Well. I would LIKE to have one of those devices but so far the cost has been prohibitive for the utility for me personally. I would use it seriously probably twice a year (to find my way somewhere), most of the time I get a few maps printed out in advanced anyway and just use those. Only when the annoying SO-inspired side trip occurs do I really need one. [Where I am both responsible for fulfilling the "I want X" need mid trip and also getting back on track on time and without getting lost. The pie is worth it though.:) ]
After using one on a vacation (someone else owned it) even then, we still needed to have accurate maps to refer to in order to not let it make us do stupid stuff. We went an extra 12 miles on a "business" version of a highway and had to backtrack because it refused to use back roads to get us to the freeway, even though we could SEE the friggin freeway on the horizon.
So the market is probably about saturated at the price point (everybody has got one who will buy one at this price) so the price goes down or the sales go down. Quite a few new vehicles are coming with them built in now too, so the market base is shrinking on that front as well.
I also need to figure out how to power the thing in my car, as the iPod gets top priority and my only cigarette lighter port.
Which wind farm is this? What bird study are you looking at?... never mind. I'll just get to the point. You are a liar. You made up the place, and the number of birds, didn't you?
Let's break down all the reasons where this is clear:
1. "Becuase"
2. Today's energy grid is an integrated one that reaches far and wide, the wind never stops everywhere at once so can be harvested somewhere all the time. Wind power is also likely to be only a fraction of the total power and suits the peak/baseline power curve nicely.
3. Some people think Vegemite tastes good, that rap is good music, and that the moon landings never happened. What some people think aesthetic is always going to be 90% crap, and putting a coal plant side by side with a wind farm is like comparing a half rotten pile of weasel assholes with a live kitten. Don't bring the aesthetics into it unless you are also advocating tearing down every coal plant that exists because they are ugly.
4. The only thing ground up here appears to be your brain. The bird thing is bullshit, debunked, and disingenuous crap touted by people too stupid to look up a few numbers. Your fucking housecat and the rest of their species does far far far more damage to birds, likewise every large window in any suburb, and any tall building. Let's tear all that stuff down too. Or, is your claim they are "bird grinders" bullshit. (Hint: yup)
5. Wind will not solve all power problems, and despite it's usefulness, duct tape will not fix everything (for example, it won't suppress the expression of your extra chromosomes), what sort of an uncle-tom waterhead thinks wind will solve anything except a few percent of our clean power needs. Sure, we'll need nuclear but wind and nuclear are not mutually exclusive.
6. It seems to me like you used some pretty brain-dead environmentalist emotion laden-logic free views to say wind power is bad, and then turn around and say environmental compromises need to be made. I suggest learning a bit more of which you speak, because you seem to be the type of person that picks up only the first line of any article and damn the facts within.
Goddamn, I fucking hate pseudo-philosophers, especially the young-stupid ones. Grrrr.
On the general topic, just re-arrange your office to make the desk face the door. Or, maybe, don't do crap at work that you can't have other people see.
[quote] I should have made clear, I'm talking about the subject of the article, which is not video games made today, but possible incredibly vivid, detailed and immersive games of the future.[/quote]
Bullshit.
It's an attempt to squeeze in the same censorship without riling up a specific target.
"Oh, no! We aren't talking about YOUR games, just some OVER THERE"
It's deflection and obfuscation like the people trying to disguise creationist teaching as "Intelligent Design Theory"
It's still censorship, it's still not based on anything concrete, and it's still crap.
Gamers react strongly because the concept is FUCKING STUPID.
It's JUST as stupid as "oh da gheys can marry now everybody will be fucking turtles and trying to have a family with trees!!11"
And, after a while, they get sick of lying bullshit and prefer that the people just shut the fuck up and go away because an obviously wrong argument parroted over and over again despite no fucking evidence (even in the midst of trying really hard to find it) is the mark of a goddamn aggressive moron out for control, not for the public good. Just like the "lol teleprompter Obongo lol hurrr" crap.
You would have had a better post without the "wah, think of the children!!11" part at the end.
Don't make the assumption that just because your life turned out a certain way and you attribute it to certain events, that those same events will have the same affect on other people.
Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California on January 29, 1979
2 deaths, 8 injured
That said, spree shootings are not new.
Spree killings are not new either, the term "running amok" has been around for centuries, and not just in Pacific Rim cultures.
