They didn't do anything to fix the problem. He had listened to enough bulls**t from them and told them to take it down. Typical government agency attitude. Interior thought they were above the law and didn't have to be responsible for the info on their sites or it's security.
Hell yes he should. If that were sensitive information about you on that system wouldn't you want the judge to be able to order them to take the site down until they fixed the problem. I personally think he should have done more and put some of the responsible government employees in jail for contempt and malfeasance.
Fundamentalist Christian movements throughout history even in modern times have more than shown their own willingness to shed others blood to save them from damnation. Nobody in their right minds believes that the "Moral Majority" wouldn't use force to contain ideas and beliefs that they find dangerous.
Something like this would operate in the millivolt range or possibly even microvolt. When you are measuring differences in conductivity with advanced sensors you don't need much in the way of current or voltage.
The skills a successful terrorist would need would be completely different from what a military commander would need. Most terrorist activities are not really military in nature.
Ignore him. He's just another one of those "violence never solves anything" nuts. He obviously never paid any attention in history class and has no capability to predict the future. If he knew anything about how the real world works he'd learn the lessons taught by the Jews at Masada, the Tibetans, and every other relatively nonviolent people in the history of the world. The lessons are real simple but people such as he can never understand them. They are simply that for any group of people incapable of defending themselves there will be another group of people more than willing to take their lives, land, and freedoms away by force. Don't hate the pacifists for they are too blind to see that the only reason they are sheltered enough to be able to keep their beliefs is that they were protected by people who were willing to lay down their lives to protect them.
Yeah and you put those big city hardcore gangbangers down in any small coal town in West Virginia and they'll get their a**es handed to them in a garbage bag.
Speaking of morons, have you ever been to some of these smaller cities? Places like Milwaukee and Gary Indianna have a higher level of violence than almost any inner city slum of New York or LA. I've lived in some major cities and little coal towns in West Virginia and I can tell you from personal experience that the average big city gang banger wouldn't last a minute in some of the smaller cities. For the most part the drug turf wars have been fought in the big cities but they are still going on or even have just started in the smaller places. The big city gangs are expanding their gangs and establishing branches in second tier cities looking for more market for their drugs. The teens in these cities have even less of a future to look forward to than the average big city teen because their cities and towns are dying because new businesses want to go where the action is not to some boring widwest city. Also the smaller cities don't want to admit that they might have a problem with gangs so they deny they might have a problem until it is too late to do anyhting about. The little towns though do have a chance. They are small enough for new activity to be noticed and big city punks trying to come in to organize things tend to get noticed. If they come in and get locals involved quickly and have them run the show they have a chance but if they try to control it themselves they will have almost everyone in town after them and in the places I come from that means if the law don't get you the people will.
Anyway that got off of my point. Your arrogance in assuming the problem can't possibly be as bad or worse in other places is astounding. There are many reasons that it can be and is. Most of those reasons have to do with the drug trade and the fact that it wasn't as organized in the smaller cities but now they are fighting the turf wars there that happened in the bigger cities years ago.
Are you always so dense that you don't realize it takes people to operate planes and tanks? Those poeple have to get out of them every once in a while.
This is one time that we shouldn't give a flying f*ck about what the rest of the world think. Yes we need to bring in as many others as we can but even if we end up standing all alone in this it is something we must do or watch over the end of this unique and special culture. There some things in life that are of such monumental impact that a person, group, or nation must take a stand. There comes a point where the everything comes together and you know that no amount of bargaining, negotiating, or peaceful intent are going to make any difference. Just as the guys who went down fighting on the one plane you have to make a choice. Am I going to be a spineless, gutless wonder, or am I going to stand tall and say "I can't change the whole world but in this instance I can make a difference." We as a people can stand up and make difference. We may not win but to not do so is the worst form of moral cowardice. Sometimes you have to stand and fight for the right thing even knowing you can't ultimately win. A goal of ridding the world of terrorism is one of those fights that need to be fought. I don't kid myself we can't win. We can make difference. We can hold our head up knowing we are trying to prevent any further catastrophes and make the world a little better for as many people as we can. Does anypeople here really think the people of Afghanistan will be worse off if we destroy the Taliban. We have always been a generous people and I guarantee we will help them try to rebuild.
Not at 10,000ft. you couldn't. That's pushing 2 miles. The best sniper rifle ever made couldn't hit something that size at that range except by sheer accident.
Anybody who uses root as their primary account in any Unix type system needs a serious lesson in security and safety. Of course given any reasonable time frame they will get one. Either they will get owned or they will screw up their system so bad they can't recover it.
