I have about a hundred in my spam box, they were all addressed to a contact name on a websites I maintain. None were sent to either personal address or the protected email address listed elsewhere on one site I have.
I did receive them on the corporate level and can only assume to name they spoofed allowed them to broadcast to all notes users... then again knowing some of my co-workers
and a multitude of other CRPGs I simply was trying create that feeling again. Let alone the challenge required. It requires an very in depth knowledge of how the macro language works, addons, and how each class plays.
However I did find out quickly that balanced groups are far less efficient than optimized groups. One of the best sites dedicated to dual boxing is http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Portal You can also choose read articles about it on WOWWIKI starting with http://www.wowwiki.com/Dual_box// disclaimer is that I wrote the bulk of those wowwiki articles.
The primary use I have for dual boxing now is that it makes annoying classes bearable when you always have backup. Just tow a high level healer out of group for timely heals and even warriors (no healing ability and very few if any escape possibilities) become simple to do.
Yeah, it is a lot easier to just go in and work for someone else.
just like its going to be a lot easier to vote someone in who promises you free this, that, and whatever.
If anything defines whats wrong in America is that there are not enough 1099=winner people around anymore. If there were we would not have this bloated government and our choices would not be which candidate is willing to take more stuff from people who earn it and give it to someone else and instead on which candidate could reduce spending the most.
I admit, I am lazy and taking the W2 route. I like being able to do forty hours a week again. Working for myself and I found I did more hours. Then again that is what separates many of the haves from the have nots. If your complaining about not having your probably not working enough
and introducing more of it into health care will only decrease the quality of what we do have.
You can't shop across state lines because of federal regulations. Every damn state and the feds introduce must carry rules. It is because of government intervention that health care is such a mess. We spend nearly TWO trillion dollars if all levels of government are represented and what are we getting for it? Oh, that's right, somehow its private corporations that are at fault for so many uninsured. Yet when solutions are offered some in Congress go out of their way to limit your ability to choose. One recent attempt was to remove the ability of seniors to shop around. Apparently it was too popular and less people needed government which means politicians had less ways to preserve their power.
Don't run out with the tired examples of what a mecca Canada or Britain are. I have relatives and family friends who have all been subject to that. My father had to fly back to the states for knee surgery while in Germany because it wasn't life threatening unless you call not being able to walk ok. One day here and he was back on a plane to Germany the next. Heaven forbid your over sixty and need something major. Our family friend's doctor's solution was to fly to the Mayo clinic to get his surgery NOW instead of waiting for the necessary regulatory requirements to be met in BC.
Yeah, you can cite examples on either side of the argument but all you have to do is read the news around the world to see that government controlled health care has its own set of problems and some of them are worse. Perhaps having the government help cover extreme cases would be best, no one should go bankrupt because of a medical emergency but at the same time they should not sacrifice.
My local doctor is on the verge of refusing all but private payers because the government is worse than all but one of the HMOs that he has to deal with. The government imposes treatment costs and requirements that go beyond what he feels is reasonable. He has been practicing nearly forty years, you would think he knows what is appropriate.
These fools can't run our schools, can't run airport security, and certainly cannot seem to protect our information, yet it never amazes me how many people want them to handle their health care. All it will do is create a new and more entrenched political group which will suddenly unionize and spend their money influencing elections as long as it further entrenches them and gives them power. People think the national teachers unions are out of control won't believe what will happen when the same occurs in the medical profession. Worse will be all the new bureaucrats that will be needed. The one area of employment which has never stopped growing is government. There are close to twenty five million people being paid to work in our governments. TWENTY FIVE MILLION! Think about it. Now you want more and you want them into a even more personal part of your life.
Then again I keep forgetting, the very same throw their most valuable and important parts of their life into public schools without batting an eye. After all their school, politician, local government, etc, isn't the bad one. I guess we can convince ourselves of anything if it means we don't have to look behind the door
It is more likely the database implementation does not support SQL type processes. We have a mainframe which hasn't been updated since it just works. The problem is that many modern tools available on our iSeries, pSeries, and xSeries, provide such easy to use data manipulation tools that uppers tend to think if one machine can do it all can.
because if it can be thrown back in their faces it then has soapbox value.