These events are an unfortunate part of the human condition. Someone trying to CHANGE that like PantyWaste McSandiVag in the summary is usually got another motive, like control over people or markets he doesn't have any rights to control. Which is why the various forms of fanatic religious nuts always glom onto the concept, they want to control people. Video games, heavy metal music, playing cards, dancing, whatever it is, they do the same crap to it.
It's ALL sanctimonious crap that is at the very least disingenuous motives, if not outright vicious.
In my opinion, these games keep people from acting out frustrations in real life. I drink because my job sucks, and I shoot stuff in games because the people I encounter suck. When I am done, I jerk off and go to bed. Without those three things, I'd wake up the next day ready to push back in inappropriate ways and cause REAL trouble, not virtual trouble.
Removing things that act like safety valves is stupid, even if the trade off is some people with a little bit more tactical sense. Even then, the tactical sense and strategy learned from games isn't always applied in negative ways. Reading complicated situations ahead to make proper moves is a useful thing in defensive driving, something many people outright suck at.
Considering he kicked the bucket yesterday afternoon, and he is still about 18 hours dead that's a considerable feat. What time zone are you in that has you 6 hours ahead of everybody else?
You don't host anything for real paying customers do you?
Let me give you a summary of how interaction with "security consultants" usually goes:
1. Customer gets cold called or sees some FUD on local TV, or portscans or the "consultant" has some dude in Malaysia digging around to find the sites hosted for pennies an hour. 2. Customer gets bilked out of a couple hundred dollars for a 'security audit' (a scan using a common tool with default settings usually) 3. Customer fails to understand any of it. 4. Passes a FUD report on to my desk, and proceeds to piss and moan or wring hands. 5. I have to stop what I am doing and examine the bogus report, then make a time consuming write up, explaining why having port 80 open is not a big deal and that it's typically not possible to be running both IIS and AIX (Unix) on the same box. 6. "security consultant" either tries to sell the user a open source program, Barracuda box (puke) or just laughs all the way to the bank, or even better yet starts bugging me about being honest with the customer (who is now unhappy about the fee charged).
This sequence repeats with every new BS bug, news story, or any time the economy is flush with IT money.
The "security consultant" is never really concerned about security, only money. Most of the time they don't know anything, sometimes they are outright brain-dead stupid and want to do things like put a notice "Please do not hack our web site" on every page because they think it won't be illegal to deface if the notice is not there. (Yes, that's really what they wanted.)
Replace the "security consultant" with the following types; "copyright protection scanning" and "defacement warning monitoring" (THAT is a bullshit scam) and "version back ups" and you have a whole world of suck. Thankfully the economy has been bad for a while so mom&pop shops are slamming the door on a two hundred dollar expense for an audit.
Maybe Kimansky himself won't be doing this, however a legion of other folks will be following shortly behind that will. The dream to update DNS is nice, but it's a stupidly impractical thing to be demanding everybody do right now. Aside from a few articles here and there, the "real world exploits" for this stuff, where someone actually gets harmed... well, where are THOSE reports?
You are missing the whole point of the lists then.
They create collateral damage by design, to make it painful for the ISP or organization to have spammers using their stuff.
Which, in turn encourages policies of closing port 25 (a good thing IMHO) for end users, watching who they have as customers and well, not being spammers.
The frustration of some mail admins needs to be directed at their stupid virus-getting users and shitty network infrastructure that allows people on dynamic dial up lines to send mail directly. As a RBL user myself, I LIKE the collateral damage aspect. Take care with whom you do business with and you won't have a problem. It's that simple.
Relaying mail through your ISP is not a big deal, it's a cost of living in a society where people can't be trusted to do stuff properly, just like street lights, bike locks, and every other such device.
The twitter thing just slows down the search some, making the problem technically harder but not impossible to do. (Still worthwhile though.)
Also note there are several flavors of proxies going around (and contact points to advertise them), along with a fax rebroadcast scheme which basically forces the Iranian government to choose between data connectivity with lots of holes and information being passed and no data at all.
Couple that with satellite phones and you end up with "You can't stop the signal".
The Iranian hard liners have already produced a couple of very compelling martyrs and made a bunch of mis-steps that indicate they can react, but not in the right way to suit their goals. In my opinion, it's going to get considerably more bloody than it is, but in the end the "kick the old religious hardliners out" is going to be the result. Short of wiping out 40% of their own population those guys are done.
That list looks like rational cleaning up and destroying of garbage to me. You need to pick a better list if you want to scare people I think.
