Your "kill the messenger" concern is valid, but it must be balanced against the opposite extreme: not investigating when you observe someone trying to subvert your network.
On the off chance you are not: the telltale is but one tiny instrument among many others that are much more sophisticated. A freebie, if you will. The vehicle is a very complex, self-contained geological lab, including:
+ Robotic Arm + Robotic Arm Camera + Mars Descent Imager + Meteorological Station + Surface Stereo Imager + Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer
In case anyone is interested, a telltale in sailing is used to properly shape the sail for smooth airflow over the airfoil created by the sail, rather than for determining the direction or strength of the wind.
That's why I read Slashdot, so I can find innovative and workable solutions that were dreamed up after five minutes of consideration, rather than wasting time observing and learning about the decades-long efforts of a bunch of idiot engineers who have no friggin idea how to design, launch, navigate, land, and operate an interplanetary exploration robot.
You make a good point. I understand the ooncept of legal damages that you have described. I was thinking more along the lines of the claims that "downloaders have cost the industry XXX billion dollars." I believe these claims are false.
This has bugged me for a long time. I have a strong suspicion that they just take the number of downloaded songs, add up the retail price if they had been purchased (or worse, in the case of each song, use the retail price of the ALBUM, since that's what their sales model has been based on for years,) and claim that those are the damages. This ignores, of course, the fact that the great majority of casual downloaders would never have purchased the music they downloaded for free. That doesn't make it right or legal, but it does reduce the "damages" by a few orders of magnitude. My opinion.
So I guess we need to catch people who actually have a bomb strapped to their chest, and the people who planned, funded, trained, and supplied those people are irrelevant.
Here's a bit of news for you: the most common role played by people involved in terrorism, just as with an organized, state-sponsored military, is support. Until an operation is actually underway, that's what you're going to catch. And that's who we caught and convicted in the short, incomplete list I posted. Of course, with no operation actually underway, there is no shortage of people willing to claim that all participants are innocent victims of an overzealous government.
As I said, it's an easy game to play. If captured or convicted by the U.S. government, they are not terrorists.
All these people, except the one who pleaded guilty, were convicted by juries in the same justice system you trumpeted in your first post. So, "Innocent until proven guilty. Also innocent AFTER proven guilty."
It's an easy game to play. If someone commits an act of terrorism, the stupid government has failed us. If someone is caught before they (or the people they support) commit an act of terrorism, then they are innocents caught up in the overzealous surveillance campaign of the stupid government.
The total number of terrorists caught and convicted in the US by all this new nonsense is zero.
And that number will remain zero forever. Why? Because every person who is caught (whether or not convicted,) automagically becomes innocent on Slashdot and other places. You're saying you haven't heard stories in the past seven years about people or groups of people being arrested/questioned/deported/accused for planning some sort of terrorist crime? All innocent...just check the archives.
I had an experience recently where I was driving through an unfamiliar town the next state over, following my Garmin. It took me on a route that, while leading eventually to the right place, did not seem to make much sense given the other roads available. I noticed a camper in the lane next to me that didn't seem to belong, and that driver also had a GPS navigator mounted on his windshield. So I found myself wondering: does he have the same unit (or data source) as me? If I did a study of all the non-local cars driving down this road, how many of them would have the same unit in their cars?
There are several interesting implications, the most obvious being "sponsored routing" down a particular street in a business dist.....gotta go, I'm on the phone with my patent attorney.
Many people in the U.S. live in a state in which their electors' party is already a foregone conclusion.
That's because the other voters in that state will tend to vote for a particular party. The electors are appointed according to who the voters vote for!
Easy. Wait until a crime is committed, then look for clues to ID the perpetrator (who may be dead in some cases.) That's the security policy espoused by most Slashdotters. Interestingly, very few of them are actually responsible for physical security.
So you don't support any preventive measures, even when it comes to violent crimes with potentially hundreds or thousands of victims? You don't support efforts to stop a criminal plan before it comes to fruition? I'm focusing on your second sentence, not the first.
One of my truly favorite websites, a myth-debunking site, has that right-click disabling script. I found that out one day when I wanted to learn more about some information they posted, so I tried to copy and paste into Google (a very common operation for me.) When I wrote an email to tell them how much I disliked the function and how it interfered with a common-sense means of research, they told me that they were trying to prevent the theft of their work. The funny thing is that when I looked at the page source, I saw that the script was a verbatim copy (including remarks) of one that is available for download from hundreds of places on the Internet, minus the copyright notice and the warning to "keep this notice intact!"
I'm pretty sure the writer meant to say, "presumably." For one thing, I can't find anything (admittedly a cursory search) from Microsoft saying that the game is saved. Second, even if they did say it, the usage in this context is awkward, as the common meaning is that one thing is claimed but another is intended. It doesn't make sense for Microsoft to claim that a game is saved while intending to not save the game.
As an aside, a feature that turns off the console but does not save the game would be prfoundly stupid, though it may result in more sales as units are purchased to replaced those broken in the aftermath.
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This is a tactic to be used by a foreign government in a foreign country.
This document was signed in 1994. Where do these policies fit in Clinton's playbook?
This document was signed in 1994. Thanks for playing.
In this context, they're a misguided form of emphasis. Thank god the original article didn't have an apostrophe.
Your "kill the messenger" concern is valid, but it must be balanced against the opposite extreme: not investigating when you observe someone trying to subvert your network.
Noise.
Rain.
Branches.
Are you kidding?
