While my 4Runner is commonly called an SUV... it has a box frame, and as such I refer to it as a "truck" among friends. To me, a box frame is the defining characteristic, even if it doesn't have a bed per se.
I think you guys are missing my point... it's not about my SUV (I actually DO care about which type of hulking polluting SUV I buy)... everyone from the SUV driver to the mega corporation is apathetic... "I'm just a little old coal fueled power plant in Delta, UT... why should I change the way I do things when it won't matter one bit! Look at how much they are polluting in Virginia!"... to which Virginia replies: "Look what they are doing in China, Brazil..."
What I mean to say is that everyone has someone else to point the finger at, so we are all playing chicken with each other to see who will flinch first. Nobody wants to be the first to jeopardize their bottom line while everyone else gets to flout the rules.
I simply feel apathetic about the situation. Changing my behavior won't change everyone else's behavior. Why should I stop driving my big SUV when everyone else still gets to go out and have fun in their SUVs? The apathy view of the situation is what stops most people from actively changing their behavior.
Make it illegal for the government to do anything that would potentially induce people of moral and ethical upbringing to report those actions to the media...
I believe JK Rowling wants to sell her work rather than give it away. Answering an intellectual question isn't half as nice as proving it to your peers with wheelbarrows of cash.
... is part of the problem
I run a website small enough that I (perhaps foolishly) get an email for EVERY failed http request. This makes it easy for me to spot patterns of failed hacks and even build some automated detection of hack attempts into my system. I have had LIMITED success with reporting the hack back to the machine owner. I do this because I figure, either A) it's almost always a compromised machine and therefore unfair and unhelpful to try to hack back, or B) a rogue admin is using company hardware to launch attacks in the off-hours. Either way, the company is made aware that their assets are being abused, and will hopefully have the smarts to fix it, and in the case of "B", the admin has probably lost their job and doesn't know which site reported his abuse, which in turn improves my chances of not getting a retaliation attack later. I'd guess that 95% of all attempts on my system are from compromised systems, and of those, 90% are script kiddies... always trying to access phpMyAdmin, wp-login, or some other randomly psudo-important folder such as/admin or/login. In the rare cases where the server appears to be out of country, or not owned by a recognizable company, I simply opt for the ban-hammer. I ban via database rather than the router because I don't have access to the router... which is nice because it lets me dream about formulating plans for some XKCD style mind-F#@King.
Point is: Reporting the abuse will likely not net an arrest let alone fame and glory, but if enough people are reporting the abuse, someone will take notice and do something about it. Also, no matter how you slice it, reporting the abuse through the proper channels decreases the odds that the hacker will KNOW it was you who reported the abuse, and now people with better tracking skills that myself are working on it.
I call bullshit on the custom ROM argument. You may very well be capable of loading a custom ROM on YOUR GG, but I defy you to say that you would be capable or even willing to maintain custom ROMs for all of your associates and family. Once you've loaded a custom ROM you are excluded from any future automatic updates/security patches. It's not any different than the current problem with Android fragmentation and custom ROMs. If you follow that logic, it leads to a place nobody wants to be.
The original story brought race into it: It said she was getting all this harassment while a while kid who accidentally shot and killed his brother with a BB gun was getting no charges. I think it is absolutely imperative to acknowledge that race could be a contributing factor to the severity of peoples reactions. I'm glad that reasonable people have seen this for what it really is, and the young lady is getting an opportunity instead of being held back. Also: shame on your for bringing the "F" word into it...;)
If I had the resources, my solution would be: take up a collection, where everyone can bring their yellow pages and throw them in the back of a dump truck... then drive it down to the publisher's office and unload them all in front of their building... not littering because each person who tossed their book into the dump truck did so with the express understanding that it would be delivered to a specific address.
Solution #2: Call every business in the yellow pages and tell them you refuse to patronize them expressly because they advertise in the yellow pages.
The second is probably more realistic, but the first is definitely more fun!