99% of the time people that get mobbed by Bchan or whatever else soundly deserve it. Word crafters who are able to steer and fool a mob into doing incorrect action are few and far between, and it would take tremendous effort by a lot of people to pull it off. So, _false_ accusations rarely gain legs and go.
That's why crowd-sourcing works, the people with the truth or the good information can be weighed by everybody, who then each makes their own decision based on the truth and whatever half-truths are there. And given real information with solid backing won't take the crap too far. Look at any example of the Troofer movement in any Slashdot or Fark thread for examples of this.
Eastern European Countries have this problem. Home of Russian mafia expansion, home of corrupted and weak police forces, home of guys who make so little a couple hundred bucks in bribe works well, home of scammer's money laundry operations, etc.
There doesn't need to be an exploit beyond "Eastern European Country" involved.
On the flip side (if you don't mind me re-wording your reply) here's what the submitter really needs to hear.
Get. Off. The. Fucking. Meth.
It's bad, mmkay?
Both the submission, and the fact he thinks a barrel roll is a good thing to do under a bus and would produce pictures under said bus with a photo frequency of 1 per second indicates a drug problem.
Dude, seriously, get into rehab that shit will fuck you up.
Go back and read the submission and try to imagine a breath taken in there somewhere. I don't see one...
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Well. I would LIKE to have one of those devices but so far the cost has been prohibitive for the utility for me personally. I would use it seriously probably twice a year (to find my way somewhere), most of the time I get a few maps printed out in advanced anyway and just use those. Only when the annoying SO-inspired side trip occurs do I really need one. [Where I am both responsible for fulfilling the "I want X" need mid trip and also getting back on track on time and without getting lost. The pie is worth it though. :) ]
After using one on a vacation (someone else owned it) even then, we still needed to have accurate maps to refer to in order to not let it make us do stupid stuff. We went an extra 12 miles on a "business" version of a highway and had to backtrack because it refused to use back roads to get us to the freeway, even though we could SEE the friggin freeway on the horizon.
So the market is probably about saturated at the price point (everybody has got one who will buy one at this price) so the price goes down or the sales go down. Quite a few new vehicles are coming with them built in now too, so the market base is shrinking on that front as well.
I also need to figure out how to power the thing in my car, as the iPod gets top priority and my only cigarette lighter port.
Which wind farm is this? What bird study are you looking at? ... never mind. I'll just get to the point. You are a liar. You made up the place, and the number of birds, didn't you?
Changed the subject, to make it clear:
You. Are. Stupid.
Let's break down all the reasons where this is clear:
1. "Becuase"
2. Today's energy grid is an integrated one that reaches far and wide, the wind never stops everywhere at once so can be harvested somewhere all the time. Wind power is also likely to be only a fraction of the total power and suits the peak/baseline power curve nicely.
3. Some people think Vegemite tastes good, that rap is good music, and that the moon landings never happened. What some people think aesthetic is always going to be 90% crap, and putting a coal plant side by side with a wind farm is like comparing a half rotten pile of weasel assholes with a live kitten. Don't bring the aesthetics into it unless you are also advocating tearing down every coal plant that exists because they are ugly.
4. The only thing ground up here appears to be your brain. The bird thing is bullshit, debunked, and disingenuous crap touted by people too stupid to look up a few numbers. Your fucking housecat and the rest of their species does far far far more damage to birds, likewise every large window in any suburb, and any tall building. Let's tear all that stuff down too. Or, is your claim they are "bird grinders" bullshit. (Hint: yup)
5. Wind will not solve all power problems, and despite it's usefulness, duct tape will not fix everything (for example, it won't suppress the expression of your extra chromosomes), what sort of an uncle-tom waterhead thinks wind will solve anything except a few percent of our clean power needs. Sure, we'll need nuclear but wind and nuclear are not mutually exclusive.
6. It seems to me like you used some pretty brain-dead environmentalist emotion laden-logic free views to say wind power is bad, and then turn around and say environmental compromises need to be made. I suggest learning a bit more of which you speak, because you seem to be the type of person that picks up only the first line of any article and damn the facts within.
Goddamn, I fucking hate pseudo-philosophers, especially the young-stupid ones. Grrrr.
Start telling them "i can smell your ass-breath".
On the general topic, just re-arrange your office to make the desk face the door. Or, maybe, don't do crap at work that you can't have other people see.
