Internet is not a private road. Internet was built on lots and lots of public funds, and lots and lots of private funds. Likewise the physical cabling runs across all sorts of land, most of it public right of way, granted to the telcos to use for what amounts to in the end, a bribe to governments.
So you analogy has a fucking hole right in the center of it like akin to 'hello.jpg', fingers digging in and pulling it open and all.
And what YOU are proposing is not just a fee to get on this "private highway" but also the private highway gets to steal paint, concrete and exit/entrance ramps from the public highway. Unless you are talking exclusively about point-to-point lines, you are a fucking liar. ALL of it connects to the same public network one way or another. And allowing priority this and QOS will fuck it all up. You think the telcos get in pissing matches about peering points now, just wait until they can charge everybody by the packet/hop and oh, if you leave the network thats x10.
The ONLY question is do the carriers have a right to charge content provider A to content consumer B as well as charge content consumer B for the bandwidth.
In other words, can we extort and double dip or not?
Nobody with any goddamn brains thinks that's a good idea. Nobody that doesn't stand to get RICH while doing it as well anyway.
* "Hey, I've got a bomb in my luggage" (said in an airport) * Defamation (for a reasonable definition of the term) * Hate speech ("We should kill all ")
Uhm, that last one there is still protected speech in the United States. You can say it all you want and nobody from the government can stop you (legally, or without violating your civil rights)
Actually, defamation is not illegal, but you can be sued in a civil court for it.
Only when you do the proverbial "fire in crowded theater" one that puts people at physical risk, or inciting a riot, etc. is it outlawed.
Facebook however, is a private entity and they can violate those rules right and left through their TOS.
And, seriously, that "hate speech" crap was made up in the late 80's and spread by ultra-liberal whack jobs (watch the "PCU" movie for a caractacture of it), and remains PC bullshit to this day.
"Legitimate" content and "Trusted" sources will get priority. The ISO of your favorite Linux distro is in. The unknown and likely pirated DiVX rip is out. This doesn't have to be BT as you know it. It could be an ISP administered P2P net. This statement leads me to believe you don't even know how bit torrent works. You are aware, it downloads from peers that have also downloaded from their peers from an original source right? And that aside from a small few bits at the beginning, ALL of the downloads come from (what is going to be essentially from the ISP's point of view) random locations right?
How is it you think they are going to "source" the download? Download it first, then put it on a list?
As someone who has downloaded lots of music illegally, I have NEVER had to resort to bittorrent to get it. It's always some person I know sharing an entire hard drive full or whatever. (Not public sources.) Heck, you can put certain phrases in Google and get the default "directory listing allowed" for common web server software and find TONS of music shared on web servers.
Since it came out, I have probably downloaded 150 gigs of various game patchs, game mods, Linux versions, etc. all of which the users I got them from had a right to distribute and I for which I had a right to download. ZERO percent of my torrent use has been illegal downloading.
Limiting traffic is one thing (just throttle ALL of the heavy users traffic, email, web, games, etc.), saying all torrent downloads are illegal is plain flat out incorrect.
Note, parent posters link instantly crashes FireFox.
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At night, under VFR?
I'd suspect controlled flight into terrain.
Pretty much buz buz buz buz WHAM. Dead. No warning and he'd be little pile at the base of some hill or cliff somewhere. You could walk right by it and not see the plane there.
Actually, I can tell you here in my (great drunk driving state of WI) that drinking while blasted does increase the probabilty of causing an accident.
And, I agree with you it is a criminal act that should be punished after a day in court.
HOWEVER,
We are not talking about the guys who are falling down smashed can't get the key in the door drunk.
We are talking about folks at.10 (the former legal limit) or.09 (now illegal) or.08 (borderline illegal) getting shafted LOOOONNGG before they are at the level of impairment of even talking on a cell phone, who are then subjected to what is basically a poorly built, poorly maintained piece of witchcraft known as a breathalyser. You might as well be attempting to test body thetans or use a polygraph. The science is that bad.
