THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO HEALTH BENEFITS TO CIRCUMCISION
Umm there are plenty of benefits since for one it is MUCH more hygenic without all the extra skin around. Read some of the info at wiki and follow some of the references up too:
2) Circumcision has a permanent impact on kids' lives. It is very comparable to removing a woman's labia. It results in constant dryness and irritation of the penis head, dulled sensitivity, and is strongly linked to various disorders and health problems.
I don't think it is comparable to removing a woman's labia since that would essentially leave her with no feelings down there. As far as the results you listed I am circumsized myself and don't have any of those problems you listed nor have I had any problems at all. My sex life is great too. I did not have it done for religious reasons, it was for hygenic reasons and if I could go back in time and convince my parents not to make the decision to do it I would not want to. I have no problem being circumsized and frankly an uncircumsized penis looks scary and nearly all the women I have talked to about the subject prefer a circumsized penis.
For one taking things out of context can make what people say much worse than what was intended so that video is bullshit in that regard. Second, nearly everything talked about during those clips was TRUE. Just because the facts hurt doesn't change the fact that they are facts. I watch all of the news stations every once in a while and from my point of view Fox is actually one of the less biased stations and does a good job of showing both sides.
As someone else mentioned above whenever I hear someone claim that Fox News is biased I ask them for a specific example and they always blunder around babbling non-sense with no proof and basically end up with the answer "just watch it to see what I mean" and when I do I never see what they are talking about.
What's funny is that two nations (well, one at least), and several regions - would quite angrily disagree with white supremacists usage of Aryan in the first place.
My futile wish is to see a bunch of white supremacist of the aryan-philosophy type approach and attempt to harrass persons of Iranian heritage. It would be priceless.
You do know that words can have more than one meaning/usage right?
Here are the definitions from dictionary.com:
1. Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European. 2. (in Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp. of Nordic stock. 3. (formerly) Indo-European. 4. (formerly) Indo-Iranian.
adjective 5. of or pertaining to an Aryan or the Aryans. 6. (formerly) Indo-European. 7. (formerly) Indo-Iranian.
Obviously most white supremacists follow the Nazi doctrine and so definition number 2 applies. It would not be hilarious (in the ironic way you describe) to see white supremacists harrass persons of Iranian heritage because their usage of the word Aryan would be 100% correct.
No, I don't prefer Blockbuster. I am actually a happy Netflix user myself. If they did obtain the patent fraduently though I believe they deserve to pay the price. Just because I like them wouldn't make this ok.
If netflix did in fact obtain those patents fraduently then they deserve to pay for it. I know if this class action lawsuit results in a loss for netflix that the lawyers will get the lions share of the money which sucks, but at least netflix will have to pay for their wrong doing and other companies may think twice before doing something similar.
I guess since the entity that I want to "pay up" isn't Microsoft, the RIAA, or the MPAA the mods decided to mod me offtopic. Whatever...
So by combining the 2, I would have been driving illegaly without a license for 2 weeks while a new card was sent to me.
First of all, you would not have been "driving illegaly" since you were in fact licensed to drive. If you were to get pulled over you could explain to the police officer what happened and you would probably be ok after he ran a check on you. If he decided to be a dick he might try to give you a ticket for driving without a license but that would be quickly dismissed once you showed the judge you were licensed to drive. The smart thing to do would be to not speed, etc, for those 2 weeks so you wouldn't have to worry about getting pulled over in the first place.
Second, were you out of the state your license is from or something? I have never heard of it taking 2 weeks to get a replacement license and I didn't even think you could just tell the DMV anywhere to send you a new one, I was always under the impression that you had to be there in person. Plus, when you just go to a DMV in person they can print you off a new license right there in no time at all.
If you are talking about binary-only packages, I share your opinion: why can't they compile/build it for other architectures too?
Because doing so would then say it is supported on those architectures which a company may not want to officially do. If you have a fairly large project that has been coded for 32-bit architectures for many, many years you can't just compile it for 64-bit architectures and hope it all ends up working because it probably will end up with bugs. Also, if your application has no need for "64-bitness" then why compile it that way and effectively double its size but get no performance gain? These are things you have to consider when you are working on large applications that have been around for a while and you also have a large user base.
If an application does not need to be compiled for a 64-bit platform because it has nothing to gain from it then what is so bad about running the 32-bit binary version on the 64-bit platform?
You don't have this problem with open source: the code is (very much) CPU-independent.
Somewhat true, but you have to have someone willing to make it so. For a complicated project like OO.org or something similar changes just don't get made quickly and depending how complicated the work is to be done it may take quite some time. So a problem still exists because unless you can do the work yourself you will be SOL until someone else does that work which is the exact same case you would be in with closed source software.
If you want to work for me, I want to know everything about you. Including credit history.
What type of business are you in that all of that information is relevant? Unless it is a government intelligence/law enforcement agency, the financial industry, or something similar then I can see no reason to require that much information about a person. For 99% of the jobs out there I think looking at past jobs and talking to old bosses as well as using other means to evaluate their skills should be all that is needed to figure out if the person is a good fit.
if you aren't responsible in your personal and financial lives, I don't trust you to be responsible enough to show up to work, do a good job, and not steal shit.
Okay, I agree that if you are not responsible in your personal and/or finacial life that you may not be responsible enough to do certain jobs. However, by just looking at someones credit report you CANNOT reliably come to the conclusion that they are in fact irresponsible which is why using it without looking into other sources of information is a horrible idea.
Another thing is why are you so worried about people stealing shit? Maybe if you make the company you work at desirable to work at instead of making the people feel like thieves you wouldn't have that worry. One good way to do this is to pay your employees well as well as treat them with respect (which you do not seem to do if you automatically assume everyone is a thief). A well compensated, happy employee most likely won't steal from the company they work for. On the flip side a low paid employee who hates where they work has a higher chance of stealing from the company they work at.