I never understood how some of the most vocal of the anti-religious thought nothing of using a book they themselves completely discount against the people they disagreed with. First it seemed like a lot of silliness to expend such energy and ego driven just to make it known you didn't agree with someone... then to top it off an cite from the very same material...
oh well, I keep forgetting the depths people will go to justify their position
While its funny to cite Bush's folly with one my friend did the same damn thing and apparently it is pretty common or should I say it used to be. Apparently they had to change some of the programming to prevent that problem.
In other words, it was a defect and they were lucky he didn't get hurt
Drug seizure laws established in the 80s under Reagan allowed the Federal Government to seize property and money without proving guilt, worse your ASSETS are automatically assumed to be guilty. Yeah, the little dodge around your Constitutional rights is to assess the property as guilty because it has no rights.
I have never agreed with hate speech laws as most of the time they are used to intimidate. They are used to govern and direct conversations. There is everything offensive with some speech but speech itself should not be prosecuted unless it can linked to actions taken afterward that can be proven to have not have occurred without the speech.
While the words show are inflammatory and I do think the people who wrote them need to be accountable I don't think jail time or direct monetary fines are allowed. They will have accountability and that is the penalty itself.
So, the biggest problem is that it is a moving target and essentially serves little purpose other than to assign some form of guilt. Too many times it is used to intimidate and as such any such case must be held to highest standards otherwise we all get trampled.
I mean, how long before speaking out against a candidate or elected official automatically nets you fines or jail time?
See, having been awarded the Olympics was like having a tighter and tighter leash applied to some of the more militant Chinese authorities. With it done and gone the gloves will come off. What happens to Taiwan? Especially if we get a new President who they perceive as weak or simply not interested?
It was a crime by the IOC to award China the Olympics in the first place but it was also criminal that the EU and USA stood by and didn't protest it either. Face it, our governments turn a blind eye to any other "equal". Piss ant countries like Iraq, Checyna, and the like, well their just screwed. Russia, China, US, and France, all have their whipping post nations or people (maybe Britain and Germany do too but I don't know them off the top of my head).
The fact is, none of the big boys deserves to host it.
As such at college level there needs to be a way to separate the cream of the crop from the rest of the class.
The simple fact is, we are not created equal nor do we apply ourselves equally regardless of our ability.
Yet education is beset with claims of racism should one group do poorly compared to another regardless of the subject. As such schools have to dumb it down because if they did separate someone would take offense, even if they were not directly affected. Too many people are of the belief that they have the right to not be offended and that means not being called sub par compared to their fellows.
So how do you fix it? Take politics out of education. Take favoritism other than by demonstrated ability out of college. This might mean having two types of degrees for the same course. You could award a minor bonus to gpa for taking and succeeding at the harder level or grant more hours or even shorten the length of the classes.
One last area, reduce the effect of tenure even it means getting rid of it. It allows some real idiots to persist simply because they "have done their time". Professors who pontificate about politics instead of the subject at hand, provided they even bother to show for the course.
Still to fix college your going to have to fix public schools too.
I will give them this, there is no reason to be polluting when you don't have to be. The technology for rockets and jet planes is pretty well known so it should be obvious as to what NOT to do. Plus it sells. If you advertised your rocket as being seal/dolphin/baby friendly that would go a lot further than saying "only a few puppies got the axe during production".
I don't agree with the cheaper first idea, meaning who is going to pay to clean up after cheaper? Doesn't it come back to bite us in the butt one day? I have been to some former Soviet states and let me tell you... cheaper is OK provided you actually plan to do it better and the problem is most governments don't. Private enterprise will only under threat of court but governments can turn a blind eye to it all.
The joke of it all is the idea that carbon trading or other similar money making schemes excuses them from what they don't do. As if CO2 is actually a problem, it currently is because some people make money on it being one yet the evidence coming out is slowly chipping away at the more marketing that science onslaught that got it popular.
