The shop across the street was unionized. The manager at my dad's plant said, "I'll give you everything the union shop gets, no questions asked. They can go on strike, get a better deal, and then you'll get that deal. Plus, you don't have to miss that pay while you'd be out on strike."
They never unionized, and never went on strike. I guess the moral is that if you treat your employees with respect and treat them well (with good pay, good benefits, etc.) then unions aren't really required.
They aren't always followed, and they certainly aren't being followed by some countries I could mention, but war is supposed to have rules.
The problem with electronic warfare (Cyberwar? e-war? wartronics?) is that you're attacking civilians. There are horrible weaknesses in a great many systems (including the trunked radios used by first responders) that can easily be exploited. Remember, a lot of our coding is done overseas and/or done by exchange students on co-op terms. It doesn't really effect the army if every mortgage in North America gets the "foreclose" tag set. The Air Force doesn't stay home if the SCADA system controlling the reservoir gets false readings about chloroform counts and turns off the taps. If the phone companies are hit with DDoS attacks and you can't get a dial tone, that doesn't stop aircraft carriers.
What those acts do is target civilians. Suddenly, the water's off, the police are trying to kick me out of my home, and nobody can call a lawyer. War is supposed to target just those in uniform, fighting at the time.
The reasons we're not that interested in what Mulroney did are: 1. We all know that he's a corrupt asshole. 2. We got tired of his shit after Meech Lake. 3. If it's not "Hey, Chinboy's going to jail", we just don't care.
Our politicians aren't noble, not by any stretch. I wouldn't go far enough to call them 5-year dictatorships. After all, they have to get re-elected, and we'll remember.
Instead of trying to tilt one way or the other, we try our best to come up with compromises that suit all legitimate parties and society as a whole. Instead of saying, "w3 sld 2 d/l L R mp3s n war3z!" the rational amongst us will come up with some points that we can all agree on. What this does is force the other side to compromise as well. If the CCRA won't budge, then we can realize that they're full of back bacon and they can leave parliament hill.
We've always had an opposition party and called it Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. The idea is that you are supposed to be critical of your government - and that you never have your loyalty to the country (or the crown) questioned. This gives us a lot of options when the government messes up. If my local conservative MP doesn't want to listen, I can call Keith Martin's office and tell them all about it. They'll follow up. If the Industry Minister proposes crappy legislation, I can call the Industry Critics and send them a portfolio on the details.
You don't usually use a 16-sided dice. You've got 4,6,8,10,12,and 20. A standard polyhedral set comes with one of each of those two tens. You can get a 16-sider, but that's a special order in most cases. I'm also not aware of a game in which it would be useful.
You can also get a 100-sider, but you usually roll two 10s, one of which is marked with a trailing 0 on each side./Married//Still plays DnD///DMing tonight.////I own several sets of dice, including one set that's 20+ years old./////The only girl that I'm scared of is my daughter.
I bought a Daytek HDD recorder from Costco. I plug in cable and power and attach it to my TV. I then set up the recording sequence just like a VCR. It records the shows I want it to. I've noted one exception with a broadcast flag (Aqua Teen Hunger Force, wtf?), but other than that it works almost perfectly. I've currently got about 65 hours recorded that I've got to watch.
It also plays DivX or VixD disks. I got the Torchwood finale off Limewire (stupid CBC shifted it, and only announced it ONCE during the previous show, which we watched off "tape".) and it played with no problems.
I can watch a recorded show or a DVD while it's recording.
I can burn disks off the shows recorded onto the HDD.
I have no idea what or where the original poster bought. Apparently it's crap.
I was not allowed to use a programmable or graphing calculator on any exams. I used a Sharp EL-546 for my scholastic career. It was about $25. For that, I got matrix solutions, simpson's rule, algebraic substitution, polar and rectangular vector calculations, stats, function recall (so you can go back) and a bunch of other goodies.
