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that said why not keep an armed guard in plainclothes on every plane. The cost per ticket wouldn't be much increased, whereas the safety would definitely increase. And I'm almost willing to bet most passengers (especially now) would be willing to pitch in an extra dollar for the safety precautions.
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Of course, this is one of those things you never forget. So where was everyone when they heard the news?
I had just gotten out early out of Numerical Analysis (about 11:30 EST), and figured I'd run to my dorm room to grab my next class's book, and then run to Evans (dining) to grab some lunch so I could get something to eat. I entered the dorm and as I was turning into my hall, a friend of mine shouted out "Hey did you hear the news?"
I'm like "What news?"
"The train station blew up"
"What train station."
"The Pentagon got blown up"
"No shit"
"Yeah, a plane crashed into the Pentago and another plane crashed into the World Trade Center."
"Holy shit!" and I entered the room and began watching CNN....
(reposting here since it was a reply earlier and people probably won't see it)
First and foremost, I do NOT think the actions today are justified; it was a horrible act, and furthermore, not just an terrorist attack, but an -act of war-. The US should retaliate, should find whoever committed the act, and show that we will not take this sitting down.
OTOH, we have to understand why this happened. It's hard to look at things rationally when something like this happens, especially when its a direct attack to our country, but we still do need to understand why things happens so we can prevent it later.
Here, let me use an analogy that (most) of you will hopefully understand. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot up Columbine High School, there were a lot of people (especially here) who said that their acts were horrendous, but they understood why they were committed: the boys were bullied and tortured constantly for years; they were finally getting revenge, kamikaze style.
That said, (from what i've read) the Palestinians are extremely angry at the US because we supply Israel with weapons, money, and generally advocate their actions, and Israel in turn torture Palestinan citizens and generally treat them like shit (for lack of a better term). This is their act of revenge, and although I say we should understand it, it should definitely not go unpunished. However, simply destroying Afghanistan (which we can without a doubtr easily do) will do no good.
Furthermore, here's my guesses on how things will pan out:
Assuming we bomb (or attack) Afghanistan (not just bin Laden) there will be further retaliation, and eventually start another war. If other countries don't get involved, that'll be it, and hopefully it'll end as quickly as the Gulf War. If other countries do get involved, I can easily see this turning into a World War III. Let me mention that we do -not- want a WWIII, simply because of the arms technologies available now. (Nuclear and atomic weapons, biological and chemical warfare, etc)
Alright, I agree with you, unlike the other replies. But let me explain a few things better:
First and foremost, I do NOT think the actions today are justified; it was a horrible act, and furthermore, not just an terrorist attack, but an -act of war-. The US should retaliate, should find whoever committed the act, and show that we will not take this sitting down.
OTOH, we have to understand why this happened. It's hard to look at things rationally when something like this happens, especially when its a direct attack to our country, but we still do need to understand why things happens so we can prevent it later.
Here, let me use an analogy that (most) of you will hopefully understand. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot up Columbine High School, there were a lot of people (especially here) who said that their acts were horrendous, but they understood why they were committed: the boys were bullied and tortured constantly for years; they were finally getting revenge, kamikaze style.
That said, (from what i've read) the Palestinians are extremely angry at the US because we supply Israel with weapons, money, and generally advocate their actions, and Israel in turn torture Palestinan citizens and generally treat them like shit (for lack of a better term). This is their act of revenge, and although I say we should understand it, it should definitely not go unpunished. However, simply destroying Afghanistan (which we can without a doubtr easily do) will do no good.
Furthermore, here's my guesses on how things will pan out:
Assuming we bomb (or attack) Afghanistan (not just bin Laden) there will be further retaliation, and eventually start another war. If other countries don't get involved, that'll be it, and hopefully it'll end as quickly as the Gulf War. If other countries do get involved, I can easily see this turning into a World War III. Let me mention that we do -not- want a WWIII, simply because of the arms technologies available now. (Nuclear and atomic weapons, biological and chemical warfare, etc)
i can see dropping binaries, simply because 90% of it is illegal and it's taking 90% of the bandwidth...just like the "5% of society own 95% of the wealth"
However, of the actual discussions, newsgroups are still very useful. I've used various alt.comp.lang.*, microsoft.vc.public.language, to help fix problems in my code
i've used rec.skydiving and rec.aviation.hang-gliding to find information on both sports (r.s gets at least a hundred ON-TOPIC posts a day)
and i've used various other discussion groups to get a quick answer to something that i couldn't google.
newsgroups -are- still useful. Sure, 90% of it is crap; there's a lot of spam going through them. Just take about ten minutes of your day, and apply a few kill-filters.