The simple fact is, its volunteer work and as such it is not a priority for those doing it.
Lets throw in a few other issues. 1. Differences. It is very hard to have a leader over a project like this in an environment where a dissatisfied group can up and fork their own 2. Feature creep. 3. Boring crap. All the graphics needed for the client. This collides with issue #1. Designers want X but available artists deliver Y. 4. Time, time to deliver something playable isn't quick if they want a lasting product. Linux didn't spring up overnight. 5. Mindset. Too many would come at it with the mindset that "if only game X did this". Well see #1. Everyone can't agree and many lock into a pattern of wanting to do X because either they liked X or didn't.
Really I don't see any large scale MMORPG like those given. I can see a contribution based one where the approach is modular like Never ending nights yet that still would require a good deal of client and server work. Yet the base framework could be created to allow people to sub the art in and if the scripting language is good enough to build their own. I am sure there are many examples of this already but it probably comes down to #1 again. Differences.
but there were never any books I wasn't allowed to read while going to a Catholic school. The earth wasn't flat, gays weren't out to get me, and doing a book report on Darwin didn't get me excommunicated. If anything religion was the framework for how one behaved in school and did not control what I learned there.
If anything going to a public school was more of a shocker, stepping back the equivalent of two grades and being bombarded with more ignorance than one can shake a stick at.
If it leads to a proprietary method which other automakers and utilities must license with fees then I am hoping someone else comes along and whacks them.
I still think while we are doing our typical over reaction; c'mon Europeans put up with prices higher than this; at least this over reaction is leading somewhere good. Granted it may mean life with even more SUVs as the technology will make their mileage acceptable. Since the majority of SUV/CUV don't do any heavy towing it can easily be adapted to their increased carrying capacities.
I guess giving up the "frivolous" luxuries was too much to ask
This is just the level of ignorance politicians want you to have. Its how the income tax works so well. The people have been guided into thinking about their "take home pay". Never about what they make, in fact if you ask most people what they make you usually get take home.
Oh it costs ya a lot. If you bother to read any of the papers available about health care systems across the world it would open your eyes. This is another of those fantasy pitches where if its repeated enough times people will start to accept it. The problem is the biggest implementers of universal health care are stepping back because the costs are obscene and they are finding that when something is free or nearly free in appearance people tend to abuse it.
ZERO OUTLAY... damn, next your going to believe that the roads are free too.
Well from the videos I have seen I would sadly have to agree.
Yet as a HERO class what else can they do and still set the class apart? I think their biggest mistake with this class is the fact only one HERO class is coming. They should have had at least two. Still, TBC and further additions of content have turned the game into Monty Hall. You either PvP or Raid else you don't get the shiny stuff. No long drawn out quests compete with raiding epics or welfare epics.
This class seriously risks replacing some classes or variants of classes. Yet I expect the one place where it will be put in its place is among raiders. They don't suffer so much the flavor of the month. So if it shows up in significant numbers during raids that will truly indicate whether or not it is overly powerful. Hardcore raiders are of a different mindset than arena players or pvp bg play. Whereas gimmicks rule the day for pvp (arena,bg) its teamwork and synergy that rule raids.
If anything I guess we needed a monty hall class to go with the monty hall loot.
when visiting some former warsaw pact countries in the early nineties.
When they said don't go near the river they meant it, having soldiers nearby just to make sure. Seeing dead trees that had been in place for years and soot covered buildings. (granted it was cool to see architecture from the forties the dirt was amazing). That system abused nature as much as it abused the people in it.
China has spent over $40 BILLION dollars on this Olympics, I wonder how much was just to fix past environmental damage.
Now I know, there are going to be the standard cry-about-Iraq-because-if-not-Iraq type crap totally ignoring the fact that just a small percentage of earmarks wasted on works named after LIVING congressmen could pay for any number of our own pet projects.
