She was given the option for a general anesthetic, but she decided she wanted to see the boy as soon as he was out. She lay there, starapped to the table, with surgeons cutting and mucking about inside here and she felt the whole bloody thing! She lay there, tears streaming from here eyes, and said "Trussed up like this I guess this is what Jesus went through".
JESUS H. CHRIST.
"Ma'am, it looks like the epidural we've given you isn't working properly. We want to give you a general anaesthetic."
"No, because I want to see my baby right away."
I couldn't do that. Those mother-bear hormones must be the strongest chemicals known to man.
They have counseling for people who've waken up on the table during operations. It takes years for some people to deal with the trauma. This lady volunteered for it.
It's fairly straightforward to destructively alter any given sound, as opposed to merely encrypting it.
That said, as soon as this kind of data is stored anywhere, it will be subpeonaed. Google has recently demonstrated this. If law enforcement officers think they can track people with this technology, they will undoubtedly attempt to.
Scary scenario:
Guy picks up his kids from day care. His phone records the sound of screaming children.
On the way home, he stops by the gym. His kids get to go swimming while he works out. His phone records the sound of grunting and groaning, with children yelling in the distance.
Obviously, thinks some undertrained, underpaid analyst, this guy is abducting children. He notifies the police...
It sounds completely improbable, but then again, we've all seen news stories about people who've been arrested for developing pictures taken while bathing their kids.
Ya think Sony would remember this lesson and quit repeating it. They've introduced so many formats that *would* have been good, had they not been intentionally crippled by their media division.
Memory Stick is about the only format they've introduced that hasn't been bombed into oblivion by the reality of a market unwilling to buy crippled products. It's only a matter of time, however, since MS is inferior and more expensive than just about any other flash-card format.
Hmm... My post was in a thread complaining that the article didn't mention the fact that Soudan was in Minnesota. Most of the thread was modded down a bit. The general gist of it was that if you say 'Soudan, USA', there's an awful lot of USA for Soudan to be in, and that it could be confusing, even for people who live in the U.S.
In the context of the article, Soudan MN, corresponds to this site outside Soudan, maintained by the UMN.
I know for a fact that there's a Sudan, TX, however.
The US is a federation of 50 sovereign states (each with the size and economy to match), and saying "Foo City, US" would be like saying "Foo City, EU" (though Europe has the advantage of many languages to broaden the name space).
While this is true, it's somewhat misleading, especially to those will limited knowledge of U.S. history or government. Even many Americans don't understand the difference between as state and a province.
State governments in the U.S. function approximately equally to provincial governments in countries that are not federations. Most of them were not originally independant countries, but were instead provinces and territories that were sponsored into statehood.
A significant fraction of the United States were indeed independant countries at one point. ALL U.S. states have significantly more rights than any given province. Each has its own constitution and government, and, contrary to popular opinion, the states elect the President and Senators. The U.S. president is *not* elected by a popular vote. (Although there have been calls to change this.) A few, most notably Texas, still claim the right to secede from the Union, although no state has really had this right since the end of the American Civil War in the late 1800s.
The U.S. constitution sets up the states as individual entities, unlike provinces. They can each impose their own taxes and own laws. In fact, this is one of the major contentions in our government to this day. States can theoretically impose any law that the constitution doesn't reserve for the Federal government. This causes a lot of conflict and consternation since States are also required to respect contracts formed in other states, frequently under a different set of laws and regulations.
The conflict over gay marriage contracts is one of the more recent flaps this has caused.
States can also each maintain their own militias. Many states have 'State Troopers', who usually do the same kind of jobs as normal policemen, albeit with greatly expanded jurisdiction. A few states have 'State Guards', although they usually don't server a military purpose. They usually come to the fore during natural disasters and the like.
While the U.S. is an extremely tight federation-- the word 'Union' is very accurate-- it is still a federation. Each state is indeed its own nation.
While PHP does do an awful lot of making strings easy to mung, fold, spindle, and mutilate, I have to say that I personally think that adding a convenience to the language does not a security hole make.
I think that the real problem here lies in the fact that many PHP apps are coded incredibly sloppily... like most web content... ignoring even basic coding common sense.
How often would injection attacks take place if every coder obeyed one of the most basic tenants of web application development?
It's also worth noting that the exploits are against 'PHP applications' and not PHP itself.
I can't count the number of terrified middle managers who scream bloody murder to me about PHPNuke or PHPBB bugs, thinking that the flaws are in PHP itself.
Again, this boils down to keeping your software up to date. Careful pruning of your php.ini file also helps.
This is the first thing that crossed my mind when I heard 'Google and Nike'.
