If it was a M$ gun it would lock up, or empty the entire magazine.
No, they'd just hide the trigger and require you to hit three separate buttons requiring at least two hands to fire it, then totally disassemble and reassemble it between shots... ([Ctl][Alt][Del] followed by reboot)
Yea, I know, OLD NT joke.....But it's still funny.
Microsoft has competitors in the OS market???? Uh, no, no they don't. At least nobody that approaches even 1/4 of the market share.
But really the OS market is not Microsoft's primary concern, but a means to an end. There clamp on the market is Office in the corporate environment, which drives Windows to the desktop, both professionally and for home computers. They have no real competitors in either the OS or Office worlds. You might claim Red Hat/Linux has made inroads, but only in the server market.
Yea, I know.. All the Apple zealots are foaming at the mouth now... Sorry, didn't mean to take a swipe at the sacred OSx/IOs cow, but it really doesn't have that large of a market share and most of those systems still run windows on the side...
Gee, I don't like Micro$oft as much as the next Linux Zealot, but let's be fair here...
M$ is darned if they do and darned if they don't. When they hold up patching stuff they get pillaged in the press for not getting the gaping security holes in their OS fixed soon enough. When they release stuff too soon and stuff like this happens, they get racked over the coals for not knowing what they are doing, cannot develop/test/integrate their software. M$ has ebbed and flowed on the quality of their patches in the past, they've been slow, they've released some really disruptive software. Being fair, they don't do too bad on either responsiveness or on the introduction of new bugs.
So lighten up on Micro$oft, at least on this front. Now Windows 8 metro and removing the 'start' button? Fire away at that garbage....
The poster was saying he would NOT run a Thor exit node, and his reasons where perfectly valid.
I too do not want to try and answer questions about why my IP address was being used to distribute say kiddie porn. Saying, well, I run a Thor exit node doesn't matter to the cops, it was your IP address so they assume it came from your household. Same with the MPAA and somebody seeding a torrent of a DVD image. The courts are NOT going to care about the exit node, you agreed to allowing the traffic by setting the node up, so you pay for it.
No just stop it right now, stop with this craziness. Exploits of *hardware* over the network, or building in some monitoring directly in the hardware are extremely rare, not to mention difficult (read expensive) to do. Unless you are a high value target, you needn't worry about such theories over possible attack vectors. The hardware is going to be cheap but it's not going to be compromising your data.
Manufacturers of Consumer level devices are concerned about one thing, making a profit. That means they want CHEAP hardware and they want to sell a lot of it. Same with the chip vendors, they want to make a profit, that means they want high yields using the cheapest process and selling as many units as they can. Nobody has time to engineer in all the stuff that would be required for your proposed attack vectors to work. It's too hard, to expensive and flies in the face of their #1 priority, profit. So please stop with this "You gota worry about the hardware ratting you out!" theory, it's not true for consumer devices. It's also not true with commercial stuff for the most part, although exploits at this level have been demonstrated for less than main stream vendors, but all of these involve software, at least the one's I've heard about.
What IS true and what DOES fit is getting crappy firmware/software from consumer product vendors. Worry about that because it's a LOT more likely to be compromised with back doors, security holes and known vulnerabilities. So buying of the shelf hardware and loading your own software on it makes perfect sense security wise. You needn't worry about the hardware.
Here I thought the biggest security threat was turning the device on.... Second to actually having the device on your person, followed by putting it on the charger.
If the device is totally discharged and not running, there is no threat beyond getting mugged for having it.
Whatever happens to him next is largely up to him, but let's be clear: continuing to seek "asylum" from the US, in Russia, given recent events, only hurts any case he might make about his motivations, and those motivations are the one and only thing with any potential at all to exonerate him.
IMHO, Snowden is now adrift in the events and has zero real control. He's literally stuck between the rock (USA) and the hard place (Russia). What's going to happen next is that Putin will use him for as long as it is to his advantage. As soon as there is no more reason for Putin to keep him, then this whole story will quickly end and Snowden will find himself in handcuffs on his way to the USA. In the mean time, Snowden is stuck trying to remain valuable, which is why he's inventing things to keep his name in the news. They will only get more and more far fetched because Snowden is going to be desperate to stay relevant. He will fail.