My two cents:
The vehicle owner should absolutely have the right, not the operator. When those two roles are realized in the same person there will never be a conflict of interest. When they are not the same person, shouldn't the person footing the bill have that luxury?
Some examples:
Owner of a car: It is outrageous to think that the dealer who sold it, or the government, or the mechanic that services it should have access to any kind of "log" of how the vehicle is used, since it doesn't belong to them.
Rental cars, government, company owned & leases: In any of these cases, the TRUE owner of the car has a vested interest in keeping the vehicle in top shape. The operator of the vehicle has absolutely no justification for flogging the vehicle, causing damage and wear. If you are the type of person who thinks its OK to wail on a rental car and return it thinking "there's no body damage, so I should get my deposit back" then you are effectively stealing from the rental company.
Demo/Dealership cars: I knew a guy who took a corvette for a test drive and flogged it until the clutch blew. Then he limped it away from the parking lot where it happened (unsightly burnout marks everywhere) and onto a side street where he called the dealer and told them to send a wrecker. He left the keys under the seat and just walked away, didn't even bother to go back to the dealership and lie to them. Many dealerships don't have enough staff to ride along with every test drive, so they photo copy drivers' licenses and let them go. What more can they do? But they have a right to protect their investment, and in the case of Tesla, they have a right to protect their reputation from some reporter with a "devil may care" attitude.
In short, I don't think there needs to be any policy beyond "Its your damn car, do what you want with it... when it's not your car anymore, you have no right to that info."
I want to start out by saying that I'm not dismissing the danger of a meteor impact per se, but I think things should be put into perspective here:
The media has reported upwards of 1200 people injured _most by flying glass_ produced by the shockwave. In every video I've seen, the glass we are talking about is single pane and has NOT been tempered. It seems to me, that the problem here isn't small, hard-to-detect meteors so much as it is shoddy workmanship and 300 year old technology. Rather than building quick-response rockets to deflect these smallish type impacts, maybe Russia should spend that cash on improving buildings (as well as building code compliance) and see how far that gets ya. I'm all for detecting and deflecting the big global killers, but working to defend against another event like this one is like trying to shew flies away before they hit the windshield of a moving bus.
A tangential thought: People LOVE to panic... how do you think they are going to react when our detection technology gets so good that we can spot these guys weeks in advance and predict exactly where they are going to come down... The intelligent half of our society has reached a level of sophistication sufficient to keep the unintelligent half in a state of perpetual panic.
"If you can imagine something you can build it." However, I've long been a believer that it is part of human nature to pursue the impossible regardless of how impossible it may seem (i.e: that hot chick across the hall). So it may be more appropriate to re-write the old adage it as: "If you can imagine something, you WILL build it; and if you fail someone else will stand on your corpse and build it."
In short, if you fantasize long enough about machines doing your menial work for you... eventually by your hand or someone else's... they will.
From the synopsis, did the researchers even verify that the study participants had in fact read those recent books. Scientifically speaking, it's probably tough to recall something you've never read.
-Just sayin'
...that they've admitted they don't know the direction of causation. Usually stories like these breathlessly report that all our lives are in terrible danger because of some link that they can't be bothered to detail in the story, but rather it should be taken for granted that the researchers have some knowledge about the correlation that they failed to mention in their report... ad nauseum.
Dare I say it: - put a mark in the column for "correlation != causation" -
...for working on a project contains the phrase "must be perfect", then why would the project need you? As has already been stated above: Your employer's code base is likely to suck orders of magnitude more than MySQL does, and they are probably looking for people less "high and mighty."
Money is ALWAYS the objective.
Get a comfortable chair... like a lay-z-boy. Sometimes it helps just to sit and think, but leaving the environment altogether can often bring new distractions.
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But then you'd be living under the burden of the People's Republik of Kalifornia.
While my 4Runner is commonly called an SUV... it has a box frame, and as such I refer to it as a "truck" among friends. To me, a box frame is the defining characteristic, even if it doesn't have a bed per se.
