Freedom of the press is an illusion, has been for a long time now.
Freedom of the press is reserved for those who have one, and most of the press is controlled by a few companies which also just happen to be the big content companies.
No one needs to limit themselves to the likes of MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, Forbes, Fox, Mother Jones,..., not to mention the plethora of webbish stuff (blogs & etc.). Anyone who does is just being lazy (or has kids, so no time:-).
Our true problem is that lying is widely EFFECTIVE in politics. Voters fall for it. Or they overlook it because there is some pandering position they agree with.
I disagree. The true problem is most voters are ordinarily lazy, ignorant slugs. They don't think about the issues. They vote for "their guys" (partisan politics), regardless of what's really going on, because "the other guys" are either socialists/commies/liberals/mushy or fascists/capitalists/religious nutcases/"think of the children".
Last Friday, my provincial premier outright lied to us. "Blah, blah, blah MUST be on the table!" A couple of days later, it came out that it wasn't going to be on the table. The ensuing outroar is damned near deafening. Nobody's falling for it. It's *the* big topic in all local media.
Politicians underestimate us regularly. They think they can get away with anything, but the reality is otherwise, as the SOPA/PIPA/ACTA reaction proves. Unfortunately, even voting them out changes nothing, as the likes of Chris Dodd proves.
Both categories can have their places in the world, I just wish that the first group (and Big Media representing them) would not call themselves 'artists', because they aren't.
Chauvenist.
Back when I was into that stuff, we had "Fine Art" and "Arts and Crafts." The former included things like painting, sculpture, & etc. The latter included things like pottery, batique, & etc.
I'd put some of my hand thrown pottery up against a Picasso any day, and it would win on relevance alone. Some of my glazes were to die for; far more subtle than anything *any* painter has ever done. You haven't lived until you've seen what can be done with Raku pottery techniques.
Bite me, Pablo, you pretentious git. Take Jackson Pollock with you when you go.
They'll have to let that sleep for a while before they can start makin' it rain again.
You can close the barn door as many times as you want once the horse has bolted. It still won't be in there. This kind of !@#$ is pretty hard to forget, even for 30 second attention span sheeples. When the National Post (Canada) has two inch high headlines like (paraphrased), "How To Cope When The Web Goes Dark", even my Mom wonders what's smelling so bad.
That's not how you spell "I hope every nerve ending in your body is permanently made to think it's on fire and you live forever", but yeah, the entire Internet is saying this.
I'm not ordinarily a religious man (far from it), but even I'll say Amen to that.
Feel the hate, Cary. I advocate boycotting *AAs and don't pirate, yet even I feel this way. You're a destroyer of worlds; anathema.:-|
Then, but not until then, will most of my apathetic non-voting countrymen bother to get up off the couch.
Perhaps your non-voting countrymen have simply come to the realization that voting for $bad1, $bad2,... $badN isn't going to change a thing. I mean, come on. Barach Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum; that's a choice? They're all going to end up doing essentially the same shitty stuff and end up in the pocket of rich lobbyists, so why even bother? The game's rigged against you no matter which way you play.
Politics in Syria these days are more interesting than USA politics. At least they know what they're fighting, and dieing, for.
Why does the New York Times Corporation get special privileges? The law in question in the Citizens United case gave the New York Times privileges it did not give Citizens United.
You're a 'bot. You don't listen to replies. You reply to every answer with the same damned loaded question.
I mean, it's not like YYYYMMDD is an ISO Standard or anything, right?
Actually it is...
Sorry, that was me being sarcastic (I guess I should have wrapped it in a <sarc> thingy or sumfin), but thanks for the wikipedia link. I'm going to enjoy reading that again.
I wish the likes of Microsoft would read it (and read it, and read it,...).
I do not believe there is any way to limit the ability of corporations to publish what they want that does not result in the government picking and choosing who gets to control public dialogue about political issues.
This makes no sense. I say again, the shareholders of that corporation are already individually protected by the 1st. Why does a business entity made up of the banding together of those shareholders deserve to have its "freedom of speech" protected in addition to the protection already afforded the individual shareholders? What is gained in that situation except the bullying power of corporate machinery?
