"... but that's only degrading the enemy's capability in the sense that shooting yourself denies them the chance to kill you."
Hahaha! Mod up. Best line I've read in a long time.
Oh please. It's called the Masada Defense, and it's been an old joke for about two millennia. "Ha! Didn't we make those Roman Legions look stupid! Nyaa, nyaa, you can't kill us because we committed suicide. Nyaa, nyaa!"
I thought the Internet kill switch was called BGP?
No.. It's called EMP...
Weird. I'd think that something showing up in the sky over D.C. capable of producing an EMP would be the bigger problem. Who cares about all the fried electronics with all the smoking corpses stinking up the place?
This is the USAF, not the NSA, CIA, FBI, DIA, TSA, etc. Three initial agencies are the ones you need to be afraid of,;-)
Doolittle should be spinning in his grave hearing that. What do the TLAs bring to bear? Lawyers and cops with guns, possibly rent-a-cops (TSA). What's the USAF got to compare to them? Just cruise missiles (possibly nuke tipped), stealth bombers (possibly nuke armed), UAVs, AWACS, LEO satellite surveillance and targeting capability,...
Yeah, the TLAs are waaaaayy more dangerous than the USAF.:-P
Is there something spectacular about this particular dimple in the earth?
Well, yeah! This one hasn't been completely weathered away like most of the others. Sheesh. After all, these things don't tend to stick around all that long, geologically speaking, and it's not like we have an airless moon close by covered with the damned things... Oh, wait.
WHAT? You mean that a country with a huge pornography addiction, widespread promiscuity, high STD infection rates, is "puritanical"?
On its face, yes. Behind the scenes, out of the public eye, no. This isn't an exclusively USA trait though. Otherwise devout Saudis are known to drink alcohol and party hard when they can get away with it, & etc.
He should have an offer of the very best help possible, paid for by the same people who paid for him being a marine.
Finally, the voice of reason. The amateur psychiatrists in here have been driving me crazy. BTW, where the hell is the Marine Corp and his Marine buddies in this?
One account I read (BoingBoing?) said he was considering re-enlisting. Maybe that's his support group and once back in, he'd be straight and they'd keep him straight. Or, "Dude, you got PTSD bad and need to powwow with the VA ASAP. Hoo-rah!"
What kind of person would allow those conditions to occur?
You're ignoring all the Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, Indonesians,... all running pirated versions of Windows, possibly with the malware pre-installed with the pirated OS. Add poorly secured, or ancient and not updated, Linux and *BSD installs. These needn't even be home users. Whole companies in these countries have been known to rely on pirated OSs.
Flamebait.:-P It is not. I prefer Debian on my machines, but I don't buy machines with weird, exotic crap in them. This 1525 is one my stepdad found in an alley. You work with what you've got.
I like it that the *buntu ecosystem exists. I've had great results from Xubuntu and LinuxMint, and lots of people welcome Kubuntu. I seldom have trouble with them and they've been helpful many times.
You sound like one of those haters that's offended by Ubuntu's latest desktop choice. Well install what you want and use that instead. This isn't Win* or Mac, FFS.
FWIW, after using a CAT-5 to the router and dl-ing the drive/firmware/whatever, wifi works fine. Mom and step-dad have a kitchen table edutainment box for the price of a secondhand replacement HD (and a bit of my time).
I don't think your objections hold much weight. First, strength, intelligence, and longevity don't appear to be necessary.
Being strong, tall, beautiful and intelligent increases the chance of financial success.
Really? I thought all it took was rich, indulgent parents. Perhaps we're quibbling about the differences between merely "fabulously wealthy", and honest to gawd "rich."
Steve Wozniak wouldn't worry much if I don't consider him strong, tall, and beautiful, I don't think. He was smart and driven by his vision, which was enough to be successful in his own right.
I think Bill Gates is ugly (sorry Bill:-) inside and outside, but that didn't appear to slow him down in any way.
These "qualities" we quarrel over are very subjective. Without Woz, Jobs would have been nothing. Without Jobs, I think Woz still would've been something, though perhaps not what Woz+Jobs became.
Me, I prefer Linus and Ian Murdock and friends.:-)
I just spent a weekend trying distro after distro trying to find one that even detected the internal wifi in an Inspiron 1525.
I had the exact same problem (Inspiron 1525). I used ndiswrapper with windows drivers to get it working. Ended up just buying an atheros card and using it instead of the broadcom one.
Happily, there's no Win* on this box, so no ndiswrapper, sadly. However, I'm closin' in. Xubuntu install/LiveCD detects and connects fine. Once installed, no. Sigh.
