The adminstration will do something which will have an effect on the software company and then things will happen.
Oh yeah, things will happen. If he doesn't go to the administration first, they're going to:
1. shout at the vendor, then
2. crack down on all the "hackers" that they think are in the school network
Even if he remains anonymous, the freak-out police-state environment his public revelation will trigger will make a lot of people who don't deserve it (IT staff mostly) quite miserable. I say give the poor IT moneys a break. Let them know and have them tell the administration.
Having been a patient in the Canadian health care system all I have to say to "Dun" is until you've walked the walk, stop the talk, because you're full of it!
Your experiences and those of your immediate family amount to nothing more than anecdotal evidence. Try getting radiation therapy in Montreal. Three months wait. Find a lump and need a biopsy? Likewise, about 3 months. Like you say, "Health care quality does vary across the country, it isn't uniform by any stretch of the imagination." You are fortunate enough to live in a better area. Too bad for those poor saps in Quebec, though, right? At least it's free! Fool.
That's debatable. There were predictions of a "mini nuclear winter" as a result of the soot from the oil well fires set by the Iraqi army in Kuwait back in '91. It didn't happen. The local weather was back to normal and the skies were clear within weeks of the fires being put out. Many excuses were made involving the altitude of the soot clouds, proximity to large bodies of water, prevailing winds, and the like; but the fact remains that it's just another extrapolation-based theory with nothing to back it up.
To me, it's just another example of the wild-eyed anti-nuke hippie faction not being satisfied with the horror that we know nuclear weapons can be. Why the vaporization a radiation burning of thousands of people doesn't satisfy them, causing them to create crazed "bogeyman" arguments in addition, I'll never understand. Nuclear winter? Destroy the earth many times over? It makes 'em sound like idiots. Scaring people isn't going to reduce nuclear weapon inventories. It's fear that built those inventories to begin with.
I think the official stance of Britain is that Sealand is a man-constructed object -- and as such, must be covered by the same laws as the only other man-constructed objects to ply the seas. (boats)
You may think that, but that's not the case. It could only be considered a ship if it was in some way moveable. It's no more a ship than is a load of rock towed out to a sand bar and dumped. It's a fixed emplacement that was built outside territorial limits and abandoned. It may not be recognized by the crown and/or parliament as a sovreign nation, but the courts have definitely ruled that it lies outside their jurisdiction. This is de facto sovreignty, which is all that matters.
Though I agree that, if they so desired, the british government could just waltz in there and say "ours. get off." and basically render the sovreignty issue moot. Posession is all that matters here, really.
I no longer have to worry about health coverage. I moved to Canada a few years ago, and it was like a weight lifted off my shoulders. I'm happy to pay for it via my taxes. I think we get good value for money.
Yeah, right. So long as you don't get anything like cancer requiring chemotherapy, or need coronary bypass surgery, it's a great value. The part where you have to wait 3-6 months for major procedures really bites. In the US you can get that stuff done next day.
but how big of a bomb do you really need when it's estimated theres enough nukes to blast the entire land surface of the earth 3 times over.
Ahhh, the arrogance of the human race... nukes are very big, yes, but only on a human scale. The Earth is very large. Very very large. Let's do the math here:
10.7*10.7*3.1415926 = about 360 square miles
45,000,000/360 = 125,000 warheads
Sorry, even assuming an even spreading, assuming all warheads are 25MT (most are much smaller), and assuming all blasts are airbursts (they wouldn't be), even at the HEIGHT of the cold war there weren't enough nuclear weapons in existence (and only half of those were/are in any condition to be deployed) to blast even half the land area of the earth, much less blast it three times over.
I'm not saying that nuclear weapons are good, or that a nuclear war would be fun. I just can't stand the mindless parroting of hysterical hyperbole as if it were fact. I agree with the sentiment, but I don't agree with the presentation. Much of the Nuclear Disarmament crowd is dismissed as wild-eyed, irrational hippies. Why? Because they act like wild-eyed, irrational hippies. Ignoring the mathematical reality and instead believing a impossibly fantastic doomsday scenario doesn't help.
So, why do we have an article about expensive PSUs? This is Slashdots "News for Nerds", not "News for 14 year olds who go to LANs with the latest Alienware case daddy bought for them while on parole". Geez. What's next? Comparison of 5 different blue LEDs? "I have concluded that the Antec blue LEDs are definitely more blue then the cheaper LEDs!"