My best guess is that Snowden will outlive his usefulness in Russia sometime before the USA's next president takes office. His best hope is that Russia grants him citizenship, but I give him a snowballs chance of that if he's not managed it yet.
You're YEARS out of government service and if we're being honest, we're supposed to believe that you personally had in depth first hand technical knowledge of everything the NSA has ever and will ever do. There's two way to look at this. Either your paranoid soaked liar, or, you have a current contact in the NSA and you are bragging about committing treason.
Hold up dude. Snowden has not committed treason, at least if you are talking about the disclosure of classified information without authorization. Where that *could* be treason in some cases, I'm not sure that it is here. That's not to say Snowden wouldn't be found guilty of disclosing classified information and doing grave damage to the national security of the United States if he stood trial, nor does am I claiming he wouldn't find himself making small rocks out of big rocks for a very long time someplace in Kansas or even end up pushing up flowers. I just don't think treason would be the charge.
Now, if he persists in agreeing to be used by Putin as a PR tool and the conflict with Russia ramps up where his participation becomes materially important, then you might get a treason charge to stick.
The optics required for HUDs can be exacting as is the location of the viewer. Making a HUD that works for all sorts of different sized people (different viewing points) and is big enough to cover a reasonable portion of your field of view would be pretty expensive.
Generally there isn't much reason to use a HUD in a car. There just isn't that much information a driver would find interesting. Speed, RPM status of the cruse control and? There isn't much else. It would be cheaper to put such indicators out on the hood or something than try and shoehorn a HUD setup into your average car. Not that it wouldn't be really cool....
Half the reason of owning and riding a motorcycle is the excuse to look awesome.
And here I thought it was just a death wish.. Driving a motorcycle seems like a dangerous way to get places during rush hour. Driving a car scares me enough, I'd hate to be out there on two wheels trying to doge the stupid people, the gravel, AND the guy behind me who obviously don't pay attention to anything smaller than what they are driving.
So, why does that middle aged woman bring her Harley to work most of the time? I thought she did it for the parking space, because your above theory just doesn't apply to her.
Being that you probably have shelled out a lot of money for the Motercycle. You might as well spend some more for a good helmet.
How much more does your automobile cost you for its safety equipment.
You might as well spend some more for a good helmet.
For $500 you can get just about the best helmet money can buy. This thing is $1,400 and one would be wise to ask the following question. Does the extra money make me safer?
I'm willing to step out on a limb and say that it is unlikely the extra money adds to your safety, in fact, is very likely to do the exact opposite of making you more safer. Chances are this high tech HUD helmet is not built on the best platform, it likely adds significant weight and may, with all the HUD stuff, increase the chances of getting distracted while driving. No, I don't think this is the most cost effective way to add safety. What you really should spend that extra cash on, once you have the safest helmet money can buy, is the proper shoes and body wear.
No, you buy stuff like this because you want the tech, you want turn by turn GPS directions with pictures and sound when you take the hog out. (what am I saying, the Harley guys won't buy these things.) OK, the guys that buy junk like this will be the stunt rider wanabes you see doing wheelies at 90 MPH between lanes during rush hour on the crotch-rocket.... They don't care about safety and don't need the GPS because everybody KNOWS where they are going, the morgue.
I don't see how this whole article is anything but a commercial advertisement. $0.50/Gig was broken a long time ago, at least for your average consumer. I have a 500GB SSD in a laptop that was well under $0.50/GB from a national brick and mortar retailer.
So this is just more evidence how far Slash-dot has fallen? Come on folks, I don't mind the banner ads on the website, you all have to eat, but can we dispense with these kinds of stories?
There is ZERO evidence that a trial would not be fair.
Do something about that willful ignorance: read up on the Espionage Act, the torture of Chelsea Manning, and Obama's unlawful command influence. Then try again.
Read up on my position here and try again.
I'm saying that this "fair trial" argument is garbage. The criminal courts do not make law, they interpret law. You readily agreed that the Snowden's actions where illegal by what the laws say. So I'm saying that a "fair trial" would likely end up in a conviction. (Actually what YOU want is an UNFAIR trial, not a fair one..)
Your real beef is not with the courts, but with the law. I'm just asking that you admit this, so we can stop the useless debates about the courts and focus on what really matters, the law.