On the off chance you are not: the telltale is but one tiny instrument among many others that are much more sophisticated. A freebie, if you will. The vehicle is a very complex, self-contained geological lab, including:
+ Robotic Arm
+ Robotic Arm Camera
+ Mars Descent Imager
+ Meteorological Station
+ Surface Stereo Imager
+ Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer
In case anyone is interested, a telltale in sailing is used to properly shape the sail for smooth airflow over the airfoil created by the sail, rather than for determining the direction or strength of the wind.
That's why I read Slashdot, so I can find innovative and workable solutions that were dreamed up after five minutes of consideration, rather than wasting time observing and learning about the decades-long efforts of a bunch of idiot engineers who have no friggin idea how to design, launch, navigate, land, and operate an interplanetary exploration robot.
You make a good point. I understand the ooncept of legal damages that you have described. I was thinking more along the lines of the claims that "downloaders have cost the industry XXX billion dollars." I believe these claims are false.
This has bugged me for a long time. I have a strong suspicion that they just take the number of downloaded songs, add up the retail price if they had been purchased (or worse, in the case of each song, use the retail price of the ALBUM, since that's what their sales model has been based on for years,) and claim that those are the damages. This ignores, of course, the fact that the great majority of casual downloaders would never have purchased the music they downloaded for free. That doesn't make it right or legal, but it does reduce the "damages" by a few orders of magnitude. My opinion.
So I guess we need to catch people who actually have a bomb strapped to their chest, and the people who planned, funded, trained, and supplied those people are irrelevant.
Here's a bit of news for you: the most common role played by people involved in terrorism, just as with an organized, state-sponsored military, is support. Until an operation is actually underway, that's what you're going to catch. And that's who we caught and convicted in the short, incomplete list I posted. Of course, with no operation actually underway, there is no shortage of people willing to claim that all participants are innocent victims of an overzealous government.
As I said, it's an easy game to play. If captured or convicted by the U.S. government, they are not terrorists.
All these people, except the one who pleaded guilty, were convicted by juries in the same justice system you trumpeted in your first post. So, "Innocent until proven guilty. Also innocent AFTER proven guilty."
Just a few minutes on Google. I look forward to you explaining why they are actually innocent or don't apply to this discussion:
Convicted Imam, convicted sailor, convicted conspirator, 9/11 planner pleads guilty.
It's an easy game to play. If someone commits an act of terrorism, the stupid government has failed us. If someone is caught before they (or the people they support) commit an act of terrorism, then they are innocents caught up in the overzealous surveillance campaign of the stupid government.
The total number of terrorists caught and convicted in the US by all this new nonsense is zero.
And that number will remain zero forever. Why? Because every person who is caught (whether or not convicted,) automagically becomes innocent on Slashdot and other places. You're saying you haven't heard stories in the past seven years about people or groups of people being arrested/questioned/deported/accused for planning some sort of terrorist crime? All innocent...just check the archives.
Yeah, just like those Orwellian metal detectors at the airport. I see people being stopped and accosted all the time when those things go off.
Go back and read your post. Do you realize the only actual reactions (as opposed to expected or imagined reactions) to your tears were your own?
I had an experience recently where I was driving through an unfamiliar town the next state over, following my Garmin. It took me on a route that, while leading eventually to the right place, did not seem to make much sense given the other roads available. I noticed a camper in the lane next to me that didn't seem to belong, and that driver also had a GPS navigator mounted on his windshield. So I found myself wondering: does he have the same unit (or data source) as me? If I did a study of all the non-local cars driving down this road, how many of them would have the same unit in their cars?
There are several interesting implications, the most obvious being "sponsored routing" down a particular street in a business dist.....gotta go, I'm on the phone with my patent attorney.
Yes! How incredibly ignorant!
Fu**ing idiots.
I have to wonder how you respond to anything that's NOT lighthearted banter.
No, no, no...you've got it wrong:
China: you see, we can blow up your satellites!!
USA: aha! We can blow up our satellites too!!
Many people in the U.S. live in a state in which their electors' party is already a foregone conclusion.
That's because the other voters in that state will tend to vote for a particular party. The electors are appointed according to who the voters vote for!
...what exactly should we use?
Easy. Wait until a crime is committed, then look for clues to ID the perpetrator (who may be dead in some cases.) That's the security policy espoused by most Slashdotters. Interestingly, very few of them are actually responsible for physical security.
So you don't support any preventive measures, even when it comes to violent crimes with potentially hundreds or thousands of victims? You don't support efforts to stop a criminal plan before it comes to fruition? I'm focusing on your second sentence, not the first.
One of my truly favorite websites, a myth-debunking site, has that right-click disabling script. I found that out one day when I wanted to learn more about some information they posted, so I tried to copy and paste into Google (a very common operation for me.) When I wrote an email to tell them how much I disliked the function and how it interfered with a common-sense means of research, they told me that they were trying to prevent the theft of their work. The funny thing is that when I looked at the page source, I saw that the script was a verbatim copy (including remarks) of one that is available for download from hundreds of places on the Internet, minus the copyright notice and the warning to "keep this notice intact!"
I'm pretty sure the writer meant to say, "presumably." For one thing, I can't find anything (admittedly a cursory search) from Microsoft saying that the game is saved. Second, even if they did say it, the usage in this context is awkward, as the common meaning is that one thing is claimed but another is intended. It doesn't make sense for Microsoft to claim that a game is saved while intending to not save the game.
As an aside, a feature that turns off the console but does not save the game would be prfoundly stupid, though it may result in more sales as units are purchased to replaced those broken in the aftermath.