No, not everyone at Nike is evil, but the company has proven again and again that they will employ sweatshop labor and child labor. Those making decisions at the top of Nike are apparently making evil decisions.
The China thing is a good contrast here. Google has adequately supported their reasons for activity in China. They're up to providing the people with as much information as they can, and are working within government limits to do so.
In this case, Google is parterning with an 'Evil' company for mostly monetary benefit.
I'll offer a different reason that the GIMP sucking for real art tasks (It does.)
Many college-degree artists can barely install Photoshop for themselves under OSX or WinXP. Installing any given Linux distro and then Installing the GIMP may be beyond them in the MAJORITY of cases.
Without belittling anyone, their field of expertise is in Art and the creative process, not computer administration. They're *not* going to install GIMP on their home PCs and figure it out they way they may have been able to do with Photoshop or even Corel Paint.
Usability issues aside, until a Linux/GIMP install is easy enough for the average artist to complete in about the same time they'd do a OSX/Photoshop install, GIMP isn't going to gain any real acceptance or artist input.
DRM is a nice keyword to be used to describe something in both a negative and positive light.
The media industry is about to die the same way the blacksmithing and wagonsmithing (?) industries died with the advent of the car.
They're desperately trying to hold on and to make themselves work in the new order, but it's just not happening. The cat's out of the bag. The genie's out of the bottle, etc.
Some companies are very openly embracing the new reality and adjusting their business models-- Apple, for example. They use DRM as a watch word to make the others feel safe and secure as Apple slowly digests their dying corpus. But Apple *IS* digesting them.
DRM is the media industry's last rally before the old dinosaurs die and the young, swift mammals take over. It sounds bad, but will never be anything but a minor annoyance.
If a user posts a link, and the next link has 10 submitters and that user is among them, post the link from one of the other 9 submitters. That simple, Taco. Really is.
Slashdot could do with a fair bit of editorial rearrangement for new products or services.
Make a 'new products' category to stick all those 'This is cool, but it sounds like Logitech paid for the ad' stories. Similar for new services. If a company is cool or scary enough to rate its own story section on slashdot, then you can post under those categories... Like for google. Otherwise, let users filter them out.
Sarbanes-Oxley act is the new security-minded sysadmin's best friend.
Managers and Execs start taking IT security a hell of a lot more seriously when they realize they can go to jail if they're implicated in fraud.
To comply with SOX, you have to document all your procedures, all your data flow, and make it available to gov't regulators. You also have to document what holes you're aware of in your systems and how you plug them.
Whistleblowing is quick, easy, anonymous, and DEVESTATING.
I have to disagree. The problem here is not that the ability is going away, but that the freedom is going away. Those who take the freedom, those who excercise the ability in the face of legislation, are more and more often having to do it at risk to themselves or those around them.
How many companies can I badmouth before they shut me up by suing me?
How longer can I criticize the government before I get sent to Guantanamo?
Widespread lawbreaking indicates a problem with the laws, and not with the crime. This is why copyright law is so ineffective. It's also the reason that drug law doesn't really work.
In this case, however, more power is moving away from inviduals faster than it's coming to them. Of those who take that power back, by whatever means, more and more of them will be made to suffer.
Yes, let's dig one of the oldest flamewars back up in the summary rather than discuss some of the article's other excellent information.
TFA mentions WGet, one of the most wonderful, most needed applications that most users and admins ON EVERY PLATFORM don't know they need. Why not focus on this rather than ressurect the text editor wars?
My problem with B&W wasn't the gameplay. It was the bugs.
Despite the huge amount of effort Molyneux and co put into it, the game ran like compressed crap. It crashed frequently and had a memory leak like Niagra Falls.
There was a patch that fixed *some*, but certainly not all of the crash bugs, but it also contained a lot of code that 'fixed' PVP balance issues. Unfortuneately, these changes made the single player game almost impossible to play.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a few days old, yeah.
I think the Farkers have already made every possible anus joke.
She was given the option for a general anesthetic, but she decided she wanted to see the boy as soon as he was out. She lay there, starapped to the table, with surgeons cutting and mucking about inside here and she felt the whole bloody thing! She lay there, tears streaming from here eyes, and said "Trussed up like this I guess this is what Jesus went through".
JESUS H. CHRIST.
"Ma'am, it looks like the epidural we've given you isn't working properly. We want to give you a general anaesthetic."
"No, because I want to see my baby right away."
I couldn't do that. Those mother-bear hormones must be the strongest chemicals known to man.
They have counseling for people who've waken up on the table during operations. It takes years for some people to deal with the trauma. This lady volunteered for it.