Uh dude, are you a clueless manager? Because you sure sound like one. It is like you don't even think about the decisions you make. Unless the position you are trying to fill has the person working with money then a credit check is completely unneccessary and if any possible employer of mine were to ask for one I would tell them no thanks and I would find someplace else to work. It is NONE of your damn business what my financial situation is. You are part of the problem my friend.
Uh, dude? If you've got 10 maxed out credit cards, I don't want you working in my company. Not knowing how to manage your money, and needing money, are two good reasons for it. Being irresponsible means you may show up late or not at all, needing money means that when you show up,
Yeah, because the only way to end up in debt is by being irresponsible, there is no other way right? How about freak medical bills or having your home burn down? I could list quite a few more but instead I will give you the story of a guy I know:
About 2 years ago this mans wife found out she had cancer and only had about 1 year to live. She decided to spend that year doing drugs and drinking heavily and ended up spending nearly all of their money as well as maxing some joint credit cards. She died in a car wreck not too much longer than 6 months after this started. He was stuck with all the debt she left behind as well as having to pay burial costs and pay to move himself and his 2 small children over 2000 miles away to a state his family lived in so he could be closer to them as well as try to leave his wife in the past. He is now at least ~$50,000 in debt and it wouldn't suprise me if a lot of it was credit cards. This man would never even THINK about stealing, he just wants to work and pay off his debt and support his family. Guess what? He has had a hell of a time finding a job and has spent the last half of a year working at a restaurant and part of the reason he has been turned down for other jobs is because of credit checks. How is this fair? You seem to think "oh, he is irresponsible and can't manage money since his credit is bad. I wouldn't want to give him a chance to turn his life around and pay off those bills. I mean obviously he would try to steal shit from my company."
Something is just not right in your head if you honestly think that way, open up your mind a little bit.
As far as responsibility and wanting to know if the applicant will show up to work why don't you do something that makes sense like call some of his former places of employment and ask them if they would hire him again and if they had any problems with him while he worked there? That at least makes sense instead of just assuming they are irresponsible and will steal shit from you since their credit is bad.
What company do you work for? I want to make sure I never apply for a job there.
I can even understand pulling your credit report as part of the process, someone who is bad with money is probably more likely to steal shit from their employer.
You are part of the problem. Your statement is exactly like this one:
A male is much more likely to rape a female.
Does that mean a high percentage of males go around raping women? I think not. I would venture to guess (yes, only a guess since I have no idea) that the percentage of people who are bad with money who steal from employers is also a low percentage.
The ONLY reason a credit check should be done for a job position is if the position requires working with money, I mean I wouldn't want my banker or investor to be severely in debt as that shows little promise with how my money will be handled. It is kind of like a "work history", I mean if they can't even manage their own money what would make a financial institution believe they can manage someone elses money?
I have a land-line and no cell-phone. I'm 27. I make a decent enough salary to afford a cell phone, but I work in a building where I cant carry a phone, my commute is only about 6 miles in a reliable car, and I keep a fairly regular schedule so people can usually find me...the idea of paying $600 a year to provide a convenience to others didn't appeal to me.
Well unless you basically live at work and at your house then having a cell phone is a great convenience because it allows you to contact anybody whenever you want, not the other way around (unless you allow it). If you don't want to talk to people then you don't have to answer it when people call.
As far as the money being a factor it proves you have not shopped around and/or are un/mis-informed. If your wife already has a cell phone and is paying for a plan then it should be relatively easy and probably cheaper to get a shared plan rather than paying the $18/month for your landline PLUS it is a phone you would be able to use anywhere. I have a shared plan with my family and I think the base bill is around $60/month with tax and each additional phone is $8/month and we get something like 1500 anytime minutes (shared between all the phones and if we go over the 1500 minutes it is 10 cents/min) and free nights and weekends. If you only use ~30 minutes a month then your wife probably would not have to upgrade her plan to more minutes.
Landline phones definitely have the advantage of being more reliable but if what is keeping you from getting rid of it is because you think the price of a cell phone is not worth it then as I showed you you are mistaken. Since you already have someone in your family with a cell phone you could actually be saving money by ditching the landline!
I grew up in the midwest (Chicago area) and if you go past the speed limit (65 mph) and a cop is there they WILL give you a ticket. I have noticed that most of the flat states west of IL do have higher speed limits which is nice but other midwest states such as Indiana and Ohio usually have 65 as a max speed limit and lots of state troopers out enforcing that limit.
I-25 in northern colorado is 75 posted, traffic flow average is about 90-95. I go past cops at 85-90 all the time and they don't bat an eye.
I now live in Phoenix and in southern Arizona there are quite a few highways with 75 posted and lots of people going 85-90 mph but when there are police out clocking people they will pull people over who are speeding that excessively. I highly doubt the cops anywhere in the US would not bat an eye to people going 15 mph over the speed limit, it's too much of an easy source of revenue.
Any sources to back that claim of "...FBI already spends *MOST* of its resources tracking down child molesters"?
The FBI has many roles, from counter-terror, to counter espionage, to kidnapping and a zillion other things.
You are correct that the FBI has many roles and I would say that most of the FBI's TOTAL resources are not put into tracking down child molesters but they definitely do have quite a few people working on it.
However, I will say that a LARGE majority of any law enforcements computer crime investigations do involve child molesters/pornography. I am a software developer for a company that specializes in computer forensic applications (the FBI is our biggest customer) and nearly all of the forensic examiners I have talked to have said that they are overwelmed with the amount of cases involving child molesters/pornography. They just don't have the man power to handle it all. This is not just in the US either, I have heard it from examiners all over the world.
The problem is FAR, FAR from under control as the poster you responded to seems to think.
I've never understood "trailers". They don't trail anything, they preempt it. "previews" makes more sense.
