That's like GM leasing cars with defective brakes, and holding the operator responsible for all damages that occur when they fail after pulling onto an off ramp and crashing into a child care facility.
It's more like GM saying: "Our brakes had a problem. Go to your dealer and change the brakes." Then the schmuck who knows about that still doesn't put on the brakes.
What the hell happened to personal responsibility in this country.
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So for folks who are keenly following this situation but not sure what the next step is... what's the most commonly used Win9x compatable pacakge I can grab? I'd like to make sure I meet community standards and not start employing some backwoods, obscure encryption system
Sounds like GnuPG is for you. You can download it from http://www.gnupg.org
Microsoft vulnerabilities (aka "innovations") are responsible for every worm/virus we've seen in the past few months: Code Red, Code Blue, SirCam, Apost, and Nimda. Why aren't they under any fire from the media, watchdog groups, or the general public?!?
Also to blame are the trained monkeys masquerading as Windows admins who don't know how to install a fscking patch!
Didn't this happen with early financial systems too? I have logos for a number of money-transfer networks on the back of my ATM card (though Interac is the only one that I recognize from actual use). I'm guessing they used to be incompatible...not on the same card.
They still are incompatible. Anybody who has a Discover card knows this (Discover uses its own ATM network, Novus). It can be a bitch finding an ATM that's supports the Novus network.
It's sort of like the way that DNS works: most everybody uses the InterNIC root servers, but there are some other DNS hierarchies (new.net for instance).
Re:Yes, but I'll make an exception for airports.
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In my original post, I was not referring to air travel. I believe that the airlines can perform their own security, and that, by accepting the ticket, you yield some freedoms. However, the use of Carnivore, probably accompanied by a ban on all encryption, is what I was referring to.
Re:And here comes Carnivore...
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I'm sure alot of the Japanese Americans who were "inconvenienced" (internment/inconvencience, what's the difference, right RM?) during WWII would see things differently.
Not to endorse/defend the internment, but it could be argued that it was for the Japanese-American's protection. Think about it for a moment: the West Coast held a fair degree of anti-Asian racism at the time. Pearl Harbor did set the people in that region on edge. Several Japanese were murdered in the days following Pearl.
I personally, however, find the internment camps repugnant.
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Having lived in the South and not lived in the South, I can assure you bigotry lives everywhere. In the West, it seems to be focussed more on the Latin American and Mormon populations, because they are the prevalent minorities. In the South, African-Americans are the prevalent minority.
That said, the Northeastern US is one of the more racist areas of the country. Where were the busing riots in the seventies? Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago. Where has ghettoization become the norm? The Northeast (southeastern blacks are far more likely to live in middle-class suburbs than in the north).
Like you, I am also of two minds on this issue. I think that we should kick Bin Laden's/Iraq's ass. However, once that is done, the US involvement in the Middle East should be reevaluated, with a total pullout under consideration. The fact is that Israel heads the list of bad regimes to be propping up (considering that they have spent the past forty-plus years in blatant violation of treaties).
The fact is the blind US love of Israel when combined with the US dependence on MidEastern oil constitutes the most destabilizing relations on the globe and threatens US interests the world over. The question must be asked: is US involvement in the Middle East worth 40,000 lives and over $25 million (when the damages and costs of the response are tallied)? I think not.
My opinion regarding the Israel/Palestinian situation is this: it's two children fighting over a toy. We should say to them, in effect, that if they can't come up with a mutually satisfactory plan to divide up the territory (perhaps including merger under a federal form of government, or maybe a return to the 1948 treaty boundaries) all disputed territory (including Israel as defined in 1948) shall be the target of nuclear carpet-bombing, making the entire region unsuitable for all life for centuries. In essence, this is simply saying to the two parties: the two of you must share the toy, or neither of you can have it.
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That commentary was written some 25+ years ago (and it's writer died over 15 years ago). That said, there are some good points.
It's been said before...
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And I'll post it again:
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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I have noticed the same thing. at the moment we ofcourse are getting coverage over the recent tragedy via CNN, ABC and I think NBC.
Not strictly related, but has anyone else been watching BBC America for their coverage of the events? I myself find it quite good, with a very nice perspective on the events (and a lot of emphasis given to worldwide reactions).
The US has had no shortage of opportunities to get rid of Saddam. We (the US) have chosen to keep him around because he serves a purpose.