Being that dental pain is among the worst imagineable, I imagine that many people were willing to risk their lives in order to end the pain.
I work with a former EMT. He's told me that the worst kinds of pain for most patients are:
Waking up on the table during anasthesia mishaps.
Kidney Stones.
Childbirth.
Dental infection.
It's fairly straightforward to destructively alter any given sound, as opposed to merely encrypting it.
That said, as soon as this kind of data is stored anywhere, it will be subpeonaed. Google has recently demonstrated this. If law enforcement officers think they can track people with this technology, they will undoubtedly attempt to.
Scary scenario:
Guy picks up his kids from day care. His phone records the sound of screaming children.
On the way home, he stops by the gym. His kids get to go swimming while he works out. His phone records the sound of grunting and groaning, with children yelling in the distance.
Obviously, thinks some undertrained, underpaid analyst, this guy is abducting children. He notifies the police...
It sounds completely improbable, but then again, we've all seen news stories about people who've been arrested for developing pictures taken while bathing their kids.
A dupe? Didn't see the first one.
Ya think Sony would remember this lesson and quit repeating it. They've introduced so many formats that *would* have been good, had they not been intentionally crippled by their media division.
Memory Stick is about the only format they've introduced that hasn't been bombed into oblivion by the reality of a market unwilling to buy crippled products. It's only a matter of time, however, since MS is inferior and more expensive than just about any other flash-card format.
Hmm... My post was in a thread complaining that the article didn't mention the fact that Soudan was in Minnesota. Most of the thread was modded down a bit. The general gist of it was that if you say 'Soudan, USA', there's an awful lot of USA for Soudan to be in, and that it could be confusing, even for people who live in the U.S.
In the context of the article, Soudan MN, corresponds to this site outside Soudan, maintained by the UMN.
I know for a fact that there's a Sudan, TX, however.
The US is a federation of 50 sovereign states (each with the size and economy to match), and saying "Foo City, US" would be like saying "Foo City, EU" (though Europe has the advantage of many languages to broaden the name space).
While this is true, it's somewhat misleading, especially to those will limited knowledge of U.S. history or government. Even many Americans don't understand the difference between as state and a province.
State governments in the U.S. function approximately equally to provincial governments in countries that are not federations. Most of them were not originally independant countries, but were instead provinces and territories that were sponsored into statehood.
A significant fraction of the United States were indeed independant countries at one point. ALL U.S. states have significantly more rights than any given province. Each has its own constitution and government, and, contrary to popular opinion, the states elect the President and Senators. The U.S. president is *not* elected by a popular vote. (Although there have been calls to change this.) A few, most notably Texas, still claim the right to secede from the Union, although no state has really had this right since the end of the American Civil War in the late 1800s.
The U.S. constitution sets up the states as individual entities, unlike provinces. They can each impose their own taxes and own laws. In fact, this is one of the major contentions in our government to this day. States can theoretically impose any law that the constitution doesn't reserve for the Federal government. This causes a lot of conflict and consternation since States are also required to respect contracts formed in other states, frequently under a different set of laws and regulations.
The conflict over gay marriage contracts is one of the more recent flaps this has caused.
States can also each maintain their own militias. Many states have 'State Troopers', who usually do the same kind of jobs as normal policemen, albeit with greatly expanded jurisdiction. A few states have 'State Guards', although they usually don't server a military purpose. They usually come to the fore during natural disasters and the like.
While the U.S. is an extremely tight federation-- the word 'Union' is very accurate-- it is still a federation. Each state is indeed its own nation.
While PHP does do an awful lot of making strings easy to mung, fold, spindle, and mutilate, I have to say that I personally think that adding a convenience to the language does not a security hole make.
I think that the real problem here lies in the fact that many PHP apps are coded incredibly sloppily... like most web content... ignoring even basic coding common sense.
How often would injection attacks take place if every coder obeyed one of the most basic tenants of web application development?
"THOU SHALT NOT EXECUTE USER INPUT"
How hard is that?
It's also worth noting that the exploits are against 'PHP applications' and not PHP itself.
I can't count the number of terrified middle managers who scream bloody murder to me about PHPNuke or PHPBB bugs, thinking that the flaws are in PHP itself.
Again, this boils down to keeping your software up to date. Careful pruning of your php.ini file also helps.
Mod parent up, please.
This is the first thing that crossed my mind when I heard 'Google and Nike'.
No, not everyone at Nike is evil, but the company has proven again and again that they will employ sweatshop labor and child labor. Those making decisions at the top of Nike are apparently making evil decisions.
