It's disturbing to to see people with little bits of knowledge promoting evil social agendas in the name of out-dated science they clearly don't even understand.
Thanks for you idiotic opinion. We that actually know what we're talking about hope to god that people like you never get into a position to create policy.
Back when I had my computer plugged right into my cable modem I never had a problem with bittorrent slow downs at all. I had probems even surfing properly with bittorrent on once I added a router. Configuring QOS seemed to do nothing. You're DOSing your own router with too many open connections, it has nothing to do with bandwidth. Some routers are better able to handle hundreds of connections then others. The old linksys wireless routers (that most people still use) are garbage in this regard.
Whoa. Someone didn't allow the discussion to degenerate into childish name calling. Congrats:)
The first problem is that it's impossible to ever actually verify someone's identity because you need non photo id at some point to obtain photo id. This just increases plausible deniability to anyone faking their identity.
Secondly you can exclude certain groups from being able to obtain ids.
Thirdly businesses could require you to scan your id to make purchases. You are free to not shop there but if everyone does it you're sol.
Fourthly: Fraud and identity theft.
Fifth. Within the scope of the constitution, the purpose of which is to limit the powers of the government, we should be asking: why does the government need a national id? not: Why do people need a national id?
Sixth. This is a purely a philosophical viewpoint but we as free people in a free country you are not defined as a free human being and a citizen by the mere posession of an 'id card'. Just as you are not defined as being a free human and a citizen being by having an address or a job. This is self evident. It's not a right that is granted. In other words, we are all free to do what the hell we want when the hell we want, unless we're breaking the law. Period.
But lets just say that mission creep *does* happen. What's the big deal really? In the end. What is it? Here goes: Let's say it becomes illegal to not have an id card. 'Nuff said.
3) Form highly publicized media outlets and channels to scrutinize this work being done so that the general public is kept informed on the progress of cures for these diseases.
Any medical team or individual who comes up with such a cure shuld be treated as a "rock star" and a foot note should be made in the history books of this individuals name. I agree with everything you said but in particular this is an insightful statement. I'm not sure how it is in the states but there's not a lot of incentive to go into biotech here (in Canada). The pay is really crappy and there's not a lot of jobs. If I want to become a researcher now I have the option to go to grad school and get paid $18k a year for 5 years, of which school fees will come out of during that time. After that you make decent money, but your wages probably never will be commensurate with your training. One could make far more in computing with less time/money/effort.
Err.. Isn't their such a thing as burden of proof? Otherwise the damage claim is based on what someone may have done, and what others may have done who have their own free will.
"Maturity means responsibility. Taking responsibilty for your own life and your own actions, as well as acting responsibly and dealing responsibly with the actions of those around you."
I agree with that statement but disagree with the premise that one needs to be childish in order to adapt to a changing environment.
You define the problem in vague terms, generalize it to society in general then propose a solution based on a false premise.
Your argument is taking the general form of many of the comments:
I observed Problem A once, therefore the problem with society is problem A. Problem A seems be getting worse in recent years. I blame Problem A associated group with the increase in Problem A. If only we could get Problem A associated group to understand that they are cause of society's decline, then they would stop and society would stop declining.
For instance:
The problem with society is that people don't discipline their kids anymore. When kids aren't disciplined they don't learn boundaries and think they can do whatever they want without consequences. This is why crime is getting worse and society is falling apart.
It just seems to me that some people are doing a lot of finger pointing and blaming of things which may not even be problems. Blaming other people and the inability to accept other people's behavior doesn't seem very mature to me.
The number of malformed arguments based on a poor understanding of genetics and biology in this thread is staggering. It almost like watching people argue religion.
I wonder if "they" have the ability to form cogent arguments based on sound critical thinking skills or if "they" are forced to resort to selective quoting and vague generalizations.
I think we can both agree that the problem is that "they" are not receiving enough prayer in schooling any more. "They" need to start "expressing themselves" less and acting like you more.
It seems these days that HR people are more concerned with trivial bullshit then what really matters when hiring someone: the ability to do the job well. Some people that I know from university that took lots of drugs and got in trouble with the law also happened to be brilliant and got extremely good grades. As it happens they mostly moved on to advanced degrees in research in acadamia where eccentricity is more accepted.
I mean I look at companies like Microsoft where the employees are expected to stay under the yoke of corporate oppression and what so I see? An environment where everyone is so desparate to do what they are told and not be noticed that they no longer able to ship a product. Why? Because when something goes wrong no one wants to take responsibility. It's easier to pretend that nothing is wrong. To quote Bill Hicks: since when was benality and mediocrity a good thing?