Once I connect it wired to a router tomorrow and DL the proprietary driver, it should be golden.
Why's WiFi there when running from LiveCD (after clicking on enable interface), but not on install? Lawyers? Pthoo!
I'd really prefer this stuff wouldn't need knowledgable geeks to figure this !@#$ out. I'd prefer my elementary school teacher sister could do it, even if that puts me out of business.
Still, if I can make it work, good enough for me.:-) Thanks devs!
I don't want an upper class of strong, intelligent, long-lived powerful beings (who would not necessarily even self-identify as humans) to utterly dominate a lower class of naturals.
I don't think your objections hold much weight. First, strength, intelligence, and longevity don't appear to be necessary. Inept but politically entrenched and legally coddled is all that's necessary for the 1%ers to dominate now. The Nazis were heavily into eugenics and all it bought them was a false sense of importance and overbearing arrogance.
Even fiction should point you to the same conclusion. Think of the Botany Bay episode from ST:TOS. Those "supermen" barely managed to get off Earth by the skin of their teeth, they were so hated by "naturals." For all their enhancements, they weren't better; they were worse.
Second, human-engineering violates human dignity
I don't even know what that means. I do think if we could engineer immunity to cancer, malaria,... that would be a good thing. Dying at three in a weeping mother's arms due to a bug bite is hardly dignified, especially if we could have done something to prevent it.
Besides, why on Earth do you think that parents would restrict themselves to weed out bad traits?
I don't. I suspect lots of idiots would engineer their kids to be better suited to American Idol, or to have polkadot hair. Good! Evolution in action just like before, but now easier to tell the morons from the normals.
The ones who should be worried about this are people like Major League Baseball and the IOC. MLB just suspended Melky Cabrera for being doped up on testosterone. What are they going to do when The X-Men show up?
I wouldn't go that far, but Google's personality is one where it doesn't agressively go out to destroy the other party.
You are right: trying to block every one if your competitor's products isn't aggressive at all.
You can tolerate a yappy little dog nipping at your heals for only so long. Eventually your tolerance will be ground down and you have to punt the little fucker over the fence into the neighbour's yard. He asked for it.
Also, quoting Eric Schmidt, "if one has to keep something secret, he should not have done it in the first place".
Eric, I would very much appreciate it if you'd supply me with your credit card no's and their associated PINs, and your SocSec no. and..., please and thankyou. Since you eschew secrecy, you should have no qualms regarding this. Hey, you can have mine too in return, for what they're worth.
It would be quite an art project if two hundred other young clean-shaven thin white men with white wigs, white button-down shirts, gray wool pants, black dress shoes and socks, and Guy Fawkes masks all swarmed him and then got into passing cars.
Please, all of you with cell phones intending to upload the experience to YouTube, don't forget to take shots of the onlooking crowd, especially the British spooks. In the interest of historical accuracy, you understand. Have fun.:-)
Not even to answer for Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.
This is a travesty for which they should answer.
It wasn't that bad. It had Hogan in it after all. Besides, that movie was more about Hogan milking Hollywood for all they were worth than anything else. Job well done ("Suckers!").
Okay, smart guy, why don't you tell us what is the difference between the two? Have you looked at a dictionary recently?
Why do pedants come into every conversation about government and repeat this idiotic meme over and over, thinking repetition will make it true?
Murricans, they think they're special because they don't do it the way all those commie Euros (or us Canucks) do it. Well, yeah, they're correct. They're only recently beginning to realize that EU countries today appear to care a heck of a lot more about individual freedom than the US ever has, and the US is presently moving even further away from that much vaunted ideal. Huh. I like this one:
From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]:
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.
That pretty much describes to a 't' the US recently. Vive le revolution!
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They'll need to get to work creating something to monitor and regulate all these cyber weapons they're creating. A defense net for the Air Force ...
I wonder if they'll bother to look into making their own systems immune, just in case it kinda, sorta, comes around and decides to bite them too.
Nah. That wouldn't happen, right?
"... but that's only degrading the enemy's capability in the sense that shooting yourself denies them the chance to kill you."
Hahaha! Mod up. Best line I've read in a long time.
Oh please. It's called the Masada Defense, and it's been an old joke for about two millennia. "Ha! Didn't we make those Roman Legions look stupid! Nyaa, nyaa, you can't kill us because we committed suicide. Nyaa, nyaa!"
I thought the Internet kill switch was called BGP?
No.. It's called EMP ...