And how in the world do you get, "government picking and choosing who gets to control public dialogue" out of this? Every individual citizen is already protected, so where's the leeway for gov't to pick and choose?
The question still is, why should the New York Times Corporation get protected by the First Amendment but Citizens United Corporation shouldn't?
i) Freedom of the Press is explicitly named in the 1st. ii) The shareholders of Citizens United Corp. are already protected by the 1st. iii) Because it shouldn't. See ii).
I realize iii) is a value judgment, but similar judgments were made creating the patent and copyright regimes.
What is gained for society by giving golems freedom of speech? The golem's owners already enjoy that freedom. Why do they deserve a second kick at the can?
The average person is innocent and therefore has nothing to hide thus rendering encryption unnecessary.
Yo, identity theft? The TLAs aren't the only people after all your seeeecret stuff. If I drop my phone and don't notice it, I like to know it's locked and nobody's going to get any use of it, or any of the data that's stored on it. I'd really hate it if losing it hurt someone who's info was stored on it.
On the other hand, would I trust the NSA to not enable a back door? Probably not (and I don't even particularly dislike them).
A few years ago, one of the fixes I made to a front end security tool was to change all the YYYYDDMMs to YYYYMMDDs, to match up with all the other YYYYMMDDs elsewhere in the code.
It's astonishing to me that having gone through Y2k, some people are *still* failing miserably at handling dates. I mean, it's not like YYYYMMDD is an ISO Standard or anything, right?
Either that, or they are just trying to spend money and justify their existance and vast budget somehow.
"Mr. President, I have an idea. How's about we just piss off the whole world to the point that they come and invade us, instead of us invading them? We can't afford to keep on offshoring war. We should bring that market home to the USA mainland. Just think what that would do for your poll ratings if the whole world was against us. The Sheeple would love you for it."
I believe the poster was requesting a citation for this part of what was posted
Famine only proves to the people of North Korea that we are their enemies and only the Kims are keeping them alive.
If so, Stockholm Syndrome and Battered Wife Syndrome are both fairly common knowledge, and both seem applicable. However, apologies to the GP if I supposed too much. I'm just tired of seeing that "citation $whatever" from too many people who ought to know better.
Ever heard of Wikipedia, or Google, or iXQuick, or Bing,...? Don't be such a lazy twit. That comment's only valid *after* you've proved to yourself that the GP is deluded. You didn't even try!
I have not read TFA (sue me). However in this and in many other physics questions, I often wonder if they're over-thinking the problem.
So, Big Bang goes off sending some amount of matter and anti-matter flying off in all directions. The matter and anti-matter in close proximity to each other annihilate each other. Some matter or anti-matter will be left in pockets locally assuming inequal amounts of each landed in proximity to each other.
Why even bother to postulate unequal amounts of each were created when the leftovers of each are just on the other side of the Universe from each other and can't possibly interact with each other at that distance? Wouldn't it be simpler to assume they were equal amounts, but what's left can't possibly interact?
And I was surprised to notice that nobody had referred OP to alt.syadmin.recovery, which makes abundantly clear what the only real way to stop being a sysadmin is.
"Down, not across"? If I were a Win* admin, that would be good advice.
You might have tried clarifying in your original posting.
For some people, no amount of clarification will be enough. Plenty of professionally minded folks in this thread understood exactly what he was asking for and offered what they had knowingly and politely.
A few have replied with suspicion and accusations. C'est la vie.
What's with all the last minute changes? Clearly it's not a 'best practice' to change anything just before you hand it over, as some issues can take days, weeks, or months to become noticed...
It can be done "right". Eg., a sort of "Dead Man's Switch":
touch ~user/I_am_here
Then in jobs you want to be run (untested!):
if [ ! -f "~user/I_am_here" ]; then
echo "you need to \$(touch ~/I_am_here) then edit $0 to look for it." | \
mutt -s "$0 will not run until \*YOU\* TAKE IT OVER!" root << \
~user/.signature
exit 0 fi
When you leave, "rm ~/I_am_here". Your successor need only check their mail, or root's mail, for every job that'll need tweaking.