On the hand I understand that people treat myspace/livejournal as anonymous and it's not. I'd say that's a caveat to everyone. People say shit on the net they'd never say to someone's face.
On the other hand, to be quite honest, I don't want to work for a company that's that desparate to pry into my personal life because it's obvious to me that company has lost vision and direction. If they want mindless widget tighteners then they can look elsewhere.
It's a valid point but as other's have pointed out you have to question the legitimacy of the information being posted. Blogs are trivial to fake. And by the way it's not illegal to put a sign in your yard saying that you hate the government.
I went to high school in the early 90's in Canada and me and and my punk friends ran a 'zine' called C.U.M. in which we openly criticized the staff and fellow students in inflammatory terms and described techniques in vandalism. We ran a campaign for student government and put posters up around the school saying shit like "**** says: Solve the parking problem, burn more cars." and a picture of the dudes face. And all our weird-ass friends with mohawks actually got voted in, lol. We stole all the doorstops in the school and put up posters advertising 'doopstop mania' and one day set up tables and arranged all the doorstops artistically. My friend put on a dress and handcuffed himself to the principal's desk. I don't think anyone getting expelled was even ever in question. I mean I think people got fed up with the shameless cries for attention, but that's really what it was. It was satire and it was fun. If there was any disciplinary action for being a little weird and outspoken, it probably would have started a shit storm that wouldn't have been worth it.
Remember, you live in a free country, you can do what you want as long as you're not hurting someone. Time to start stick up for yourself. I wouldn't be scared to.
I followed the same philosolphy for a long time and it worked out for me but that past couple years security has been getting very bad on windows. There *are* un-patched exploits that *can* install software on your computer without user intervention just by visiting a website. I know this because it happened to me a couple times. At that point I installed nod32.
I know where you're coming from.. but they days you don't even have to click.
Most virus scanners protect against other malware as well.. worms trojans and backdoors.. I wouldn't bother with any other malware software.
I use nod32 because it was a very small memory and processor footprint. Every other scanner seems to turn any system, no matter how fast and how much memory, into a pig.
The problem I have with security software is that some people, ie, my father for instance, are paranoid and install some gigantic resorce-sucking pig like Mcaffee w/ virus, firewall and whatnot and some strange, *and* vaguely named prog named Webwasher. The theory I guess is that stacking security software makes your machine somehow even *more* safe. Well no, it just slows the system down to an unbearable crawl and causes security warning windows to pop up every 10 minutes.
Remember you have to use your system, not just protect it. So I use just nod32 and the built in windows xp firewall. Also most people behind a router don't really need a firewall anyway, the router is providing roughly the same function.
Some people will yell that you *need* a third party firewall for this reason and that. I researched them for a while and found that most were poorly configured and popped up false hits all the time, just training people to hit the 'allow' button automatically without even reading the warning. Secondly that *they don't work*. Even if you configure them correctly your computer can communicate with the outside world just fine. Any firewall can protect from incoming packets at the application level, but all an attacker has to do is hijack another thread and you're screwed. The only firewall that 'works' that I found was tiny firewall.. all the other ones are worse than garbage.
Enough with the randomsness bullshit. You say the random number generator is random but I predict that it will produce numbers. It doesn't start producing cheese. There's a lot of predictibility involved in that particular system, just like there is in any system. In fact depending on where you're getting your entropy from, your random number generator may be a lot more predictable then your think. I want people to stop claiming that:
"At the most fundamental level everything works by inherently random processes. "
So what you're predicting about everything (everywhere, since the beginning of time to the end) is that it's all unpredictable. Huh?
I was just going over it my mind and regardless of the amount of information you gather it never changes the S/N of data of interest so to speak. This is whether or not you are talking about phone records or video taping everything that every citizen does, as they do in the UK -- which I'd like to point out didn't stop the london train bombings. Obviously the reason for that is they have thousands or millions of hours of tape of people walking around. Who cares. Criminals have long had to evade detection, so the promise of 'facial recognision software' will not prevent criminals from gaining weight, wearing a wig, wearing a big hat, holding a newspaper in front of their face, etc. Phone monitoring has occured since the introduction of the phone. Terrorsts will simply avoid using the phone, period, if there's no other way around it. AND NOW THEY KNOW ABOUT THE PROGRAM. Which makes it useless.
If there's no way around being video taped and monitored and having ids checked all the time, the terrorist will obtain fake ids.
My question to everyone is do you think that collecting a lot of biometric data on a person and linking it to all those records make it easier to catch a terrorist, or easier to evade detection? Think about it.