Bullsh!t. Whether you like it or not everything in life is judged by appearances and associations. That vocal minority as you put it are the most visible. That puts you in jeopardy of being associated with people that no one takes seriously. That means you won't be taken seriously either. You may not like that fact but it is the way the world works. If you intend a work to be taken seriously by people then appearances are something you have to look at. I believe in the GPL but still believe that its so called supporters are its worst enemies.
I think you need to do some research into what the title Chief Executive means. The DOJ is part of the Executive branch of the government and its head is directly responsible to the president. That doesn't mean that I think Bush ordered them to drop the case but realistically they probably did clear it with him first. It's too high a profile case for them to let him get caught by surprise.
Why? Gore was as big a joke as Bush. I've been voting since 1980 and this was the first presidential election I didn't vote in. I voted in the primary but all of the choices in the general election were bad. I couldn't even find any reason to think any of them were less bad than the others.
But he is also a man to whom this field is as necessary as breathing. Given his dependance on computer interfaces and the amount of time he must spend alone with his thoughts I would bet that he has spent considerable time thinking through the implications.
How about because Hawking spends every day communicating with the world through a computer interface. I'm pretty sure that he has a keen interest in where the technology is and where it is probably going to go. He works in a place that would give him considerable access to some of the foremost authorities on said topics and probably has cultivated friendships with a few of them. I know if I was him I would sure manage to learn quite a bit about fields like AI and neural interfacing of computer components. I'd say the odds are good that the man has probably learned more about the subject than most anybody who is not a current researcher in a related field. Of course what do I know, can't be much I'm reading Slashdot.
But you have it backwards. The first systems of this type will almost certainly be military and their motivations will be anything but avoidance of harm to humans.
A programmer is not an engineer. There are software engineering programs at some colleges but I am not sure that it really qualifies as engineering. If a graduate of one of those programs qualifies as an engineer (something I am not willing at this point to stipulate). The vast majority of programmers never have had and never will have the kind of training it takes to qualify as an engineer. True engineers have had training and experience bringing projects in on time and under budget. All of the succesful businesses I know of that have been started by engineers were started by people with experience managing projects and budgets. The vast majority of the dotcom businesses that went flop were started by people with not enough eudcation, experience, and financial savvy. Being able to code in C++ or Java does not make someone qualified to lead a project or manage people and resources. The dotcom boom was a youth boom as much as anything. VC's in love with the idea of funding the next superstar high tech company and young people without the skills and knowledge to develope their ideas while managing the project within a budget.
For what it is going to cost us to upgrade to W2K where I work we could get everybody admin level certification for Linux, OpenVMS, and Tru64. Hire two more people and have some money left over for some new hardware.
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They didn't do anything to fix the problem. He had listened to enough bulls**t from them and told them to take it down. Typical government agency attitude. Interior thought they were above the law and didn't have to be responsible for the info on their sites or it's security.
Hell yes he should. If that were sensitive information about you on that system wouldn't you want the judge to be able to order them to take the site down until they fixed the problem. I personally think he should have done more and put some of the responsible government employees in jail for contempt and malfeasance.
I'm 42 and I liked the books. I'll even go see the movie and I almost never go to movies.
Fundamentalist Christian movements throughout history even in modern times have more than shown their own willingness to shed others blood to save them from damnation. Nobody in their right minds believes that the "Moral Majority" wouldn't use force to contain ideas and beliefs that they find dangerous.
Something like this would operate in the millivolt range or possibly even microvolt. When you are measuring differences in conductivity with advanced sensors you don't need much in the way of current or voltage.
The skills a successful terrorist would need would be completely different from what a military commander would need. Most terrorist activities are not really military in nature.
Ignore him. He's just another one of those "violence never solves anything" nuts. He obviously never paid any attention in history class and has no capability to predict the future. If he knew anything about how the real world works he'd learn the lessons taught by the Jews at Masada, the Tibetans, and every other relatively nonviolent people in the history of the world. The lessons are real simple but people such as he can never understand them. They are simply that for any group of people incapable of defending themselves there will be another group of people more than willing to take their lives, land, and freedoms away by force. Don't hate the pacifists for they are too blind to see that the only reason they are sheltered enough to be able to keep their beliefs is that they were protected by people who were willing to lay down their lives to protect them.
Yeah and you put those big city hardcore gangbangers down in any small coal town in West Virginia and they'll get their a**es handed to them in a garbage bag.
Anyway that got off of my point. Your arrogance in assuming the problem can't possibly be as bad or worse in other places is astounding. There are many reasons that it can be and is. Most of those reasons have to do with the drug trade and the fact that it wasn't as organized in the smaller cities but now they are fighting the turf wars there that happened in the bigger cities years ago.