At some point in your life you're going to have to go all Zen about it and not care so much.
Personally, I don't care what cable it is. All I really care about is being able to plug in what I need to, when and where I need to.... Well, that and how much all the adapters and cables my devices use cost me.
Well, I suppose that's not exactly true, I do care about my wife not complaining about "all the unsightly wires" I have to keep around so I can get the pictures off the cameras, charge any of the phones we have, sync the various "i Devices" of multiple types and ages and all the various tablets laying about.... It's taking over the house I tell you, and it's a source of marital discord because of course it's MY mess and my fault when I cannot find the right connector to accomplish what ever technical task she needs NOW but doesn't know how to do herself....
Are we talking in macro terms, as in our overall culture, the culture of the United States?
OR
The again macro culture of government workers? Where performance doesn't matter all that much and you are at the mercy of a rarely talented middle management layer that swallows 90% of the work force?
OR
The culture of the average IT worker used to working from the basement in Mom's house?
One of the most frustrating first-world problems... they keep inventing new incompatible connectors for no good reason (at least for the consumer).
Ahh, quit your complaining and buy the converter like a good rube... It was good enough for Apple!
Where I like the reversible nature and the current capacity of the new connector, I'm frustrated too. I only just now got enough cables to run all the devices I have in all the places I need them and now I've got another cable type to mess with once I switch out the next device. Hopefully the cables won't be as expensive as those Apple lightning, you pay though the nose because we're APPLE, cables. Thanks..
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If it was a M$ gun it would lock up, or empty the entire magazine.
No, they'd just hide the trigger and require you to hit three separate buttons requiring at least two hands to fire it, then totally disassemble and reassemble it between shots... ([Ctl][Alt][Del] followed by reboot)
Yea, I know, OLD NT joke.....But it's still funny.
On the other hand, Apple, Debian and Redhat manage to release timely security patches that don't cause crashing en-masse.
Perhaps, but they have a much smaller market share and support much less diverse hardware configurations, especially Apple.
Microsoft has competitors in the OS market???? Uh, no, no they don't. At least nobody that approaches even 1/4 of the market share.
But really the OS market is not Microsoft's primary concern, but a means to an end. There clamp on the market is Office in the corporate environment, which drives Windows to the desktop, both professionally and for home computers. They have no real competitors in either the OS or Office worlds. You might claim Red Hat/Linux has made inroads, but only in the server market.
Yea, I know.. All the Apple zealots are foaming at the mouth now... Sorry, didn't mean to take a swipe at the sacred OSx/IOs cow, but it really doesn't have that large of a market share and most of those systems still run windows on the side...
Oh, and if you are allowed a 15 round magazine, 3 out of 15 is even better!
I prefer to play Russian Roulette with a semi-auto with 3 out of 6 rounds loaded. The odds are better.
Oh wait, I'm on Linux.
Which distribution? I have had issues with Linux patches too.. Not as often as with Microsoft patches, but problems none the less.
Gee, I don't like Micro$oft as much as the next Linux Zealot, but let's be fair here...
M$ is darned if they do and darned if they don't. When they hold up patching stuff they get pillaged in the press for not getting the gaping security holes in their OS fixed soon enough. When they release stuff too soon and stuff like this happens, they get racked over the coals for not knowing what they are doing, cannot develop/test/integrate their software. M$ has ebbed and flowed on the quality of their patches in the past, they've been slow, they've released some really disruptive software. Being fair, they don't do too bad on either responsiveness or on the introduction of new bugs.
So lighten up on Micro$oft, at least on this front. Now Windows 8 metro and removing the 'start' button? Fire away at that garbage....
The poster was saying he would NOT run a Thor exit node, and his reasons where perfectly valid.
I too do not want to try and answer questions about why my IP address was being used to distribute say kiddie porn. Saying, well, I run a Thor exit node doesn't matter to the cops, it was your IP address so they assume it came from your household. Same with the MPAA and somebody seeding a torrent of a DVD image. The courts are NOT going to care about the exit node, you agreed to allowing the traffic by setting the node up, so you pay for it.
Don't trust the hardware itself.