However what it does do is make it real fucking easy to steal a persons identity and commit fraud, provided that you hve access to those files. Hmmm. In the future criminals will make wonderful careers in law enforcement.
I don't understand how you can catch anyone doing anything without knowing what the content exchanged in a connection was. Say I connected to thepiratebay.org. does that mean I broke law?? I'm assuming the same goes for child porn. How do you know what was data was exchanged? I'm just not seeing the big picture.
What happens if your computer is hacked and used to host child porn? So there's all these dude out there with child porn and logs of connections with your computer and they find child porn on your computer.
Lets say I p2p all the time there's nothing but connections to a whole bunch of people.
People buy macs to use OSX, it's just that good. I have a PC to play games, everything else I do on my ibook. Dvorak likes to mention this running windows on a mac is bad thing.. this is stupid. The reason why it's a good idea to let people run windows on a mac is because it will get the fence sitters.. ie "I *would* buy a mac but I need windows for some things" to buy a mac then they'll just use mac OSX all the time because it's just that good. The whole OSX should be open source makes no sense because OSX is far better than any other unix operating system. It's better but you have to pay for it. Duh.
Yeah I'm sure that Microsoft is spending money reverse engineering and pulling apart OSX code for some reason. Double duh.
This guy should not be allowed to write about an operating system he has obviously never used.
Yes I do believe that Ghyslain Raza is an unhappy kid. I think that's completely reasonable. Just like I don't think you liked getting picked on in school and that made you unhappy too. Obviously you still maintain a belief system that some people get picked on. You think I'm hounding you and define yourself as a weaker person. You want to be left alone but you do things to provoke a response.
It just seems to me that other people are adopting a vindictive attitude because they got picked on in school too.
I'll bet that secretly you wished you were cool too and if you had the social tools to pick on them back again you would have.
I don't have sympathy because I don't think giving sympathy helps people be happy and well adjusted. People with persecution complexes interpret everything as persecution because that is their belief system. 'The problem is *you*, a whatcha gunna do'. I have a buddy that got picked on in high school and he's 30 and he's still depressed about it. The great thing about the past is that it's happening to you any more.
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It's disturbing to to see people with little bits of knowledge promoting evil social agendas in the name of out-dated science they clearly don't even understand.
Thanks for you idiotic opinion. We that actually know what we're talking about hope to god that people like you never get into a position to create policy.
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Back when I had my computer plugged right into my cable modem I never had a problem with bittorrent slow downs at all. I had probems even surfing properly with bittorrent on once I added a router. Configuring QOS seemed to do nothing. You're DOSing your own router with too many open connections, it has nothing to do with bandwidth. Some routers are better able to handle hundreds of connections then others. The old linksys wireless routers (that most people still use) are garbage in this regard.
Whoa. Someone didn't allow the discussion to degenerate into childish name calling. Congrats :)
The first problem is that it's impossible to ever actually verify someone's identity because you need non photo id at some point to obtain photo id. This just increases plausible deniability to anyone faking their identity.
Secondly you can exclude certain groups from being able to obtain ids.
Thirdly businesses could require you to scan your id to make purchases. You are free to not shop there but if everyone does it you're sol.
Fourthly: Fraud and identity theft.
Fifth. Within the scope of the constitution, the purpose of which is to limit the powers of the government, we should be asking: why does the government need a national id? not: Why do people need a national id?
Sixth. This is a purely a philosophical viewpoint but we as free people in a free country you are not defined as a free human being and a citizen by the mere posession of an 'id card'. Just as you are not defined as being a free human and a citizen being by having an address or a job. This is self evident. It's not a right that is granted. In other words, we are all free to do what the hell we want when the hell we want, unless we're breaking the law. Period.
But lets just say that mission creep *does* happen. What's the big deal really? In the end. What is it? Here goes: Let's say it becomes illegal to not have an id card. 'Nuff said.
They're not going to stick to those specific instances though.
yes
Any medical team or individual who comes up with such a cure shuld be treated as a "rock star" and a foot note should be made in the history books of this individuals name. I agree with everything you said but in particular this is an insightful statement. I'm not sure how it is in the states but there's not a lot of incentive to go into biotech here (in Canada). The pay is really crappy and there's not a lot of jobs. If I want to become a researcher now I have the option to go to grad school and get paid $18k a year for 5 years, of which school fees will come out of during that time. After that you make decent money, but your wages probably never will be commensurate with your training. One could make far more in computing with less time/money/effort.
Err.. Isn't their such a thing as burden of proof? Otherwise the damage claim is based on what someone may have done, and what others may have done who have their own free will.
