The church demonized the Cathars' practices. In doing so, they couldn't help but give asceticism a stigma, and to marginalize it. (NB for other readers: the Cathars were Christ worshippers who took any bodily pleasure as sinful, to the point that any sensation at all could be so. Eating food, even just touching another human being on the skin, was eschewed by the Perfecti, those who took on the ultimate rite of the Cathars. These people were, in a word, nuts. But the Catholics were more nuts, and paranoid of losing power to these super-pious beings, so they had the Cathars exterminated). Asceticism could otherwise have grown as a tenet of the church, given that its roots were with the apostles. It could certainly have been a popular feature of the monastic orders. Instead the image of the apostles drifted to popular tropes rather than dogmatic ones. They got fat, and colorful. I'm frankly surprised they aren't being repainted in the Vatican wearing Dockers and iPod earphones...maybe next year.
No, it's a part of DO-254, the standard for aircraft electronic devices.
Never heard of it?
That's because all of the equipment you've ever used is cheap consumer equipment.
Every device on an aircraft operating in FAA jurisdiction, however, has been developed, tested, and maintained according to DO-254. And if there's software involved, DO-178B is being followed, as well.
Troops buy gear because the government (most particularly the government under GW Bush) didn't provide the gear needed for the mission. One GPS device for a team that has to spread out in 8 different directions is not a plan. That isn't a standards problem, it's a logistical one.
It just won't cost Medicare as much because the Fraud task force the law just created will keep all of the people who built or prescribed or ordered or delivered that wheelchair for you from cheating the system.
So no, they are cutting spending, but by cutting cost, not service.
Those other things have inefficiencies built into them that cause their cost to remain relatively high.
There's no visible floor for the price of NVRAM. Currently the price of a device is high because the industry is recouping R&D. But as the learning curve progresses, the only way for them to keep the price of Flash die above the pennies-per-gigabyte level is to induce you to upgrade continually, the way CPU manufacturers do it. But even then, the pricing pressure is relentlessly downward. Intel and AMD have resorted to packaging 4 or 6 CPUs in one package just to get 20% of the price they used to get for one core that ran 30% as fast as each of the cores they're now shipping. Take a moment and research the cost of CF or SD memory cards over the past few years. I distinctly remember paying $200/GB and thinking it was a good deal (and it was, in 2002). Now you can get a 2 GB device with an MP3 player added on for $5.
I see no reason that SSD secondary storage won't follow the same slide into "need one? take one; got one? leave one" status.
So no, your tech punditry is the quality of vending-machine Borscht. No buzz for you!
CD is already dying. Blu-ray is about to get its ass whupped once someone starts distributing movies on micro-SD, or the market shifts to movie-downloading services. A 4-GB micro-SD can hold 1080p movies. Overnight download requires no physical distribution at all.
We're close to the emptying of our computers and media centers of all their machines (except the nifty motorized volume knobs; those will never die). Even muffin fans are becoming less necessary.
HDDs will be replaced by anonymous network storage at offsite locations. They will become a niche product for server farms. The days of mass-marketing of HDD to home and business users are all but over.
Beginning early in the 2d Millennium, the Catholic Church started burning many true ascetics (e.g., the Cathars) as heretics. (They of course then expanded the powers of the Inquisition to include, well, anyone their twisted logic could rationalize to oppress.)
No doubt this led to a change in the way people perceived heroes from religious history. Da Vinci may never have even considered the idea that an apostle was an ascetic. The Inquisition was in full force, and in charge of most of the governments and virtually all of the churches of Europe, when he painted that picture.
There's a big difference between soldiers dying because they are accomplishing a dangerous mission, and soldiers dying because they are being ambushed.
"Saving tens of soldiers' lives now might have cost them hundreds of lives later."
More likely it won't work out that way. It will just be more expensive to get to the terrorists who were being tracked by the honeypot site.
But, I expect NSA and CIA argued over the relative casualty cost, couldn't come to a clear consensus as to the relative effect, and NSA ended the argument by pulling the plug.
So really, you and I aren't even going to get into the ballpark on what the numbers really were. Just keep commuting to work, eating junk food, watching televised karaoke, and jacking off in safety while the professionals clean up history's mess.
After 9/11, the clear cause of the breakdown in security was determined to be that government agencies had grown insular. The overwhelming impetus for creating the Department of Homeland Security (a name that still creeps out my NaziDar®) was to integrate these agencies, to make them share information and goals.
You mean GW Bush didn't even get the super-spook agencies to cooperate?
"The only small deterrent is that the checks are deposited"
That's not a small deterrent, it's a huge one. Opening a bank account at a bank that will accept RDC will take more than your fake ID, whereas passing a forged check to a merchant takes nothing more than your fake ID.