I see lots and lots of behavior and drivers on the road doing stuff WAY MORE DANGEROUS than someone getting home after happy hour toting a.08. The emphasis on this forces me to conclude the people pushing for the DUI laws stiffer than they already are have an alternative agenda that ends with "prohibition mark II".
You have two problems. Though I can see other posters will have better options for you to choose from, you have two fundamental issues to work through;
1) The internet and the machines need to be accessible, understandable and usable for what your clients needs are.
2) You need to be able to manage, fix, and protect the machines easily.
I can tell, because I have "been there" that submitter has reached his or her frustration limit with this project. This will be caused by a combination of the two things above. As sad as it is, as people get older they learn slower (in general) and find new things harder to do. They simply will not learn to not damage the machines fast enough. You could have an army of helpers sitting beside them the whole time they use these computers, and you will still be repairing, re-imaging and losing people's data on a regular basis.
Once you separate the two issues and work on them by themselves, you can solve this problem. If you mix the two in your needs you will have a harder time finding a solution that works.
In my opinion, this is a solution just screaming to be solved by Macs. (I am a Windows guy.) But I see Linux can probably do the job too.
I would lay out the two categories above in a list of needs, something like this:
Users need:
- big screen font type - simplicity to get in, do what they want, and get out unsupervised - ability to save and retain data in some way (again, on their own) - not to much customization, don't give them options that are not relevant to their tasks - but allow users who want more advanced stuff (Office suite of some kind) access - all the basics; sound, video playback on the web, flash, shockwave, view PDFs, etc. (do not skimp on this or you will find the advanced users get unhappy quickly)
You need:
- to protect the machines so "reworking" them is rare - to make reworking easy to do - to make your quality time tutoring count, and not make you too frustrated - which in turn implies; instructions, uber-simplicity, etc. to let the users who can be self directed, be self directed.
And, unless this is some sort of sentence (mandated community service) don't burn yourself out doing this, it is good to help people, but do not underestimate the time it takes to recover after a particularly aggravating or frustrating time with an octogenarian. It takes extreme patience and tolerance to do what you are doing, NEVER forget that. If you feel like you need a break, take it!
If I recall correctly, there are several actual science projects still going on with these two spacecraft, despite most of the instruments not being relevant for the tasks, technicians have found ways to tease extra information out of them.
First, the heliopause / helioshock transition did not happen the way they thought it did. It was in a different place and had different characteristics. They may still run into that, including vibration and change "bell ringing" of it. And, these things might be the only chance we EVER get to study the interstellar medium directly.
Second, there are light speed, distances vs. gravitiy issues where the spacecraft are NOT WHERE WE EXPECT THEM TO BE based on the equations we have to calculate for that. In other words, basic, fundamental cosmological questions can be pondered using these things.
The shame is, that people have been trying to turn them off thinking "we're done" when the cost to operate is a freaking drop in the bucket compared to the colossal waste that is the space shuttle. Put down your trashy science fiction novels for once and read some real papers produced by real science. Then you can get outside your narrow view of what one can "find" out there.
I think the links are a small part of what they are trying to achieve.
For example, Google's "community sites" thing "Blogger.com" has approximately 7 out of 10 of it's profiles some sort of spam, link lists (for search rankings to other sites), thinly veiled search whitewashing, malicious program installers, and some that redirect to porn. (The last one has kept me from visiting the site at work, the pop ups and stuff work even in FireFox.)
This policy, is a tool that can help them have a rule that lets them go through and delete that stuff. (LJ seems to have a lot less of it though.)
The following link its the "random next profile" link for blogger.com. Paste it into a browser a couple of times and you will see what I mean.
As I understand it molecular clocks are usually based around junk dna, in other words dna whose change does not affect the creature. This is in contrast to genes which when changed can significantly alter the creature. Which assumes "junk DNA" is doing nothing (and there are some hints that it is doing something).
