do with being widely understood, concise, and not looking like ASCII art. Add to it the fact that the original thought was a complete waste of space, and that just makes it worse. Really?! Anonymous as a literal word means you haven't been identified?! We're all fucking shocked. The poster even knew it had been beaten to death that's why they said "it's been said before". I don't blame the GP for pointing out the dumb practice of using three characters to visually mimic what two characters means to express a useless thought.
Oh just shut up already. You get blasted if you call Anonymous one group, you get blasted if you refer to different independent groups (which we would call cells) because terrorists have been referred to as cells. There's just no pleasing people.
We've only got two choices and they're both completely crap.
You're doing it wrong.
Candidates in the 2010 Ohio Senate election:
Rob Portman (R)
Lee Fisher (D)
Dan La Botz (Socialist Party)
Eric Deaton (Constitution Party)
Michael Pryce (Independent)
2008 Presidential Candidates On Enough State Ballots to Reach 270 Points:
Barrack Obama (D)
John McCain (R)
Ralph Nader (Independent)
Bob Barr (Libertarian)
Chuck Baldwin (Constitution)
Cynthia McKinney (Green)
Incidentally, in the 2008 presidential election 1,623,078 people voted for a 3rd party out of 131,014,789 votes (not counting "others"). 1,623,078 people voted for what they believe. Do you think that many people will revolt when they have food in their bellies and a roof over their heads? Two party system? That's the defeatist attitude that ensures a two party system. If it doesn't matter who wins, democrat or republican, focus on raising that number. 1,623,078 people voted 3rd party in 2008, in 2012 don't focus on which R or D wins (in presidential elections or congressional elections), focus on raising the number of 3rd party votes. That's the real victory. Every election with less votes for R and D is a triumph for freedom. Democracy sometimes takes a long time to change direction, don't give up now on the idea that men can govern men with ideas instead of violence.
If all the stupid pirates would just STOP, it wouldn't be a problem. Forget the RIAA, forget the MPAA. See how long they last without internet exposure. See how many people give a crap about anybody they manufacture when nobody can hear their songs. These organizations don't serve a purpose. But pirates (hah, butt pirates) keep giving these people exposure, keeping the enemy alive while thinking they're fighting it. Don't pirate music, ignore it when it is copyright protected. See the rise of independent musicians smart enough to know they don't need some stupid organization controlling their content and stealing their money. If there is no piracy, there is no reason to attack the internet. If there is no exposure to RIAA musicians the RIAA will die. Exposure is their business. The same has always gone for DRM, whether on software, music or videos. Don't purchase it, period. Don't pirate it, period. If nobody wants DRMed media, , guess what. There is no reason to buy a law to protect it, and there is no reason to keep the DRM on it.
Pirates cause their own problems and blame the RIAA. Every time somebody complains about the RIAA trying to control the internet, I want to scream at the pirates giving them the power and the reason.
No, the rest of the world isn't undergoing blackrification where the white women want to upset their racist fathers by dating a black man, thus causing white guys to act like black guys, who mostly are impoverished and therefore likely to commit violent crimes (out of desperation/anger/lack of options) which are glorified by the culture (because they get the women), spurred on by the original racism, and therefore intensified. It's a cultural thing.
Ok, that was a joke but honestly more laws don't change criminal behavior. Change the culture to change the laws, don't change the laws to change the culture. Failure to understand this is our major flaw. People make the decision to kill people, that's the problem. The problem isn't that they have viable options for killing people. Since the US has a culture of some people thinking it is ok to kill other people, they want to be able to have guns to protect them from the murderers. If the culture were different, we wouldn't feel the need for guns, and would likely allow them to be more tightly controlled.
Yes! I'll bring the Guiness. But then what?
Well, that and it was a two sentence paragraph. Also, a driver can also be a back-seat driver. He just needs to be in the back seat.
Uh! No! Don't know you reading a 3 sentence paragraph qualifies all of us arm-chair EEs to know exactly where 12 cent parts can save billions for an application we know nothing about?!
I was pricing phone plans with Verizon just yesterday, actually and I was able to get "Unlimited" data + Unlimited Text + 400 anytime minutes + free nights and weekends + free mobile-to-mobile (I assume within Verizon's network) for $79.99. Since I'm at work where they provide me with a phone all day, 400 any time minutes is virtually unlimited when you consider all the calls during the night and weekend and to other verizon users don't count against it. That's almost half of your "150+" number.
Building an OS that supposedly is safe to plug anything in to is just like teaching people they can hold a gun up to their head and pull the trigger just because the safety is on
To clarify, I mean it is not the Operating System's fault people do dumb things, and the goal for operating systems shouldn't be an unrealistic 100% safe. Gun safeties are not 100% safe, and there is always the case where the user thought they had the safety on when they didn't. Even if Operating Systems don't trust USBs by default that doesn't fix the problem. You need to teach them USBs are dangerous! Otherwise they will just trust the stupid thing anyway. I didn't mean don't put the feature in, it will improve security, but to say that the user isn't to blame and we can just fix it in the OS? That's retarded. To go with your analogy that's like saying "Don't worry, go to any bad part of town you choose to go to, you can always yell for help when somebody attacks you."