The China thing is a good contrast here. Google has adequately supported their reasons for activity in China. They're up to providing the people with as much information as they can, and are working within government limits to do so.
In this case, Google is parterning with an 'Evil' company for mostly monetary benefit.
This some bad juju.
I'll offer a different reason that the GIMP sucking for real art tasks (It does.)
Many college-degree artists can barely install Photoshop for themselves under OSX or WinXP. Installing any given Linux distro and then Installing the GIMP may be beyond them in the MAJORITY of cases.
Without belittling anyone, their field of expertise is in Art and the creative process, not computer administration. They're *not* going to install GIMP on their home PCs and figure it out they way they may have been able to do with Photoshop or even Corel Paint.
Usability issues aside, until a Linux/GIMP install is easy enough for the average artist to complete in about the same time they'd do a OSX/Photoshop install, GIMP isn't going to gain any real acceptance or artist input.
Why, when there are so many Sailor Moon jokes that are begging to be made?
DRM is a nice keyword to be used to describe something in both a negative and positive light.
The media industry is about to die the same way the blacksmithing and wagonsmithing (?) industries died with the advent of the car.
They're desperately trying to hold on and to make themselves work in the new order, but it's just not happening. The cat's out of the bag. The genie's out of the bottle, etc.
Some companies are very openly embracing the new reality and adjusting their business models-- Apple, for example. They use DRM as a watch word to make the others feel safe and secure as Apple slowly digests their dying corpus. But Apple *IS* digesting them.
DRM is the media industry's last rally before the old dinosaurs die and the young, swift mammals take over. It sounds bad, but will never be anything but a minor annoyance.
~31 and am playing City of Heroes right now.
Round robin time.
If a user posts a link, and the next link has 10 submitters and that user is among them, post the link from one of the other 9 submitters. That simple, Taco. Really is.
Slashdot could do with a fair bit of editorial rearrangement for new products or services.
Make a 'new products' category to stick all those 'This is cool, but it sounds like Logitech paid for the ad' stories. Similar for new services. If a company is cool or scary enough to rate its own story section on slashdot, then you can post under those categories... Like for google. Otherwise, let users filter them out.
Konfabulous!
*flick* *flick* *flick*
Dammit... too far.
*flick* *flick* *flick*
11... No, I'm sorry, that's the minutes.
*flick* *flick* *flick*
Something 11.
*flick*
And 15 seconds.
Sarbanes-Oxley act is the new security-minded sysadmin's best friend.
Managers and Execs start taking IT security a hell of a lot more seriously when they realize they can go to jail if they're implicated in fraud.
To comply with SOX, you have to document all your procedures, all your data flow, and make it available to gov't regulators. You also have to document what holes you're aware of in your systems and how you plug them.
Whistleblowing is quick, easy, anonymous, and DEVESTATING.
SOX ROX.
I like VLC and use it on my mac... but not as much as I like Media Player Classic, which I use on my PC.
MPC is smaller, more versatile, and less tempremental.
Any given Dirty Pair ep or movie.
Wings of Honnemaise
Space Battleship Yamoto
Macross, Mac2, Mac+, but *not* Mac7
Magnetic Rose (Somewhat obscure, but enthralling)
Planetes
Tenchi GXP
Various Project A-Ko
I have to disagree. The problem here is not that the ability is going away, but that the freedom is going away. Those who take the freedom, those who excercise the ability in the face of legislation, are more and more often having to do it at risk to themselves or those around them.
How many companies can I badmouth before they shut me up by suing me?
How longer can I criticize the government before I get sent to Guantanamo?
Widespread lawbreaking indicates a problem with the laws, and not with the crime. This is why copyright law is so ineffective. It's also the reason that drug law doesn't really work.
In this case, however, more power is moving away from inviduals faster than it's coming to them. Of those who take that power back, by whatever means, more and more of them will be made to suffer.
Yes, let's dig one of the oldest flamewars back up in the summary rather than discuss some of the article's other excellent information.
TFA mentions WGet, one of the most wonderful, most needed applications that most users and admins ON EVERY PLATFORM don't know they need. Why not focus on this rather than ressurect the text editor wars?
A CATHOLIC school wants to PROTECT children from sexual predation?!
*snort*
*snicker*
*snnxxx*-- BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!
My problem with B&W wasn't the gameplay. It was the bugs.
Despite the huge amount of effort Molyneux and co put into it, the game ran like compressed crap. It crashed frequently and had a memory leak like Niagra Falls.
There was a patch that fixed *some*, but certainly not all of the crash bugs, but it also contained a lot of code that 'fixed' PVP balance issues. Unfortuneately, these changes made the single player game almost impossible to play.