.... with canning a Soap Opera (that happens to be in a nonsensical, badly thought, unrealistic or badly engineered context) with Reality TV?
What is so great about a pseudo cowboy movie, where you have the settlers killed, the Indians attacking you, and the protagonists on each side deciding the fate of the Universe, with, hum, their fists, knifes and a samurai sword. Sorry but such a thing is completely ridiculous.
Honestly, if you don't see the inconsistencies and completely childish assumptions made in the movie (oh! how "kewl" and newagey is to watch the girly walking barefoot) then there is no much else to say.
That is the most frustrating thing. If they would say the movie is one million years in the future then many of the things they portray would gain believility since it would be impossible to relate to such a different time in history.
We know that almost for certain we will recognize many things of human society in 500 years althought certainly many will look like magic to us, but certainly one would be able to digest how things progressed if given a chance.
The point is that in 500 years we know we will not be in the technological situation portrayed in the movie, and this, amongst many other things, makes it completely absurd.
.... and still biuld a consistent fantastic universe.
Let say you ignore you can't travel faster than the speed of light. But then as a counterbalance you acknowledge the distances are vast and will not happen to stumble upon enemies.
You can at least try. After 2001 and Solaris you simply can't say oh well, I will ignore all laws of physics. That makes your plot childish, unplausible and fore the same reason boring.
Exactly my thoughts. I will not abound in the logic of send a killer that uses a samurai sword and how kewl it is to look at the protagonist walking barefoot (New Age nonsense) at the drop of a hat.
.... but I saw the movie and think it is complete crap.
There is so much wrong with it that I will not bore you with my complaints about plot(puerile and broken), unplausability (in an Universe that they have full control of, for goodness sake), and acting (the girl is the most annoying character I have seen this year).
Thankfully in one year time this movie will be completely forgotten.
I don't know in which country (or planet) you live.
In the UK immigrants trying to integrate suffer pigeonholing, discrimination and intimidation.
I moved to a mostly White, middle class area, and are often intimidated by White youngsters for no motive. This is quite scary, when I walk in other parts of town where I belnd better (I could pass for Indian or Pakistani) I have no problem. If I was Asian I would know exactly where I would like to live.
Then if one non White person moves into a "white" area, state agents immediately consider that a minus point in regards to the value of the houses in the neghborhood, as a consequence White people stop buying in the area. Rinse and repeat until you only have immigrants.
Also it has been a policy of the goverment to provide housing to people around known "ethnic enclaves" thus perpetuating the problem.
So I would be more careful in claiming that Muslims don;t want to integrate, heck in Germany you could not be German, even if born there, until very recently due to th "blood" laws that determined nationality. The millions of Turkish people that moved to Germany as guest workers were never granted German nationality for that reason.
If you want to look at the reasons for immigrants disinfdrachsiment you have to make an introspective analysis, the problem is in big meausre created by the indigenous population and the local goverments.
We are just going back home. If you thought your ancestors could steal half of our country without any long term historic repercussions then you are deluded.
With those media you can do as you please with it.
You can buy any player you want to listen to it.
You can copy it for backup purposes.
You don't need to pay to anybody to listen to it.
You can share it with your friends.
DRMed files hinder all the above fair uses and then some. You may be willing to put up with it, to lock yourself in with a music vendor (or explain to us, what are you going to do with that collection of 2000 iTunes tracks if your iPod dies?), I would say that DRM is the Microsoftization of music, but many people (hopefully) aren't. This situation clearly means that we are in front of a completely different situation when compared with the media evolution you are highlighting.
No wonder you USians screw everything you touch. You are fucking barbarians when it comes down to deal adequately with violence, you just name the dead people collateral damage and wait to be hailed as heroes.
.... but nowadays in no serious company I have worked with will you have a chance to do anything of what you are saying.
Nowadays the real threat is from insiders that already have access to the information the company wishes to protect. Your mythical janitor is the stuff of bad movies, not of normal day to day work.
Owning a computer says nothing about what you can do.
If you own a workstation in a properly secured network, frankly you have control over Solitaire on that machine and that is pretty much it.
If you own a computer that is running your LDAP server or a DB server with client information, then, heck, yes, you are a threat.
Context is everything, unsurprisignly somebody that obviously makes a living as a security consultant paints this doomesday scenario of owning a frigging PC.
Security is a balance between safety and convenience. You can't make everything 100% safe because it would become 0% convenient and completely improductive to use. You can't make something 100% convenient to use because then it becomes 0% safe.
The context should tell you where to strike the balance.
Do you handle a miltary facility that controls nuclear missiles? Well, life as a user should be painful: passwords, biometrics, encryption, clearances, double checks, etc. will be terms you eat day in day out.
Do you handle your local football league? Made a backup to CD of your database and keep it off site. That is it, Don't lose sleep.
... is where every third Jack makes a crap definition of well defined concepts, uses it to smear organizations he does not agree with and believes this is logical or consistent.
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.... with canning a Soap Opera (that happens to be in a nonsensical, badly thought, unrealistic or badly engineered context) with Reality TV?
What is so great about a pseudo cowboy movie, where you have the settlers killed, the Indians attacking you, and the protagonists on each side deciding the fate of the Universe, with, hum, their fists, knifes and a samurai sword. Sorry but such a thing is completely ridiculous.
Honestly, if you don't see the inconsistencies and completely childish assumptions made in the movie (oh! how "kewl" and newagey is to watch the girly walking barefoot) then there is no much else to say.
That is the most frustrating thing. If they would say the movie is one million years in the future then many of the things they portray would gain believility since it would be impossible to relate to such a different time in history.
We know that almost for certain we will recognize many things of human society in 500 years althought certainly many will look like magic to us, but certainly one would be able to digest how things progressed if given a chance.