In other words, the check was a pointless part of the process. He could as easily entered the numbers from the front of your debit card. Or you could have used a different debit card for the same account (exactly the effect of scanning the numbers on your check).
You'll notice, though, that it's the check that was the insecure means of dumping money from your account. It didn't require a PIN the way your debit card did. That's why your debit card number isn't just a plastic version of the numbers on your check.
Paper checks are essentially useless, except in situations where there are no electronic devices around to mediate the transaction. Your example, unfortunately, didn't exemplify that so much as it exemplified the confusion due to the amorphous technical nature of the banking system.
It's also possible that the right-wing media are making requests for information that is expected to be embargoed, in an attempt to pump up these numbers.
It's also clear that there's little in the way of a breakdown as to whether the exemptions are being applied correctly more often now or before.
The whole issue has been obfuscated by mediocre journalistic practices which embellish a simple statistic to suggest much more than the statistic implies.
Get this, most geeks don't have a lot of friends, so the "phone" part is pretty useless, but the "smart" part means you can play tower-defense games on the shitter, and tweet to famous people who don't even tweet their own tweets, to fill in the time you're not on the shitter or in class (since you don't have lots of friends, dig?).
So anyone in college who reads/. naturally needs a smartphone.
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The church demonized the Cathars' practices. In doing so, they couldn't help but give asceticism a stigma, and to marginalize it. (NB for other readers: the Cathars were Christ worshippers who took any bodily pleasure as sinful, to the point that any sensation at all could be so. Eating food, even just touching another human being on the skin, was eschewed by the Perfecti, those who took on the ultimate rite of the Cathars. These people were, in a word, nuts. But the Catholics were more nuts, and paranoid of losing power to these super-pious beings, so they had the Cathars exterminated). Asceticism could otherwise have grown as a tenet of the church, given that its roots were with the apostles. It could certainly have been a popular feature of the monastic orders. Instead the image of the apostles drifted to popular tropes rather than dogmatic ones. They got fat, and colorful. I'm frankly surprised they aren't being repainted in the Vatican wearing Dockers and iPod earphones...maybe next year.
No, it's a part of DO-254, the standard for aircraft electronic devices.
Never heard of it?
That's because all of the equipment you've ever used is cheap consumer equipment.
Every device on an aircraft operating in FAA jurisdiction, however, has been developed, tested, and maintained according to DO-254. And if there's software involved, DO-178B is being followed, as well.
Troops buy gear because the government (most particularly the government under GW Bush) didn't provide the gear needed for the mission. One GPS device for a team that has to spread out in 8 different directions is not a plan. That isn't a standards problem, it's a logistical one.
Come back when your clue bucket isn't so empty.
Party C_15 pops up this year and stumps for one of your pet peeves, so you pretend that the other 95% of their whackjob platform doesn't exist.
Next year, it's party C_16 and their plan to build a moat around campus and fill it with beer. And they get elected.
Yes, they aren't.
You'll still get your motorized wheelchair.
It just won't cost Medicare as much because the Fraud task force the law just created will keep all of the people who built or prescribed or ordered or delivered that wheelchair for you from cheating the system.
So no, they are cutting spending, but by cutting cost, not service.
No, you can not.
Those other things have inefficiencies built into them that cause their cost to remain relatively high.
There's no visible floor for the price of NVRAM. Currently the price of a device is high because the industry is recouping R&D. But as the learning curve progresses, the only way for them to keep the price of Flash die above the pennies-per-gigabyte level is to induce you to upgrade continually, the way CPU manufacturers do it. But even then, the pricing pressure is relentlessly downward. Intel and AMD have resorted to packaging 4 or 6 CPUs in one package just to get 20% of the price they used to get for one core that ran 30% as fast as each of the cores they're now shipping. Take a moment and research the cost of CF or SD memory cards over the past few years. I distinctly remember paying $200/GB and thinking it was a good deal (and it was, in 2002). Now you can get a 2 GB device with an MP3 player added on for $5.
I see no reason that SSD secondary storage won't follow the same slide into "need one? take one; got one? leave one" status.
So no, your tech punditry is the quality of vending-machine Borscht. No buzz for you!
CD is already dying. Blu-ray is about to get its ass whupped once someone starts distributing movies on micro-SD, or the market shifts to movie-downloading services. A 4-GB micro-SD can hold 1080p movies. Overnight download requires no physical distribution at all.
We're close to the emptying of our computers and media centers of all their machines (except the nifty motorized volume knobs; those will never die). Even muffin fans are becoming less necessary.