First of all you are a dumbass, do you try to comprehend ALL words in their literal form or do you ever look up alternate meanings? Judging from your comment I must say everything indicates that you rode the short bus to school growing up.
Its the same thing with you Americans and your "Check" after a meal. First of all, its "cheque" not "check", and second of all, you PAY bills, and you WRITE cheques.
BTW it is spelled "check" as well as "cheque", both are correct and in the dictionary so get off your high horse about that. Neither form is more correct than the other.
As far as "paying" bills and "writing" checks that has nothing to do with a check at a restaurant. One definition of "check" is:
a slip or ticket showing the amount owed, esp. a bill for food or beverages consumed.
Do you get it now?? There are these things called synonyms which means that some words can be used interchangeably, I guess you didn't learn that at whatever school you went to. Another thing is words can have more than one meaning! It is amazing I tell ya! Please go back to school and take an English class (or a few!) so you don't look like a complete retard in the future.
I asked for my bill in California last week, and the waitress stared at me with a blank expression.
This suprises you from a California girl? I know it's a stereotype, but Cali girls are well known for being blonde bimbos and since this one was working as a waitress and not a rocket scientist I am less impressed she was confused as to what you asked her for. She probably would have given you the same blank stare to many other questions too. I am from Chicago and recently moved to Phoenix and I always ask for "the bill" and have never once had a problem getting my check that way.
I hope you learned something and please take my advice to learn more about the English language.
Why didn't you just call the police or at least threaten to call the police? I would think that if they saw you were willing to have the police show up then they would just give the ID back to you and if they still refused at least the police could be used to get it back. I would never allow a place to do that unless I happened to have some underage friends (not likely anymore) along too or something like that where I wouldn't want to draw attention to the place I was at.
I agree with you completely except for the part about her being cool... It seems like a 'bit' of a power trip...
Look upon me and behold the mighty barkeeper... Give the damn idiot his fake back and let them be on their merry way... Posting fakes behind bars or at liquor stores I mean I buy that, its a deterrent but posting it on your blog... doesn't serve anything except self gratification.
I agree completely.
Also laws may differ, but just because your id is fake doesn't mean I can steal it from you
Laws may differ about "stealing" (I would say taking) the fake ID but I think it all comes down to one question:
"I can take this fake ID, refuse you entrance, and you can be on your merry way or I can call the cops, which do you choose?"
I know I would have chosen to lose the ID when I was underage over having the police get involved and I think 99% of the people using fake ID's would make the same decision. Plus, if you just give them the fake back it really is not much of a deterent while losing a $100 fake ID will make you think twice about getting one and using it again. Personally I think the drinking age should be lowered to 18 or 19 but that is another conversation and I don't feel like getting into that now.
Well they did find blood in his vehicle and house. From the article:
"Though no body has been found, Reiser was arrested Oct. 10 after the Oakland Police Department found small drops of blood in his house and in his Honda CRX"
Makes it a little fishy although I am sure I have small drops of blood around my house and in my cars too from small cuts and stuff happening while doing stuff outside. I would hope they need more than that to tie the "murder" to him. I think she just took off somewhere myself, I mean she was cheating on him so I don't think it is too far out of the ballpark.
So Hans Reiser is a full-blown sociopath? Goddamn. Looks like he may have killed ReiserFS, too.
If you can't even RTFA at least read the summary!
"ex-lover of the missing wife of accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case."
It is not Hans Reiser confessing to eight other killings, it is an EX LOVER of the wife who is confessing to eight other killings.
As far as ReiserFS, I don't really care if that dies since I don't use it myself. I am sure it will still be around a while though no matter what happens.
First off I believe copyrighting a number is wrong and should be impossible. IANAL so I don't know where this stands since it can be used to circumvent IP protection but I would hope people could not get in trouble for sharing a number.
However, I think your comment below is wrong too:
They shouldn't be allowed to design a lock that can be opened with any pointed object and then ban all sticks and branches.
This is not like designing a lock that can be opened with any pointed object and banning all sticks and branches and more like designing a lock that can be opened with only specially formed pointed objects and then trying to ban people from publically sharing the designs for the pointed objects that open the lock. Not just any sequence of numbers will decrypt the protection, only very specific ones.
Well, the people who write windows software don't allow other people to run the OS of there choice, even if it actually works.
Get an emulator then. Why is it our job to make sure the software we write can run on any OS available? Maybe if my company had a lot more money we could develop multi-platform software but since it didn't start out that way it would be a HUGE project to make our current applications multi-platform.
Another thing is the money might not be there. I am in the computer forensics field and nearly all of the people who are computer forensics professionals have a Windows system anyway since the two big case management applications FTK and EnCase run on Windows. A lot of them actually prefer Windows as well. It would be awesome if we could spend the time to make our software able to run on Mac and Linux but I don't believe we would ever recoup that investment. I have been amazed at how many government agencies I deal with have already started migrating to Windows Vista and they want to know if our forensic software will be compatible with it. That right there is an indication that the tide is not turning yet towards the other OS's (at least in this area).
In a happy world where everything is perfect you might see all software run on all OS's the world has to offer but this is the real world where the dollar is what matters and if you can't make money off of all the effort that would require then most businesses will not attempt it.
The security using Wibu's system is all dependent on the person implementing it. Wibu does offer an "automatic" way of protecting your executables and I would not be suprised if that way is easily cracked. That is what appeared to be the case with that short paper you linked to. Basically how the automatic way works is you compile your executable and then start up some Wibu application which you aim at the executable, set some parameters, and let it run.
The basic protection basically ties what are called a firmware code (FC) and a software code (SC) to your particular application. Firmware codes are unique to your company while software codes can be set by the company so they can have a different one for different applications. The basic protection basically will only check if your dongle has the right FC and SC combination and if it does then it will let your software start up otherwise it won't.