And that a drift with NO control whatsoever never has stagnant times or changing times. (Natural radiation varies from place to place so if one group of life ends up dominant from the low area, the clock is different than if it was from a higher mutation area. Same concept with viruses and whatnot, lots of the "junk DNA" appears to be genes of old micro-organisms that worked their way in to replicate with the host instead of infecting it.
Etc. etc.
Those "DNA clocks" are just something they like to ponder being stable, whereas they may turn out not to be.
If you dig through your SMTP logs every once in a while, you see that stuff. Usually coming from a compromised home machine in short bursts of fifteen or thirty tries.
A few minutes later, another block is tried from another IP on the other side of the planet.
Plus, did you read the fine print on your Gmail account agreement? Did they SAY they wouldn't sell the address? Or did they SAY the wouldn't sell delivery of email to accounts? (Without releasing the list, they can do anything they want with the headers, it's their server after all.
As a porn connoisseur, I would like to point out that anybody that surfs for porn with Internet Explorer is a fucking idiot.
Even the really really dumb ones get the idea it's not a good idea once they trash the OS once with some virus or something.
So, as a porn site operator (god bless you,:)) you will see a higher percentage of users with FireFox as they learned the hard way once already you gotta switch to FireFox to get porn and download warez. Some of the sites providing porn are just using the porn as hooks to get computers infected for zombie nets. Not the good ones mind you, but if you search for [random hot chick, or random chick in news] often you will find one of these type sites.
Yup, cuz DC isn't the poorest, most unrepresented, crime-ridden, and corrupted city government area in the US or anything like that.
It doesn't matter, because none of that stuff has any impact on education of the kids that grow up there. Only the money per student matters for education.
Borrow a trillion dollars for the education system and you could do a lot. Borrow a trillion for a war and you can kill a lot of brown people, and sell out the next generation for crushing tax burden, and they get to work in servitude all their lives with their crappy barely capable for blue collar job educations.
You aren't going to get any footing around here implying the war was not a waste of money asshat.
There was a Slashdot article about one of the PHP core developer guys quitting in disgust (paraphrased) due to the lack of concern for keeping it secured. When the people that wrote the stuff in the first place say it's insecure, it's insecure as far as I am concerned.
Search "PHP security" for several sites that lay it out in detail, including the "Month of PHP bugs blog". Same with Joomla, people wondering about the lack of easy security in the product are not hard to find.
Joomla! version list had "critical vulnerabilities" on every version except for the current release when I looked at it. I saw that on a list of "get these previous downloads", each had a warning about "xyz bug" after it.
I am not a security expert by any means, therefore, skipping these products because I am aware that "inexperienced admin + insecure software = disaster" makes me a better admin. You might be able to get by with one of those things.. both... good luck.
My point was more about developers though, every one of which thinks the shit they use is the best shit and everybody should use it. When there are 15, 20, or 40 such products pretty soon you gotta support every pile of junk ever created or start saying "no" when they want the latest and greatest SQL injection tool on the server.
Google yourself and make your own opinion about the security issues. I, was personally horrified at the thought of putting it on my servers, thus I didn't.
According to the effing article, it wasn't even a server, but a goddamn desktop. How in the holy hell does a desktop take down the whole system? I can't even conceive of a situation where that could be the case on anything other than a network designed by chimps, especially through a hardware failure...A compromised system might be able to do it, but a system just going dark?
Los Angeles World Airports is a unique system of four airports owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles.
Any further questions?
Probably the lowest bidder union labor designing and setting it up. Shoulda called IBM.
I came in here to post similar snark, however parent did it way better than I ever could.
I get approached by "developers" wanting to put Joomla on my server periodically.
I always tell them "until the fundamental security flaws of PHP and CMS in general are fixed, that crap is not getting put on a web server I am responsible for running".
All those technologies just hide the security responsibilities, or shove them off on some poor server admin when the "developer" in question is too ignorant to deal with them themselves. Every one of those type things you add, means another thread of upgrades, patches, fixes, and adjustments and another threat vector to deal with. Meanwhile, the "build every site with the same damn tools no matter the situation developer" walks off with a pile of cash, leaving you to try to do support for whatever the tiny monthly hosting fee you happen to be getting.