HDDs will be replaced by anonymous network storage at offsite locations. They will become a niche product for server farms. The days of mass-marketing of HDD to home and business users are all but over.
Beginning early in the 2d Millennium, the Catholic Church started burning many true ascetics (e.g., the Cathars) as heretics. (They of course then expanded the powers of the Inquisition to include, well, anyone their twisted logic could rationalize to oppress.)
No doubt this led to a change in the way people perceived heroes from religious history. Da Vinci may never have even considered the idea that an apostle was an ascetic. The Inquisition was in full force, and in charge of most of the governments and virtually all of the churches of Europe, when he painted that picture.
The Taliban are stupid.
We're fixing them pretty good right now.
But then they're just popping up in Texas, so maybe we need to fix a little closer to home.
There's a big difference between soldiers dying because they are accomplishing a dangerous mission, and soldiers dying because they are being ambushed.
"Saving tens of soldiers' lives now might have cost them hundreds of lives later."
More likely it won't work out that way. It will just be more expensive to get to the terrorists who were being tracked by the honeypot site.
But, I expect NSA and CIA argued over the relative casualty cost, couldn't come to a clear consensus as to the relative effect, and NSA ended the argument by pulling the plug.
So really, you and I aren't even going to get into the ballpark on what the numbers really were. Just keep commuting to work, eating junk food, watching televised karaoke, and jacking off in safety while the professionals clean up history's mess.
After 9/11, the clear cause of the breakdown in security was determined to be that government agencies had grown insular. The overwhelming impetus for creating the Department of Homeland Security (a name that still creeps out my NaziDar®) was to integrate these agencies, to make them share information and goals.
You mean GW Bush didn't even get the super-spook agencies to cooperate?
Did that fucktard do ANYTHING right?
The primary factor in the clarity of this story is most likely that it's all true.
Things get weird when people are trying to bend light around the facts to hide them.
you know what I need? a screen a few dozen pixels taller so I wouldn't repeat jokes off the cuff...
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1587782&cid=31530124
the PR profession needs a good PR person
China has taken $trillions in activity from the American economy.
It's as if there was a war, and the U.S. lost, and China won, without one person dying.
Except it wasn't a war so much as a preemptive capitulation by people with something to gain from committing treason on an epic scale.
"The only small deterrent is that the checks are deposited"
That's not a small deterrent, it's a huge one. Opening a bank account at a bank that will accept RDC will take more than your fake ID, whereas passing a forged check to a merchant takes nothing more than your fake ID.
"he scans it and gives it back to me"
In other words, the check was a pointless part of the process. He could as easily entered the numbers from the front of your debit card. Or you could have used a different debit card for the same account (exactly the effect of scanning the numbers on your check).
You'll notice, though, that it's the check that was the insecure means of dumping money from your account. It didn't require a PIN the way your debit card did. That's why your debit card number isn't just a plastic version of the numbers on your check.
Paper checks are essentially useless, except in situations where there are no electronic devices around to mediate the transaction. Your example, unfortunately, didn't exemplify that so much as it exemplified the confusion due to the amorphous technical nature of the banking system.
So where will Mr. Bush43 be serving his time for ordering people to be tortured?
The fact that other papers reprint AP stories verbatim doesn't make the AP an unbiased source.
They've been caught several times in the past writing items at least as biased as anything on Fox News.
Highly likely.
It's also possible that the right-wing media are making requests for information that is expected to be embargoed, in an attempt to pump up these numbers.
It's also clear that there's little in the way of a breakdown as to whether the exemptions are being applied correctly more often now or before.
The whole issue has been obfuscated by mediocre journalistic practices which embellish a simple statistic to suggest much more than the statistic implies.
It's clear that it is no longer sufficient to use a string of text entered by a human being as a secure key.
Biometric or physical-token security should be a mandatory peripheral on all computing equipment sold.
For remote access, keys should start in the thousands of bits, and be locked on the client side by biometrics or tokens.
Short of that, failure to secure your data is your own fault.
it was ineffective in getting its progenitors re-elected
which is an incontrovertibly good thing for the country
>> All politicians are idiots! More at 11.
> There, fixed that for you.
Have you ever watched Barack Obama work a room full of Republicans?
It'll change your mind on that tautology pretty quick.
Excuse me, but did you know that engineers make pretty good pay right out of school?
Get this, most geeks don't have a lot of friends, so the "phone" part is pretty useless, but the "smart" part means you can play tower-defense games on the shitter, and tweet to famous people who don't even tweet their own tweets, to fill in the time you're not on the shitter or in class (since you don't have lots of friends, dig?).
So anyone in college who reads /. naturally needs a smartphone.