At work, I do not use a "graphing" calculator. I use that old sharp (or calc.exe) for the few minor calculations that I have to do. For anything else, I use the simulation programs on the computer.
Really, who uses a calculator for anything important? You get the right tool for the job. As far as I'm concerned, using a graphing calculator instead of a sim (or RW tests) is the same as using a wristwatch.
Do you really want to connect to an unsecured network, thus exposing your computer to the viruses that would be on the network of someone who runs an unsecured wireless network?
Yes, I do wear body armour. I'm wearing some right now, in fact.
I've got steel-toed boots that I wear at the shop. I also wear earplugs when I'm in there, and safety glasses when I'm looking at the machines or when I'm soldering.
When I bike, I wear armoured gloves and a helmet.
When I go diving, I wear the right gear and I bring a "buddyguard".
You wear the right clothing for the right time. If I was walking around in a war zone, I'd wear body armour and have a lot of armed guards with me. If I was walking around with a gold brick in a bad neighbourhood, moving slowly (they're heavy)n and complaining, "this gold is sooooo heavy, ow, I can hardly move," then, yeah, I'd deserve to get beaten up.
In other words, you have to prepare yourself for dangers, get ready ahead of time, and be alert. Take some personal responsibility for yourself.
Indeed. The fix for poor software security is to create requirements for implementation, not punishments for breach. Those breaching don't care about UK or US policy. They are by definition scofflaws. And yes, I am directly stating here that it's not the cracker's fault the bank is easy to get into. It's the bank's fault and they deserve to lose the money. (Does YOUR bank use two-factor authentication, or do they make you think you're safe by asking those personal questions?)
When you build your code by hiring the lowest bidder with the least qualifications, then you should be liable. If a bridge building contractor didn't keep blueprints and didn't hire a qualified crew, then they would be sued or imprisoned. I can't just go and build a stadium or an overpass just because I think there should be one there.
If you do that with software - even software potentially worth billions of dollars - you get more contracts. Of course, it's not like anyone died as a result of bad software... oh, right. Any idiot can grab a book on teaching yourself programming and think they're an expert in 24 hours.
I have the knowledge to visit your reservoir and shut it down. (I'd have to actually visit it in person, but it's not like it's under guard.) That's just damned irresponsible programming on the part of the SCADA guys. Oops, your fecal chloroform count is way too high. Passport applications in Canada were compromised by bad coding, and last year the Canadian tax system shut down due to a glitch.
It is damned irresponsible to punish someone for making an nmap program publicly available when the institutions don't put on basic security measures. The cops say it's my fault if I don't lock my car. Why is this any different?
When did my peers and people of my parent's age become such softcore fascists?
When they got scared.
The real truth is that there is no bogeyman, and that there's nothing to fear but fear itself. Even my four-year old knows that. ("[Girl Name], what do we have to be afraid of?" "Being afraid.")
And now, some "crimes" are nearly impossible to prosecute. How can someone in the UK file suit against a "cracker" from Atiqua or Afghanistan? They could potentially steal your bank account information and steal your life savings, buy a handgun, rob a bank, and put you on death row. Now, when you assume - note that word - that the backwards savages outside your home country have to have help to break in, then clearly someone with brains - I mean a white guy - er, I mean someone from the homeland - er, someone reachable by our police - must have helped them. That's complete junk, but to some the point is valid. The bad guys must have help, so let's go after the help. Never mind that the "bad guys" get paid more than I do.
And people are scared because they think things are the worst they've ever been. The fact is, the good old days were never here. Terrorists have been around since at least the Romans. We survive. The day of judgment will never come.
But that's not enough. You can't tell people to calm down - you have to show them that you're doing something, anything.
Seriously - people are attempting to legislate abstract concepts that they don't know about. I've seen laws suggesting watermarks in A/D conveters. One of the US Senators honestly thinks the Interweb is a series of tubes. He might not even be familiar with the concept of electricity. Imagine Ancient Greeks trying to pass legislation on the use of titanium in groundwater near nuclear power plants. If I give an opinion on civil engineering, I could be fined up to $25,000. If a politician does, he gets rewarded.