And the discussion groups that I regularly visit get very little to no spam at all.
and where is this in the traditional media?
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sure, it's available on web-based media; what about the local and national newspapers in print, CNN, FOXNews, ABC, CBS, on cable? Most people still get their news from traditional news sources (print and TV).
That's where I want to see these news, and until then I will not be satisfied.
Right, that's what I said.
Then when you're about to buy something on the internet you get a temporary credit card number from Visa that only has a certain amount available on its balance.
Anyone know the technical details of these cards? The privacy aspects?
Simple answer: More convience = less privacy = less security (for most cases)
What I find really interesting is the credit card one-time deals (don't know a link to information, if anybody does, please help out) but the gist of it was that: you'd sign up with a credit card with, say, Visa. Then when you're about to buy something on the internet you get a temporary credit card number from Visa that only has a certain amount available on its balance.
Security-wise it's great, since if anybody gets that number, no big deal, since they can't use it. Privacy-wise it wouldn't be hard to make it not require any personal details. (Since it's a temporary number issued on deman, it's almost safe to assume it's not stolen (possibly ask for a name or something like that))
Yes, the technology scares me. However, FWIW I -initially- don't see much of a problem with it. The problems will arise within a few years when every company begins using the technology.
Here's the way I see it: Companies often have a hard time catching shoplifters, because, 1) they acn't (legally) restrain a person before they've left the store. (I can put a book into my pocket and still go to the checkoput and pay for it; it's not shoplifting until you've left the store.) and 2) Once you leave the building, store security can not restarin you. They can only ask you to stay. (Howver, a shoplifter is allowed to legally walk away, as only police officers are allowed to restrain them.), and 3) the store can't prosecute them unless the have evidence (video cameras will work, but the employees' words can be easily beaten in court.)
Now supposing someone steals a book from the store, gets caught, but leaves anyway, the store can't really do anything, except to ban the person from entering the store (which they can legally do to anybody, as long as it's not due to racial or sexual discrimination.
The video camera can identify known shoplifters (for that store) and security can then ask them to leave the store. Whether the database can legally be shared with other stores or not I don't know, but I'm willing to bet that that issue will eventually go to court.
That answered "female" for Gender. (I'm male, and no I'm not trying to be funny)
But the way I see it, is that they're probably trying a wide range of people, and given the fact that there aren't nearly as many females as males, i gure I have a better chance at getting selected as a female.
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...but eventually some of them progressed to full-blown (no pun, really) sexual harassment.
It's not harrassment if you enjoy it, and if you didn't enjoy it...man, i pity you.
No shit, I came back expecting either a 5 or -1....but definitely was not expecting Informative!
I find it really saddening that nobody found this funny, yet numerous people found it "Informative". More than likely it shows that the herd follows a few crazy people. (*cough* kinda like religion)
Regarding the song lyric, that's a pure coincidence; I don't like Placebo anyways...
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for the story, now it's clear why the Pittsburg plane crashed...and some more info on the actual occurences...
and here's a nontracked and clickable link
that said why not keep an armed guard in plainclothes on every plane. The cost per ticket wouldn't be much increased, whereas the safety would definitely increase. And I'm almost willing to bet most passengers (especially now) would be willing to pitch in an extra dollar for the safety precautions.
shit, this was meant to be a reply to this
but the problem is, three-dollar crack has very little to no effect on the human memory.
Of course, this is one of those things you never forget. So where was everyone when they heard the news?