I think you guys are missing my point... it's not about my SUV (I actually DO care about which type of hulking polluting SUV I buy)... everyone from the SUV driver to the mega corporation is apathetic... "I'm just a little old coal fueled power plant in Delta, UT... why should I change the way I do things when it won't matter one bit! Look at how much they are polluting in Virginia!"... to which Virginia replies: "Look what they are doing in China, Brazil..."
What I mean to say is that everyone has someone else to point the finger at, so we are all playing chicken with each other to see who will flinch first. Nobody wants to be the first to jeopardize their bottom line while everyone else gets to flout the rules.
I simply feel apathetic about the situation. Changing my behavior won't change everyone else's behavior. Why should I stop driving my big SUV when everyone else still gets to go out and have fun in their SUVs? The apathy view of the situation is what stops most people from actively changing their behavior.
Make it illegal for the government to do anything that would potentially induce people of moral and ethical upbringing to report those actions to the media...
This time with formatting:
Flaming poetry:
Fireball on the launch pad is
Inevitable
It seems that we have become the Vogons. Let me try my hand: Flaming poetry: Fireball on the launch pad is Inevitable
I believe JK Rowling wants to sell her work rather than give it away. Answering an intellectual question isn't half as nice as proving it to your peers with wheelbarrows of cash.
Actually, Amerika is a police republic.
... of snail TOR.
address your envelope and seal it up in another: addressed to a snailTOR node.
You're welcome Amerika.
... is part of the problem I run a website small enough that I (perhaps foolishly) get an email for EVERY failed http request. This makes it easy for me to spot patterns of failed hacks and even build some automated detection of hack attempts into my system. I have had LIMITED success with reporting the hack back to the machine owner. I do this because I figure, either A) it's almost always a compromised machine and therefore unfair and unhelpful to try to hack back, or B) a rogue admin is using company hardware to launch attacks in the off-hours. Either way, the company is made aware that their assets are being abused, and will hopefully have the smarts to fix it, and in the case of "B", the admin has probably lost their job and doesn't know which site reported his abuse, which in turn improves my chances of not getting a retaliation attack later. I'd guess that 95% of all attempts on my system are from compromised systems, and of those, 90% are script kiddies... always trying to access phpMyAdmin, wp-login, or some other randomly psudo-important folder such as /admin or /login. In the rare cases where the server appears to be out of country, or not owned by a recognizable company, I simply opt for the ban-hammer. I ban via database rather than the router because I don't have access to the router... which is nice because it lets me dream about formulating plans for some XKCD style mind-F#@King.
Point is: Reporting the abuse will likely not net an arrest let alone fame and glory, but if enough people are reporting the abuse, someone will take notice and do something about it. Also, no matter how you slice it, reporting the abuse through the proper channels decreases the odds that the hacker will KNOW it was you who reported the abuse, and now people with better tracking skills that myself are working on it.
I call bullshit on the custom ROM argument. You may very well be capable of loading a custom ROM on YOUR GG, but I defy you to say that you would be capable or even willing to maintain custom ROMs for all of your associates and family. Once you've loaded a custom ROM you are excluded from any future automatic updates/security patches. It's not any different than the current problem with Android fragmentation and custom ROMs. If you follow that logic, it leads to a place nobody wants to be.
The original story brought race into it: It said she was getting all this harassment while a while kid who accidentally shot and killed his brother with a BB gun was getting no charges. I think it is absolutely imperative to acknowledge that race could be a contributing factor to the severity of peoples reactions. I'm glad that reasonable people have seen this for what it really is, and the young lady is getting an opportunity instead of being held back. Also: shame on your for bringing the "F" word into it... ;)
Make sure you change your email address first... that way you can't recover your password after you discover you have "vocal dissenter's remorse."
If I had the resources, my solution would be: take up a collection, where everyone can bring their yellow pages and throw them in the back of a dump truck... then drive it down to the publisher's office and unload them all in front of their building... not littering because each person who tossed their book into the dump truck did so with the express understanding that it would be delivered to a specific address.
Solution #2: Call every business in the yellow pages and tell them you refuse to patronize them expressly because they advertise in the yellow pages.