Why PSU reviews? As you so effectively illustrated, there are a lot of people out there who think that one power supply is as good as another. There are people who complain about kernel panics and blue screens and swear up and down their hardware is fine, but still have the same $3 power supply that came with the case.
Ask a hardware engineer about the importance of clean, consistent power. I'll bet you dollars to donuts he won't say "buy the cheapest supply you can find, 'cause big PSU's are only good for powering LAN party foolz' casemods."
So does that mean everything will run faster if, say, we port GCC to compile to the chip's "native" instruction set and then recompile the kernel and all apps?
No. The "native instruction set" isn't available directly. The CPU is essentially hard-wired as an x86 emulator. This may sound inefficient, but in reality it works quite well. The real instruction set is essentially designed to take the crufty x86 code and siphon off the bathwater, leaving mostly just the baby; it's not meant for direct programming. In theory, they could design a brand-new CPU with a fresh instruction set, but who would buy it?
Sorry, I just can not see why judges allow settlements like this to go through.
Judges have nothing to do with out of court settlements. A settlement is not the same as an award to the plaintiff. A settlement is basically one side agreeing to give the other side some money if they drop the lawsuit. See?
Except, of course, that it is near impossible to find all the hundreds of parts of a single.MP3 file because the newsservers keep dropping posts.
Only if you're using your ISP's feeble NNTP server, or subscribe to a rip-off feed service. The only reasonable way to use USENET for binaries is to subscribe to a decent outside feed. When you have 8-12 servers to choose from with 3-6 months of retention (rather than your ISP's 3-6 hours), finding all the parts is trivial. Sure, it costs money, but that way one can look over a group's offerings perhaps every week or two rather than having to monitor a low-retention server hoping to catch something during its narrow window of availability.
Nowhere did I say DNA is evidence itself of motive. Learn to read asshat.
So what you're saying is that you interjected the notion of "motive" for no reason? The beginning of this thread is someone saying:
"This could possibly lead to more false positives than now. Say you try to help a stab victim. If you touch the person your DNA will be on them and it's possible that you could be implicated for the murder."
To which someone said:
"If you testify in court that you were helping a stab victim, then it is not in question whether or not you were at the scene of the crime, you've already admitted you were. DNA evidence proving you were there is pointless."
It was in reply to this that you chimed in with your unrelated "motive" comment. The original scenario basically assumes an innocent party leaving DNA on the victim. There is no fucking motive.
Yes, but isn't the real question: did you see the fucker actually commit the crime?
No?
So you don't know, do you.
Under the asinine assumption that nothing could be judged true unless personally witnessed, maybe, but that's not how real life works. Call me when you join the rest of us in Reality.
The whole idea of insurance is based on the assumption that bad things can't be predicted in advance.
Heh. The thing about insurance that IS evil is the very nature of the arrangement. Paying the monthly premium on (for example) catastrophic health insurance is like placing a long-shot bet. What makes it evil is that you're betting that you might get sick/hurt, and then doing everything in your power to see to it that you lose the bet! Is that twisted, or what?
Better yet. Before doing a crime, smear animal blood on your hands. Or wear gloves, a hair net, shoes with no tread that are several sizes too big, wear a 50lb bag of dog food on your back and wear a space suit. Hopefully that will get rid of 99% of that really hard to use evidence
"Witnesses report that the suspect fled the scene on foot. Be on the lookout for an individual about 6 feet tall, wearing giant clown shoes, a space suit, bloody rubber gloves, and a large bag of Purina Dog Chow tied on his back."
I just about crapped myself imagining this perp...
Nevermind the fact that the DNA evidence could have been easily planted, if not at the crime scene, then at the lab.
We've seen this before. And not just with OJ.
Dude, OJ's DNA wasn't planted. The fucker committed the murder. We may have seen evidence plants before, but the OJ case ain't one of those. I've met the fucker. I work in the building in Brentwood where he had his office at the time. He's one of the most charismatic people you could ever meet, but he's a classic sociopath-- it's all an act. You can't tell till he loses his cool, but then it's pretty obvious that the fucker's a nutcase.
I'm saying if you have motive and you have DNA to connect them to the scene. Boom probable cause.
What the fuck are you talking about? If someone testifies that they were at the scene helping the victim, there's no fucking reson to drag out DNA evidence that proves they were at the scene! Furthermore, motive and presence do not equal proof. "probable cause"? I think the phrase you were looking for was "circumstantial evidence".