I am not saying they should build a CMS from scratch every time, but when every major release ever put out (and some minor) have server-killing security holes in them what makes you think THIS release won't have one too?
Ok, so I added some of my own snark. You can mod me down now.:)
Well, there IS a group that has picked out a "potential crater" that went previously unrecognized that has done some expeditions and drilling in the lake to see if they can establish this for sure. Apparently their idea is a large stony or iron object was the cause of the blast, but part of it made a big divot in the landscape downrange. Because of the nature of the ground, it didn't look like a crater, more like someone sticking a broom handle in the mud. (Cracks and a hole, not ejecta, rim and round hole.) I think the link came from Slashdot or Fark.
But, based on surveys of the rest of the area looking for stony or iron debris have not found much.
So I call "Typical Russian BS" on this as well.
It would be a HUGE discovery to have pegged the event with some physical remains, that's a popular subject amongst science-geeks, conspiracy theorists and Slashdot.
For something to have been sitting in a museum (not studied?!) for three years and not noticed makes this look like insurance fraud more than anything else.
The sooner someone abuses that bloated dual-CPU computer slowing stupid language the better. Then, everybody will turn it off to avoid the shenanigans and the rest of the sites that use it will be forced to stop too.
I would love nothing more than to turn that crap off in all my browsers permanently without running into some dumb site that wants to use it for navigation somewhere.
This is my problem with his outing of a highly classified program - he did it because his personal politics said the program was bad. Let's be clear - he violated national security and put lives at increased risk because of his personal politics. He works in the NSA - he has given up his constitutional rights (he signed that paperwork). Want to state where you complained about this shit in the Valerie Plame threads?
Also somehow they are sure that this is safe. The interesting bit is that since these samples came from ancient ice, it seems that the world will naturally be filled with these guys soon. What, you think some this stuff hasn't been periodically thawing out since it got stuck there 8 million years ago?
If you are going to worry about bacteria, worry about the stuff that is now actively learning how to resist all of our antibiotics and hanging out in our hostpitals, not the stuff that hasn't encountered it before. You might as well blame Bush or AlQueda and claim we need to nuke the ice sheets to stop this while you are at it.
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God damn people like you piss me the fuck off.
Internet is not a private road. Internet was built on lots and lots of public funds, and lots and lots of private funds. Likewise the physical cabling runs across all sorts of land, most of it public right of way, granted to the telcos to use for what amounts to in the end, a bribe to governments.
So you analogy has a fucking hole right in the center of it like akin to 'hello.jpg', fingers digging in and pulling it open and all.
And what YOU are proposing is not just a fee to get on this "private highway" but also the private highway gets to steal paint, concrete and exit/entrance ramps from the public highway. Unless you are talking exclusively about point-to-point lines, you are a fucking liar. ALL of it connects to the same public network one way or another. And allowing priority this and QOS will fuck it all up. You think the telcos get in pissing matches about peering points now, just wait until they can charge everybody by the packet/hop and oh, if you leave the network thats x10.
The ONLY question is do the carriers have a right to charge content provider A to content consumer B as well as charge content consumer B for the bandwidth.
In other words, can we extort and double dip or not?
Nobody with any goddamn brains thinks that's a good idea. Nobody that doesn't stand to get RICH while doing it as well anyway.
* "Hey, I've got a bomb in my luggage" (said in an airport)
* Defamation (for a reasonable definition of the term)
* Hate speech ("We should kill all ")
Uhm, that last one there is still protected speech in the United States. You can say it all you want and nobody from the government can stop you (legally, or without violating your civil rights)
Actually, defamation is not illegal, but you can be sued in a civil court for it.
Only when you do the proverbial "fire in crowded theater" one that puts people at physical risk, or inciting a riot, etc. is it outlawed.
Facebook however, is a private entity and they can violate those rules right and left through their TOS.
And, seriously, that "hate speech" crap was made up in the late 80's and spread by ultra-liberal whack jobs (watch the "PCU" movie for a caractacture of it), and remains PC bullshit to this day.