The money has always been there, Congress has the final responsibility for directing it correctly. Iraq is a very good excuse to spend money how they want while pointing "SEE SEE SEE SEE" elsewhere. In other words, one negative about Iraq that people ignore is that its mere existence allows Congress to waste money because they can always lay claim to the fact that Iraq consumes more.
without Iraq the money would be just as unavailable as it is today. This situation will not change until neither Democrats or Republicans are dominant.
and I for one am glad to see products like this all the time. While I may not buy them they do move the bar further which usually brings the the lower range items down from the stratosphere in pricing.
I remember people clearly harping about cards with 32mb, or 64, or oh god no one will ever need 256.
Look at how much more resolution today's and tomorrows displays are bringing to us, then turn and realize how much memory it takes to address all of that.
I've patched programs stored in a DB without knowing the DB admin password, just by hexediting the DB files. Didn't have to wait for the vendor's developers in the USA to get back to us;).
I seriously hope nothing valuable is on a system that unsecured.
I guess it stems from working on mid range and main frames for so long, the lackadaisical approach to security on PC and PC related systems gives me the shivers. I constantly hear stories from people who can hack this, hack that, or what not, and the only common thread is "pc style systems and networks"
Any system that you can do what you claimed is a system I never want to see my personal information on. In fact it should be criminal to do so.
Especially when it makes a crime a Felony. That is one of the four felonies charged to him. The other three are all related to tampering with a computer network.
While this guy is obviously an idiot for thinking he could blackmail a government entity I am quite pleased the security on the system is sufficient to make it hard to get into when strong security is put into place. In other words, nothing annoys me more than so called secured systems having some means of password decryption, let alone the ones that allow admins to see them plain text.
what is going to interest me is how many years they will attempt to land on him. Just how offensive to society is this type of crime versus murder or rape. It seems that every new crime invented by the government gets stronger penalties than existing ones; if only to make it appear more valid. After all the penalty wouldn't be so severe if it were not really a crime now would it?
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I have about a hundred in my spam box, they were all addressed to a contact name on a websites I maintain. None were sent to either personal address or the protected email address listed elsewhere on one site I have.
I did receive them on the corporate level and can only assume to name they spoofed allowed them to broadcast to all notes users... then again knowing some of my co-workers
and a multitude of other CRPGs I simply was trying create that feeling again. Let alone the challenge required. It requires an very in depth knowledge of how the macro language works, addons, and how each class plays.
However I did find out quickly that balanced groups are far less efficient than optimized groups. One of the best sites dedicated to dual boxing is http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Portal You can also choose read articles about it on WOWWIKI starting with http://www.wowwiki.com/Dual_box // disclaimer is that I wrote the bulk of those wowwiki articles.
The primary use I have for dual boxing now is that it makes annoying classes bearable when you always have backup. Just tow a high level healer out of group for timely heals and even warriors (no healing ability and very few if any escape possibilities) become simple to do.
Yeah, it is a lot easier to just go in and work for someone else.
just like its going to be a lot easier to vote someone in who promises you free this, that, and whatever.
If anything defines whats wrong in America is that there are not enough 1099=winner people around anymore. If there were we would not have this bloated government and our choices would not be which candidate is willing to take more stuff from people who earn it and give it to someone else and instead on which candidate could reduce spending the most.
I admit, I am lazy and taking the W2 route. I like being able to do forty hours a week again. Working for myself and I found I did more hours. Then again that is what separates many of the haves from the have nots. If your complaining about not having your probably not working enough
and introducing more of it into health care will only decrease the quality of what we do have.
You can't shop across state lines because of federal regulations. Every damn state and the feds introduce must carry rules. It is because of government intervention that health care is such a mess. We spend nearly TWO trillion dollars if all levels of government are represented and what are we getting for it? Oh, that's right, somehow its private corporations that are at fault for so many uninsured. Yet when solutions are offered some in Congress go out of their way to limit your ability to choose. One recent attempt was to remove the ability of seniors to shop around. Apparently it was too popular and less people needed government which means politicians had less ways to preserve their power.