No just stop it right now, stop with this craziness. Exploits of *hardware* over the network, or building in some monitoring directly in the hardware are extremely rare, not to mention difficult (read expensive) to do. Unless you are a high value target, you needn't worry about such theories over possible attack vectors. The hardware is going to be cheap but it's not going to be compromising your data.
Manufacturers of Consumer level devices are concerned about one thing, making a profit. That means they want CHEAP hardware and they want to sell a lot of it. Same with the chip vendors, they want to make a profit, that means they want high yields using the cheapest process and selling as many units as they can. Nobody has time to engineer in all the stuff that would be required for your proposed attack vectors to work. It's too hard, to expensive and flies in the face of their #1 priority, profit. So please stop with this "You gota worry about the hardware ratting you out!" theory, it's not true for consumer devices. It's also not true with commercial stuff for the most part, although exploits at this level have been demonstrated for less than main stream vendors, but all of these involve software, at least the one's I've heard about.
What IS true and what DOES fit is getting crappy firmware/software from consumer product vendors. Worry about that because it's a LOT more likely to be compromised with back doors, security holes and known vulnerabilities. So buying of the shelf hardware and loading your own software on it makes perfect sense security wise. You needn't worry about the hardware.
Here I thought the biggest security threat was turning the device on.... Second to actually having the device on your person, followed by putting it on the charger.
If the device is totally discharged and not running, there is no threat beyond getting mugged for having it.
I'm thinking plastic surgery, big sunglasses, floppy hats and long hair might be in high demand too.
OK, OK.. LOL
I'll try to watch my usage closer..
Whatever happens to him next is largely up to him, but let's be clear: continuing to seek "asylum" from the US, in Russia, given recent events, only hurts any case he might make about his motivations, and those motivations are the one and only thing with any potential at all to exonerate him.
IMHO, Snowden is now adrift in the events and has zero real control. He's literally stuck between the rock (USA) and the hard place (Russia). What's going to happen next is that Putin will use him for as long as it is to his advantage. As soon as there is no more reason for Putin to keep him, then this whole story will quickly end and Snowden will find himself in handcuffs on his way to the USA. In the mean time, Snowden is stuck trying to remain valuable, which is why he's inventing things to keep his name in the news. They will only get more and more far fetched because Snowden is going to be desperate to stay relevant. He will fail.
My best guess is that Snowden will outlive his usefulness in Russia sometime before the USA's next president takes office. His best hope is that Russia grants him citizenship, but I give him a snowballs chance of that if he's not managed it yet.
Gentlemen, We must NOT allow the Digital Doomsday machine gap!
You're YEARS out of government service and if we're being honest, we're supposed to believe that you personally had in depth first hand technical knowledge of everything the NSA has ever and will ever do. There's two way to look at this. Either your paranoid soaked liar, or, you have a current contact in the NSA and you are bragging about committing treason.
Hold up dude. Snowden has not committed treason, at least if you are talking about the disclosure of classified information without authorization. Where that *could* be treason in some cases, I'm not sure that it is here. That's not to say Snowden wouldn't be found guilty of disclosing classified information and doing grave damage to the national security of the United States if he stood trial, nor does am I claiming he wouldn't find himself making small rocks out of big rocks for a very long time someplace in Kansas or even end up pushing up flowers. I just don't think treason would be the charge.
Now, if he persists in agreeing to be used by Putin as a PR tool and the conflict with Russia ramps up where his participation becomes materially important, then you might get a treason charge to stick.
The optics required for HUDs can be exacting as is the location of the viewer. Making a HUD that works for all sorts of different sized people (different viewing points) and is big enough to cover a reasonable portion of your field of view would be pretty expensive.
Generally there isn't much reason to use a HUD in a car. There just isn't that much information a driver would find interesting. Speed, RPM status of the cruse control and? There isn't much else. It would be cheaper to put such indicators out on the hood or something than try and shoehorn a HUD setup into your average car. Not that it wouldn't be really cool....
Half the reason of owning and riding a motorcycle is the excuse to look awesome.
And here I thought it was just a death wish.. Driving a motorcycle seems like a dangerous way to get places during rush hour. Driving a car scares me enough, I'd hate to be out there on two wheels trying to doge the stupid people, the gravel, AND the guy behind me who obviously don't pay attention to anything smaller than what they are driving.