The second is probably more realistic, but the first is definitely more fun!
My two cents: The vehicle owner should absolutely have the right, not the operator. When those two roles are realized in the same person there will never be a conflict of interest. When they are not the same person, shouldn't the person footing the bill have that luxury? Some examples: Owner of a car: It is outrageous to think that the dealer who sold it, or the government, or the mechanic that services it should have access to any kind of "log" of how the vehicle is used, since it doesn't belong to them. Rental cars, government, company owned & leases: In any of these cases, the TRUE owner of the car has a vested interest in keeping the vehicle in top shape. The operator of the vehicle has absolutely no justification for flogging the vehicle, causing damage and wear. If you are the type of person who thinks its OK to wail on a rental car and return it thinking "there's no body damage, so I should get my deposit back" then you are effectively stealing from the rental company. Demo/Dealership cars: I knew a guy who took a corvette for a test drive and flogged it until the clutch blew. Then he limped it away from the parking lot where it happened (unsightly burnout marks everywhere) and onto a side street where he called the dealer and told them to send a wrecker. He left the keys under the seat and just walked away, didn't even bother to go back to the dealership and lie to them. Many dealerships don't have enough staff to ride along with every test drive, so they photo copy drivers' licenses and let them go. What more can they do? But they have a right to protect their investment, and in the case of Tesla, they have a right to protect their reputation from some reporter with a "devil may care" attitude. In short, I don't think there needs to be any policy beyond "Its your damn car, do what you want with it... when it's not your car anymore, you have no right to that info."
I want to start out by saying that I'm not dismissing the danger of a meteor impact per se, but I think things should be put into perspective here:
The media has reported upwards of 1200 people injured _most by flying glass_ produced by the shockwave. In every video I've seen, the glass we are talking about is single pane and has NOT been tempered. It seems to me, that the problem here isn't small, hard-to-detect meteors so much as it is shoddy workmanship and 300 year old technology. Rather than building quick-response rockets to deflect these smallish type impacts, maybe Russia should spend that cash on improving buildings (as well as building code compliance) and see how far that gets ya. I'm all for detecting and deflecting the big global killers, but working to defend against another event like this one is like trying to shew flies away before they hit the windshield of a moving bus.
A tangential thought: People LOVE to panic... how do you think they are going to react when our detection technology gets so good that we can spot these guys weeks in advance and predict exactly where they are going to come down... The intelligent half of our society has reached a level of sophistication sufficient to keep the unintelligent half in a state of perpetual panic.
"If you can imagine something you can build it." However, I've long been a believer that it is part of human nature to pursue the impossible regardless of how impossible it may seem (i.e: that hot chick across the hall). So it may be more appropriate to re-write the old adage it as: "If you can imagine something, you WILL build it; and if you fail someone else will stand on your corpse and build it."
In short, if you fantasize long enough about machines doing your menial work for you... eventually by your hand or someone else's... they will.
From the synopsis, did the researchers even verify that the study participants had in fact read those recent books. Scientifically speaking, it's probably tough to recall something you've never read. -Just sayin'
This was written about maintaining old code, but I'd argue it's application is broader
...that they've admitted they don't know the direction of causation. Usually stories like these breathlessly report that all our lives are in terrible danger because of some link that they can't be bothered to detail in the story, but rather it should be taken for granted that the researchers have some knowledge about the correlation that they failed to mention in their report... ad nauseum. Dare I say it: - put a mark in the column for "correlation != causation" -
U Needs Thinking FTFY X3
...for working on a project contains the phrase "must be perfect", then why would the project need you? As has already been stated above: Your employer's code base is likely to suck orders of magnitude more than MySQL does, and they are probably looking for people less "high and mighty."
Fast Light Optical Gyroscope... FLOG? Wonder if Felicia Day threatened to sue for IP infringement.
Money is ALWAYS the objective. Get a comfortable chair... like a lay-z-boy. Sometimes it helps just to sit and think, but leaving the environment altogether can often bring new distractions.