Don't run out with the tired examples of what a mecca Canada or Britain are. I have relatives and family friends who have all been subject to that. My father had to fly back to the states for knee surgery while in Germany because it wasn't life threatening unless you call not being able to walk ok. One day here and he was back on a plane to Germany the next. Heaven forbid your over sixty and need something major. Our family friend's doctor's solution was to fly to the Mayo clinic to get his surgery NOW instead of waiting for the necessary regulatory requirements to be met in BC.
Yeah, you can cite examples on either side of the argument but all you have to do is read the news around the world to see that government controlled health care has its own set of problems and some of them are worse. Perhaps having the government help cover extreme cases would be best, no one should go bankrupt because of a medical emergency but at the same time they should not sacrifice.
My local doctor is on the verge of refusing all but private payers because the government is worse than all but one of the HMOs that he has to deal with. The government imposes treatment costs and requirements that go beyond what he feels is reasonable. He has been practicing nearly forty years, you would think he knows what is appropriate.
These fools can't run our schools, can't run airport security, and certainly cannot seem to protect our information, yet it never amazes me how many people want them to handle their health care. All it will do is create a new and more entrenched political group which will suddenly unionize and spend their money influencing elections as long as it further entrenches them and gives them power. People think the national teachers unions are out of control won't believe what will happen when the same occurs in the medical profession. Worse will be all the new bureaucrats that will be needed. The one area of employment which has never stopped growing is government. There are close to twenty five million people being paid to work in our governments. TWENTY FIVE MILLION! Think about it. Now you want more and you want them into a even more personal part of your life.
Then again I keep forgetting, the very same throw their most valuable and important parts of their life into public schools without batting an eye. After all their school, politician, local government, etc, isn't the bad one. I guess we can convince ourselves of anything if it means we don't have to look behind the door
It is more likely the database implementation does not support SQL type processes. We have a mainframe which hasn't been updated since it just works. The problem is that many modern tools available on our iSeries, pSeries, and xSeries, provide such easy to use data manipulation tools that uppers tend to think if one machine can do it all can.
it probably means they have a fruit selected as the logo
because if it can be thrown back in their faces it then has soapbox value.
I never understood how some of the most vocal of the anti-religious thought nothing of using a book they themselves completely discount against the people they disagreed with. First it seemed like a lot of silliness to expend such energy and ego driven just to make it known you didn't agree with someone... then to top it off an cite from the very same material ...
oh well, I keep forgetting the depths people will go to justify their position
While its funny to cite Bush's folly with one my friend did the same damn thing and apparently it is pretty common or should I say it used to be. Apparently they had to change some of the programming to prevent that problem.
In other words, it was a defect and they were lucky he didn't get hurt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5346050.stm
Drug seizure laws established in the 80s under Reagan allowed the Federal Government to seize property and money without proving guilt, worse your ASSETS are automatically assumed to be guilty. Yeah, the little dodge around your Constitutional rights is to assess the property as guilty because it has no rights.
with context and also with audience.
I have never agreed with hate speech laws as most of the time they are used to intimidate. They are used to govern and direct conversations. There is everything offensive with some speech but speech itself should not be prosecuted unless it can linked to actions taken afterward that can be proven to have not have occurred without the speech.
While the words show are inflammatory and I do think the people who wrote them need to be accountable I don't think jail time or direct monetary fines are allowed. They will have accountability and that is the penalty itself.
So, the biggest problem is that it is a moving target and essentially serves little purpose other than to assign some form of guilt. Too many times it is used to intimidate and as such any such case must be held to highest standards otherwise we all get trampled.
I mean, how long before speaking out against a candidate or elected official automatically nets you fines or jail time?
I am more concerned about what comes next.
See, having been awarded the Olympics was like having a tighter and tighter leash applied to some of the more militant Chinese authorities. With it done and gone the gloves will come off. What happens to Taiwan? Especially if we get a new President who they perceive as weak or simply not interested?
It was a crime by the IOC to award China the Olympics in the first place but it was also criminal that the EU and USA stood by and didn't protest it either. Face it, our governments turn a blind eye to any other "equal". Piss ant countries like Iraq, Checyna, and the like, well their just screwed. Russia, China, US, and France, all have their whipping post nations or people (maybe Britain and Germany do too but I don't know them off the top of my head).
