Being in the right does not mean you don't get hurt.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
- Martin Luther King
Caller ID can be spoofed, but the actual telco call logs? That's what they base their billing on, so I find it highly unlikely they'd let people get away with faking if it cost them money.
Well, with all the sloppy inefficient programming, feature bloat, and generally craptastic work that goes into the ongoing, illogical, disuseful, nightmare that is MS Word [...]
Feature bloat for sure, but how do you know it's sloppily and inefficiently programmed? Have you seen the source? From what I recall of people commenting on leaked Microsoft code the quality was generally considered pretty good.
Can a Kentucky court force someone in another state to do something? Another country? They can ban it all they like, but if they can't actually compel the person who runs the servers to turn them off it's just legal masturbation.
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The point is that you do not get to decide whether someone else is a Christian any more than you get to decide whether they are a Scotsman, they get to decide if they are a Christian. Even imperfect Christians are still Christians, aren't they?
You're assuming you're not going to have to share the prize.
You can reduce your probability of sharing the prize - in fact that's the only strategy for lotteries other than waiting for large enough rollovers. The numbers people select aren't even distributed, people disproportionately pick birthdays or "special" numbers like 7 or the last number, so by avoiding those numbers you decrease the probability of sharing the prize and increase you expected payout. You should be able to extract some data on which are the most popular numbers by seeing how the prizes have been distributed for previous lotteries.
That wasn't me, I just got bored of arguing. It's obvious from start of my post that when I said "all you need is an email address" I was talking about the verification of identity, because that's what I'd just described for closed-source. I even inserted the "good enough code" aside to stave off misinterpretation, but apparently that wasn't enough.
I was talking purely about how easy it would be to get away with it, not with how easy it would be to do.
I'm sure that the 8th volunteer (who has the marker for "10% risk of cancer") will be grateful after a decade of being uninsurable when the scientists go "oh wait, that should be 0.01%"
If people are being denied medical care because they release information about their health the problem lies not with the person releasing their information, but with the society in which they live.
You can still build an oil-cooled PC, but you might get a call from Hardcore if, for example, you include "a hard drive mechanism disposed in the interior space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid, and a snorkel connected to the hard drive mechanism and in communication with the exterior of the interior space to achieve pressure equilibrium between the hard drive and outside air pressure".
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Example: a brilliant scientist spends his entire life solving equations, coming up with theories, designing and building rockets. He/she is revered in his/her work and excels, and is well know. Does this person will ultimately become a "lab fellow", or a "tenured professor", etc. etc. etc, they will not generally become the head of NASA
The current NASA Administrator, Michael D. Griffin, was a working physicist and engineer. He does have an MBA, but he also has six engineering-related degrees. Obviously he has management experience too - you don't get NASA Administrator as your first management job - but the guy has more than enough engineering experience and credentials to know know exactly what his engineers are talking about.
I do take the point about non-technical management, but it's a long way from being a universal truth.
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I've seen this troll before and the only reason I'm responding is to point out that Christians don't troll although some people who pretend to be Christian do.
None there just now, but what about the US-sponsored and supplied Iraqis a couple of decades ago? There was some direct fighting between US and Iranian forces in that conflict too. Right now, the USA is occupying Iraq to the West and Afghanistan to the East. They also have bases in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan and are propping up the regime in Pakistan. So, Iran is pretty much surrounded by US influence and the US has declared them to be evil and made demands with an implicit threat of force.
If someone fucked with my country that much, I'd be trying to kill the fuckers too.
I've been thinking about terrorism lately and its causes and its implementers. most terrorism is centered on what's happening in the Middle East. Now before someone accuses me of being anti-Islamic or racist or whatever, hear me out.
I don't think you're racist, just not very well informed. If the American press is your source of information that doesn't surprise me. Most terrorism is not centred on the Mid East, it's just that's all the terrorism the USA cares about. The motivations for all the other terrorists around the world are pretty much as you describe though, and the solution (stop fucking with people and they are much less likely to want to kill you) is generally applicable.