There are two bogeymen in that region: Iran and Iraq. They don't get along (witness an eight-year war and many skirmishes since 1980). They are barriers to each other's control of the MidEast. If one experiences a major reduction in power, the other will fill the vacuum.
I agree with you that the people behind this need to have their ass/collective ass kicked, but at the same time I think that the smartest thing to do is to re-examine every aspect of the US relationship with the Middle East (specifically wrt our support of an Israeli regime that has been in violation of many treaties since 1948).
Example: Let's say you want to draw a horizontal bar with a rounded edge, ala slashdot. You can make an image that has the rounded edge, then a seperate image that's simply a one pixel gif of the same color, that you then stretch by using height and width attributes on the img tag.
I believe the problem is with grpahics that are 1x1 pixel and not scaled by the img attributes. So I would block any gif that's 1x1 and not scaled in the HTML (or any graphic that's explicitly scaled to 1x1). These are the dangerous ones, and your example does not fall into this category.
The music industry doesnt want you to pay for a single song, they want you to buy the whole album.
That only applies to CD's really: it costs the same amount of money to produce/distribute/carry a CD Single as a CD Album (and the single isn't significantly less expensive than a double album). The record industry spent decades on a single-based business model and prospered. The compact disc is the reason for the change in approach.
I would be reasonably sure that the record label that introduces affordable single file downloads will be successful. Most people I know only buy an album if they like two or more of the songs on it. The logical conclusion, therefore, is that there are a fair number of people who would buy one song but not the album, in which case, the record label is ahead on the deal.
And the Euro scene is still single dominated.
WRT changing music industry business models, take a look back some 60 years:
In 1942, Capitol Records was formed. Within ten years, they were the dominant record label worldwide (with Sinatra and many other luminaries on their roster). One way they achieved this: they realized that radio wasn't the enemy. Until Capitol, record execs refused to license their records for radio play and routinely sued disc jockeys. Capitol realized that DJ's were free publicity, not a threat to album sales. So they negotiated extremely fair terms with disc jockeys and the rest is history.
Replace radio/DJ's with modern counterparts, and it makes you think, doesn't it?
Not that this doesn't fill me with a certain sense of irony. The US courts have been quite happy to extend their jurisdiction in civil cases to whereever it pleases them in the past. So one could say that the precedent has already been set.
Examples?
Dimitry doesn't count: his arrest was on US soil. Traveling to a country places you under the jurisdiction of that country: can a Dutch citizen (legally) smoke weed in Iowa?
War crimes mean one thing: if you were the enemy of the victor (with tie going to the more powerful survivor), you're a criminal. Simple as that. I maintain that the Nuremburg trials were a bad idea. Yes, hang the motherfuckers, but don't try to pretend that it was anything but vengeance, or that the trials were little more than Uncle Joe Stalin-esque show trials.
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It's more like GM saying: "Our brakes had a problem. Go to your dealer and change the brakes." Then the schmuck who knows about that still doesn't put on the brakes.
What the hell happened to personal responsibility in this country.
Sounds like GnuPG is for you. You can download it from http://www.gnupg.org
I believe Google runs a custom in-house DB. I could be wrong, though.
A standard part of EULAs is:
The legal status of any clause does not affect the legal status of any other clause.
Or something to that effect.
All I got was an article focusing on MS clickthrough licenses.
...but he's using ASP, so it's not entirely unexpected...
This is the perfect CPU for use in... ...The Prestone Zone
Also to blame are the trained monkeys masquerading as Windows admins who don't know how to install a fscking patch!
They still are incompatible. Anybody who has a Discover card knows this (Discover uses its own ATM network, Novus). It can be a bitch finding an ATM that's supports the Novus network.
It's sort of like the way that DNS works: most everybody uses the InterNIC root servers, but there are some other DNS hierarchies (new.net for instance).
In my original post, I was not referring to air travel. I believe that the airlines can perform their own security, and that, by accepting the ticket, you yield some freedoms. However, the use of Carnivore, probably accompanied by a ban on all encryption, is what I was referring to.
Not to endorse/defend the internment, but it could be argued that it was for the Japanese-American's protection. Think about it for a moment: the West Coast held a fair degree of anti-Asian racism at the time. Pearl Harbor did set the people in that region on edge. Several Japanese were murdered in the days following Pearl.
I personally, however, find the internment camps repugnant.