The fact is, none of the big boys deserves to host it.
As such at college level there needs to be a way to separate the cream of the crop from the rest of the class.
The simple fact is, we are not created equal nor do we apply ourselves equally regardless of our ability.
Yet education is beset with claims of racism should one group do poorly compared to another regardless of the subject. As such schools have to dumb it down because if they did separate someone would take offense, even if they were not directly affected. Too many people are of the belief that they have the right to not be offended and that means not being called sub par compared to their fellows.
So how do you fix it? Take politics out of education. Take favoritism other than by demonstrated ability out of college. This might mean having two types of degrees for the same course. You could award a minor bonus to gpa for taking and succeeding at the harder level or grant more hours or even shorten the length of the classes.
One last area, reduce the effect of tenure even it means getting rid of it. It allows some real idiots to persist simply because they "have done their time". Professors who pontificate about politics instead of the subject at hand, provided they even bother to show for the course.
Still to fix college your going to have to fix public schools too.
they paid off the right groups
-or-
realistically they know what words sell.
I will give them this, there is no reason to be polluting when you don't have to be. The technology for rockets and jet planes is pretty well known so it should be obvious as to what NOT to do. Plus it sells. If you advertised your rocket as being seal/dolphin/baby friendly that would go a lot further than saying "only a few puppies got the axe during production".
I don't agree with the cheaper first idea, meaning who is going to pay to clean up after cheaper? Doesn't it come back to bite us in the butt one day? I have been to some former Soviet states and let me tell you... cheaper is OK provided you actually plan to do it better and the problem is most governments don't. Private enterprise will only under threat of court but governments can turn a blind eye to it all.
The joke of it all is the idea that carbon trading or other similar money making schemes excuses them from what they don't do. As if CO2 is actually a problem, it currently is because some people make money on it being one yet the evidence coming out is slowly chipping away at the more marketing that science onslaught that got it popular.
The simple fact is, its volunteer work and as such it is not a priority for those doing it.
Lets throw in a few other issues.
1. Differences. It is very hard to have a leader over a project like this in an environment where a dissatisfied group can up and fork their own
2. Feature creep.
3. Boring crap. All the graphics needed for the client. This collides with issue #1. Designers want X but available artists deliver Y.
4. Time, time to deliver something playable isn't quick if they want a lasting product. Linux didn't spring up overnight.
5. Mindset. Too many would come at it with the mindset that "if only game X did this". Well see #1. Everyone can't agree and many lock into a pattern of wanting to do X because either they liked X or didn't.
Really I don't see any large scale MMORPG like those given. I can see a contribution based one where the approach is modular like Never ending nights yet that still would require a good deal of client and server work. Yet the base framework could be created to allow people to sub the art in and if the scripting language is good enough to build their own. I am sure there are many examples of this already but it probably comes down to #1 again. Differences.
but there were never any books I wasn't allowed to read while going to a Catholic school. The earth wasn't flat, gays weren't out to get me, and doing a book report on Darwin didn't get me excommunicated. If anything religion was the framework for how one behaved in school and did not control what I learned there.
If anything going to a public school was more of a shocker, stepping back the equivalent of two grades and being bombarded with more ignorance than one can shake a stick at.
If it leads to a proprietary method which other automakers and utilities must license with fees then I am hoping someone else comes along and whacks them.
I still think while we are doing our typical over reaction; c'mon Europeans put up with prices higher than this; at least this over reaction is leading somewhere good. Granted it may mean life with even more SUVs as the technology will make their mileage acceptable. Since the majority of SUV/CUV don't do any heavy towing it can easily be adapted to their increased carrying capacities.
I guess giving up the "frivolous" luxuries was too much to ask
No outlay.
This is just the level of ignorance politicians want you to have. Its how the income tax works so well. The people have been guided into thinking about their "take home pay". Never about what they make, in fact if you ask most people what they make you usually get take home.