The nice thing about Wibu keys though is they are very flexible and you can inject protections directly into your source code. However, you can compile your code so that certain parts of the executable are encrypted (for instance maybe the first 500 bytes (you can set it arbitrarily) of certain functions and you can make it different for any function) and they must be unencrypted before that function is called or else bad things will happen since random machine code would attempted to be run. This encryption happens on the dongle so unless they can crack how the encryption for the dongle works this would be very hard to defeat. You can arbitrarily encrypt parts of the executable all over the place and if you do that it would be very difficult to know when something is encrypted or decrypted as long as you always re-encrypt places after they are used. The dongles also contain some memory where you could store encrypted data which may be critical to allow your software to function correctly. It is also very easy to set things up so if a debugger is detected that the software will automatically shut down. WIBU does have an API that is pretty much freely available but even if you have that all of the encryption happens on the dongle so it would still be a very difficult task to crack software that is properly protected. You would basically need to track down every part of the program that is ever encrypted and decrypted as well as find out what is stored on the dongle to make a "dongleless" patch.
Sure, theoretically the software can be cracked but it would take A LOT of work and I would bet that a lot of those sites offering to crack any Wibu protected software would have a hell of a time with my application even if they had a legit dongle. You can't just emulate the dongle which would be needed since that is where the decryption occurs so you would have find and store the unencrypted version of all places that are encrypted.
The weakness with dongles will always apparently be the APIs, especially ones that interact with the MS Windows APIs and Registry.
Very true and that is why we ended up choosing Wibu because they don't do anything stupid like that. Another nice thing about them is they charge you a one time fee to get your FC setup and then you can order as many dongles as you want, when you want, without any annual fees. Another big reason we moved away from Rainbow (now SafeNet I think) is because along with being a PITA to support and use they wanted to charge something rediculous like $12,000 a year annual fee when it previously was like $10,000 less (not exact numbers but what I recall) which is a HUGE jump for one year especially when there is cheaper, better performing alternatives available.
I am of the opinion however, that Codemeter has been cracked, but the people who have cracked it, make much more money their way (selling their services or cracked software) than telling Wibu AG how they did it and collecting on any bounty offered like during that "hacking contest" they had.
I highly doubt it is cracked, the prize for the contest was $4
They were either in a case or in a drive. Still somehow they managed to get scratched. I'd usually have to put three or four copies of everything just make sure I'd be able to copy it off later.
Hmm, that is very odd, what burning software were you using? Some software...cough Roxio... has a bad habit of writing the file system first then starting to write the actual file contents and FAILING (but without any warnings or messages) and basically saying the burn process completed without a problem. The user then "checks" the disc by opening it up in windows explorer, sees all the files they wanted to burn listed (since the file system was written first), but they don't actually try to OPEN any files. So, later on they go to use that disc and get a whole bunch of read errors because the data they are trying to access was never actually written to the disc. This usually ends up with the user blaming the problem on the media or their optical drive when the blame really should be on the burning software. Nero has this same problem but does not do it as often. I don't know if this was the issue you were experiencing (probably not) but it may be.
Scratches on a discs bottom surface usually are not a problem at all. The top side is where you need to worry about scratches because if the top gets scratches you lose the reflector and usually the dye too and when that happens those bits are gone for good. My main guess is still the media you were using just was not compatible with your drive or something. I recently got a spindle of CD-RW's and they work like shit with my plextor drives (basically not at all) while some other drives work with them just fine.
For burners, plextor (cd) and sony (dvd).
Sony drives are okay but if you can afford it I highly recommend sticking to the Plextors. In my experience Plextors have the best firmware which allows them to be superior at both writing to discs as well as reading discs (especially damaged/corrupted discs). Whenever anyone is having an issue with a disc the first thing I tell them is to put it in a Plextor and get back to me.
I'm talking about read/write. HDs are faster and have been far more reliable for me. If you're mailing/giving, cds/dvd are definitely the way to go.
I agree that for home use HDs are the way to go and that is usually what I do myself. You said it is easy to throw a HD into a bag which is true but overall optical discs are the way to go when you are dealing with sneakernet. I know personally I would rather throw a few discs into my bag rather than an expensive HD and its external enclosure both because the discs weigh much less and take up less room but also if I were to lose my bag I wouldn't be out so much money.
I am not a network admin but I did experience the effects of the Blaster worm in the office I worked in at that time. MY machine however never got infected and I was connected to the main network at a large University. If I remember that worm correctly it required you to open an attachment and if that is so then blame your USERS. There also was a patch out for the vulnerability before the worm was spread so KEEP YOUR COMPUTERS UP TO DATE!
This making you paranoid of XP would be like the maker of the locks to your house telling you that they found out it would be possible for someone to create a skeleton key to all the locks they have made and that you should have all your locks replaced at the expense of the maker and then a month later someone actually does create a skeleton key and robs your house using said key and then having you blame the manufacturer. They warned you in advance and had a fix but you didn't take advantage of it. Sure, they deserve some blame but the fault is on you as well. All software has vulnerbilities.
I will reiterate as long as you are not a complete retard it is easy to keep an XP machine running safe and sound while connected to the net.
How is activation going to significantly reduce the number of copies they sell? Okay, it might make them lose.000000001% of sales because someone is mad they have to spend 10 seconds typing in the activation code but other than those people I don't think it would result in any lost sales. It actually might result in increased sales since people who actually want to use the new OS but can't pirate it anymore will be forced to buy it if they want to use it.
I agree their duty to the shareholders is the increase sales but I also think their duty is to protect their IP. So by requiring activation it requires MINIMAL extra effort on the end user side while making it significantly much more harder to run pirated copies of the software. This in turn will force the people who really want to use the new OS to actually buy it instead of just getting a pirated copy which in turn will result in higher sales. The people who would have pirated it but never actually bought it will also be shut out and since they never would have bought it in the first place no sales are lost there either.