BTW, you are the one who "ain't very smart" if you buy into any of that conspiracy crap you're spouting.
they are also despised by the government ( remember the breakup? )
Huh? That breakup, 20 years ago, was targetted at AT&T. Even if one buys into the notion that "the government" can somehow manage to hold a grudge for two decades, why would they hold it against SBC? Their beef was specifically with AT&T. They forced AT&T to spin off a bunch of smaller, autonomous companies to conduct local operations-- the baby bells. Additionally, SBC is a consolidation of a whole mess of former baby bells and NON-bell operating companies, so they have little relation to a court action from back then.
Does "the government" despise Chevron? Exxon? Any of the other former Standard Oil companies? Same thing there. The government really doesn't care!
People need to quit thinking of the government as an entity with human feelings and sensibilities. It may be full of humans, but it's just a faceless, mindless machine.
"Considering the Egyptians did not know the wheel it is quite a bold assumption."
Considering that a major component of the Egyptian army was 'chariots' - that is quite a bold statement.
Heh. He must have been thinking of the Incas. The Incas, though, DID know the wheel (Inca children's toys found with wheels)-- they just didn't have much use for it in the Andes.
What's really funny about his "Egyptians did not know the wheel" comment is that they used a wheel to measure out the planned base of the pyramids, i.e. their pyramid is 100 units high and the base is 100 rotations of a 1-unit-in-diameter wheel in length. This is the source of all the rabid mis-theories about the pyramids having pi encoded into their dimensions even though the ancient Egyptians didn't use mathematics complex enough to calculate pi. It's not mystical crap-- they just used a wheel to measure! Wheels have pi built in!
No, pants can promote infertility, which is NOT the same thing as impotence. Infertility is a problem with sperm cells, while impotence is a "general equipment failure".
Chinese construction workers use frames and girders built from bamboo
frames and girders? are you talking about scaffolding? if so, use the right word 'cause "frames and girders" makes it sound like they build the highrise itself from bamboo, which they certainly do NOT.
I'd have thought radio surpassed tv...
I know I've been listening to it for far longer and far more than tv.
Nearly all of my daily activities take place while radio is on.
That's why they ask more than one person. If they just asked YOU, radio would have indeed surpassed TV. By surveying 2600+ people, they get more than just anecdotal information.
My fear is that eventually a legal argument will be made that since an advertiser has paid for space on a page, it will be illegal for somebody to mess with that page, since the page is the property of some other corporation and not of the individual who views it.
You fear unnecessarily. They do not "own" the HTML file they send you, and no interpretation of existing law will change that. Arguing that the end user can't block ads is as absurd as saying a newpaper reader can't fold the paper in such a way that the ads next to the articles aren't visible. One of the basic principles of "free speech" theory says that you have the freedom to speak, but no one is required to listen. Commercial speech is considered the least protected form of speech, so it'd be the LAST thing people would be required to hear. That's not to say that they won't get some DMCA-esque law that DOES illegalize blocking passed in the future, though.
Actually, I think that would be "methadone for a heroin addict". I'm not sure what crackheads use when they can't get crack, but judging from the ones in my neighborhood, it ain't a downer like methadone...
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who modded this "troll"? It's a standard pot/kettle joke!
Oh yeah, things will happen. If he doesn't go to the administration first, they're going to:
1. shout at the vendor, then 2. crack down on all the "hackers" that they think are in the school network
Even if he remains anonymous, the freak-out police-state environment his public revelation will trigger will make a lot of people who don't deserve it (IT staff mostly) quite miserable. I say give the poor IT moneys a break. Let them know and have them tell the administration.
Your experiences and those of your immediate family amount to nothing more than anecdotal evidence. Try getting radiation therapy in Montreal. Three months wait. Find a lump and need a biopsy? Likewise, about 3 months. Like you say, "Health care quality does vary across the country, it isn't uniform by any stretch of the imagination." You are fortunate enough to live in a better area. Too bad for those poor saps in Quebec, though, right? At least it's free! Fool.
That's debatable. There were predictions of a "mini nuclear winter" as a result of the soot from the oil well fires set by the Iraqi army in Kuwait back in '91. It didn't happen. The local weather was back to normal and the skies were clear within weeks of the fires being put out. Many excuses were made involving the altitude of the soot clouds, proximity to large bodies of water, prevailing winds, and the like; but the fact remains that it's just another extrapolation-based theory with nothing to back it up.
