They demand my 'papers' any time I arrived at the Atlanta airport to fly to Savannah or anywhere else in Georgia. If I fail to produce ID that satisfies the Federal Official, I don't travel.
Now we have made the transition from Citizens back to Subjects of our Federal Empire. In many cases we can't even travel within our own state's boundaries without having to present our identification and travel papers to a Federal Officer and get their permission to make the trip.
We could probably solve the energy crisis if we could tap into the founding fathers continuous spinning in their graves....
Hmmm. This sounds more like something M$ or Apple (or especially SONY) would do.
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Worthless to 98+% of smartPhone users. Tech folks have a very skewed and unrealistic view of what smartphones are and how they will be used. We techies want our smartphones to do a lot of what our laptops do for us.
Regular users don't want their smartPhone to be a computer. They want it to be a phone that let's them do a few other things. They don't want to have to remember to stop apps so their battery doesn't die in a hour or 2. They don't want complex navigation. They don't want apps that make them constantly reboot their phone. They do want a simple, consistent interface and they want to know that the few apps that they buy/download/acquire will work on their phones. I would be surprised if more than a small percentage of multitasking smartphone users use any multitasking features besides music, messaging and GPS.
After 20+ years of software and ops consulting I've found that I can generally separate smaller (and to some extent larger) customers into one of 2 categories. The categories are either IT is a necessary evil or IT as a hobby (and sometimes its both.) I would say that less than 1 out of 50 small organizations truly treat IT seriously.
Admittedly, it would be a very low price per byte, but those that use more would pay more. The price/per byte could also change with the time of day. What if each gigabyte cost $10 for prime time and $5 for off hours. (A few) People that download hundreds of gigabytes would pay a lot more than (most) people who use a a handful of gigabytes.
Its only fair, the RIAA and the MPAA have made a sizable investment in Obama and especially in Biden.
It wouldn't be fair for them to have spent all that money and gotten nothing but a bunch of justice department positions in return. They've made a sizable purchase of politicians. They should be able to enjoy the fruits of ownership.
Laws like this/always/ end up being subverted for lots of other purposes.
I believe that if people who were found to have subverted it were vigorously prosecuted, then eventually, law enforcement/prosecutors would quit asking for such laws in the first place.
If we are going to treat lying as a crime (and IMHO breaking campaign promises is clearly lying) then there are going to be a whole lot of people going to jail. I foresee lots of openings in Washington. I won't name any names, but there would be 435 vacancies in the House of Representatives, 100 in the Senate and 2 in the Executive Branch.
Seems to me that the Congress ought to be more concerned about the levels of security and training maintained by the TSA than with sites that replicate publicly available information.
Sounds to me that in addition to firing the redactor of the document for incompetence, several heads should roll in their IT, security and training organizations.
Well, if you look at the number of security failures that happen at the OS level (ignoring application bugs) it becomes pretty clear.
Windows basic flaw is that it is derived from a single user system. Because of that, MS has always taken kind of a square peg in a round hole approach to locking it down.
For years, many DLLs,/had to have/ Admin privileges, just because that's how it had always been. (For that matter, the concept of DLLs and for that matter dynamically linked programs is a serious operational and security hole that/All/ operating systems should dump. RAM and disk are cheap enough and processors are fast enough now that this whole concept should be dumped. Everything should be statically linked and only contain the permissions that the user specifically needs to operate and none of those should be administrative permissions.)
This basic, single user concept of an OS should have been dumped with Win95. Sadly it wasn't. Over the years they've added many additional layers of protection, but they've never really protected the box from the basic user. There's really no reason for a regular user to ever need administrative privileges.
The OS should be message based and any part of it running with admin privileges should be seriously firewalled and protected by the vendor from anything the user tries to do.
This isn't just a Windows limitation, OSX, Linux and many others have it as well.
Setting all of that aside, there are literally millions of users worldwide of other (built from the ground up as) multiuser systems (with some of these same limitations) such as IBM iSeries, HP-UX, etc.. and we never hear of these kinds of problems happening. Yet the same users that end up with infected windows systems are using these systems everyday.
The big difference is the OS and the design decisions that the OS vendor has made.
They put out a system that is inordinately susceptible to malware, but somehow its not their responsibility when the malware damages the system.
Its interesting that most manufacturers are viewed as liable when their products are faulty and yet nothing is ever Microsoft's fault.
I'll bet that the manufacturers of Polybutyl plumbing pipes, Masonite siding, plenty of cribs and children's toys and asbestos products wish that they could use that defense.
Try reading John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" and ponder his fighting man of the future. Lots of tech futurism in that.
