This is part of the spirit of the mandate of the sweeping Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which prioritizes information sharing, including between federal, state, and local entities, and enabling state/local/tribal governments to leverage federal intelligence resources across the spectrum.
That's nice. So what's your point, that we should just shut up and trust the government? After all, they came and said "We're here to help!"
It's quite possible that living examples of (terrestrial) extremophiles would be quite comfortable in certain spots on Mars, Europa, maybe even Titan . . . but we've barely gotten a comprehensive idea of the conditions on those worlds *right now*, much less how they might've been billions or even millions of years in the past.
There's only one way to find out: send out samples of these organisms to Mars, Europa, and Titan, and wait billions of years to see whether they send samples back to Earth to see if they could live in such an extreme environment.
But in this case he paid you to drive him to the guy's house (located on Strained Analogy Place) and then home again. No force was applied.
Well really it's more like I'm paying comcast to ship boxes back and forth from me to wherever they need to go, but rather than spending the money I give them for the service on buying more trucks or paying for gas, they just dump the boxes in a field somewhere, then run crying to mommy government when people demand to know why they're dumping boxes instead of buying enough trucks to handle the shipments.
then it is clearly responsible in some way for those peoples behavior
And anything faintly resembling free will goes straight out the window, because in your worldview a person is nothing more than the sum of their inputs: I kicked the cat yesterday because on January 13th, 1982 it rained during my little league game and that particular input just built up with the rest of the inputs to produce that output.
At least in this worldview strong AI is possible, or at least an AI that is as "strong" as a human is capable of.
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The purpose of a company isn't to provide a steady living for people, but to maximize profits.
If your company isn't there next year, is it still maximizing profits?
Well, I don't know about broader adoption, but the Linux desktop is why I got into Linux in the first place. I mean, I have never, ever cared about really anything but the Linux desktop.
The server market was a lot easier to get into. There's just a few loads, they're fairly simple, they're fairly well-understood, people are - have much less inertia in upgrading a server than they have in upgrading their desktop. But I have never, ever even run a Linux server and I don't even want to; it's not what I'm interested in.
there are whole categories of evil acts that are by definition only the product of religion.... Religious crusades, pogroms against jews, none of these things happen absent religion.
For example, the government can legally jail or even kill someone
With restrictions such as due process, that is. Unless you're going to come out and say "oh well, the government can jail or kill whoever it wants with impunity". The funny thing is that citizens have similarly restricted rights, for instance, they can kill in self defense.
the simple solution is often easier and faster than the complex solution
When you want something that walks like a duck and talks like a duck, the simplest, fastest, and easiest solution is to get a duck. What you want is done by schemas in postgresql. If you're really doing the separate databases for "performance" reasons, then one presumes that at some point you're going to be putting the databases on separate servers, in which case you'll be wishing you had started with dblink in the first place.
What you're asking for may be "simple" for you, but what about the server side? Rewriting the entire database engine to have a monolithic superdatabase to store system catalogs and authorization information for the databases underneath is none of "simpler, faster or easier", while it does the exact same thing for you as having a "super" database with schemas underneath it using the search_path setting for applications that you don't want to rewrite with schema.table syntax for all of their queries.
My first impression based on the tools actually using it (like ejabberd) is more like "IRC wrapped in an XML overcoat where everyone is a lousy sexchat bot".
that frequently used keys would wear away, and the contact would become exposed--and shortly thereafter, break
It looks like this design is different. It looks like two gigantic "keys", that are actually touchpads with a keyboard printed on top that have a switch underneath to tell the difference between just touching it and pushing down on it.
The keys would eventually rub off, but then you're down to a blank touchpad. Anyone know how long it takes for laptop touchpads to wear out? Most likely, the switch underneath each side would break first.
The virtual desktop thing is what amuses me most. I remember the bad old days when XFree86 defaulted to allocating the largest screen possible whether your monitor could handle it or not, leading to endless streams of newbies on IRC asking how to turn the damn screen scrolling thing off.
You forgot situation D: You buy the picture from the artist, and then the artist declares after the sale that you're only permitted to hang it on the north wall of your bathroom. If you hang it on the south wall of the living room, then the artist publicly declares that you stole the picture, despite the fact that you paid for it free of any contractual obligations to obey the artist's wishes after the sale.