I had just gotten out early out of Numerical Analysis (about 11:30 EST), and figured I'd run to my dorm room to grab my next class's book, and then run to Evans (dining) to grab some lunch so I could get something to eat. I entered the dorm and as I was turning into my hall, a friend of mine shouted out "Hey did you hear the news?"
I'm like "What news?"
"The train station blew up"
"What train station."
"The Pentagon got blown up"
"No shit"
"Yeah, a plane crashed into the Pentago and another plane crashed into the World Trade Center."
"Holy shit!" and I entered the room and began watching CNN....
the rest, is well, history...
very interesting...but here's a working link.
This is a lameness/compression filter remover.
(reposting here since it was a reply earlier and people probably won't see it)
First and foremost, I do NOT think the actions today are justified; it was a horrible act, and furthermore, not just an terrorist attack, but an -act of war-. The US should retaliate, should find whoever committed the act, and show that we will not take this sitting down.
OTOH, we have to understand why this happened. It's hard to look at things rationally when something like this happens, especially when its a direct attack to our country, but we still do need to understand why things happens so we can prevent it later.
Here, let me use an analogy that (most) of you will hopefully understand. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot up Columbine High School, there were a lot of people (especially here) who said that their acts were horrendous, but they understood why they were committed: the boys were bullied and tortured constantly for years; they were finally getting revenge, kamikaze style.
That said, (from what i've read) the Palestinians are extremely angry at the US because we supply Israel with weapons, money, and generally advocate their actions, and Israel in turn torture Palestinan citizens and generally treat them like shit (for lack of a better term). This is their act of revenge, and although I say we should understand it, it should definitely not go unpunished. However, simply destroying Afghanistan (which we can without a doubtr easily do) will do no good.
Furthermore, here's my guesses on how things will pan out:
Assuming we bomb (or attack) Afghanistan (not just bin Laden) there will be further retaliation, and eventually start another war. If other countries don't get involved, that'll be it, and hopefully it'll end as quickly as the Gulf War. If other countries do get involved, I can easily see this turning into a World War III. Let me mention that we do -not- want a WWIII, simply because of the arms technologies available now. (Nuclear and atomic weapons, biological and chemical warfare, etc)
Anyways, that's it for now, focus back to CNN....
Alright, I agree with you, unlike the other replies. But let me explain a few things better:
First and foremost, I do NOT think the actions today are justified; it was a horrible act, and furthermore, not just an terrorist attack, but an -act of war-. The US should retaliate, should find whoever committed the act, and show that we will not take this sitting down.
OTOH, we have to understand why this happened. It's hard to look at things rationally when something like this happens, especially when its a direct attack to our country, but we still do need to understand why things happens so we can prevent it later.
Here, let me use an analogy that (most) of you will hopefully understand. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot up Columbine High School, there were a lot of people (especially here) who said that their acts were horrendous, but they understood why they were committed: the boys were bullied and tortured constantly for years; they were finally getting revenge, kamikaze style.
That said, (from what i've read) the Palestinians are extremely angry at the US because we supply Israel with weapons, money, and generally advocate their actions, and Israel in turn torture Palestinan citizens and generally treat them like shit (for lack of a better term). This is their act of revenge, and although I say we should understand it, it should definitely not go unpunished. However, simply destroying Afghanistan (which we can without a doubtr easily do) will do no good.
Furthermore, here's my guesses on how things will pan out:
Assuming we bomb (or attack) Afghanistan (not just bin Laden) there will be further retaliation, and eventually start another war. If other countries don't get involved, that'll be it, and hopefully it'll end as quickly as the Gulf War. If other countries do get involved, I can easily see this turning into a World War III. Let me mention that we do -not- want a WWIII, simply because of the arms technologies available now. (Nuclear and atomic weapons, biological and chemical warfare, etc)
Anyways, that's it for now, focus back to CNN....
isn't that an oxymoron?
We're British scientists. We don't need reasons to do things, just cool things to do.
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The Lameness filter can filter this.
(here) except that this actually worked.
And think about it, how cool would it be to be 6 years old, and tell your parents "You can't punish me, or I'll earthquake your room."
If an image is part of your site's design, you wouldn't truly want to prevent downloads, would you? ;)
I wish I could say the same, but that would involve thinking about the client (the web-surfer), which is against corporate policy.