Weird. I'd think that something showing up in the sky over D.C. capable of producing an EMP would be the bigger problem. Who cares about all the fried electronics with all the smoking corpses stinking up the place?
on creating a death star start up
I think you need permission from AT&T for that.
No you didn't fix it. How old are you? Twelve? If you think Windows 8 invented suckiness, you've been asleep at the switch all this time.
That "adversaries" includes us. Especially us.
This is the USAF, not the NSA, CIA, FBI, DIA, TSA, etc. Three initial agencies are the ones you need to be afraid of, ;-)
Doolittle should be spinning in his grave hearing that. What do the TLAs bring to bear? Lawyers and cops with guns, possibly rent-a-cops (TSA). What's the USAF got to compare to them? Just cruise missiles (possibly nuke tipped), stealth bombers (possibly nuke armed), UAVs, AWACS, LEO satellite surveillance and targeting capability, ...
Yeah, the TLAs are waaaaayy more dangerous than the USAF. :-P
Is there something spectacular about this particular dimple in the earth?
Well, yeah! This one hasn't been completely weathered away like most of the others. Sheesh. After all, these things don't tend to stick around all that long, geologically speaking, and it's not like we have an airless moon close by covered with the damned things ... Oh, wait.
... High Resolution Ornithographic Images ...
As taken by birds? Perhaps you meant orthographic?
WHAT? You mean that a country with a huge pornography addiction, widespread promiscuity, high STD infection rates, is "puritanical"?
On its face, yes. Behind the scenes, out of the public eye, no. This isn't an exclusively USA trait though. Otherwise devout Saudis are known to drink alcohol and party hard when they can get away with it, & etc.
He should have an offer of the very best help possible, paid for by the same people who paid for him being a marine.
Finally, the voice of reason. The amateur psychiatrists in here have been driving me crazy. BTW, where the hell is the Marine
Corp and his Marine buddies in this?
One account I read (BoingBoing?) said he was considering re-enlisting. Maybe that's his support group and once back in, he'd be straight and they'd keep him straight. Or, "Dude, you got PTSD bad and need to powwow with the VA ASAP. Hoo-rah!"
Now if we could only figure out which God.
Just ask the guy who's pointing a gun at you, and go with his choice. It's not like it matters which sky fairy you bow down to.
Or, just shoot him if that's an option. Quicker.
The Russian mob don't always make everyone you ever knew or those who met you dead - including the pool guy.
Perhaps not, but these guys might, just for shits and giggles.
What kind of person would allow those conditions to occur?
You're ignoring all the Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, Indonesians, ... all running pirated versions of Windows, possibly with the malware pre-installed with the pirated OS. Add poorly secured, or ancient and not updated, Linux and *BSD installs. These needn't even be home users. Whole companies in these countries have been known to rely on pirated OSs.
That's cos Ubuntu is crap. Seriously.
Flamebait. :-P It is not. I prefer Debian on my machines, but I don't buy machines with weird, exotic crap in them. This 1525 is one my stepdad found in an alley. You work with what you've got.
I like it that the *buntu ecosystem exists. I've had great results from Xubuntu and LinuxMint, and lots of people welcome Kubuntu. I seldom have trouble with them and they've been helpful many times.
You sound like one of those haters that's offended by Ubuntu's latest desktop choice. Well install what you want and use that instead. This isn't Win* or Mac, FFS.
FWIW, after using a CAT-5 to the router and dl-ing the drive/firmware/whatever, wifi works fine. Mom and step-dad have a kitchen table edutainment box for the price of a secondhand replacement HD (and a bit of my time).
I don't think your objections hold much weight. First, strength, intelligence, and longevity don't appear to be necessary.
Being strong, tall, beautiful and intelligent increases the chance of financial success.
Really? I thought all it took was rich, indulgent parents. Perhaps we're quibbling about the differences between merely "fabulously wealthy", and honest to gawd "rich."
Steve Wozniak wouldn't worry much if I don't consider him strong, tall, and beautiful, I don't think. He was smart and driven by his vision, which was enough to be successful in his own right.
I think Bill Gates is ugly (sorry Bill :-) inside and outside, but that didn't appear to slow him down in any way.
These "qualities" we quarrel over are very subjective. Without Woz, Jobs would have been nothing. Without Jobs, I think Woz still would've been something, though perhaps not what Woz+Jobs became.
Me, I prefer Linus and Ian Murdock and friends. :-)
I just spent a weekend trying distro after distro trying to find one that even detected the internal wifi in an Inspiron 1525.