How is it you think they are going to "source" the download? Download it first, then put it on a list?
As someone who has downloaded lots of music illegally, I have NEVER had to resort to bittorrent to get it. It's always some person I know sharing an entire hard drive full or whatever. (Not public sources.) Heck, you can put certain phrases in Google and get the default "directory listing allowed" for common web server software and find TONS of music shared on web servers.
Since it came out, I have probably downloaded 150 gigs of various game patchs, game mods, Linux versions, etc. all of which the users I got them from had a right to distribute and I for which I had a right to download. ZERO percent of my torrent use has been illegal downloading.
Limiting traffic is one thing (just throttle ALL of the heavy users traffic, email, web, games, etc.), saying all torrent downloads are illegal is plain flat out incorrect.
Note, parent posters link instantly crashes FireFox.
At night, under VFR?
I'd suspect controlled flight into terrain.
Pretty much buz buz buz buz WHAM. Dead. No warning and he'd be little pile at the base of some hill or cliff somewhere. You could walk right by it and not see the plane there.
He's coyote food.
Actually, I can tell you here in my (great drunk driving state of WI) that drinking while blasted does increase the probabilty of causing an accident.
.10 (the former legal limit) or .09 (now illegal) or .08 (borderline illegal) getting shafted LOOOONNGG before they are at the level of impairment of even talking on a cell phone, who are then subjected to what is basically a poorly built, poorly maintained piece of witchcraft known as a breathalyser. You might as well be attempting to test body thetans or use a polygraph. The science is that bad.
.08. The emphasis on this forces me to conclude the people pushing for the DUI laws stiffer than they already are have an alternative agenda that ends with "prohibition mark II".
And, I agree with you it is a criminal act that should be punished after a day in court.
HOWEVER,
We are not talking about the guys who are falling down smashed can't get the key in the door drunk.
We are talking about folks at
I see lots and lots of behavior and drivers on the road doing stuff WAY MORE DANGEROUS than someone getting home after happy hour toting a
You have two problems. Though I can see other posters will have better options for you to choose from, you have two fundamental issues to work through;
1) The internet and the machines need to be accessible, understandable and usable for what your clients needs are.
2) You need to be able to manage, fix, and protect the machines easily.
I can tell, because I have "been there" that submitter has reached his or her frustration limit with this project. This will be caused by a combination of the two things above. As sad as it is, as people get older they learn slower (in general) and find new things harder to do. They simply will not learn to not damage the machines fast enough. You could have an army of helpers sitting beside them the whole time they use these computers, and you will still be repairing, re-imaging and losing people's data on a regular basis.
Once you separate the two issues and work on them by themselves, you can solve this problem. If you mix the two in your needs you will have a harder time finding a solution that works.
In my opinion, this is a solution just screaming to be solved by Macs. (I am a Windows guy.) But I see Linux can probably do the job too.
I would lay out the two categories above in a list of needs, something like this:
Users need:
- big screen font type
- simplicity to get in, do what they want, and get out unsupervised
- ability to save and retain data in some way (again, on their own)
- not to much customization, don't give them options that are not relevant to their tasks
- but allow users who want more advanced stuff (Office suite of some kind) access
- all the basics; sound, video playback on the web, flash, shockwave, view PDFs, etc. (do not skimp on this or you will find the advanced users get unhappy quickly)
You need:
- to protect the machines so "reworking" them is rare
- to make reworking easy to do
- to make your quality time tutoring count, and not make you too frustrated
- which in turn implies; instructions, uber-simplicity, etc. to let the users who can be self directed, be self directed.
And, unless this is some sort of sentence (mandated community service) don't burn yourself out doing this, it is good to help people, but do not underestimate the time it takes to recover after a particularly aggravating or frustrating time with an octogenarian. It takes extreme patience and tolerance to do what you are doing, NEVER forget that. If you feel like you need a break, take it!
They are satellites of the galactic core now just like a star.
(Or, maybe the local cluster core.)