Are you always so dense that you don't realize it takes people to operate planes and tanks? Those poeple have to get out of them every once in a while.
Where I work we use a couple dozen of them and in the year and a half I've been here there hasn't been a single problem with any of them.
That is exactly what reverse engineering is. You take the spec and write a new implementation from scratch.
This is one time that we shouldn't give a flying f*ck about what the rest of the world think. Yes we need to bring in as many others as we can but even if we end up standing all alone in this it is something we must do or watch over the end of this unique and special culture. There some things in life that are of such monumental impact that a person, group, or nation must take a stand. There comes a point where the everything comes together and you know that no amount of bargaining, negotiating, or peaceful intent are going to make any difference. Just as the guys who went down fighting on the one plane you have to make a choice. Am I going to be a spineless, gutless wonder, or am I going to stand tall and say "I can't change the whole world but in this instance I can make a difference." We as a people can stand up and make difference. We may not win but to not do so is the worst form of moral cowardice. Sometimes you have to stand and fight for the right thing even knowing you can't ultimately win. A goal of ridding the world of terrorism is one of those fights that need to be fought. I don't kid myself we can't win. We can make difference. We can hold our head up knowing we are trying to prevent any further catastrophes and make the world a little better for as many people as we can. Does anypeople here really think the people of Afghanistan will be worse off if we destroy the Taliban. We have always been a generous people and I guarantee we will help them try to rebuild.
Not at 10,000ft. you couldn't. That's pushing 2 miles. The best sniper rifle ever made couldn't hit something that size at that range except by sheer accident.
Anybody who uses root as their primary account in any Unix type system needs a serious lesson in security and safety. Of course given any reasonable time frame they will get one. Either they will get owned or they will screw up their system so bad they can't recover it.
Bullsh!t. Whether you like it or not everything in life is judged by appearances and associations. That vocal minority as you put it are the most visible. That puts you in jeopardy of being associated with people that no one takes seriously. That means you won't be taken seriously either. You may not like that fact but it is the way the world works. If you intend a work to be taken seriously by people then appearances are something you have to look at. I believe in the GPL but still believe that its so called supporters are its worst enemies.
I think you need to do some research into what the title Chief Executive means. The DOJ is part of the Executive branch of the government and its head is directly responsible to the president. That doesn't mean that I think Bush ordered them to drop the case but realistically they probably did clear it with him first. It's too high a profile case for them to let him get caught by surprise.
Why? Gore was as big a joke as Bush. I've been voting since 1980 and this was the first presidential election I didn't vote in. I voted in the primary but all of the choices in the general election were bad. I couldn't even find any reason to think any of them were less bad than the others.
But he is also a man to whom this field is as necessary as breathing. Given his dependance on computer interfaces and the amount of time he must spend alone with his thoughts I would bet that he has spent considerable time thinking through the implications.
How about because Hawking spends every day communicating with the world through a computer interface. I'm pretty sure that he has a keen interest in where the technology is and where it is probably going to go. He works in a place that would give him considerable access to some of the foremost authorities on said topics and probably has cultivated friendships with a few of them. I know if I was him I would sure manage to learn quite a bit about fields like AI and neural interfacing of computer components. I'd say the odds are good that the man has probably learned more about the subject than most anybody who is not a current researcher in a related field. Of course what do I know, can't be much I'm reading Slashdot.
But you have it backwards. The first systems of this type will almost certainly be military and their motivations will be anything but avoidance of harm to humans.
Thats funny. I used it on a K6-2@266mhz with 32MB and it wasn't that much slower than MS Office.
A programmer is not an engineer. There are software engineering programs at some colleges but I am not sure that it really qualifies as engineering. If a graduate of one of those programs qualifies as an engineer (something I am not willing at this point to stipulate). The vast majority of programmers never have had and never will have the kind of training it takes to qualify as an engineer. True engineers have had training and experience bringing projects in on time and under budget. All of the succesful businesses I know of that have been started by engineers were started by people with experience managing projects and budgets. The vast majority of the dotcom businesses that went flop were started by people with not enough eudcation, experience, and financial savvy. Being able to code in C++ or Java does not make someone qualified to lead a project or manage people and resources. The dotcom boom was a youth boom as much as anything. VC's in love with the idea of funding the next superstar high tech company and young people without the skills and knowledge to develope their ideas while managing the project within a budget.
If you have a problem with it find the peabrain who read about Berlin on Slashdot and went to their site and screwed with the Wikki page.
For what it is going to cost us to upgrade to W2K where I work we could get everybody admin level certification for Linux, OpenVMS, and Tru64. Hire two more people and have some money left over for some new hardware.