Instead of demanding the removal of the clueless, people just revote for the same guy as last time - if they even voted - or "stay the course". When those in charge have literally no consequences for their actions and get paid to pass legislation from special interest groups. Is copyright theft something that ordinary people really care about? Are there people who are thinking, "man, I'd love to go to work today, but I'm afraid that someone, somewhere, is copying a DVD to take the ads out. If only our government would pass some laws to fix that problem." Okay, maybe if the guy works making DVDs, but that's not a normal guy.
When the victims became criminals. Look at identity theft - it could be prevented with 100% accuracy if the credit bureaus updated their computers. All they have to do is add a picture to your report and require an automatic phone call to the last known phone number any time you want a change. That's it. It's now impossible to steal someone's ID. Of course, it's your fault for not buying title insurance, paying Equifax $25 a month for credit checks, and using your "internet thing" for banking.
When people started getting used to the idea of "I have nothing to hide". You do. Everyone does. I have skeletons in my closet, and I want them to stay there.
So what it really boils down to is that people are in general afraid of something, but they don't know what it is. So, they turn their wrath on anything that can possibly hold their ire. Immigrants, Hackers, ID thieves, the Russians, terrorists, etc. As long as the eye isn't on them, then they're fine. Torture the sandnigger or the hacker. They're the ones who made the world such a fucked up place. It's all their fault.
They're really afraid of themselves. How long will it be until the bank comes calling, or the boss cans them, or the spouse will leave with the kids?
It's a scary thought - we're lead by clueless, corrupt, whores who run the place by tacit consent from people who are too afraid to interrupt their routine.
This isn't exactly what I meant to say, but I think the power here has become unreliable. There's a lot of wind outside.
Yeah, thanks, AC. I've got many of those - and I've been using them since Test Drive 3. (The first game I played with a sound card.) You couldn't always buy those ubiquitous self-powered speakers.
I have a Wii next to my stereo, already hooked up to the stereo. It would be nice if the web browser I have on that Wii would work like the one I have downstairs with the computers. I don't want to run wire all over the house.
Yeah, whoops. I did confuse those numbers. All I can say is, "It's Friday, and it's been a long year." You're right, I'm wrong, and I'm sorry.
Still, the idea of quadrupling the resolution (540i vs 1080p) then increasing the size of the TV by 10x means that the picture will be more grainy - especially when they say you have to sit further away to get the "full viewing experience".
I've seen a lot of LCD TVs on sale and display at various stores. The one thing they all have in common is they all look like crap. These aren't just the cheap TVs. I'm talking about multi-thousand-dollar models that just look horrible.
Perhaps "crap" isn't an objective term. They look grainy, have flicker, pixelation, and cost a fortune.
I saw an ad for one recently that was very proud of its "10-bit engine" capable of 1080 lines! Wow! Correct me if I'm wrong (like I have to ask) but that's basically the same picture you'll get on your 1024 x 768 monitor, but blown up to be 108 inches. Right now, on my ols 17" CRT, I'm running at 1152 x 864. If this picture was blown up to 108 inches, it would look like garbage. And yeah, an 1152 source is equivalent to HD already.
Why do people buy these? Is it for the graininess, the cool factor, the marketing hype, or what?
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Years ago, my dad worked in a smelter.
The shop across the street was unionized. The manager at my dad's plant said, "I'll give you everything the union shop gets, no questions asked. They can go on strike, get a better deal, and then you'll get that deal. Plus, you don't have to miss that pay while you'd be out on strike."
They never unionized, and never went on strike. I guess the moral is that if you treat your employees with respect and treat them well (with good pay, good benefits, etc.) then unions aren't really required.
War has rules. Check out the Geneva Convention.
They aren't always followed, and they certainly aren't being followed by some countries I could mention, but war is supposed to have rules.