You can buy a phone in the USA for $9.99 delivered, which includes $10 worth of free airtime and doesn't tie you to a contract (Virgin). If you want a camera you have to pay a massive $50 for your phone. That's not expensive for what you get and it's not expensive in absolute terms either. For what you get, mobile phones are absurdly cheap.
Absolutely. I've never quite understood the desire to carry around two 3G radio sets and have two phone contacts. I just Bluetooth to my HSDPA phone - no extra devices, dongles, cables or contracts required. You only get 2.1Mbps through Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, which is theoretically a bottleneck when using an HSDPA network, but in practice it's rare you actually hit those speeds. Perhaps when 7.2Mbps and higher HSDPA speeds arrive it will become more of a bottleneck in real life, but it's not like 2.1Mbps is slow anyway. You can still use the phone for voice and text while it's doing the data thing.
Bluetoothing to a phone has proved invaluable at times when reception has been poor, I just move the phone to get good reception without having to put my laptop somewhere awkward.
The bottom is plastic, as are the keys. Assuming the aluminium Apple keyboard they have pictured on their page isn't a red herring, I suspect that was one of the ones they attacked.
These videos indicate that the powersupply interferes with the signal, so they only test on laptops running on battery. Does this mean that it doesn't work on desktop computers?
I think they only removed the power supply and monitor because sniffing monitor and power supply emissions are known attacks. They wanted to demonstrate that it really was the keyboard they were sniffing. I guess we'll have to wait for the paper to see how well it works when the other emissions you get from a complete system are present.
They don't do that to US citizens though, do they? They still have rights. In the UK, citizens can be held for a month without charge and without the police telling anybody they've got you. Then you get a secret trial with no jury where you may not get to see all the evidence against you. But it's OK, you don't need to worry if you're not a terrorist!
I just find it staggering that hundreds of thousands of people died to get us rights like the right to trial by jury, but fewer than 100 people get killed and they throw it all away. Politicians seem to think voters' lives are priceless and their rights worthless; Geoff Hoon recently said "The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist.". That's a fucking terrifying attitude considering he's a member of the government.
The most powerful thing you can do is find people who agree with you and organize demonstrations.
Over a million people demonstrated in London to protest the Iraq war, with millions more in other demonstrations around the country, and the government ignored them. The major political parties, lobbyists and media have politics so tightly sewn up that revolution is increasingly looking like the only viable option to change the status quo.
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That's the problem with vigilantism, there are no safeguards. The law may not be perfect, but at least it usually bothers to check the facts.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
- Martin Luther King
Caller ID can be spoofed, but the actual telco call logs? That's what they base their billing on, so I find it highly unlikely they'd let people get away with faking if it cost them money.
The Republicans and Democrats are fucking with the UK a little bit, but not nearly enough to make me want to kill the fuckers.
Feature bloat for sure, but how do you know it's sloppily and inefficiently programmed? Have you seen the source? From what I recall of people commenting on leaked Microsoft code the quality was generally considered pretty good.
Can a Kentucky court force someone in another state to do something? Another country? They can ban it all they like, but if they can't actually compel the person who runs the servers to turn them off it's just legal masturbation.
The point is that you do not get to decide whether someone else is a Christian any more than you get to decide whether they are a Scotsman, they get to decide if they are a Christian. Even imperfect Christians are still Christians, aren't they?
You can reduce your probability of sharing the prize - in fact that's the only strategy for lotteries other than waiting for large enough rollovers. The numbers people select aren't even distributed, people disproportionately pick birthdays or "special" numbers like 7 or the last number, so by avoiding those numbers you decrease the probability of sharing the prize and increase you expected payout. You should be able to extract some data on which are the most popular numbers by seeing how the prizes have been distributed for previous lotteries.
That wasn't me, I just got bored of arguing. It's obvious from start of my post that when I said "all you need is an email address" I was talking about the verification of identity, because that's what I'd just described for closed-source. I even inserted the "good enough code" aside to stave off misinterpretation, but apparently that wasn't enough.
I was talking purely about how easy it would be to get away with it, not with how easy it would be to do.
