That wasn't a troll. The guy who submitted can't write for shit. There is absolutely nothing inherently insecure about a mantrap. I was puzzled until I rtfa. It's the fact that doors to ATM mantraps are configured to operate with any magnetic stripe card that is the problem. The submitter should have made that clear.
"the Chinese people are gaining and exercising new civil liberties despite the government"
First of all, it's literally impossible to gain new civil liberties despite the government. By definition, civil liberties are laws that protect the individual from the government. If the government does not pass laws that protect the individual (or it chooses not to abide by such laws) you can try to step out of the way of the jackboot, but that doesn't mean you're exercising new civil liberties.
Second, what the hell are you smoking? China is one of the most depraved regimes on earth. The Chinese government has been credibly accused of murdering people because of their religion and then dissecting them and selling their organs!
Google these words:
harvesting organs falun gong
The spirit of Adolf Hitler is alive and well in China.
Aw come on. Word can save to the WordPerfect 5.0 format. Does that make either Word or WordPerfect 5.0 open standards? Wait for the other shoe to drop. MS will screw this thing around one way or the other.
ISP is neither a contraction nor an acronym. It's an initialism. (I didn't make that term up. Check the Chicago Manual of Style.) An acronym is an initialism that is spoken as a word, like NAFTA, NASA and NATO.
Seriously, I was suprised years ago when free, legal products started showing up that can create PDFs (e.g., OpenOffice). If they're OK legally then Adobe is on mighty thin ice going after Microsoft.
And for you folks saying PDFs are a scourge of the Internet I agree. My pet peeve is links that open PDFs without warning, especially when they're incorporated into some kind of fancy button that doesn't even reveal the destination in the status bar on the bottome of the browser.
However, PDF is the de facto standard for distributing print-ready documents, and in that role, it's a Good Thing.
You don't get it because you're a geek. To you the difference between the hard disk being located in your home and it being located at the ISP's premises is a minor deployment issue. In reality it's a huge business and legal issue. The ISP being able to store the broadcasters' entire output and dole it out on demand puts them in competition with the broadcasters in a way that individual DVRs do not.
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Not only are you a troll, you don't know what you're talking about. Skype does not equal Vonage.
Skype is free only for computer to computer calls.
Skype charges 1.7 Euro cents per minute (about 2 US cents) for calls to real phone numbers. And you have purchase that time in advance in blocks of 10 Euros.
If you want to get a real phone number you have to get SkypeIn, which is 30 Euros per year.
Skype can't be used for 911 at all, while Vonage is working on it and has gotten it together in many locales.
All Skype phones plug in only to a computer, not a cable modem.
Yes, Skype is a bargain and I use SkypeOut myself to call a friend in Australia but Vonage it ain't.
That having been said I think Sunrocket is a better deal. $199 a year, they give you the phone, and you don't have to keep your computer on 24/7. Also, you can hack it so you that you can use your home's existing phone wiring to plug in more phones.
I've always liked the first words of the study, a creepy, post-apocalypse-sounding salutation that summarizes what the message must convey:
This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. This place is a message and part of a system of messages. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
How the hell do you interpret this guy's decision to give up TV and his asking if anyone else has as "unilaterally... imposing your values on those who do not share them?"
Are you stupid or crazy or angry or what?
What if the guy sold his car and started walking to work? Or he finally bought a car and no longer had to take the bus? Or made any change in his life he was glad he did and wanted to know if anyone else had?
Yeah that prick would really be imposing his views on the rest of us.
For the increased height we have seen over the last 500 years to be the result of evolution it would have to be that taller people had greater reproductive success. That is, a greater proportion of them rather than their shorter contemporaries would have lived at least until they had successfully reproduced. That seems unlikely. I think it's far more likely that improved nutrition caused the increase in height.
I'm not so sure that the Feds require encryption backdoors for devices. I think you may be thinking of CALEA and related laws. But AFAIK they refer only to tapping phone lines, rather than encryption.
Even if the Feds do pass a law requiring backdoors for devices, the law could be circumvented by doing the encryption in software. Not as convenient for the end-user perhaps, but millions of people around the world do that every day thanks to the various implementations of public-key (RSA) schemes.
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That wasn't a troll. The guy who submitted can't write for shit. There is absolutely nothing inherently insecure about a mantrap. I was puzzled until I rtfa. It's the fact that doors to ATM mantraps are configured to operate with any magnetic stripe card that is the problem. The submitter should have made that clear.
Their CEOs made a lot of money while their companies went down the drain.
"the Chinese people are gaining and exercising new civil liberties despite the government"
First of all, it's literally impossible to gain new civil liberties despite the government. By definition, civil liberties are laws that protect the individual from the government. If the government does not pass laws that protect the individual (or it chooses not to abide by such laws) you can try to step out of the way of the jackboot, but that doesn't mean you're exercising new civil liberties.