Yeah, I guess all those completely uninteresting people out there are why the FBI agents misuse national security letters and embezzle thousands of dollars from the wiretap tip jar.
just what exactly has been done to prevent ol' Timothy Abdul Hussein McVeigh from driving an ammonia-fertilizer truck bomb to One "Bilshire Woulevard" and taking out the entire telecomm infrastructure for the southwestern United States?
So don't outsource your IT there. It's not like there's no competition for secure datacenters, and a number of places actually have increased their security. For people who are currently located in the southwestern US, you sound like an advertisement for outsourcing webservers to anyplace other than their vulnerable corner of the country.
If you're serious about commoditizing these IT services, then it's the responsibility of the commoditizer to commoditize the redundancy
Pfft. What happens when your "commoditizer" goes out of business? Cancels your contract? Gets bought out by shady russian mafia types? Gets robbed three times? This is why I said independent as opposed to just remote.
anything which can be commoditized [like basic email services] almost surely cannot be adding any value to your busines
If it's not adding any value to your business, then why flip out over some lame telecom building getting blown up, unless you're going to lose value when you lose that service?
SPECIALIZED SYSTEMS
Unless your SPECIALIZED SYSTEMS require direct physical access to something in your office, they can be installed in a locked cabinet in a locked cage in a colocation facility selected for the appropriate level of security.
what about the fact that you're dealing with a single point of failure?
Then you're an idiot for not setting up a backup at an independent facility. You'd be in the same situation if you ran it yourself, the only difference being the concentration of value making a centralized location more of a target, but also better able to afford to reduce that risk itself.
What they "can't do" and what they actually do are entirely different things.
They'll simply make the crime possession of the media, and then use the history to arrest you unless you can prove that you got rid of all but 499 CD-Rs before the law went into effect. It worked for kiddie porn and drugs, it'll work for this too.
Nah, it's the ones where people did the smart thing: they set up automatic updates, they set up a non-privileged user that they use every day... then they never logged back in as Administrator to click "ok" on the service pack 2 license.
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This is part of the spirit of the mandate of the sweeping Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which prioritizes information sharing, including between federal, state, and local entities, and enabling state/local/tribal governments to leverage federal intelligence resources across the spectrum.
That's nice. So what's your point, that we should just shut up and trust the government? After all, they came and said "We're here to help!"
It's quite possible that living examples of (terrestrial) extremophiles would be quite comfortable in certain spots on Mars, Europa, maybe even Titan . . . but we've barely gotten a comprehensive idea of the conditions on those worlds *right now*, much less how they might've been billions or even millions of years in the past.
There's only one way to find out: send out samples of these organisms to Mars, Europa, and Titan, and wait billions of years to see whether they send samples back to Earth to see if they could live in such an extreme environment.
But in this case he paid you to drive him to the guy's house (located on Strained Analogy Place) and then home again. No force was applied.
Well really it's more like I'm paying comcast to ship boxes back and forth from me to wherever they need to go, but rather than spending the money I give them for the service on buying more trucks or paying for gas, they just dump the boxes in a field somewhere, then run crying to mommy government when people demand to know why they're dumping boxes instead of buying enough trucks to handle the shipments.
would give up a 50" TV for 6 months of sex?
Damn, I decided to save money and go for the 43" model.
then it is clearly responsible in some way for those peoples behavior
And anything faintly resembling free will goes straight out the window, because in your worldview a person is nothing more than the sum of their inputs: I kicked the cat yesterday because on January 13th, 1982 it rained during my little league game and that particular input just built up with the rest of the inputs to produce that output.
At least in this worldview strong AI is possible, or at least an AI that is as "strong" as a human is capable of.
The purpose of a company isn't to provide a steady living for people, but to maximize profits.
If your company isn't there next year, is it still maximizing profits?
there are whole categories of evil acts that are by definition only the product of religion. ... Religious crusades, pogroms against jews, none of these things happen absent religion.
I eat bacon.
For example, the government can legally jail or even kill someone
With restrictions such as due process, that is. Unless you're going to come out and say "oh well, the government can jail or kill whoever it wants with impunity". The funny thing is that citizens have similarly restricted rights, for instance, they can kill in self defense.
Given this logic, how can you describe "copying data brought to the border" as "Confiscating Data at the Border"?
Well, given that in TFA, one "Udy" had her employer's (Radius) laptop stolen by customs, I think we can say "confiscated".
the simple solution is often easier and faster than the complex solution
When you want something that walks like a duck and talks like a duck, the simplest, fastest, and easiest solution is to get a duck. What you want is done by schemas in postgresql. If you're really doing the separate databases for "performance" reasons, then one presumes that at some point you're going to be putting the databases on separate servers, in which case you'll be wishing you had started with dblink in the first place.