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THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO HEALTH BENEFITS TO CIRCUMCISION
Umm there are plenty of benefits since for one it is MUCH more hygenic without all the extra skin around. Read some of the info at wiki and follow some of the references up too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision
2) Circumcision has a permanent impact on kids' lives. It is very comparable to removing a woman's labia. It results in constant dryness and irritation of the penis head, dulled sensitivity, and is strongly linked to various disorders and health problems.
I don't think it is comparable to removing a woman's labia since that would essentially leave her with no feelings down there. As far as the results you listed I am circumsized myself and don't have any of those problems you listed nor have I had any problems at all. My sex life is great too. I did not have it done for religious reasons, it was for hygenic reasons and if I could go back in time and convince my parents not to make the decision to do it I would not want to. I have no problem being circumsized and frankly an uncircumsized penis looks scary and nearly all the women I have talked to about the subject prefer a circumsized penis.
For one taking things out of context can make what people say much worse than what was intended so that video is bullshit in that regard. Second, nearly everything talked about during those clips was TRUE. Just because the facts hurt doesn't change the fact that they are facts. I watch all of the news stations every once in a while and from my point of view Fox is actually one of the less biased stations and does a good job of showing both sides.
As someone else mentioned above whenever I hear someone claim that Fox News is biased I ask them for a specific example and they always blunder around babbling non-sense with no proof and basically end up with the answer "just watch it to see what I mean" and when I do I never see what they are talking about.
What's funny is that two nations (well, one at least), and several regions - would quite angrily disagree with white supremacists usage of Aryan in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan
My futile wish is to see a bunch of white supremacist of the aryan-philosophy type approach and attempt to harrass persons of Iranian heritage. It would be priceless.
You do know that words can have more than one meaning/usage right?
Here are the definitions from dictionary.com:
1. Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.
2. (in Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp. of Nordic stock.
3. (formerly) Indo-European.
4. (formerly) Indo-Iranian.
adjective 5. of or pertaining to an Aryan or the Aryans.
6. (formerly) Indo-European.
7. (formerly) Indo-Iranian.
Obviously most white supremacists follow the Nazi doctrine and so definition number 2 applies. It would not be hilarious (in the ironic way you describe) to see white supremacists harrass persons of Iranian heritage because their usage of the word Aryan would be 100% correct.
No, I don't prefer Blockbuster. I am actually a happy Netflix user myself. If they did obtain the patent fraduently though I believe they deserve to pay the price. Just because I like them wouldn't make this ok.
If netflix did in fact obtain those patents fraduently then they deserve to pay for it. I know if this class action lawsuit results in a loss for netflix that the lawyers will get the lions share of the money which sucks, but at least netflix will have to pay for their wrong doing and other companies may think twice before doing something similar.
I guess since the entity that I want to "pay up" isn't Microsoft, the RIAA, or the MPAA the mods decided to mod me offtopic. Whatever...
I hope they get punished for this...
So by combining the 2, I would have been driving illegaly without a license for 2 weeks while a new card was sent to me.
First of all, you would not have been "driving illegaly" since you were in fact licensed to drive. If you were to get pulled over you could explain to the police officer what happened and you would probably be ok after he ran a check on you. If he decided to be a dick he might try to give you a ticket for driving without a license but that would be quickly dismissed once you showed the judge you were licensed to drive. The smart thing to do would be to not speed, etc, for those 2 weeks so you wouldn't have to worry about getting pulled over in the first place.
Second, were you out of the state your license is from or something? I have never heard of it taking 2 weeks to get a replacement license and I didn't even think you could just tell the DMV anywhere to send you a new one, I was always under the impression that you had to be there in person. Plus, when you just go to a DMV in person they can print you off a new license right there in no time at all.
If you are talking about binary-only packages, I share your opinion: why can't they compile/build it for other architectures too?
Because doing so would then say it is supported on those architectures which a company may not want to officially do. If you have a fairly large project that has been coded for 32-bit architectures for many, many years you can't just compile it for 64-bit architectures and hope it all ends up working because it probably will end up with bugs. Also, if your application has no need for "64-bitness" then why compile it that way and effectively double its size but get no performance gain? These are things you have to consider when you are working on large applications that have been around for a while and you also have a large user base.
If an application does not need to be compiled for a 64-bit platform because it has nothing to gain from it then what is so bad about running the 32-bit binary version on the 64-bit platform?
You don't have this problem with open source: the code is (very much) CPU-independent.
Somewhat true, but you have to have someone willing to make it so. For a complicated project like OO.org or something similar changes just don't get made quickly and depending how complicated the work is to be done it may take quite some time. So a problem still exists because unless you can do the work yourself you will be SOL until someone else does that work which is the exact same case you would be in with closed source software.
If you want to work for me, I want to know everything about you. Including credit history.
What type of business are you in that all of that information is relevant? Unless it is a government intelligence/law enforcement agency, the financial industry, or something similar then I can see no reason to require that much information about a person. For 99% of the jobs out there I think looking at past jobs and talking to old bosses as well as using other means to evaluate their skills should be all that is needed to figure out if the person is a good fit.
if you aren't responsible in your personal and financial lives, I don't trust you to be responsible enough to show up to work, do a good job, and not steal shit.
Okay, I agree that if you are not responsible in your personal and/or finacial life that you may not be responsible enough to do certain jobs. However, by just looking at someones credit report you CANNOT reliably come to the conclusion that they are in fact irresponsible which is why using it without looking into other sources of information is a horrible idea.
Another thing is why are you so worried about people stealing shit? Maybe if you make the company you work at desirable to work at instead of making the people feel like thieves you wouldn't have that worry. One good way to do this is to pay your employees well as well as treat them with respect (which you do not seem to do if you automatically assume everyone is a thief). A well compensated, happy employee most likely won't steal from the company they work for. On the flip side a low paid employee who hates where they work has a higher chance of stealing from the company they work at.