"Maturity means responsibility. Taking responsibilty for your own life and your own actions, as well as acting responsibly and dealing responsibly with the actions of those around you."
I agree with that statement but disagree with the premise that one needs to be childish in order to adapt to a changing environment.
You define the problem in vague terms, generalize it to society in general then propose a solution based on a false premise.
Your argument is taking the general form of many of the comments:
I observed Problem A once, therefore the problem with society is problem A. Problem A seems be getting worse in recent years. I blame Problem A associated group with the increase in Problem A. If only we could get Problem A associated group to understand that they are cause of society's decline, then they would stop and society would stop declining.
For instance:
The problem with society is that people don't discipline their kids anymore. When kids aren't disciplined they don't learn boundaries and think they can do whatever they want without consequences. This is why crime is getting worse and society is falling apart.
It just seems to me that some people are doing a lot of finger pointing and blaming of things which may not even be problems. Blaming other people and the inability to accept other people's behavior doesn't seem very mature to me.
The number of malformed arguments based on a poor understanding of genetics and biology in this thread is staggering. It almost like watching people argue religion.
I wonder if "they" have the ability to form cogent arguments based on sound critical thinking skills or if "they" are forced to resort to selective quoting and vague generalizations.
I think we can both agree that the problem is that "they" are not receiving enough prayer in schooling any more. "They" need to start "expressing themselves" less and acting like you more.
It seems these days that HR people are more concerned with trivial bullshit then what really matters when hiring someone: the ability to do the job well. Some people that I know from university that took lots of drugs and got in trouble with the law also happened to be brilliant and got extremely good grades. As it happens they mostly moved on to advanced degrees in research in acadamia where eccentricity is more accepted.
I mean I look at companies like Microsoft where the employees are expected to stay under the yoke of corporate oppression and what so I see? An environment where everyone is so desparate to do what they are told and not be noticed that they no longer able to ship a product. Why? Because when something goes wrong no one wants to take responsibility. It's easier to pretend that nothing is wrong. To quote Bill Hicks: since when was benality and mediocrity a good thing?
On the hand I understand that people treat myspace/livejournal as anonymous and it's not. I'd say that's a caveat to everyone. People say shit on the net they'd never say to someone's face.
On the other hand, to be quite honest, I don't want to work for a company that's that desparate to pry into my personal life because it's obvious to me that company has lost vision and direction. If they want mindless widget tighteners then they can look elsewhere.
It's a valid point but as other's have pointed out you have to question the legitimacy of the information being posted. Blogs are trivial to fake. And by the way it's not illegal to put a sign in your yard saying that you hate the government.
Absolutely nothing. What's stopping corrupt law enforcement from mining data to commit fraud? Absolutely nothing.
I went to high school in the early 90's in Canada and me and and my punk friends ran a 'zine' called C.U.M. in which we openly criticized the staff and fellow students in inflammatory terms and described techniques in vandalism. We ran a campaign for student government and put posters up around the school saying shit like "**** says: Solve the parking problem, burn more cars." and a picture of the dudes face. And all our weird-ass friends with mohawks actually got voted in, lol. We stole all the doorstops in the school and put up posters advertising 'doopstop mania' and one day set up tables and arranged all the doorstops artistically. My friend put on a dress and handcuffed himself to the principal's desk. I don't think anyone getting expelled was even ever in question. I mean I think people got fed up with the shameless cries for attention, but that's really what it was. It was satire and it was fun. If there was any disciplinary action for being a little weird and outspoken, it probably would have started a shit storm that wouldn't have been worth it.
Remember, you live in a free country, you can do what you want as long as you're not hurting someone. Time to start stick up for yourself. I wouldn't be scared to.
I followed the same philosolphy for a long time and it worked out for me but that past couple years security has been getting very bad on windows. There *are* un-patched exploits that *can* install software on your computer without user intervention just by visiting a website. I know this because it happened to me a couple times. At that point I installed nod32.
I know where you're coming from.. but they days you don't even have to click.
You should check out nod32 for sure.
Most virus scanners protect against other malware as well.. worms trojans and backdoors.. I wouldn't bother with any other malware software.
I use nod32 because it was a very small memory and processor footprint. Every other scanner seems to turn any system, no matter how fast and how much memory, into a pig.
The problem I have with security software is that some people, ie, my father for instance, are paranoid and install some gigantic resorce-sucking pig like Mcaffee w/ virus, firewall and whatnot and some strange, *and* vaguely named prog named Webwasher. The theory I guess is that stacking security software makes your machine somehow even *more* safe. Well no, it just slows the system down to an unbearable crawl and causes security warning windows to pop up every 10 minutes.