That said, the Northeastern US is one of the more racist areas of the country. Where were the busing riots in the seventies? Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago. Where has ghettoization become the norm? The Northeast (southeastern blacks are far more likely to live in middle-class suburbs than in the north).
Like you, I am also of two minds on this issue. I think that we should kick Bin Laden's/Iraq's ass. However, once that is done, the US involvement in the Middle East should be reevaluated, with a total pullout under consideration. The fact is that Israel heads the list of bad regimes to be propping up (considering that they have spent the past forty-plus years in blatant violation of treaties).
The fact is the blind US love of Israel when combined with the US dependence on MidEastern oil constitutes the most destabilizing relations on the globe and threatens US interests the world over. The question must be asked: is US involvement in the Middle East worth 40,000 lives and over $25 million (when the damages and costs of the response are tallied)? I think not.
My opinion regarding the Israel/Palestinian situation is this: it's two children fighting over a toy. We should say to them, in effect, that if they can't come up with a mutually satisfactory plan to divide up the territory (perhaps including merger under a federal form of government, or maybe a return to the 1948 treaty boundaries) all disputed territory (including Israel as defined in 1948) shall be the target of nuclear carpet-bombing, making the entire region unsuitable for all life for centuries. In essence, this is simply saying to the two parties: the two of you must share the toy, or neither of you can have it.
That commentary was written some 25+ years ago (and it's writer died over 15 years ago). That said, there are some good points.
And I'll post it again:
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Not strictly related, but has anyone else been watching BBC America for their coverage of the events? I myself find it quite good, with a very nice perspective on the events (and a lot of emphasis given to worldwide reactions).
The US has had no shortage of opportunities to get rid of Saddam. We (the US) have chosen to keep him around because he serves a purpose.
There are two bogeymen in that region: Iran and Iraq. They don't get along (witness an eight-year war and many skirmishes since 1980). They are barriers to each other's control of the MidEast. If one experiences a major reduction in power, the other will fill the vacuum.
I agree with you that the people behind this need to have their ass/collective ass kicked, but at the same time I think that the smartest thing to do is to re-examine every aspect of the US relationship with the Middle East (specifically wrt our support of an Israeli regime that has been in violation of many treaties since 1948).
I've been in the planning stages for a while now on Fora, a GPL clone of A&A...
I believe the problem is with grpahics that are 1x1 pixel and not scaled by the img attributes. So I would block any gif that's 1x1 and not scaled in the HTML (or any graphic that's explicitly scaled to 1x1). These are the dangerous ones, and your example does not fall into this category.
Wasn't NetBEUI the result of Microsoft's brief flirtation with OS/2?
That only applies to CD's really: it costs the same amount of money to produce/distribute/carry a CD Single as a CD Album (and the single isn't significantly less expensive than a double album). The record industry spent decades on a single-based business model and prospered. The compact disc is the reason for the change in approach.
I would be reasonably sure that the record label that introduces affordable single file downloads will be successful. Most people I know only buy an album if they like two or more of the songs on it. The logical conclusion, therefore, is that there are a fair number of people who would buy one song but not the album, in which case, the record label is ahead on the deal.
And the Euro scene is still single dominated.
WRT changing music industry business models, take a look back some 60 years:
In 1942, Capitol Records was formed. Within ten years, they were the dominant record label worldwide (with Sinatra and many other luminaries on their roster). One way they achieved this: they realized that radio wasn't the enemy. Until Capitol, record execs refused to license their records for radio play and routinely sued disc jockeys. Capitol realized that DJ's were free publicity, not a threat to album sales. So they negotiated extremely fair terms with disc jockeys and the rest is history.
Replace radio/DJ's with modern counterparts, and it makes you think, doesn't it?
Examples?
Dimitry doesn't count: his arrest was on US soil. Traveling to a country places you under the jurisdiction of that country: can a Dutch citizen (legally) smoke weed in Iowa?
Yahoo operates an office in Paris. That office subjects them to French law.
It's as if you were to buy from Circuit City's website, and there's a Circuit City in your (sales-tax-charging) state, you would pay sales tax.
War crimes mean one thing: if you were the enemy of the victor (with tie going to the more powerful survivor), you're a criminal. Simple as that. I maintain that the Nuremburg trials were a bad idea. Yes, hang the motherfuckers, but don't try to pretend that it was anything but vengeance, or that the trials were little more than Uncle Joe Stalin-esque show trials.