What is with your e-mail address BTW?
Uh dude, are you a clueless manager? Because you sure sound like one. It is like you don't even think about the decisions you make. Unless the position you are trying to fill has the person working with money then a credit check is completely unneccessary and if any possible employer of mine were to ask for one I would tell them no thanks and I would find someplace else to work. It is NONE of your damn business what my financial situation is. You are part of the problem my friend.
Uh, dude? If you've got 10 maxed out credit cards, I don't want you working in my company. Not knowing how to manage your money, and needing money, are two good reasons for it. Being irresponsible means you may show up late or not at all, needing money means that when you show up,
Yeah, because the only way to end up in debt is by being irresponsible, there is no other way right? How about freak medical bills or having your home burn down? I could list quite a few more but instead I will give you the story of a guy I know:
About 2 years ago this mans wife found out she had cancer and only had about 1 year to live. She decided to spend that year doing drugs and drinking heavily and ended up spending nearly all of their money as well as maxing some joint credit cards. She died in a car wreck not too much longer than 6 months after this started. He was stuck with all the debt she left behind as well as having to pay burial costs and pay to move himself and his 2 small children over 2000 miles away to a state his family lived in so he could be closer to them as well as try to leave his wife in the past. He is now at least ~$50,000 in debt and it wouldn't suprise me if a lot of it was credit cards. This man would never even THINK about stealing, he just wants to work and pay off his debt and support his family. Guess what? He has had a hell of a time finding a job and has spent the last half of a year working at a restaurant and part of the reason he has been turned down for other jobs is because of credit checks. How is this fair? You seem to think "oh, he is irresponsible and can't manage money since his credit is bad. I wouldn't want to give him a chance to turn his life around and pay off those bills. I mean obviously he would try to steal shit from my company."
Something is just not right in your head if you honestly think that way, open up your mind a little bit.
As far as responsibility and wanting to know if the applicant will show up to work why don't you do something that makes sense like call some of his former places of employment and ask them if they would hire him again and if they had any problems with him while he worked there? That at least makes sense instead of just assuming they are irresponsible and will steal shit from you since their credit is bad.
What company do you work for? I want to make sure I never apply for a job there.
Good day.
I can even understand pulling your credit report as part of the process, someone who is bad with money is probably more likely to steal shit from their employer.
You are part of the problem. Your statement is exactly like this one:
A male is much more likely to rape a female.
Does that mean a high percentage of males go around raping women? I think not. I would venture to guess (yes, only a guess since I have no idea) that the percentage of people who are bad with money who steal from employers is also a low percentage.
The ONLY reason a credit check should be done for a job position is if the position requires working with money, I mean I wouldn't want my banker or investor to be severely in debt as that shows little promise with how my money will be handled. It is kind of like a "work history", I mean if they can't even manage their own money what would make a financial institution believe they can manage someone elses money?
I have a land-line and no cell-phone. I'm 27. I make a decent enough salary to afford a cell phone, but I work in a building where I cant carry a phone, my commute is only about 6 miles in a reliable car, and I keep a fairly regular schedule so people can usually find me...the idea of paying $600 a year to provide a convenience to others didn't appeal to me.
Well unless you basically live at work and at your house then having a cell phone is a great convenience because it allows you to contact anybody whenever you want, not the other way around (unless you allow it). If you don't want to talk to people then you don't have to answer it when people call.
As far as the money being a factor it proves you have not shopped around and/or are un/mis-informed. If your wife already has a cell phone and is paying for a plan then it should be relatively easy and probably cheaper to get a shared plan rather than paying the $18/month for your landline PLUS it is a phone you would be able to use anywhere. I have a shared plan with my family and I think the base bill is around $60/month with tax and each additional phone is $8/month and we get something like 1500 anytime minutes (shared between all the phones and if we go over the 1500 minutes it is 10 cents/min) and free nights and weekends. If you only use ~30 minutes a month then your wife probably would not have to upgrade her plan to more minutes.
Landline phones definitely have the advantage of being more reliable but if what is keeping you from getting rid of it is because you think the price of a cell phone is not worth it then as I showed you you are mistaken. Since you already have someone in your family with a cell phone you could actually be saving money by ditching the landline!
Any highway in the midwest/plains?
I grew up in the midwest (Chicago area) and if you go past the speed limit (65 mph) and a cop is there they WILL give you a ticket. I have noticed that most of the flat states west of IL do have higher speed limits which is nice but other midwest states such as Indiana and Ohio usually have 65 as a max speed limit and lots of state troopers out enforcing that limit.
I-25 in northern colorado is 75 posted, traffic flow average is about 90-95. I go past cops at 85-90 all the time and they don't bat an eye.
I now live in Phoenix and in southern Arizona there are quite a few highways with 75 posted and lots of people going 85-90 mph but when there are police out clocking people they will pull people over who are speeding that excessively. I highly doubt the cops anywhere in the US would not bat an eye to people going 15 mph over the speed limit, it's too much of an easy source of revenue.
Any sources to back that claim of "...FBI already spends *MOST* of its resources tracking down child molesters"?
The FBI has many roles, from counter-terror, to counter espionage, to kidnapping and a zillion other things.
You are correct that the FBI has many roles and I would say that most of the FBI's TOTAL resources are not put into tracking down child molesters but they definitely do have quite a few people working on it.
However, I will say that a LARGE majority of any law enforcements computer crime investigations do involve child molesters/pornography. I am a software developer for a company that specializes in computer forensic applications (the FBI is our biggest customer) and nearly all of the forensic examiners I have talked to have said that they are overwelmed with the amount of cases involving child molesters/pornography. They just don't have the man power to handle it all. This is not just in the US either, I have heard it from examiners all over the world.
The problem is FAR, FAR from under control as the poster you responded to seems to think.
I've never understood "trailers". They don't trail anything, they preempt it. "previews" makes more sense.