To me, it's just another example of the wild-eyed anti-nuke hippie faction not being satisfied with the horror that we know nuclear weapons can be. Why the vaporization a radiation burning of thousands of people doesn't satisfy them, causing them to create crazed "bogeyman" arguments in addition, I'll never understand. Nuclear winter? Destroy the earth many times over? It makes 'em sound like idiots. Scaring people isn't going to reduce nuclear weapon inventories. It's fear that built those inventories to begin with.
You may think that, but that's not the case. It could only be considered a ship if it was in some way moveable. It's no more a ship than is a load of rock towed out to a sand bar and dumped. It's a fixed emplacement that was built outside territorial limits and abandoned. It may not be recognized by the crown and/or parliament as a sovreign nation, but the courts have definitely ruled that it lies outside their jurisdiction. This is de facto sovreignty, which is all that matters.
Though I agree that, if they so desired, the british government could just waltz in there and say "ours. get off." and basically render the sovreignty issue moot. Posession is all that matters here, really.
Yeah, right. So long as you don't get anything like cancer requiring chemotherapy, or need coronary bypass surgery, it's a great value. The part where you have to wait 3-6 months for major procedures really bites. In the US you can get that stuff done next day.
Ahhh, the arrogance of the human race... nukes are very big, yes, but only on a human scale. The Earth is very large. Very very large. Let's do the math here:
Earth's Land Surface Area:
45,000,000 sqare miles
Destructive Blast Radius of a 25-Megaton Airburst:
10.7 miles
Number of Nuclear Warheads in Stock at Height of Cold War:
61,000
10.7*10.7*3.1415926 = about 360 square miles
45,000,000/360 = 125,000 warheads
Sorry, even assuming an even spreading, assuming all warheads are 25MT (most are much smaller), and assuming all blasts are airbursts (they wouldn't be), even at the HEIGHT of the cold war there weren't enough nuclear weapons in existence (and only half of those were/are in any condition to be deployed) to blast even half the land area of the earth, much less blast it three times over.
I'm not saying that nuclear weapons are good, or that a nuclear war would be fun. I just can't stand the mindless parroting of hysterical hyperbole as if it were fact. I agree with the sentiment, but I don't agree with the presentation. Much of the Nuclear Disarmament crowd is dismissed as wild-eyed, irrational hippies. Why? Because they act like wild-eyed, irrational hippies. Ignoring the mathematical reality and instead believing a impossibly fantastic doomsday scenario doesn't help.
Why PSU reviews? As you so effectively illustrated, there are a lot of people out there who think that one power supply is as good as another. There are people who complain about kernel panics and blue screens and swear up and down their hardware is fine, but still have the same $3 power supply that came with the case.
Ask a hardware engineer about the importance of clean, consistent power. I'll bet you dollars to donuts he won't say "buy the cheapest supply you can find, 'cause big PSU's are only good for powering LAN party foolz' casemods."
No. The "native instruction set" isn't available directly. The CPU is essentially hard-wired as an x86 emulator. This may sound inefficient, but in reality it works quite well. The real instruction set is essentially designed to take the crufty x86 code and siphon off the bathwater, leaving mostly just the baby; it's not meant for direct programming. In theory, they could design a brand-new CPU with a fresh instruction set, but who would buy it?
Judges have nothing to do with out of court settlements. A settlement is not the same as an award to the plaintiff. A settlement is basically one side agreeing to give the other side some money if they drop the lawsuit. See?
Only if you're using your ISP's feeble NNTP server, or subscribe to a rip-off feed service. The only reasonable way to use USENET for binaries is to subscribe to a decent outside feed. When you have 8-12 servers to choose from with 3-6 months of retention (rather than your ISP's 3-6 hours), finding all the parts is trivial. Sure, it costs money, but that way one can look over a group's offerings perhaps every week or two rather than having to monitor a low-retention server hoping to catch something during its narrow window of availability.
So what you're saying is that you interjected the notion of "motive" for no reason? The beginning of this thread is someone saying:
"This could possibly lead to more false positives than now. Say you try to help a stab victim. If you touch the person your DNA will be on them and it's possible that you could be implicated for the murder."
To which someone said:
"If you testify in court that you were helping a stab victim, then it is not in question whether or not you were at the scene of the crime, you've already admitted you were. DNA evidence proving you were there is pointless."
It was in reply to this that you chimed in with your unrelated "motive" comment. The original scenario basically assumes an innocent party leaving DNA on the victim. There is no fucking motive.