The point is that in 500 years we know we will not be in the technological situation portrayed in the movie, and this, amongst many other things, makes it completely absurd.
.... and still biuld a consistent fantastic universe.
Let say you ignore you can't travel faster than the speed of light. But then as a counterbalance you acknowledge the distances are vast and will not happen to stumble upon enemies.
You can at least try. After 2001 and Solaris you simply can't say oh well, I will ignore all laws of physics. That makes your plot childish, unplausible and fore the same reason boring.
Exactly my thoughts. I will not abound in the logic of send a killer that uses a samurai sword and how kewl it is to look at the protagonist walking barefoot (New Age nonsense) at the drop of a hat.
You are my anti Firefly hero now.
.... but I saw the movie and think it is complete crap.
There is so much wrong with it that I will not bore you with my complaints about plot(puerile and broken), unplausability (in an Universe that they have full control of, for goodness sake), and acting (the girl is the most annoying character I have seen this year).
Thankfully in one year time this movie will be completely forgotten.
I went ther when it was starting and the amount of childish behaviour regarding /. was frankly too much to bear.
ANd the posts were putrid. That may have improved but frankly I see no reason why to revisit the site.
Boycott a corporate cracker to support a convicted monopoly abuser.
There is no hope.
Just a word: Mengele.
Get lost.
I don't know in which country (or planet) you live.
In the UK immigrants trying to integrate suffer pigeonholing, discrimination and intimidation.
I moved to a mostly White, middle class area, and are often intimidated by White youngsters for no motive. This is quite scary, when I walk in other parts of town where I belnd better (I could pass for Indian or Pakistani) I have no problem. If I was Asian I would know exactly where I would like to live.
Then if one non White person moves into a "white" area, state agents immediately consider that a minus point in regards to the value of the houses in the neghborhood, as a consequence White people stop buying in the area. Rinse and repeat until you only have immigrants.
Also it has been a policy of the goverment to provide housing to people around known "ethnic enclaves" thus perpetuating the problem.
So I would be more careful in claiming that Muslims don;t want to integrate, heck in Germany you could not be German, even if born there, until very recently due to th "blood" laws that determined nationality. The millions of Turkish people that moved to Germany as guest workers were never granted German nationality for that reason.
If you want to look at the reasons for immigrants disinfdrachsiment you have to make an introspective analysis, the problem is in big meausre created by the indigenous population and the local goverments.
We are just going back home. If you thought your ancestors could steal half of our country without any long term historic repercussions then you are deluded.
USSR?
PRC?
GDR?
UK?
One ticket concert is equivalent to 3 or 4 CDs. It is not like they will pay 100 or 1000 ...
With those media you can do as you please with it.
You can buy any player you want to listen to it.
You can copy it for backup purposes.
You don't need to pay to anybody to listen to it.
You can share it with your friends.
DRMed files hinder all the above fair uses and then some. You may be willing to put up with it, to lock yourself in with a music vendor (or explain to us, what are you going to do with that collection of 2000 iTunes tracks if your iPod dies?), I would say that DRM is the Microsoftization of music, but many people (hopefully) aren't. This situation clearly means that we are in front of a completely different situation when compared with the media evolution you are highlighting.
With old pensioners and the like.
No wonder you USians screw everything you touch. You are fucking barbarians when it comes down to deal adequately with violence, you just name the dead people collateral damage and wait to be hailed as heroes.
Pathetic.
And the fossil record is a figment of our imagination.
I do my work and check /. now and then in order to rest from my main line of thought of the day.
If you can concentrate on the same thing for 8 hours in a row without intterruption you are a better man than I am.
Honestly. I almost feel like hugging you.
... or your company does not have the means to implement proper solutions.
Which application requires those levels of access?
If that is the case why are you still using it?
If you are in a regultaed industry how have you managed to pass audits? Are you bribing the auditors?
I want to see how they defeat dynamic passwords also.
laptops and hard disks behind a flimsy office lock being talked as "secure"?????
You know nothing about security.
That is ok, we are not all experts in all different fields, but you are a danger to your organization.
.... but nowadays in no serious company I have worked with will you have a chance to do anything of what you are saying.
Nowadays the real threat is from insiders that already have access to the information the company wishes to protect. Your mythical janitor is the stuff of bad movies, not of normal day to day work.
Owning a computer says nothing about what you can do.
If you own a workstation in a properly secured network, frankly you have control over Solitaire on that machine and that is pretty much it.
If you own a computer that is running your LDAP server or a DB server with client information, then, heck, yes, you are a threat.
Context is everything, unsurprisignly somebody that obviously makes a living as a security consultant paints this doomesday scenario of owning a frigging PC.
Security is a balance between safety and convenience. You can't make everything 100% safe because it would become 0% convenient and completely improductive to use. You can't make something 100% convenient to use because then it becomes 0% safe.
The context should tell you where to strike the balance.
Do you handle a miltary facility that controls nuclear missiles? Well, life as a user should be painful: passwords, biometrics, encryption, clearances, double checks, etc. will be terms you eat day in day out.
Do you handle your local football league? Made a backup to CD of your database and keep it off site. That is it, Don't lose sleep.
Any firm not using some kind of dynamic passwords deserves any pain they get.
... is where every third Jack makes a crap definition of well defined concepts, uses it to smear organizations he does not agree with and believes this is logical or consistent.
... that says "my glass is half empty!" when it is 3/4 full.
What about if scientists talk about what they are doing?
Or journalists with a heavy scientific background give their opinion or explanations about scientific matters?
You obviously have been under a rock the last, er, 10 years? The internet stopped been the real of bored teenagers exclusively some time ago...