First of all you are a dumbass, do you try to comprehend ALL words in their literal form or do you ever look up alternate meanings? Judging from your comment I must say everything indicates that you rode the short bus to school growing up.
Its the same thing with you Americans and your "Check" after a meal. First of all, its "cheque" not "check", and second of all, you PAY bills, and you WRITE cheques.
BTW it is spelled "check" as well as "cheque", both are correct and in the dictionary so get off your high horse about that. Neither form is more correct than the other.
As far as "paying" bills and "writing" checks that has nothing to do with a check at a restaurant. One definition of "check" is:
a slip or ticket showing the amount owed, esp. a bill for food or beverages consumed.
Do you get it now?? There are these things called synonyms which means that some words can be used interchangeably, I guess you didn't learn that at whatever school you went to. Another thing is words can have more than one meaning! It is amazing I tell ya! Please go back to school and take an English class (or a few!) so you don't look like a complete retard in the future.
I asked for my bill in California last week, and the waitress stared at me with a blank expression.
This suprises you from a California girl? I know it's a stereotype, but Cali girls are well known for being blonde bimbos and since this one was working as a waitress and not a rocket scientist I am less impressed she was confused as to what you asked her for. She probably would have given you the same blank stare to many other questions too. I am from Chicago and recently moved to Phoenix and I always ask for "the bill" and have never once had a problem getting my check that way.
I hope you learned something and please take my advice to learn more about the English language.
Why didn't you just call the police or at least threaten to call the police? I would think that if they saw you were willing to have the police show up then they would just give the ID back to you and if they still refused at least the police could be used to get it back. I would never allow a place to do that unless I happened to have some underage friends (not likely anymore) along too or something like that where I wouldn't want to draw attention to the place I was at.
I agree with you completely except for the part about her being cool... It seems like a 'bit' of a power trip...
Look upon me and behold the mighty barkeeper... Give the damn idiot his fake back and let them be on their merry way... Posting fakes behind bars or at liquor stores I mean I buy that, its a deterrent but posting it on your blog... doesn't serve anything except self gratification.
I agree completely.
Also laws may differ, but just because your id is fake doesn't mean I can steal it from you
Laws may differ about "stealing" (I would say taking) the fake ID but I think it all comes down to one question:
"I can take this fake ID, refuse you entrance, and you can be on your merry way or I can call the cops, which do you choose?"
I know I would have chosen to lose the ID when I was underage over having the police get involved and I think 99% of the people using fake ID's would make the same decision. Plus, if you just give them the fake back it really is not much of a deterent while losing a $100 fake ID will make you think twice about getting one and using it again. Personally I think the drinking age should be lowered to 18 or 19 but that is another conversation and I don't feel like getting into that now.
Well they did find blood in his vehicle and house. From the article:
"Though no body has been found, Reiser was arrested Oct. 10 after the Oakland Police Department found small drops of blood in his house and in his Honda CRX"
Makes it a little fishy although I am sure I have small drops of blood around my house and in my cars too from small cuts and stuff happening while doing stuff outside. I would hope they need more than that to tie the "murder" to him. I think she just took off somewhere myself, I mean she was cheating on him so I don't think it is too far out of the ballpark.
So Hans Reiser is a full-blown sociopath? Goddamn. Looks like he may have killed ReiserFS, too.
If you can't even RTFA at least read the summary!
"ex-lover of the missing wife of accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case."
It is not Hans Reiser confessing to eight other killings, it is an EX LOVER of the wife who is confessing to eight other killings.
As far as ReiserFS, I don't really care if that dies since I don't use it myself. I am sure it will still be around a while though no matter what happens.
First off I believe copyrighting a number is wrong and should be impossible. IANAL so I don't know where this stands since it can be used to circumvent IP protection but I would hope people could not get in trouble for sharing a number.
However, I think your comment below is wrong too:
They shouldn't be allowed to design a lock that can be opened with any pointed object and then ban all sticks and branches.
This is not like designing a lock that can be opened with any pointed object and banning all sticks and branches and more like designing a lock that can be opened with only specially formed pointed objects and then trying to ban people from publically sharing the designs for the pointed objects that open the lock. Not just any sequence of numbers will decrypt the protection, only very specific ones.
Well, the people who write windows software don't allow other people to run the OS of there choice, even if it actually works.
Get an emulator then. Why is it our job to make sure the software we write can run on any OS available? Maybe if my company had a lot more money we could develop multi-platform software but since it didn't start out that way it would be a HUGE project to make our current applications multi-platform.
Another thing is the money might not be there. I am in the computer forensics field and nearly all of the people who are computer forensics professionals have a Windows system anyway since the two big case management applications FTK and EnCase run on Windows. A lot of them actually prefer Windows as well. It would be awesome if we could spend the time to make our software able to run on Mac and Linux but I don't believe we would ever recoup that investment. I have been amazed at how many government agencies I deal with have already started migrating to Windows Vista and they want to know if our forensic software will be compatible with it. That right there is an indication that the tide is not turning yet towards the other OS's (at least in this area).
In a happy world where everything is perfect you might see all software run on all OS's the world has to offer but this is the real world where the dollar is what matters and if you can't make money off of all the effort that would require then most businesses will not attempt it.
The security using Wibu's system is all dependent on the person implementing it. Wibu does offer an "automatic" way of protecting your executables and I would not be suprised if that way is easily cracked. That is what appeared to be the case with that short paper you linked to. Basically how the automatic way works is you compile your executable and then start up some Wibu application which you aim at the executable, set some parameters, and let it run.
The basic protection basically ties what are called a firmware code (FC) and a software code (SC) to your particular application. Firmware codes are unique to your company while software codes can be set by the company so they can have a different one for different applications. The basic protection basically will only check if your dongle has the right FC and SC combination and if it does then it will let your software start up otherwise it won't.