Second, what the hell are you smoking? China is one of the most depraved regimes on earth. The Chinese government has been credibly accused of murdering people because of their religion and then dissecting them and selling their organs!
Google these words:
harvesting organs falun gong
The spirit of Adolf Hitler is alive and well in China.
Aw come on. Word can save to the WordPerfect 5.0 format. Does that make either Word or WordPerfect 5.0 open standards? Wait for the other shoe to drop. MS will screw this thing around one way or the other.
Right here, right now: Let us forever more call what Microsoft refers to as "Open XML" as "MS XML."
It's the sensible thing to do.
Slow news day?
ISP is neither a contraction nor an acronym. It's an initialism. (I didn't make that term up. Check the Chicago Manual of Style.) An acronym is an initialism that is spoken as a word, like NAFTA, NASA and NATO.
You're right about the apostrophes though.
Seriously, I was suprised years ago when free, legal products started showing up that can create PDFs (e.g., OpenOffice). If they're OK legally then Adobe is on mighty thin ice going after Microsoft.
And for you folks saying PDFs are a scourge of the Internet I agree. My pet peeve is links that open PDFs without warning, especially when they're incorporated into some kind of fancy button that doesn't even reveal the destination in the status bar on the bottome of the browser.
However, PDF is the de facto standard for distributing print-ready documents, and in that role, it's a Good Thing.
The geeks will hate it.
You don't get it because you're a geek. To you the difference between the hard disk being located in your home and it being located at the ISP's premises is a minor deployment issue. In reality it's a huge business and legal issue. The ISP being able to store the broadcasters' entire output and dole it out on demand puts them in competition with the broadcasters in a way that individual DVRs do not.
And, under this law, that would be enough to convict you and send you to prison.
Mod that post up. Informative!
$199 in 1984 dollars is $368.34 in 2005 dollars according to this inflation calculator. (2005 is the latest year for which they have data.)
But what constitutes "something published on the Internet"?
Do we have the right to consider that all information on any computer with an IP address is "published" and up for grabs?
Except this guy wasn't a kid. He was a man in his mid thirties.
Yes. You do have a right to get angry. If you leave a door unlocked for whatever reason, nobody has a right to enter your home.
Account manager + Microsoft = inevitable underhanded tactics.
It's just Bill and his minions being their autistic, demanding, clueless selves.
This is something new and intimidating?
Not only are you a troll, you don't know what you're talking about. Skype does not equal Vonage.
Skype is free only for computer to computer calls.
Skype charges 1.7 Euro cents per minute (about 2 US cents) for calls to real phone numbers. And you have purchase that time in advance in blocks of 10 Euros.
If you want to get a real phone number you have to get SkypeIn, which is 30 Euros per year.
Skype can't be used for 911 at all, while Vonage is working on it and has gotten it together in many locales.
All Skype phones plug in only to a computer, not a cable modem.
Yes, Skype is a bargain and I use SkypeOut myself to call a friend in Australia but Vonage it ain't.
That having been said I think Sunrocket is a better deal. $199 a year, they give you the phone, and you don't have to keep your computer on 24/7. Also, you can hack it so you that you can use your home's existing phone wiring to plug in more phones.
This is an old story and the LA Times left out the best part. Although the page has moved around a bit, I've had Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in my bookmarks for years.
I've always liked the first words of the study, a creepy, post-apocalypse-sounding salutation that summarizes what the message must convey:
This place is not a place of honor.
No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Nothing valued is here.
This place is a message and part of a system of messages.
Pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us.
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
Armageddon outta here, dude.
How the hell do you interpret this guy's decision to give up TV and his asking if anyone else has as "unilaterally ... imposing your values on those who do not share them?"
Are you stupid or crazy or angry or what?
What if the guy sold his car and started walking to work? Or he finally bought a car and no longer had to take the bus? Or made any change in his life he was glad he did and wanted to know if anyone else had?
Yeah that prick would really be imposing his views on the rest of us.
For the increased height we have seen over the last 500 years to be the result of evolution it would have to be that taller people had greater reproductive success. That is, a greater proportion of them rather than their shorter contemporaries would have lived at least until they had successfully reproduced. That seems unlikely. I think it's far more likely that improved nutrition caused the increase in height.
Every majoy piece of software is going "phone home" from here on out.
I'm not so sure that the Feds require encryption backdoors for devices. I think you may be thinking of CALEA and related laws. But AFAIK they refer only to tapping phone lines, rather than encryption.
Even if the Feds do pass a law requiring backdoors for devices, the law could be circumvented by doing the encryption in software. Not as convenient for the end-user perhaps, but millions of people around the world do that every day thanks to the various implementations of public-key (RSA) schemes.
Software trapdoors trump hardware backdoors.
But that still doesn't top the Post's all time greatest headline:
HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR
The great thing about tabloid journalism is that it never sacrifices covering interesting news for news that's merely important.