If that's not enough, try Ian Douglas's "Inheritance Trilogy" He's got worlds of amazing new technology as well.
Lots of nanobots, cloning, quantum power taps, consciousness transfers, etc.. in these books.
Denyhosts is available for most linux distros.
You can tune its behavior and it will basically filter out requests coming from misbehaving hosts.
From Wikipedia:
"DenyHosts is a Python based security tool for SSH servers. It is intended to prevent brute force attacks on SSH servers by monitoring invalid login attempts in the authentication log and blocking the originating IP addresses. "
I don't 'insane' VP on one side, 'early onset dementia' VP on the other. They don't seem to have made much difference.
Between Bush's poor decisions (like Iraq, No child too far ahead, Senior drug plan, Homeland Security, etc..) and the strong media bias, it was never in much doubt.
Buying any hardware that doesn't have an IP taint is going to be challenging.
Those design and or firmware programming of all of those support chips, CPUs, etc.. on most motherboards are all individual little pieces of patented or copyrighted intellectual property. That's also going to be true of the monitor, keyboard and mouse that you use with it.
Seems like that should lengthen the sentence rather than shorten it.
Statistically speaking, he is probably far more likely to become violent again....
Cows doesn't have inner pain receptors like humans do. They only feel the pain from breaking the skin, but no pain from a doctor operating inside. For this reason operations and experiments on cows often happens using nothing but a local anesthesia to numb the skin.
That explains a lot. Without inner pain receptors and with their tough skin that wouldn't really notice the needles, it would be easy to make acupuncture appear compellingly real.
I always wondered if those videos from China showing cows undergoing surgery using acupuncture as a pain blocker were faked. Hard to believe that there could be any placebo effect with animals.
Well, if you believe climatology is a 'hard' science, with measurable quantifiably accurate results (ie: you could run their models in reverse and accurately model the climate for the past few thousand years) recalibrate all you want.
Science is about precision, accuracy and measurable, repeatable results. That may sound unfair or 'hurt-your-feelings' but that is what it is. If you can't model something accurately, it isn't science, its (at best) an educated guess.
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They demand my 'papers' any time I arrived at the Atlanta airport to fly to Savannah or anywhere else in Georgia. If I fail to produce ID that satisfies the Federal Official, I don't travel.
Now we have made the transition from Citizens back to Subjects of our Federal Empire. In many cases we can't even travel within our own state's boundaries without having to present our identification and travel papers to a Federal Officer and get their permission to make the trip. We could probably solve the energy crisis if we could tap into the founding fathers continuous spinning in their graves....
Hmmm. This sounds more like something M$ or Apple (or especially SONY) would do.
Worthless to 98+% of smartPhone users. Tech folks have a very skewed and unrealistic view of what smartphones are and how they will be used. We techies want our smartphones to do a lot of what our laptops do for us.
Regular users don't want their smartPhone to be a computer. They want it to be a phone that let's them do a few other things. They don't want to have to remember to stop apps so their battery doesn't die in a hour or 2. They don't want complex navigation. They don't want apps that make them constantly reboot their phone. They do want a simple, consistent interface and they want to know that the few apps that they buy/download/acquire will work on their phones. I would be surprised if more than a small percentage of multitasking smartphone users use any multitasking features besides music, messaging and GPS.
After 20+ years of software and ops consulting I've found that I can generally separate smaller (and to some extent larger) customers into one of 2 categories. The categories are either IT is a necessary evil or IT as a hobby (and sometimes its both.) I would say that less than 1 out of 50 small organizations truly treat IT seriously.
Admittedly, it would be a very low price per byte, but those that use more would pay more. The price/per byte could also change with the time of day. What if each gigabyte cost $10 for prime time and $5 for off hours. (A few) People that download hundreds of gigabytes would pay a lot more than (most) people who use a a handful of gigabytes.
They don't seem cheapened by that. I wonder why it cheapens them in Japan?
Its only fair, the RIAA and the MPAA have made a sizable investment in Obama and especially in Biden. It wouldn't be fair for them to have spent all that money and gotten nothing but a bunch of justice department positions in return. They've made a sizable purchase of politicians. They should be able to enjoy the fruits of ownership.
Laws like this /always/ end up being subverted for lots of other purposes.
I believe that if people who were found to have subverted it were vigorously prosecuted, then eventually, law enforcement/prosecutors would quit asking for such laws in the first place.
If we are going to treat lying as a crime (and IMHO breaking campaign promises is clearly lying) then there are going to be a whole lot of people going to jail. I foresee lots of openings in Washington. I won't name any names, but there would be 435 vacancies in the House of Representatives, 100 in the Senate and 2 in the Executive Branch.
