Why is it that some people need their hand's held?
I don't know. Since you seem to need your hand held in regards to proper use of the Reply button (note that you replied to me, but apparently intended to reply to someone else), perhaps your more suited to answer your own question than you thought.
If this were real life, and the attacker and victim were both humans (as opposed to computers/networks), what Mr. Mullen is proposing would be known as "self defense," not "vigilante justice."
And, of course, you felt so strongly about that sentiment that you posted under your actual login...oh, wait...no you didn't.
Your post was OFFTOPIC
If the original post by the other poster hadn't been modded improperly, I wouldn't have had to post anything at all. Yes, technically it was off topic, but wouldn't the mod points have been better spent modding the original poster's post UP, instead of mine DOWN? Or is simple logic too complicated for people like you?
It was talking about the headline of the story. You don't get much more on-topic than talking about the story. It's not like he was waxing philosophical about the effects of cheese on the automobile industry.
It may have been a stupid joke
As far as I can tell, it wasn't meant to be a joke. To "worm" a dog is to remove the worms. It only stands to reason that to "worm" a network would also be to remove the worms.
We aren't talking about dogs here.
We don't have to be. It's about the English language. Not that anyone would ever expect Slashdot editors and submitters to know anything about that.
Perhaps the solution to all this nonsense is to get the browser publishers to get together and tell all the webmasters (via press release or what have you) that if they don't stop pissing on the entire PURPOSE of the web, that the referrer functionality will be removed from the browsers, and then they'll NEVER know where their visitors are coming from.
It's obvious these jackasses don't know their asses from their elbows when it comes to their asses and elbows, let alone how "teh Intarweb" works. They're not going to listen to reason, so just give them an ultimatum they can't ignore.
You're citing a web site that doesn't even know what an acronym is (I find it amusing that, technically, they do know that an acronym has to be a pronounceable word, but they have a blurb on their web site to claim that isn't the case in order to make themselves look less stupid...at least to the ignorant masses), to "prove" that a journalist supposedly doesn't know how to pluralize an abbreviation? Simply amazing.
From laymen, this is expected. From a journalist, who is supposed to understand basic grammar rules as part of the job, this is just sad. And in the New York Times, no less.
I hate to shoot you down here (there's nothing I like more than to point out the shortcomings of a journalist), but there's nothing wrong with the way the writer pluralized CD's and DVD's. The apostrophe takes the place of missing letters. In this case, the missing letters are "isc" (as in "Compact Discs" and "Digital Versatile Discs").
IBM claiming cheaply available 6 Terrabyte solid state hard disks the size of a sugar cube will be availible in 2000.
LOL...wow. I think the only thing you got right there was the part about "size of a sugar cube."
I don't recall the specifics, but it wasn't IBM...in fact, no company was mentioned...it was just "a group of researchers." I believe the capacity was closer to 2GB, not 6TB. It was some sort of weird cellular (as in real cells, not cell phones) technology, not "solid state." The technology was for RAM, not hard disks. And, finally, there was never an availability date mentioned.
You're right. This isn't the "wild west." We live in a civilized society - one in which our citizens should be able to aptly defend themselves from would-be attackers through any means necessary, without any interference from the ignorant.
He's probably right, with or without proof. Of course, that statistic ignores how many lives are saved by guns kept in the home.
An intruder need not be shot for the gun to have served its purpose. I'm sure most home intrusions that are thwarted by a firearm are simply a matter of brandishing the weapon, and the intruder flees. No shots fired, so no dead bad guys.
Also, it stands to reason that the more time you spend around something that can kill you, the more likely you are to be killed by it. If I only drive a car for 1 minute in my entire life, I'm less likely to get into a fatal car accident than someone who drives a car for 8 hours a day, every day of their life. Family members naturally spend more time in the home than intruders do, thus they are more likely to be killed by a firearm kept in that home. Does that mean that if you have a firearm in your home, one of your family members will die? Of course not, but don't expect an anti-gunner to own up to that fact.
This little "statistic" is nothing more than something the anti-gunners like to throw out there. Why they do it, I have no idea...nothing hurts your cause more than throwing out arguments that are easily defeated with simple logic.
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But that is not a criteria in the definitions you gave.
On the contrary, I did say that an acronym must be a pronounceable word. "FBI" is not pronounceable as a word; only as the letters that comprise this supposed "word."
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I think an abbreviation is more like this:
"abbrev."
While that is an abbreviation, it's not the only example.
Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines an abbreviation as "a shortened form of a written word or phrase used in place of the whole." FBI and MTV both fall under that definition.
Merriam-Webster's defines an acronym as "a word formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term." RADAR and SCUBA fit the definition (RADAR also fits the definition of a palindrome, but that's another topic;). FBI and MTV do not.
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"Free as a bird" means "completely uninhibited."
"Free Willy" was about freeing Willy from his habitat, or in other words, making him "completely uninhibited."
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I could say that President Bush is black, and while it's "not obvious," it's hardly insightful, because it's incorrect.
Perhaps the solution to all this nonsense is to get the browser publishers to get together and tell all the webmasters (via press release or what have you) that if they don't stop pissing on the entire PURPOSE of the web, that the referrer functionality will be removed from the browsers, and then they'll NEVER know where their visitors are coming from.
It's obvious these jackasses don't know their asses from their elbows when it comes to their asses and elbows, let alone how "teh Intarweb" works. They're not going to listen to reason, so just give them an ultimatum they can't ignore.
In other words, it's 100% correct.
I don't recall the specifics, but it wasn't IBM...in fact, no company was mentioned...it was just "a group of researchers." I believe the capacity was closer to 2GB, not 6TB. It was some sort of weird cellular (as in real cells, not cell phones) technology, not "solid state." The technology was for RAM, not hard disks. And, finally, there was never an availability date mentioned.
Of course, my point still stands. =)
An intruder need not be shot for the gun to have served its purpose. I'm sure most home intrusions that are thwarted by a firearm are simply a matter of brandishing the weapon, and the intruder flees. No shots fired, so no dead bad guys.
Also, it stands to reason that the more time you spend around something that can kill you, the more likely you are to be killed by it. If I only drive a car for 1 minute in my entire life, I'm less likely to get into a fatal car accident than someone who drives a car for 8 hours a day, every day of their life. Family members naturally spend more time in the home than intruders do, thus they are more likely to be killed by a firearm kept in that home. Does that mean that if you have a firearm in your home, one of your family members will die? Of course not, but don't expect an anti-gunner to own up to that fact.
This little "statistic" is nothing more than something the anti-gunners like to throw out there. Why they do it, I have no idea...nothing hurts your cause more than throwing out arguments that are easily defeated with simple logic.
Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines an abbreviation as "a shortened form of a written word or phrase used in place of the whole." FBI and MTV both fall under that definition.
Merriam-Webster's defines an acronym as "a word formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term." RADAR and SCUBA fit the definition (RADAR also fits the definition of a palindrome, but that's another topic