The problem with electronic warfare (Cyberwar? e-war? wartronics?) is that you're attacking civilians. There are horrible weaknesses in a great many systems (including the trunked radios used by first responders) that can easily be exploited. Remember, a lot of our coding is done overseas and/or done by exchange students on co-op terms. It doesn't really effect the army if every mortgage in North America gets the "foreclose" tag set. The Air Force doesn't stay home if the SCADA system controlling the reservoir gets false readings about chloroform counts and turns off the taps. If the phone companies are hit with DDoS attacks and you can't get a dial tone, that doesn't stop aircraft carriers.
What those acts do is target civilians. Suddenly, the water's off, the police are trying to kick me out of my home, and nobody can call a lawyer. War is supposed to target just those in uniform, fighting at the time.
The reasons we're not that interested in what Mulroney did are:
1. We all know that he's a corrupt asshole.
2. We got tired of his shit after Meech Lake.
3. If it's not "Hey, Chinboy's going to jail", we just don't care.
Our politicians aren't noble, not by any stretch. I wouldn't go far enough to call them 5-year dictatorships. After all, they have to get re-elected, and we'll remember.
You, sir, deserve a hearty handshake. Well played.
(Not just because I read "The Machine that Won the War" recently.)
We do things differently in Canada.
Instead of trying to tilt one way or the other, we try our best to come up with compromises that suit all legitimate parties and society as a whole. Instead of saying, "w3 sld 2 d/l L R mp3s n war3z!" the rational amongst us will come up with some points that we can all agree on. What this does is force the other side to compromise as well. If the CCRA won't budge, then we can realize that they're full of back bacon and they can leave parliament hill.
We've always had an opposition party and called it Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. The idea is that you are supposed to be critical of your government - and that you never have your loyalty to the country (or the crown) questioned. This gives us a lot of options when the government messes up. If my local conservative MP doesn't want to listen, I can call Keith Martin's office and tell them all about it. They'll follow up. If the Industry Minister proposes crappy legislation, I can call the Industry Critics and send them a portfolio on the details.
And yes, I got your ghost joke.
For pr0n?
You don't usually use a 16-sided dice. You've got 4,6,8,10,12,and 20. A standard polyhedral set comes with one of each of those two tens. You can get a 16-sider, but that's a special order in most cases. I'm also not aware of a game in which it would be useful.
/Married //Still plays DnD ///DMing tonight. ////I own several sets of dice, including one set that's 20+ years old. /////The only girl that I'm scared of is my daughter.
You can also get a 100-sider, but you usually roll two 10s, one of which is marked with a trailing 0 on each side.
Not at all.
I bought a Daytek HDD recorder from Costco. I plug in cable and power and attach it to my TV. I then set up the recording sequence just like a VCR. It records the shows I want it to. I've noted one exception with a broadcast flag (Aqua Teen Hunger Force, wtf?), but other than that it works almost perfectly. I've currently got about 65 hours recorded that I've got to watch.
It also plays DivX or VixD disks. I got the Torchwood finale off Limewire (stupid CBC shifted it, and only announced it ONCE during the previous show, which we watched off "tape".) and it played with no problems.
I can watch a recorded show or a DVD while it's recording.
I can burn disks off the shows recorded onto the HDD.
I have no idea what or where the original poster bought. Apparently it's crap.
That's it, I'm moving to America!
"Your Majesty, I agree."
I'm an Engineer.
I was not allowed to use a programmable or graphing calculator on any exams. I used a Sharp EL-546 for my scholastic career. It was about $25. For that, I got matrix solutions, simpson's rule, algebraic substitution, polar and rectangular vector calculations, stats, function recall (so you can go back) and a bunch of other goodies.
At work, I do not use a "graphing" calculator. I use that old sharp (or calc.exe) for the few minor calculations that I have to do. For anything else, I use the simulation programs on the computer.
Really, who uses a calculator for anything important? You get the right tool for the job. As far as I'm concerned, using a graphing calculator instead of a sim (or RW tests) is the same as using a wristwatch.