Oh it costs ya a lot. If you bother to read any of the papers available about health care systems across the world it would open your eyes. This is another of those fantasy pitches where if its repeated enough times people will start to accept it. The problem is the biggest implementers of universal health care are stepping back because the costs are obscene and they are finding that when something is free or nearly free in appearance people tend to abuse it.
ZERO OUTLAY... damn, next your going to believe that the roads are free too.
Well from the videos I have seen I would sadly have to agree.
Yet as a HERO class what else can they do and still set the class apart? I think their biggest mistake with this class is the fact only one HERO class is coming. They should have had at least two. Still, TBC and further additions of content have turned the game into Monty Hall. You either PvP or Raid else you don't get the shiny stuff. No long drawn out quests compete with raiding epics or welfare epics.
This class seriously risks replacing some classes or variants of classes. Yet I expect the one place where it will be put in its place is among raiders. They don't suffer so much the flavor of the month. So if it shows up in significant numbers during raids that will truly indicate whether or not it is overly powerful. Hardcore raiders are of a different mindset than arena players or pvp bg play. Whereas gimmicks rule the day for pvp (arena,bg) its teamwork and synergy that rule raids.
If anything I guess we needed a monty hall class to go with the monty hall loot.
when visiting some former warsaw pact countries in the early nineties.
When they said don't go near the river they meant it, having soldiers nearby just to make sure. Seeing dead trees that had been in place for years and soot covered buildings. (granted it was cool to see architecture from the forties the dirt was amazing). That system abused nature as much as it abused the people in it.
China has spent over $40 BILLION dollars on this Olympics, I wonder how much was just to fix past environmental damage.
or related ones. I looked it up, the WH keeps requesting small increases to the NSF... http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/ and they request specific amounts for projects only to see them whacked http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/us-budget-spell.html
Now I know, there are going to be the standard cry-about-Iraq-because-if-not-Iraq type crap totally ignoring the fact that just a small percentage of earmarks wasted on works named after LIVING congressmen could pay for any number of our own pet projects.
The money has always been there, Congress has the final responsibility for directing it correctly. Iraq is a very good excuse to spend money how they want while pointing "SEE SEE SEE SEE" elsewhere. In other words, one negative about Iraq that people ignore is that its mere existence allows Congress to waste money because they can always lay claim to the fact that Iraq consumes more.
without Iraq the money would be just as unavailable as it is today. This situation will not change until neither Democrats or Republicans are dominant.
I was under the impression that one of the big reasons for a new launch system was the using the Shuttle style engines was too expensive.
and I for one am glad to see products like this all the time. While I may not buy them they do move the bar further which usually brings the the lower range items down from the stratosphere in pricing.
I remember people clearly harping about cards with 32mb, or 64, or oh god no one will ever need 256.
Look at how much more resolution today's and tomorrows displays are bringing to us, then turn and realize how much memory it takes to address all of that.
I've patched programs stored in a DB without knowing the DB admin password, just by hexediting the DB files. Didn't have to wait for the vendor's developers in the USA to get back to us ;).
I seriously hope nothing valuable is on a system that unsecured.
I guess it stems from working on mid range and main frames for so long, the lackadaisical approach to security on PC and PC related systems gives me the shivers. I constantly hear stories from people who can hack this, hack that, or what not, and the only common thread is "pc style systems and networks"
Any system that you can do what you claimed is a system I never want to see my personal information on. In fact it should be criminal to do so.
Especially when it makes a crime a Felony. That is one of the four felonies charged to him. The other three are all related to tampering with a computer network.
While this guy is obviously an idiot for thinking he could blackmail a government entity I am quite pleased the security on the system is sufficient to make it hard to get into when strong security is put into place. In other words, nothing annoys me more than so called secured systems having some means of password decryption, let alone the ones that allow admins to see them plain text.
what is going to interest me is how many years they will attempt to land on him. Just how offensive to society is this type of crime versus murder or rape. It seems that every new crime invented by the government gets stronger penalties than existing ones; if only to make it appear more valid. After all the penalty wouldn't be so severe if it were not really a crime now would it?