Definitely not satellites in the same sense that the layman thinks of them.
If I recall correctly, there are several actual science projects still going on with these two spacecraft, despite most of the instruments not being relevant for the tasks, technicians have found ways to tease extra information out of them.
First, the heliopause / helioshock transition did not happen the way they thought it did. It was in a different place and had different characteristics. They may still run into that, including vibration and change "bell ringing" of it. And, these things might be the only chance we EVER get to study the interstellar medium directly.
Second, there are light speed, distances vs. gravitiy issues where the spacecraft are NOT WHERE WE EXPECT THEM TO BE based on the equations we have to calculate for that. In other words, basic, fundamental cosmological questions can be pondered using these things.
The shame is, that people have been trying to turn them off thinking "we're done" when the cost to operate is a freaking drop in the bucket compared to the colossal waste that is the space shuttle. Put down your trashy science fiction novels for once and read some real papers produced by real science. Then you can get outside your narrow view of what one can "find" out there.
I think the links are a small part of what they are trying to achieve.
For example, Google's "community sites" thing "Blogger.com" has approximately 7 out of 10 of it's profiles some sort of spam, link lists (for search rankings to other sites), thinly veiled search whitewashing, malicious program installers, and some that redirect to porn. (The last one has kept me from visiting the site at work, the pop ups and stuff work even in FireFox.)
This policy, is a tool that can help them have a rule that lets them go through and delete that stuff. (LJ seems to have a lot less of it though.)
The following link its the "random next profile" link for blogger.com. Paste it into a browser a couple of times and you will see what I mean.
http://www.blogger.com/next-blog?navBar=true
That's not to say that responding to the right wing christian whack jobs like this is a good idea. But I DO see their point.
And that a drift with NO control whatsoever never has stagnant times or changing times. (Natural radiation varies from place to place so if one group of life ends up dominant from the low area, the clock is different than if it was from a higher mutation area. Same concept with viruses and whatnot, lots of the "junk DNA" appears to be genes of old micro-organisms that worked their way in to replicate with the host instead of infecting it.
Etc. etc.
Those "DNA clocks" are just something they like to ponder being stable, whereas they may turn out not to be.
Dictionary attack.
"aaaaaaaaa@gmail.com"
"aaaaaaaab@gmail.com"
"aaaaaaaac@gmail.com"
If you dig through your SMTP logs every once in a while, you see that stuff. Usually coming from a compromised home machine in short bursts of fifteen or thirty tries.
A few minutes later, another block is tried from another IP on the other side of the planet.
Plus, did you read the fine print on your Gmail account agreement? Did they SAY they wouldn't sell the address? Or did they SAY the wouldn't sell delivery of email to accounts? (Without releasing the list, they can do anything they want with the headers, it's their server after all.
As a porn connoisseur, I would like to point out that anybody that surfs for porn with Internet Explorer is a fucking idiot.
:)) you will see a higher percentage of users with FireFox as they learned the hard way once already you gotta switch to FireFox to get porn and download warez. Some of the sites providing porn are just using the porn as hooks to get computers infected for zombie nets. Not the good ones mind you, but if you search for [random hot chick, or random chick in news] often you will find one of these type sites.
Even the really really dumb ones get the idea it's not a good idea once they trash the OS once with some virus or something.
So, as a porn site operator (god bless you,
Here's one Slashdot story about it:1 2/14/0410240
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/
If what I wanted to be as a kid was what I am today, I would be a fire truck.
Yup, cuz DC isn't the poorest, most unrepresented, crime-ridden, and corrupted city government area in the US or anything like that.
It doesn't matter, because none of that stuff has any impact on education of the kids that grow up there. Only the money per student matters for education.
Borrow a trillion dollars for the education system and you could do a lot. Borrow a trillion for a war and you can kill a lot of brown people, and sell out the next generation for crushing tax burden, and they get to work in servitude all their lives with their crappy barely capable for blue collar job educations.
You aren't going to get any footing around here implying the war was not a waste of money asshat.