Do you really want to connect to an unsecured network, thus exposing your computer to the viruses that would be on the network of someone who runs an unsecured wireless network?
My wife said she'd blow me if I got 280 in Wii bowling.
I just posted to get my sig in on the discussion.
Yes, I do wear body armour. I'm wearing some right now, in fact.
I've got steel-toed boots that I wear at the shop. I also wear earplugs when I'm in there, and safety glasses when I'm looking at the machines or when I'm soldering.
When I bike, I wear armoured gloves and a helmet.
When I go diving, I wear the right gear and I bring a "buddyguard".
You wear the right clothing for the right time. If I was walking around in a war zone, I'd wear body armour and have a lot of armed guards with me. If I was walking around with a gold brick in a bad neighbourhood, moving slowly (they're heavy)n and complaining, "this gold is sooooo heavy, ow, I can hardly move," then, yeah, I'd deserve to get beaten up.
In other words, you have to prepare yourself for dangers, get ready ahead of time, and be alert. Take some personal responsibility for yourself.
The system wasn't designed for this many users. We can't be in a sim because there's no lag.
QED
Indeed. The fix for poor software security is to create requirements for implementation, not punishments for breach. Those breaching don't care about UK or US policy. They are by definition scofflaws. And yes, I am directly stating here that it's not the cracker's fault the bank is easy to get into. It's the bank's fault and they deserve to lose the money. (Does YOUR bank use two-factor authentication, or do they make you think you're safe by asking those personal questions?)
When you build your code by hiring the lowest bidder with the least qualifications, then you should be liable. If a bridge building contractor didn't keep blueprints and didn't hire a qualified crew, then they would be sued or imprisoned. I can't just go and build a stadium or an overpass just because I think there should be one there.
If you do that with software - even software potentially worth billions of dollars - you get more contracts. Of course, it's not like anyone died as a result of bad software... oh, right. Any idiot can grab a book on teaching yourself programming and think they're an expert in 24 hours.
I have the knowledge to visit your reservoir and shut it down. (I'd have to actually visit it in person, but it's not like it's under guard.) That's just damned irresponsible programming on the part of the SCADA guys. Oops, your fecal chloroform count is way too high. Passport applications in Canada were compromised by bad coding, and last year the Canadian tax system shut down due to a glitch.
It is damned irresponsible to punish someone for making an nmap program publicly available when the institutions don't put on basic security measures. The cops say it's my fault if I don't lock my car. Why is this any different?
I don't really see how that's a problem either.
If your mp3 player doesn't load as a "mass storage device" and let you just swap the materials back and forth, then
YOU BOUGHT THE WRONG PLAYER.
End of story.
(Sorry about shouting, but the iPod people may not hear so well anymore.)
When did my peers and people of my parent's age become such softcore fascists?
When they got scared.
The real truth is that there is no bogeyman, and that there's nothing to fear but fear itself. Even my four-year old knows that. ("[Girl Name], what do we have to be afraid of?" "Being afraid.")
And now, some "crimes" are nearly impossible to prosecute. How can someone in the UK file suit against a "cracker" from Atiqua or Afghanistan? They could potentially steal your bank account information and steal your life savings, buy a handgun, rob a bank, and put you on death row. Now, when you assume - note that word - that the backwards savages outside your home country have to have help to break in, then clearly someone with brains - I mean a white guy - er, I mean someone from the homeland - er, someone reachable by our police - must have helped them. That's complete junk, but to some the point is valid. The bad guys must have help, so let's go after the help. Never mind that the "bad guys" get paid more than I do.
And people are scared because they think things are the worst they've ever been. The fact is, the good old days were never here. Terrorists have been around since at least the Romans. We survive. The day of judgment will never come.
But that's not enough. You can't tell people to calm down - you have to show them that you're doing something, anything.