What you're asking for may be "simple" for you, but what about the server side? Rewriting the entire database engine to have a monolithic superdatabase to store system catalogs and authorization information for the databases underneath is none of "simpler, faster or easier", while it does the exact same thing for you as having a "super" database with schemas underneath it using the search_path setting for applications that you don't want to rewrite with schema.table syntax for all of their queries.
E-Mail wrapped in an XML overcoat.
My first impression based on the tools actually using it (like ejabberd) is more like "IRC wrapped in an XML overcoat where everyone is a lousy sexchat bot".
that frequently used keys would wear away, and the contact would become exposed--and shortly thereafter, break
It looks like this design is different. It looks like two gigantic "keys", that are actually touchpads with a keyboard printed on top that have a switch underneath to tell the difference between just touching it and pushing down on it.
The keys would eventually rub off, but then you're down to a blank touchpad. Anyone know how long it takes for laptop touchpads to wear out? Most likely, the switch underneath each side would break first.
The virtual desktop thing is what amuses me most. I remember the bad old days when XFree86 defaulted to allocating the largest screen possible whether your monitor could handle it or not, leading to endless streams of newbies on IRC asking how to turn the damn screen scrolling thing off.
the company fails, not only do you lose your job, you lose your investment. Didn't people learn anything from the dotcom era?
Or the Enron era?
there is also a situation C:
You forgot situation D: You buy the picture from the artist, and then the artist declares after the sale that you're only permitted to hang it on the north wall of your bathroom. If you hang it on the south wall of the living room, then the artist publicly declares that you stole the picture, despite the fact that you paid for it free of any contractual obligations to obey the artist's wishes after the sale.
I doubt it, unless they're being escorted by law enforcement.
And thus, the armed marshals in the quote in the summary.
Isn't the legal status of using an unlicensed investigator already in question?
Only in states where it's illegal to be an unlicensed "investigator".
Sorry, your X wasn't dark enough and the scantron machine didn't pick it up. "Tuffit" indeed.
But you are completely uninteresting.
Yeah, I guess all those completely uninteresting people out there are why the FBI agents misuse national security letters and embezzle thousands of dollars from the wiretap tip jar.
I'm quite happy to assume stupidity rather than malice in most cases but there are limits.
The problem with choosing stupidity over malice is that the old catchphrase assumes it can never be both.
And now there's a ton of hits for knitting fatalities too.
I wonder what the two hits for "Died in a Blogging Accident" were before all of this started?
just what exactly has been done to prevent ol' Timothy Abdul Hussein McVeigh from driving an ammonia-fertilizer truck bomb to One "Bilshire Woulevard" and taking out the entire telecomm infrastructure for the southwestern United States?
So don't outsource your IT there. It's not like there's no competition for secure datacenters, and a number of places actually have increased their security. For people who are currently located in the southwestern US, you sound like an advertisement for outsourcing webservers to anyplace other than their vulnerable corner of the country.
If you're serious about commoditizing these IT services, then it's the responsibility of the commoditizer to commoditize the redundancy
Pfft. What happens when your "commoditizer" goes out of business? Cancels your contract? Gets bought out by shady russian mafia types? Gets robbed three times? This is why I said independent as opposed to just remote.
anything which can be commoditized [like basic email services] almost surely cannot be adding any value to your busines
If it's not adding any value to your business, then why flip out over some lame telecom building getting blown up, unless you're going to lose value when you lose that service?
SPECIALIZED SYSTEMS
Unless your SPECIALIZED SYSTEMS require direct physical access to something in your office, they can be installed in a locked cabinet in a locked cage in a colocation facility selected for the appropriate level of security.
what about the fact that you're dealing with a single point of failure?
Then you're an idiot for not setting up a backup at an independent facility. You'd be in the same situation if you ran it yourself, the only difference being the concentration of value making a centralized location more of a target, but also better able to afford to reduce that risk itself.
Um, no they couldn't.
What they "can't do" and what they actually do are entirely different things.
They'll simply make the crime possession of the media, and then use the history to arrest you unless you can prove that you got rid of all but 499 CD-Rs before the law went into effect. It worked for kiddie porn and drugs, it'll work for this too.
Nah, it's the ones where people did the smart thing: they set up automatic updates, they set up a non-privileged user that they use every day... then they never logged back in as Administrator to click "ok" on the service pack 2 license.