There was a Slashdot article about one of the PHP core developer guys quitting in disgust (paraphrased) due to the lack of concern for keeping it secured. When the people that wrote the stuff in the first place say it's insecure, it's insecure as far as I am concerned.
Search "PHP security" for several sites that lay it out in detail, including the "Month of PHP bugs blog". Same with Joomla, people wondering about the lack of easy security in the product are not hard to find.
Joomla! version list had "critical vulnerabilities" on every version except for the current release when I looked at it. I saw that on a list of "get these previous downloads", each had a warning about "xyz bug" after it.
I am not a security expert by any means, therefore, skipping these products because I am aware that "inexperienced admin + insecure software = disaster" makes me a better admin. You might be able to get by with one of those things.. both... good luck.
My point was more about developers though, every one of which thinks the shit they use is the best shit and everybody should use it. When there are 15, 20, or 40 such products pretty soon you gotta support every pile of junk ever created or start saying "no" when they want the latest and greatest SQL injection tool on the server.
Google yourself and make your own opinion about the security issues. I, was personally horrified at the thought of putting it on my servers, thus I didn't.
Los Angeles World Airports is a unique system of four airports owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles.
Any further questions?
Probably the lowest bidder union labor designing and setting it up. Shoulda called IBM.
Haha.
:)
I came in here to post similar snark, however parent did it way better than I ever could.
I get approached by "developers" wanting to put Joomla on my server periodically.
I always tell them "until the fundamental security flaws of PHP and CMS in general are fixed, that crap is not getting put on a web server I am responsible for running".
All those technologies just hide the security responsibilities, or shove them off on some poor server admin when the "developer" in question is too ignorant to deal with them themselves. Every one of those type things you add, means another thread of upgrades, patches, fixes, and adjustments and another threat vector to deal with. Meanwhile, the "build every site with the same damn tools no matter the situation developer" walks off with a pile of cash, leaving you to try to do support for whatever the tiny monthly hosting fee you happen to be getting.
I am not saying they should build a CMS from scratch every time, but when every major release ever put out (and some minor) have server-killing security holes in them what makes you think THIS release won't have one too?
Ok, so I added some of my own snark. You can mod me down now.
Well, there IS a group that has picked out a "potential crater" that went previously unrecognized that has done some expeditions and drilling in the lake to see if they can establish this for sure.
Apparently their idea is a large stony or iron object was the cause of the blast, but part of it made a big divot in the landscape downrange. Because of the nature of the ground, it didn't look like a crater, more like someone sticking a broom handle in the mud. (Cracks and a hole, not ejecta, rim and round hole.) I think the link came from Slashdot or Fark.
But, based on surveys of the rest of the area looking for stony or iron debris have not found much.
So I call "Typical Russian BS" on this as well.
It would be a HUGE discovery to have pegged the event with some physical remains, that's a popular subject amongst science-geeks, conspiracy theorists and Slashdot.
For something to have been sitting in a museum (not studied?!) for three years and not noticed makes this look like insurance fraud more than anything else.
That wasn't AT&T.
That was an impostor. Probably a PI or the CIA installing a data trap on your line.
How do I know this?
Nobody from AT&T is that competent.
Nice idea. Not practical.
The AARP would never let you push that many dues paying seniors off the road.
Most of the over 70 crowd would fail just about any reaction test that would catch all but passed out drunks too.
Granny has a right to drive to the farmers market!
The sooner someone abuses that bloated dual-CPU computer slowing stupid language the better. Then, everybody will turn it off to avoid the shenanigans and the rest of the sites that use it will be forced to stop too.
I would love nothing more than to turn that crap off in all my browsers permanently without running into some dumb site that wants to use it for navigation somewhere.
Didn't?
Oh. Fuck off then.
If you are going to worry about bacteria, worry about the stuff that is now actively learning how to resist all of our antibiotics and hanging out in our hostpitals, not the stuff that hasn't encountered it before. You might as well blame Bush or AlQueda and claim we need to nuke the ice sheets to stop this while you are at it.