Seriously - people are attempting to legislate abstract concepts that they don't know about. I've seen laws suggesting watermarks in A/D conveters. One of the US Senators honestly thinks the Interweb is a series of tubes. He might not even be familiar with the concept of electricity. Imagine Ancient Greeks trying to pass legislation on the use of titanium in groundwater near nuclear power plants. If I give an opinion on civil engineering, I could be fined up to $25,000. If a politician does, he gets rewarded.
Instead of demanding the removal of the clueless, people just revote for the same guy as last time - if they even voted - or "stay the course". When those in charge have literally no consequences for their actions and get paid to pass legislation from special interest groups. Is copyright theft something that ordinary people really care about? Are there people who are thinking, "man, I'd love to go to work today, but I'm afraid that someone, somewhere, is copying a DVD to take the ads out. If only our government would pass some laws to fix that problem." Okay, maybe if the guy works making DVDs, but that's not a normal guy.
When the victims became criminals. Look at identity theft - it could be prevented with 100% accuracy if the credit bureaus updated their computers. All they have to do is add a picture to your report and require an automatic phone call to the last known phone number any time you want a change. That's it. It's now impossible to steal someone's ID. Of course, it's your fault for not buying title insurance, paying Equifax $25 a month for credit checks, and using your "internet thing" for banking.
When people started getting used to the idea of "I have nothing to hide". You do. Everyone does. I have skeletons in my closet, and I want them to stay there.
So what it really boils down to is that people are in general afraid of something, but they don't know what it is. So, they turn their wrath on anything that can possibly hold their ire. Immigrants, Hackers, ID thieves, the Russians, terrorists, etc. As long as the eye isn't on them, then they're fine. Torture the sandnigger or the hacker. They're the ones who made the world such a fucked up place. It's all their fault.
They're really afraid of themselves. How long will it be until the bank comes calling, or the boss cans them, or the spouse will leave with the kids?
It's a scary thought - we're lead by clueless, corrupt, whores who run the place by tacit consent from people who are too afraid to interrupt their routine.
This isn't exactly what I meant to say, but I think the power here has become unreliable. There's a lot of wind outside.
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Yeah, thanks, AC. I've got many of those - and I've been using them since Test Drive 3. (The first game I played with a sound card.) You couldn't always buy those ubiquitous self-powered speakers.
I have a Wii next to my stereo, already hooked up to the stereo. It would be nice if the web browser I have on that Wii would work like the one I have downstairs with the computers. I don't want to run wire all over the house.
Ah, so you'll be able to run unsigned code on your Wii, which is connected to the internet 24 hours a day.
I can't wait for my Wii to get compromised. Awesome.
(Yes, I have a firewall, which - statistically speaking - is better than yours.)
I'd like it if you could play streaming audio on the Wii.
It would be great to pull up sky.fm or di.fm and listen to that on your home stereo.
Yeah, whoops. I did confuse those numbers. All I can say is, "It's Friday, and it's been a long year." You're right, I'm wrong, and I'm sorry.
Still, the idea of quadrupling the resolution (540i vs 1080p) then increasing the size of the TV by 10x means that the picture will be more grainy - especially when they say you have to sit further away to get the "full viewing experience".
I don't understand the appeal.
I've seen a lot of LCD TVs on sale and display at various stores. The one thing they all have in common is they all look like crap. These aren't just the cheap TVs. I'm talking about multi-thousand-dollar models that just look horrible.
Perhaps "crap" isn't an objective term. They look grainy, have flicker, pixelation, and cost a fortune.
I saw an ad for one recently that was very proud of its "10-bit engine" capable of 1080 lines! Wow! Correct me if I'm wrong (like I have to ask) but that's basically the same picture you'll get on your 1024 x 768 monitor, but blown up to be 108 inches. Right now, on my ols 17" CRT, I'm running at 1152 x 864. If this picture was blown up to 108 inches, it would look like garbage. And yeah, an 1152 source is equivalent to HD already.
Why do people buy these? Is it for the graininess, the cool factor, the marketing hype, or what?