Sadly though, no one is apparently interested in the answers to those questions...
Seems to me that the Congress ought to be more concerned about the levels of security and training maintained by the TSA than with sites that replicate publicly available information. Sounds to me that in addition to firing the redactor of the document for incompetence, several heads should roll in their IT, security and training organizations.
Well, if you look at the number of security failures that happen at the OS level (ignoring application bugs) it becomes pretty clear. Windows basic flaw is that it is derived from a single user system. Because of that, MS has always taken kind of a square peg in a round hole approach to locking it down. For years, many DLLs, /had to have/ Admin privileges, just because that's how it had always been. (For that matter, the concept of DLLs and for that matter dynamically linked programs is a serious operational and security hole that /All/ operating systems should dump. RAM and disk are cheap enough and processors are fast enough now that this whole concept should be dumped. Everything should be statically linked and only contain the permissions that the user specifically needs to operate and none of those should be administrative permissions.)
This basic, single user concept of an OS should have been dumped with Win95. Sadly it wasn't. Over the years they've added many additional layers of protection, but they've never really protected the box from the basic user. There's really no reason for a regular user to ever need administrative privileges.
The OS should be message based and any part of it running with admin privileges should be seriously firewalled and protected by the vendor from anything the user tries to do.
This isn't just a Windows limitation, OSX, Linux and many others have it as well.
Setting all of that aside, there are literally millions of users worldwide of other (built from the ground up as) multiuser systems (with some of these same limitations) such as IBM iSeries, HP-UX, etc.. and we never hear of these kinds of problems happening. Yet the same users that end up with infected windows systems are using these systems everyday.
The big difference is the OS and the design decisions that the OS vendor has made.
Perhaps your response would be more intelligible if you wrote it in your native language and ran it through some translation software.
They put out a system that is inordinately susceptible to malware, but somehow its not their responsibility when the malware damages the system. Its interesting that most manufacturers are viewed as liable when their products are faulty and yet nothing is ever Microsoft's fault. I'll bet that the manufacturers of Polybutyl plumbing pipes, Masonite siding, plenty of cribs and children's toys and asbestos products wish that they could use that defense.
Try reading John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" and ponder his fighting man of the future. Lots of tech futurism in that. If that's not enough, try Ian Douglas's "Inheritance Trilogy" He's got worlds of amazing new technology as well. Lots of nanobots, cloning, quantum power taps, consciousness transfers, etc.. in these books.
Denyhosts is available for most linux distros. You can tune its behavior and it will basically filter out requests coming from misbehaving hosts. From Wikipedia: "DenyHosts is a Python based security tool for SSH servers. It is intended to prevent brute force attacks on SSH servers by monitoring invalid login attempts in the authentication log and blocking the originating IP addresses. "
Absolutely! Without precedent, the TSA can continue to pass this kind of info along with a wind and a nudge. It won't really be illegal.
I don't 'insane' VP on one side, 'early onset dementia' VP on the other. They don't seem to have made much difference. Between Bush's poor decisions (like Iraq, No child too far ahead, Senior drug plan, Homeland Security, etc..) and the strong media bias, it was never in much doubt.
No more interesting than the fact that if you were not black and voted against him it means you are a racist.
Buying any hardware that doesn't have an IP taint is going to be challenging. Those design and or firmware programming of all of those support chips, CPUs, etc.. on most motherboards are all individual little pieces of patented or copyrighted intellectual property. That's also going to be true of the monitor, keyboard and mouse that you use with it.
Seems like that should lengthen the sentence rather than shorten it. Statistically speaking, he is probably far more likely to become violent again....
Cows doesn't have inner pain receptors like humans do. They only feel the pain from breaking the skin, but no pain from a doctor operating inside. For this reason operations and experiments on cows often happens using nothing but a local anesthesia to numb the skin.
That explains a lot. Without inner pain receptors and with their tough skin that wouldn't really notice the needles, it would be easy to make acupuncture appear compellingly real.
I always wondered if those videos from China showing cows undergoing surgery using acupuncture as a pain blocker were faked. Hard to believe that there could be any placebo effect with animals.
Well, if you believe climatology is a 'hard' science, with measurable quantifiably accurate results (ie: you could run their models in reverse and accurately model the climate for the past few thousand years) recalibrate all you want. Science is about precision, accuracy and measurable, repeatable results. That may sound unfair or 'hurt-your-feelings' but that is what it is. If you can't model something accurately, it isn't science, its (at best) an educated guess.