[quote]
I should have made clear, I'm talking about the subject of the article, which is not video games made today, but possible incredibly vivid, detailed and immersive games of the future.[/quote]
Bullshit.
It's an attempt to squeeze in the same censorship without riling up a specific target.
"Oh, no! We aren't talking about YOUR games, just some OVER THERE"
It's deflection and obfuscation like the people trying to disguise creationist teaching as "Intelligent Design Theory"
It's still censorship, it's still not based on anything concrete, and it's still crap.
Gamers react strongly because the concept is FUCKING STUPID.
It's JUST as stupid as "oh da gheys can marry now everybody will be fucking turtles and trying to have a family with trees!!11"
And, after a while, they get sick of lying bullshit and prefer that the people just shut the fuck up and go away because an obviously wrong argument parroted over and over again despite no fucking evidence (even in the midst of trying really hard to find it) is the mark of a goddamn aggressive moron out for control, not for the public good. Just like the "lol teleprompter Obongo lol hurrr" crap.
It. Gets. Old.
People that play games are generally smarter too.
Who, may sit back and think "am I going to get sued by this clumbsy tard if I help?"
That takes a few seconds to process.
You want a study that shows nothing? LOL
You would have had a better post without the "wah, think of the children!!11" part at the end.
Don't make the assumption that just because your life turned out a certain way and you attribute it to certain events, that those same events will have the same affect on other people.
You forgot:
Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California on January 29, 1979
2 deaths, 8 injured
That said, spree shootings are not new.
Spree killings are not new either, the term "running amok" has been around for centuries, and not just in Pacific Rim cultures.
These events are an unfortunate part of the human condition. Someone trying to CHANGE that like PantyWaste McSandiVag in the summary is usually got another motive, like control over people or markets he doesn't have any rights to control. Which is why the various forms of fanatic religious nuts always glom onto the concept, they want to control people. Video games, heavy metal music, playing cards, dancing, whatever it is, they do the same crap to it.
It's ALL sanctimonious crap that is at the very least disingenuous motives, if not outright vicious.
In my opinion, these games keep people from acting out frustrations in real life. I drink because my job sucks, and I shoot stuff in games because the people I encounter suck. When I am done, I jerk off and go to bed. Without those three things, I'd wake up the next day ready to push back in inappropriate ways and cause REAL trouble, not virtual trouble.
Removing things that act like safety valves is stupid, even if the trade off is some people with a little bit more tactical sense. Even then, the tactical sense and strategy learned from games isn't always applied in negative ways. Reading complicated situations ahead to make proper moves is a useful thing in defensive driving, something many people outright suck at.
Considering he kicked the bucket yesterday afternoon, and he is still about 18 hours dead that's a considerable feat. What time zone are you in that has you 6 hours ahead of everybody else?
Hey, if there is enthusiasm, there must be a good idea!
Just look at Mr. Moller and his wonderful new car!
You don't host anything for real paying customers do you?
Let me give you a summary of how interaction with "security consultants" usually goes:
1. Customer gets cold called or sees some FUD on local TV, or portscans or the "consultant" has some dude in Malaysia digging around to find the sites hosted for pennies an hour.
2. Customer gets bilked out of a couple hundred dollars for a 'security audit' (a scan using a common tool with default settings usually)
3. Customer fails to understand any of it.
4. Passes a FUD report on to my desk, and proceeds to piss and moan or wring hands.
5. I have to stop what I am doing and examine the bogus report, then make a time consuming write up, explaining why having port 80 open is not a big deal and that it's typically not possible to be running both IIS and AIX (Unix) on the same box.
6. "security consultant" either tries to sell the user a open source program, Barracuda box (puke) or just laughs all the way to the bank, or even better yet starts bugging me about being honest with the customer (who is now unhappy about the fee charged).
This sequence repeats with every new BS bug, news story, or any time the economy is flush with IT money.
The "security consultant" is never really concerned about security, only money. Most of the time they don't know anything, sometimes they are outright brain-dead stupid and want to do things like put a notice "Please do not hack our web site" on every page because they think it won't be illegal to deface if the notice is not there. (Yes, that's really what they wanted.)
Replace the "security consultant" with the following types; "copyright protection scanning" and "defacement warning monitoring" (THAT is a bullshit scam) and "version back ups" and you have a whole world of suck. Thankfully the economy has been bad for a while so mom&pop shops are slamming the door on a two hundred dollar expense for an audit.