The nice thing about Wibu keys though is they are very flexible and you can inject protections directly into your source code. However, you can compile your code so that certain parts of the executable are encrypted (for instance maybe the first 500 bytes (you can set it arbitrarily) of certain functions and you can make it different for any function) and they must be unencrypted before that function is called or else bad things will happen since random machine code would attempted to be run. This encryption happens on the dongle so unless they can crack how the encryption for the dongle works this would be very hard to defeat. You can arbitrarily encrypt parts of the executable all over the place and if you do that it would be very difficult to know when something is encrypted or decrypted as long as you always re-encrypt places after they are used. The dongles also contain some memory where you could store encrypted data which may be critical to allow your software to function correctly. It is also very easy to set things up so if a debugger is detected that the software will automatically shut down. WIBU does have an API that is pretty much freely available but even if you have that all of the encryption happens on the dongle so it would still be a very difficult task to crack software that is properly protected. You would basically need to track down every part of the program that is ever encrypted and decrypted as well as find out what is stored on the dongle to make a "dongleless" patch.
Sure, theoretically the software can be cracked but it would take A LOT of work and I would bet that a lot of those sites offering to crack any Wibu protected software would have a hell of a time with my application even if they had a legit dongle. You can't just emulate the dongle which would be needed since that is where the decryption occurs so you would have find and store the unencrypted version of all places that are encrypted.
The weakness with dongles will always apparently be the APIs, especially ones that interact with the MS Windows APIs and Registry.
Very true and that is why we ended up choosing Wibu because they don't do anything stupid like that. Another nice thing about them is they charge you a one time fee to get your FC setup and then you can order as many dongles as you want, when you want, without any annual fees. Another big reason we moved away from Rainbow (now SafeNet I think) is because along with being a PITA to support and use they wanted to charge something rediculous like $12,000 a year annual fee when it previously was like $10,000 less (not exact numbers but what I recall) which is a HUGE jump for one year especially when there is cheaper, better performing alternatives available.
I am of the opinion however, that Codemeter has been cracked, but the people who have cracked it, make much more money their way (selling their services or cracked software) than telling Wibu AG how they did it and collecting on any bounty offered like during that "hacking contest" they had.
I highly doubt it is cracked, the prize for the contest was $4
They were either in a case or in a drive. Still somehow they managed to get scratched. I'd usually have to put three or four copies of everything just make sure I'd be able to copy it off later.
Hmm, that is very odd, what burning software were you using? Some software...cough Roxio... has a bad habit of writing the file system first then starting to write the actual file contents and FAILING (but without any warnings or messages) and basically saying the burn process completed without a problem. The user then "checks" the disc by opening it up in windows explorer, sees all the files they wanted to burn listed (since the file system was written first), but they don't actually try to OPEN any files. So, later on they go to use that disc and get a whole bunch of read errors because the data they are trying to access was never actually written to the disc. This usually ends up with the user blaming the problem on the media or their optical drive when the blame really should be on the burning software. Nero has this same problem but does not do it as often. I don't know if this was the issue you were experiencing (probably not) but it may be.
Scratches on a discs bottom surface usually are not a problem at all. The top side is where you need to worry about scratches because if the top gets scratches you lose the reflector and usually the dye too and when that happens those bits are gone for good. My main guess is still the media you were using just was not compatible with your drive or something. I recently got a spindle of CD-RW's and they work like shit with my plextor drives (basically not at all) while some other drives work with them just fine.
For burners, plextor (cd) and sony (dvd).
Sony drives are okay but if you can afford it I highly recommend sticking to the Plextors. In my experience Plextors have the best firmware which allows them to be superior at both writing to discs as well as reading discs (especially damaged/corrupted discs). Whenever anyone is having an issue with a disc the first thing I tell them is to put it in a Plextor and get back to me.
I'm talking about read/write. HDs are faster and have been far more reliable for me. If you're mailing/giving, cds/dvd are definitely the way to go.
I agree that for home use HDs are the way to go and that is usually what I do myself. You said it is easy to throw a HD into a bag which is true but overall optical discs are the way to go when you are dealing with sneakernet. I know personally I would rather throw a few discs into my bag rather than an expensive HD and its external enclosure both because the discs weigh much less and take up less room but also if I were to lose my bag I wouldn't be out so much money.
I am not a network admin but I did experience the effects of the Blaster worm in the office I worked in at that time. MY machine however never got infected and I was connected to the main network at a large University. If I remember that worm correctly it required you to open an attachment and if that is so then blame your USERS. There also was a patch out for the vulnerability before the worm was spread so KEEP YOUR COMPUTERS UP TO DATE!
This making you paranoid of XP would be like the maker of the locks to your house telling you that they found out it would be possible for someone to create a skeleton key to all the locks they have made and that you should have all your locks replaced at the expense of the maker and then a month later someone actually does create a skeleton key and robs your house using said key and then having you blame the manufacturer. They warned you in advance and had a fix but you didn't take advantage of it. Sure, they deserve some blame but the fault is on you as well. All software has vulnerbilities.
I will reiterate as long as you are not a complete retard it is easy to keep an XP machine running safe and sound while connected to the net.
How is activation going to significantly reduce the number of copies they sell? Okay, it might make them lose .000000001% of sales because someone is mad they have to spend 10 seconds typing in the activation code but other than those people I don't think it would result in any lost sales. It actually might result in increased sales since people who actually want to use the new OS but can't pirate it anymore will be forced to buy it if they want to use it.
I agree their duty to the shareholders is the increase sales but I also think their duty is to protect their IP. So by requiring activation it requires MINIMAL extra effort on the end user side while making it significantly much more harder to run pirated copies of the software. This in turn will force the people who really want to use the new OS to actually buy it instead of just getting a pirated copy which in turn will result in higher sales. The people who would have pirated it but never actually bought it will also be shut out and since they never would have bought it in the first place no sales are lost there either.