So, why does that middle aged woman bring her Harley to work most of the time? I thought she did it for the parking space, because your above theory just doesn't apply to her.
Being that you probably have shelled out a lot of money for the Motercycle. You might as well spend some more for a good helmet.
How much more does your automobile cost you for its safety equipment.
You might as well spend some more for a good helmet.
For $500 you can get just about the best helmet money can buy. This thing is $1,400 and one would be wise to ask the following question. Does the extra money make me safer?
I'm willing to step out on a limb and say that it is unlikely the extra money adds to your safety, in fact, is very likely to do the exact opposite of making you more safer. Chances are this high tech HUD helmet is not built on the best platform, it likely adds significant weight and may, with all the HUD stuff, increase the chances of getting distracted while driving. No, I don't think this is the most cost effective way to add safety. What you really should spend that extra cash on, once you have the safest helmet money can buy, is the proper shoes and body wear.
No, you buy stuff like this because you want the tech, you want turn by turn GPS directions with pictures and sound when you take the hog out. (what am I saying, the Harley guys won't buy these things.) OK, the guys that buy junk like this will be the stunt rider wanabes you see doing wheelies at 90 MPH between lanes during rush hour on the crotch-rocket.... They don't care about safety and don't need the GPS because everybody KNOWS where they are going, the morgue.
So who's going to buy these things?
I don't see how this whole article is anything but a commercial advertisement. $0.50/Gig was broken a long time ago, at least for your average consumer. I have a 500GB SSD in a laptop that was well under $0.50/GB from a national brick and mortar retailer.
So this is just more evidence how far Slash-dot has fallen? Come on folks, I don't mind the banner ads on the website, you all have to eat, but can we dispense with these kinds of stories?
Do something about that willful ignorance: read up on the Espionage Act, the torture of Chelsea Manning, and Obama's unlawful command influence. Then try again.
Read up on my position here and try again.
I'm saying that this "fair trial" argument is garbage. The criminal courts do not make law, they interpret law. You readily agreed that the Snowden's actions where illegal by what the laws say. So I'm saying that a "fair trial" would likely end up in a conviction. (Actually what YOU want is an UNFAIR trial, not a fair one..)
Your real beef is not with the courts, but with the law. I'm just asking that you admit this, so we can stop the useless debates about the courts and focus on what really matters, the law.
At some point in your life you're going to have to go all Zen about it and not care so much.
Personally, I don't care what cable it is. All I really care about is being able to plug in what I need to, when and where I need to.... Well, that and how much all the adapters and cables my devices use cost me.
Well, I suppose that's not exactly true, I do care about my wife not complaining about "all the unsightly wires" I have to keep around so I can get the pictures off the cameras, charge any of the phones we have, sync the various "i Devices" of multiple types and ages and all the various tablets laying about.... It's taking over the house I tell you, and it's a source of marital discord because of course it's MY mess and my fault when I cannot find the right connector to accomplish what ever technical task she needs NOW but doesn't know how to do herself....
Which culture?
Are we talking in macro terms, as in our overall culture, the culture of the United States?
OR
The again macro culture of government workers? Where performance doesn't matter all that much and you are at the mercy of a rarely talented middle management layer that swallows 90% of the work force?
OR
The culture of the average IT worker used to working from the basement in Mom's house?
Good luck on changing any of them..
It's not a very good pun.
I'm not surprised that somebody thinks my pun is bad.... My kids don't like them either.
A good pun would present, on the surface, a deeper knowledge of the (admittedly complex) material.
Go figure.....
Yes folks.. I'm here all week. Please tip the waitstaff...
One of the most frustrating first-world problems... they keep inventing new incompatible connectors for no good reason (at least for the consumer).
Ahh, quit your complaining and buy the converter like a good rube... It was good enough for Apple!
Where I like the reversible nature and the current capacity of the new connector, I'm frustrated too. I only just now got enough cables to run all the devices I have in all the places I need them and now I've got another cable type to mess with once I switch out the next device. Hopefully the cables won't be as expensive as those Apple lightning, you pay though the nose because we're APPLE, cables. Thanks..
for outstanding mathematical achievement?
Go figure....
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BTW - this is supposed to be a pun....