And when it crashes, instead of a Blue Screen of Death, you'll be seeing a Blue Sky of Death, for 30000 feet down.
Why would you need 3 minutes to yourself when you've got a girlfriend?
i can see dropping binaries, simply because 90% of it is illegal and it's taking 90% of the bandwidth ...just like the "5% of society own 95% of the wealth"
However, of the actual discussions, newsgroups are still very useful. I've used various alt.comp.lang.*, microsoft.vc.public.language, to help fix problems in my code
i've used rec.skydiving and rec.aviation.hang-gliding to find information on both sports (r.s gets at least a hundred ON-TOPIC posts a day)
and i've used various other discussion groups to get a quick answer to something that i couldn't google.
newsgroups -are- still useful. Sure, 90% of it is crap; there's a lot of spam going through them. Just take about ten minutes of your day, and apply a few kill-filters.
And the discussion groups that I regularly visit get very little to no spam at all.
the foot-and-mouth disease [satirewire.com]
sure, it's available on web-based media; what about the local and national newspapers in print, CNN, FOXNews, ABC, CBS, on cable? Most people still get their news from traditional news sources (print and TV).
That's where I want to see these news, and until then I will not be satisfied.
Right, that's what I said.
Then when you're about to buy something on the internet you get a temporary credit card number from Visa that only has a certain amount available on its balance.
Guess you explained it better though.
Anyone know the technical details of these cards? The privacy aspects?
Simple answer: More convience = less privacy = less security (for most cases)
What I find really interesting is the credit card one-time deals (don't know a link to information, if anybody does, please help out) but the gist of it was that: you'd sign up with a credit card with, say, Visa. Then when you're about to buy something on the internet you get a temporary credit card number from Visa that only has a certain amount available on its balance.
Security-wise it's great, since if anybody gets that number, no big deal, since they can't use it. Privacy-wise it wouldn't be hard to make it not require any personal details. (Since it's a temporary number issued on deman, it's almost safe to assume it's not stolen (possibly ask for a name or something like that))
Yes, the technology scares me. However, FWIW I -initially- don't see much of a problem with it. The problems will arise within a few years when every company begins using the technology.
Here's the way I see it: Companies often have a hard time catching shoplifters, because, 1) they acn't (legally) restrain a person before they've left the store. (I can put a book into my pocket and still go to the checkoput and pay for it; it's not shoplifting until you've left the store.) and 2) Once you leave the building, store security can not restarin you. They can only ask you to stay. (Howver, a shoplifter is allowed to legally walk away, as only police officers are allowed to restrain them.), and 3) the store can't prosecute them unless the have evidence (video cameras will work, but the employees' words can be easily beaten in court.)
Now supposing someone steals a book from the store, gets caught, but leaves anyway, the store can't really do anything, except to ban the person from entering the store (which they can legally do to anybody, as long as it's not due to racial or sexual discrimination.
The video camera can identify known shoplifters (for that store) and security can then ask them to leave the store. Whether the database can legally be shared with other stores or not I don't know, but I'm willing to bet that that issue will eventually go to court.
That answered "female" for Gender. (I'm male, and no I'm not trying to be funny)
But the way I see it, is that they're probably trying a wide range of people, and given the fact that there aren't nearly as many females as males, i gure I have a better chance at getting selected as a female.
...but eventually some of them progressed to full-blown (no pun, really) sexual harassment.
It's not harrassment if you enjoy it, and if you didn't enjoy it...man, i pity you.
Securityfocus has a nice column on Worms and their origin in 1988.
Okay, if worms appearded in 1988, then what the hell ate all the dead bodies in the thousands of years ago?
ROFLMAO! ... haha .. that's great, didn't think of it that way :)
No shit, I came back expecting either a 5 or -1....but definitely was not expecting Informative!
I find it really saddening that nobody found this funny, yet numerous people found it "Informative". More than likely it shows that the herd follows a few crazy people. (*cough* kinda like religion)
Regarding the song lyric, that's a pure coincidence; I don't like Placebo anyways...