The expectation that a computer is safe and won't break without obvious signs is the problem. Building an OS that supposedly is safe to plug anything in to is just like teaching people they can hold a gun up to their head and pull the trigger just because the safety is on, and gets us in to the situation we have now where people do stupid, unsafe things because they have the expectation of safety. Don't give them that expectation, and you will see people be more responsible.
If you think this changes anything you're wrong. It's not like web developers didn't know about SQL injection. It's not like web developers didn't know they shouldn't just trust values in a query string (or in the post, Fiddler is easy as shit to use). They just don't do it because it's slightly more inconvenient. Manager's still don't know what the hell SQL injection is or how to protect against it, they just take their developers word for it that it is secure.
Try to get a security fix in to a site you develop for by explaining "In case somebody like LulzSec comes around, we should probably spend a release cycle cleaning up all of our database calls by validating the user's access to any given data item and any given action before performing it" and management will laugh at you. The same for sanitizing inputs to SQL queries, and/or converting to stored procedures.
The problem isn't representative democracy, the problem is a bloated federal goverment. People like to look at people who are opposed to big federal programs as anarchist/libertarians who believe in no government, when in reality the problem is that the country is too big and too diverse to operate with so much power and so many programs going on at a FEDERAL level. Notice how when you step down to state and local governments it is more representative of the people it.... represents. That's not an argument to get rid of representative democracy, it's an argument to stop doing everything as a federal mandate.
So... I know a few of the loose singles are gone, but did the rest stay? I've got something I want to show them.
I would just like to point out that 7 feet of flooding is A LOT as the water has more and more places to go horizontally before it has to go up. Not that that a big deal, just saying it's probably a lot more margin than it sounds like, though that still may not be enough.
Thank you for pointing that out. That phrase slipped past me when reading the law (I guess I read reasonable suspicion as probable cause). I will need to look in to that further. Thank you for making sense on a subject that is so hotly politicized. And you didn't imply I or the people of Arizona were racist. Double points!
You can barely make a living.
When you begin arguing in this fashion you've pretty much lost. You have no idea who I am or what kind of living I make, that is just an insult that is not relevant to the discussion. I have helped this country in numerous ways, including paying taxes, teaching students, and writing code that is exported to other countries as well as helps with our medical and IT infrastructure. Yeah, it's not much but it's something. However none of that is as important as the fact that I am here, I've lived here all my life, my parents lived here all of their lives, and their parents. What they have accomplished, the things they fought for, the programs they funded, and the charity they've given were important to them and are important to me. The social and justice systems and the rights we want to protect are products of their beliefs and their work. We can not just simply give those things away or the system will break down under its own weight. You seem to acknowledge that, why are you being so fucking aggressive and insulting?
Now lets get to the real meat here. Arizona is their own state and should be able to enforce their border. I firmly believe that a state has the right to choose their own destiny and define the community they want. There is room in this country for states like California, and states like Arizona, states like Connecticut and states like Georgia. Different cultures, different beliefs, different ideas, different laws.
Now go to this link and tell me which line is the "show-me-your-papers-because-you-look-brown" part: http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf. Don't give me this bullshit where you are assuming "probable cause" means "brown". Because you and I both know that isn't true and has never been true. Show me the wording in the law you object to, otherwise just shut the hell up and stop running your ignorant little mouth.
Some of us like the country we have made. Not everybody wants to just let the whole neighborhood in to the house, even if they don't have the right to choose what is on TV or for dinner, and especially if they don't have to clean up after themselves or pay rent. Do you really think immigration regulation is somehow wrong? If so, you're a complete fucking moron.
If I were to visit Arizona, and some cop looks at me, he might decide that he has "probable cause" to ask for papers, because I look foreign.
Well see, this is the problem. That is not probable cause. That would be illegal. I can make the same argument about traffic stops. Let me explain. A cop can pull me over because I look young and demand to see my papers, if I don't comply he can arrest me! How the FUCK is that constitutional?
Every complaint against the Arizona law is based on the premise that "looking foreign" is probable cause, and it is explicitly NOT probable cause. Maybe if he saw you going North about a mile away from the border in the back of a truck with 6 or 7 other "foreign" looking people and none of you speak English, but that's a far cry from your example of just looking foreign and going to jail for not showing your papers.
Side projects, they're everywhere. I didn't have .Net experience either until I started doing my own dev. No .Net experience doesn't mean shit when you show them your prowess with some demos or some articles or even giving your stack overflow name on your resume. Sorry jobs aren't just falling in your lap, but come on, do a little work. And odds are if you don't have any of those things to show off, you aren't as good as you think you are anyway. Development is a career, put in more than 9 - 5 and you'll get more than a crappy job out of it.