Remember you have to use your system, not just protect it. So I use just nod32 and the built in windows xp firewall. Also most people behind a router don't really need a firewall anyway, the router is providing roughly the same function.
Some people will yell that you *need* a third party firewall for this reason and that. I researched them for a while and found that most were poorly configured and popped up false hits all the time, just training people to hit the 'allow' button automatically without even reading the warning. Secondly that *they don't work*. Even if you configure them correctly your computer can communicate with the outside world just fine. Any firewall can protect from incoming packets at the application level, but all an attacker has to do is hijack another thread and you're screwed. The only firewall that 'works' that I found was tiny firewall.. all the other ones are worse than garbage.
Enough with the randomsness bullshit. You say the random number generator is random but I predict that it will produce numbers. It doesn't start producing cheese. There's a lot of predictibility involved in that particular system, just like there is in any system. In fact depending on where you're getting your entropy from, your random number generator may be a lot more predictable then your think. I want people to stop claiming that:
"At the most fundamental level everything works by inherently random processes. "
So what you're predicting about everything (everywhere, since the beginning of time to the end) is that it's all unpredictable. Huh?
...just in case they are ever stranded on a desert island without an IDE. *Then* what would they do?? Huh?? You little punks!!
I was just going over it my mind and regardless of the amount of information you gather it never changes the S/N of data of interest so to speak. This is whether or not you are talking about phone records or video taping everything that every citizen does, as they do in the UK -- which I'd like to point out didn't stop the london train bombings. Obviously the reason for that is they have thousands or millions of hours of tape of people walking around. Who cares. Criminals have long had to evade detection, so the promise of 'facial recognision software' will not prevent criminals from gaining weight, wearing a wig, wearing a big hat, holding a newspaper in front of their face, etc. Phone monitoring has occured since the introduction of the phone. Terrorsts will simply avoid using the phone, period, if there's no other way around it. AND NOW THEY KNOW ABOUT THE PROGRAM. Which makes it useless.
If there's no way around being video taped and monitored and having ids checked all the time, the terrorist will obtain fake ids.
My question to everyone is do you think that collecting a lot of biometric data on a person and linking it to all those records make it easier to catch a terrorist, or easier to evade detection? Think about it.
However what it does do is make it real fucking easy to steal a persons identity and commit fraud, provided that you hve access to those files. Hmmm. In the future criminals will make wonderful careers in law enforcement.
Oh I though that's how lawsuits worked. Always.
I don't understand how you can catch anyone doing anything without knowing what the content exchanged in a connection was. Say I connected to thepiratebay.org. does that mean I broke law?? I'm assuming the same goes for child porn. How do you know what was data was exchanged? I'm just not seeing the big picture.
What happens if your computer is hacked and used to host child porn? So there's all these dude out there with child porn and logs of connections with your computer and they find child porn on your computer.
Lets say I p2p all the time there's nothing but connections to a whole bunch of people.
Is there somthing I'm missing?
People buy macs to use OSX, it's just that good. I have a PC to play games, everything else I do on my ibook. Dvorak likes to mention this running windows on a mac is bad thing.. this is stupid. The reason why it's a good idea to let people run windows on a mac is because it will get the fence sitters.. ie "I *would* buy a mac but I need windows for some things" to buy a mac then they'll just use mac OSX all the time because it's just that good. The whole OSX should be open source makes no sense because OSX is far better than any other unix operating system. It's better but you have to pay for it. Duh.
Yeah I'm sure that Microsoft is spending money reverse engineering and pulling apart OSX code for some reason. Double duh.
This guy should not be allowed to write about an operating system he has obviously never used.
Yes I do believe that Ghyslain Raza is an unhappy kid. I think that's completely reasonable. Just like I don't think you liked getting picked on in school and that made you unhappy too. Obviously you still maintain a belief system that some people get picked on. You think I'm hounding you and define yourself as a weaker person. You want to be left alone but you do things to provoke a response.
It just seems to me that other people are adopting a vindictive attitude because they got picked on in school too.
I'll bet that secretly you wished you were cool too and if you had the social tools to pick on them back again you would have.
I don't have sympathy because I don't think giving sympathy helps people be happy and well adjusted. People with persecution complexes interpret everything as persecution because that is their belief system. 'The problem is *you*, a whatcha gunna do'. I have a buddy that got picked on in high school and he's 30 and he's still depressed about it. The great thing about the past is that it's happening to you any more.