YOU learn to read, asshat.
Under the asinine assumption that nothing could be judged true unless personally witnessed, maybe, but that's not how real life works. Call me when you join the rest of us in Reality.
Heh. The thing about insurance that IS evil is the very nature of the arrangement. Paying the monthly premium on (for example) catastrophic health insurance is like placing a long-shot bet. What makes it evil is that you're betting that you might get sick/hurt, and then doing everything in your power to see to it that you lose the bet! Is that twisted, or what?
"Witnesses report that the suspect fled the scene on foot. Be on the lookout for an individual about 6 feet tall, wearing giant clown shoes, a space suit, bloody rubber gloves, and a large bag of Purina Dog Chow tied on his back."
I just about crapped myself imagining this perp...
We've seen this before. And not just with OJ.
Dude, OJ's DNA wasn't planted. The fucker committed the murder. We may have seen evidence plants before, but the OJ case ain't one of those. I've met the fucker. I work in the building in Brentwood where he had his office at the time. He's one of the most charismatic people you could ever meet, but he's a classic sociopath-- it's all an act. You can't tell till he loses his cool, but then it's pretty obvious that the fucker's a nutcase.
I'm saying if you have motive and you have DNA to connect them to the scene. Boom probable cause.
What the fuck are you talking about? If someone testifies that they were at the scene helping the victim, there's no fucking reson to drag out DNA evidence that proves they were at the scene! Furthermore, motive and presence do not equal proof. "probable cause"? I think the phrase you were looking for was "circumstantial evidence".
BTW, you are the one who "ain't very smart" if you buy into any of that conspiracy crap you're spouting.
Huh? That breakup, 20 years ago, was targetted at AT&T. Even if one buys into the notion that "the government" can somehow manage to hold a grudge for two decades, why would they hold it against SBC? Their beef was specifically with AT&T. They forced AT&T to spin off a bunch of smaller, autonomous companies to conduct local operations-- the baby bells. Additionally, SBC is a consolidation of a whole mess of former baby bells and NON-bell operating companies, so they have little relation to a court action from back then.
Does "the government" despise Chevron? Exxon? Any of the other former Standard Oil companies? Same thing there. The government really doesn't care!
People need to quit thinking of the government as an entity with human feelings and sensibilities. It may be full of humans, but it's just a faceless, mindless machine.
yeah, but that denominator keeps going lower. To what are they going to change "My Network Places" (shudder) that's dumber-down than THAT?
Considering that a major component of the Egyptian army was 'chariots' - that is quite a bold statement.
Heh. He must have been thinking of the Incas. The Incas, though, DID know the wheel (Inca children's toys found with wheels)-- they just didn't have much use for it in the Andes.
What's really funny about his "Egyptians did not know the wheel" comment is that they used a wheel to measure out the planned base of the pyramids, i.e. their pyramid is 100 units high and the base is 100 rotations of a 1-unit-in-diameter wheel in length. This is the source of all the rabid mis-theories about the pyramids having pi encoded into their dimensions even though the ancient Egyptians didn't use mathematics complex enough to calculate pi. It's not mystical crap-- they just used a wheel to measure! Wheels have pi built in!
No, pants can promote infertility, which is NOT the same thing as impotence. Infertility is a problem with sperm cells, while impotence is a "general equipment failure".
frames and girders? are you talking about scaffolding? if so, use the right word 'cause "frames and girders" makes it sound like they build the highrise itself from bamboo, which they certainly do NOT.
I know I've been listening to it for far longer and far more than tv.
Nearly all of my daily activities take place while radio is on.
That's why they ask more than one person. If they just asked YOU, radio would have indeed surpassed TV. By surveying 2600+ people, they get more than just anecdotal information.
You fear unnecessarily. They do not "own" the HTML file they send you, and no interpretation of existing law will change that. Arguing that the end user can't block ads is as absurd as saying a newpaper reader can't fold the paper in such a way that the ads next to the articles aren't visible. One of the basic principles of "free speech" theory says that you have the freedom to speak, but no one is required to listen. Commercial speech is considered the least protected form of speech, so it'd be the LAST thing people would be required to hear. That's not to say that they won't get some DMCA-esque law that DOES illegalize blocking passed in the future, though.
Actually, I think that would be "methadone for a heroin addict". I'm not sure what crackheads use when they can't get crack, but judging from the ones in my neighborhood, it ain't a downer like methadone...