Maybe Kimansky himself won't be doing this, however a legion of other folks will be following shortly behind that will. The dream to update DNS is nice, but it's a stupidly impractical thing to be demanding everybody do right now. Aside from a few articles here and there, the "real world exploits" for this stuff, where someone actually gets harmed... well, where are THOSE reports?
You are missing the whole point of the lists then.
They create collateral damage by design, to make it painful for the ISP or organization to have spammers using their stuff.
Which, in turn encourages policies of closing port 25 (a good thing IMHO) for end users, watching who they have as customers and well, not being spammers.
The frustration of some mail admins needs to be directed at their stupid virus-getting users and shitty network infrastructure that allows people on dynamic dial up lines to send mail directly. As a RBL user myself, I LIKE the collateral damage aspect. Take care with whom you do business with and you won't have a problem. It's that simple.
Relaying mail through your ISP is not a big deal, it's a cost of living in a society where people can't be trusted to do stuff properly, just like street lights, bike locks, and every other such device.
Brits don't brush their teeth because there are no sinks in the bathrooms? Or do they just walk around with shit and piss on their hands all the time.
No wonder the empire collapsed, too much time on the shitter with dysentery.
All that stuff is already available.
You are basically expecting the great unwashed to want to read the manual.
Good luck with that.
Don't forget the dog.
They always shoot the dog.
Extra points if it's a small one and running away.
"I am Spartacus!" - bunch of guys
The twitter thing just slows down the search some, making the problem technically harder but not impossible to do. (Still worthwhile though.)
Also note there are several flavors of proxies going around (and contact points to advertise them), along with a fax rebroadcast scheme which basically forces the Iranian government to choose between data connectivity with lots of holes and information being passed and no data at all.
Couple that with satellite phones and you end up with "You can't stop the signal".
The Iranian hard liners have already produced a couple of very compelling martyrs and made a bunch of mis-steps that indicate they can react, but not in the right way to suit their goals. In my opinion, it's going to get considerably more bloody than it is, but in the end the "kick the old religious hardliners out" is going to be the result. Short of wiping out 40% of their own population those guys are done.
[Tongue In Cheek]
Please stop with the christian bashing.
[/Tongue In Cheek]
That list looks like rational cleaning up and destroying of garbage to me. You need to pick a better list if you want to scare people I think.
99% of the time people that get mobbed by Bchan or whatever else soundly deserve it. Word crafters who are able to steer and fool a mob into doing incorrect action are few and far between, and it would take tremendous effort by a lot of people to pull it off. So, _false_ accusations rarely gain legs and go.
That's why crowd-sourcing works, the people with the truth or the good information can be weighed by everybody, who then each makes their own decision based on the truth and whatever half-truths are there. And given real information with solid backing won't take the crap too far. Look at any example of the Troofer movement in any Slashdot or Fark thread for examples of this.
Read the summary again and it's obvious.
Eastern European Countries have this problem. Home of Russian mafia expansion, home of corrupted and weak police forces, home of guys who make so little a couple hundred bucks in bribe works well, home of scammer's money laundry operations, etc.
There doesn't need to be an exploit beyond "Eastern European Country" involved.
On the flip side (if you don't mind me re-wording your reply) here's what the submitter really needs to hear.
Get. Off. The. Fucking. Meth.
It's bad, mmkay?
Both the submission, and the fact he thinks a barrel roll is a good thing to do under a bus and would produce pictures under said bus with a photo frequency of 1 per second indicates a drug problem.
Dude, seriously, get into rehab that shit will fuck you up.
Go back and read the submission and try to imagine a breath taken in there somewhere. I don't see one...
There will be no citation, because it's wrong.
It assumes a nerve/conscious pathway to insulin creation that simply does not exist.
The GP needs to go back to his phrenologist and consult an ephemeris to get his facts straight.
Unmitigated bullshit.
Sugar = chemical energy
Artificial Sweetener = something else
Them's the facts. You read too much hippy crap my friend.
No VPN software or hardware I ever used does this. It always checks the VPN DNS server first before going to the main one.
Reconfigure your VPN software, something is wrong.
YES, NXDOMAIN redirection sucks, but it does not by default interfere the way you think it does.
If it's servers on your network you need, you could just stick a hosts file entry on their computers to resolve "webserver" to 10.1.200.34 etc.
...unless the evidence gathering happens to be done by a citizen about what the state is doing.
Just go point a video camera at a police officer and see what happens.
Please do not do this if you do not have medical insurance.