I had the exact same problem (Inspiron 1525). I used ndiswrapper with windows drivers to get it working. Ended up just buying an atheros card and using it instead of the broadcom one.
Happily, there's no Win* on this box, so no ndiswrapper, sadly. However, I'm closin' in. Xubuntu install/LiveCD detects and connects fine. Once installed, no. Sigh.
Once I connect it wired to a router tomorrow and DL the proprietary driver, it should be golden.
Why's WiFi there when running from LiveCD (after clicking on enable interface), but not on install? Lawyers? Pthoo!
I'd really prefer this stuff wouldn't need knowledgable geeks to figure this !@#$ out. I'd prefer my elementary school teacher sister could do it, even if that puts me out of business.
Still, if I can make it work, good enough for me. :-) Thanks devs!
I don't want an upper class of strong, intelligent, long-lived powerful beings (who would not necessarily even self-identify as humans) to utterly dominate a lower class of naturals.
I don't think your objections hold much weight. First, strength, intelligence, and longevity don't appear to be necessary. Inept but politically entrenched and legally coddled is all that's necessary for the 1%ers to dominate now. The Nazis were heavily into eugenics and all it bought them was a false sense of importance and overbearing arrogance.
Even fiction should point you to the same conclusion. Think of the Botany Bay episode from ST:TOS. Those "supermen" barely managed to get off Earth by the skin of their teeth, they were so hated by "naturals." For all their enhancements, they weren't better; they were worse.
Second, human-engineering violates human dignity
I don't even know what that means. I do think if we could engineer immunity to cancer, malaria, ... that would be a good thing. Dying at three in a weeping mother's arms due to a bug bite is hardly dignified, especially if we could have done something to prevent it.
Besides, why on Earth do you think that parents would restrict themselves to weed out bad traits?
I don't. I suspect lots of idiots would engineer their kids to be better suited to American Idol, or to have polkadot hair. Good! Evolution in action just like before, but now easier to tell the morons from the normals.
The ones who should be worried about this are people like Major League Baseball and the IOC. MLB just suspended Melky Cabrera for being doped up on testosterone. What are they going to do when The X-Men show up?
I wouldn't go that far, but Google's personality is one where it doesn't agressively go out to destroy the other party.
You are right: trying to block every one if your competitor's products isn't aggressive at all.
You can tolerate a yappy little dog nipping at your heals for only so long. Eventually your tolerance will be ground down and you have to punt the little fucker over the fence into the neighbour's yard. He asked for it.
Reading that article you cited, I don't see any cozy relations between the nazis and the Catholic Church at all.
Try this one instead.
Also, quoting Eric Schmidt, "if one has to keep something secret, he should not have done it in the first place".
Eric, I would very much appreciate it if you'd supply me with your credit card no's and their associated PINs, and your SocSec no. and ..., please and thankyou. Since you eschew secrecy, you should have no qualms regarding this. Hey, you can have mine too in return, for what they're worth.
"Too many secrets." -- Sneakers.
Even if he manages to get out of London unmolested by the British police their security aparatus, and get to Ecuador ...
FYI, parts of Ecuador are pretty damned beautiful. I'm envious. I'd never want to leave.
keep hydrated! You're in England now, Tea is cheap!
Who is number one???
Smells a lot like Portmeirion to me. That's not England. It's the land of the only True British.
It would be quite an art project if two hundred other young clean-shaven thin white men with white wigs, white button-down shirts, gray wool pants, black dress shoes and socks, and Guy Fawkes masks all swarmed him and then got into passing cars.
Please, all of you with cell phones intending to upload the experience to YouTube, don't forget to take shots of the onlooking crowd, especially the British spooks. In the interest of historical accuracy, you understand. Have fun. :-)
Not even to answer for Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.
This is a travesty for which they should answer.
It wasn't that bad. It had Hogan in it after all. Besides, that movie was more about Hogan milking Hollywood for all they were worth than anything else. Job well done ("Suckers!").
this is not a democracy, it is a Republic.
Okay, smart guy, why don't you tell us what is the difference between the two? Have you looked at a dictionary recently?
Why do pedants come into every conversation about government and repeat this idiotic meme over and over, thinking repetition will make it true?
Murricans, they think they're special because they don't do it the way all those commie Euros (or us Canucks) do it. Well, yeah, they're correct. They're only recently beginning to realize that EU countries today appear to care a heck of a lot more about individual freedom than the US ever has, and the US is presently moving even further away from that much vaunted ideal. Huh. I like this one:
From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]:
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.
That pretty much describes to a 't' the US recently. Vive le revolution!