The scarcity business doesn't apply, every Western economy can afford universal medical care.
If people are being denied medical care because they release information about their health the problem lies not with the person releasing their information, but with the society in which they live.
*sigh*
You can still build an oil-cooled PC, but you might get a call from Hardcore if, for example, you include "a hard drive mechanism disposed in the interior space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid, and a snorkel connected to the hard drive mechanism and in communication with the exterior of the interior space to achieve pressure equilibrium between the hard drive and outside air pressure".
The current NASA Administrator, Michael D. Griffin, was a working physicist and engineer. He does have an MBA, but he also has six engineering-related degrees. Obviously he has management experience too - you don't get NASA Administrator as your first management job - but the guy has more than enough engineering experience and credentials to know know exactly what his engineers are talking about.
I do take the point about non-technical management, but it's a long way from being a universal truth.
Oh yes, no true Scot^H^H^H^HChristian would ever do that.
What's you explanation then, smartass?
None there just now, but what about the US-sponsored and supplied Iraqis a couple of decades ago? There was some direct fighting between US and Iranian forces in that conflict too. Right now, the USA is occupying Iraq to the West and Afghanistan to the East. They also have bases in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan and are propping up the regime in Pakistan. So, Iran is pretty much surrounded by US influence and the US has declared them to be evil and made demands with an implicit threat of force.
If someone fucked with my country that much, I'd be trying to kill the fuckers too.
I don't think you're racist, just not very well informed. If the American press is your source of information that doesn't surprise me. Most terrorism is not centred on the Mid East, it's just that's all the terrorism the USA cares about. The motivations for all the other terrorists around the world are pretty much as you describe though, and the solution (stop fucking with people and they are much less likely to want to kill you) is generally applicable.
Those specs are very similar to the Gumstix Verdex, which runs 2.6 just fine.
You can buy a phone in the USA for $9.99 delivered, which includes $10 worth of free airtime and doesn't tie you to a contract (Virgin). If you want a camera you have to pay a massive $50 for your phone. That's not expensive for what you get and it's not expensive in absolute terms either. For what you get, mobile phones are absurdly cheap.
Absolutely. I've never quite understood the desire to carry around two 3G radio sets and have two phone contacts. I just Bluetooth to my HSDPA phone - no extra devices, dongles, cables or contracts required. You only get 2.1Mbps through Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, which is theoretically a bottleneck when using an HSDPA network, but in practice it's rare you actually hit those speeds. Perhaps when 7.2Mbps and higher HSDPA speeds arrive it will become more of a bottleneck in real life, but it's not like 2.1Mbps is slow anyway. You can still use the phone for voice and text while it's doing the data thing.
Bluetoothing to a phone has proved invaluable at times when reception has been poor, I just move the phone to get good reception without having to put my laptop somewhere awkward.
The bottom is plastic, as are the keys. Assuming the aluminium Apple keyboard they have pictured on their page isn't a red herring, I suspect that was one of the ones they attacked.
Reminds me of an astrophysics joke:
Q: How many astrophysicists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 2 ± 53
I think they only removed the power supply and monitor because sniffing monitor and power supply emissions are known attacks. They wanted to demonstrate that it really was the keyboard they were sniffing. I guess we'll have to wait for the paper to see how well it works when the other emissions you get from a complete system are present.
They don't do that to US citizens though, do they? They still have rights. In the UK, citizens can be held for a month without charge and without the police telling anybody they've got you. Then you get a secret trial with no jury where you may not get to see all the evidence against you. But it's OK, you don't need to worry if you're not a terrorist!
I just find it staggering that hundreds of thousands of people died to get us rights like the right to trial by jury, but fewer than 100 people get killed and they throw it all away. Politicians seem to think voters' lives are priceless and their rights worthless; Geoff Hoon recently said "The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist.". That's a fucking terrifying attitude considering he's a member of the government.
Over a million people demonstrated in London to protest the Iraq war, with millions more in other demonstrations around the country, and the government ignored them. The major political parties, lobbyists and media have politics so tightly sewn up that revolution is increasingly looking like the only viable option to change the status quo.