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Freedom of the press is an illusion, has been for a long time now.
Freedom of the press is reserved for those who have one, and most of the press is controlled by a few companies which also just happen to be the big content companies.
Lack of imagination detected, on both your parts.
Democracy Now
PBS
Al Jazeera
No one needs to limit themselves to the likes of MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, Forbes, Fox, Mother Jones, ..., not to mention the plethora of webbish stuff (blogs & etc.). Anyone who does is just being lazy (or has kids, so no time :-).
Our true problem is that lying is widely EFFECTIVE in politics. Voters fall for it. Or they overlook it because there is some pandering position they agree with.
I disagree. The true problem is most voters are ordinarily lazy, ignorant slugs. They don't think about the issues. They vote for "their guys" (partisan politics), regardless of what's really going on, because "the other guys" are either socialists/commies/liberals/mushy or fascists/capitalists/religious nutcases/"think of the children".
Last Friday, my provincial premier outright lied to us. "Blah, blah, blah MUST be on the table!" A couple of days later, it came out that it wasn't going to be on the table. The ensuing outroar is damned near deafening. Nobody's falling for it. It's *the* big topic in all local media.
Politicians underestimate us regularly. They think they can get away with anything, but the reality is otherwise, as the SOPA/PIPA/ACTA reaction proves. Unfortunately, even voting them out changes nothing, as the likes of Chris Dodd proves.
Both categories can have their places in the world, I just wish that the first group (and Big Media representing them) would not call themselves 'artists', because they aren't.
Chauvenist.
Back when I was into that stuff, we had "Fine Art" and "Arts and Crafts." The former included things like painting, sculpture, & etc. The latter included things like pottery, batique, & etc.
I'd put some of my hand thrown pottery up against a Picasso any day, and it would win on relevance alone. Some of my glazes were to die for; far more subtle than anything *any* painter has ever done. You haven't lived until you've seen what can be done with Raku pottery techniques.
Bite me, Pablo, you pretentious git. Take Jackson Pollock with you when you go.
They'll have to let that sleep for a while before they can start makin' it rain again.
You can close the barn door as many times as you want once the horse has bolted. It still won't be in there. This kind of !@#$ is pretty hard to forget, even for 30 second attention span sheeples. When the National Post (Canada) has two inch high headlines like (paraphrased), "How To Cope When The Web Goes Dark", even my Mom wonders what's smelling so bad.
That's not how you spell "I hope every nerve ending in your body is permanently made to think it's on fire and you live forever", but yeah, the entire Internet is saying this.
I'm not ordinarily a religious man (far from it), but even I'll say Amen to that.
Feel the hate, Cary. I advocate boycotting *AAs and don't pirate, yet even I feel this way. You're a destroyer of worlds; anathema. :-|
Then, but not until then, will most of my apathetic non-voting countrymen bother to get up off the couch.
Perhaps your non-voting countrymen have simply come to the realization that voting for $bad1, $bad2, ... $badN isn't going to change a thing. I mean, come on. Barach Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum; that's a choice? They're all going to end up doing essentially the same shitty stuff and end up in the pocket of rich lobbyists, so why even bother? The game's rigged against you no matter which way you play.
Politics in Syria these days are more interesting than USA politics. At least they know what they're fighting, and dieing, for.
I wish most American's would read it; especially computer programmers!
Indeedily doodly! Programmers, do you know that YYYYMMDD_filename in a directory listing sorts correctly, chronologically?
If no, you're hacks or dilettants at best. You're just gumming up the works. ISO Standards exist for a reason!
Why does the New York Times Corporation get special privileges? The law in question in the Citizens United case gave the New York Times privileges it did not give Citizens United.
You're a 'bot. You don't listen to replies. You reply to every answer with the same damned loaded question.
!@#$ you.
I mean, it's not like YYYYMMDD is an ISO Standard or anything, right?
Actually it is ...
Sorry, that was me being sarcastic (I guess I should have wrapped it in a <sarc> thingy or sumfin), but thanks for the wikipedia link. I'm going to enjoy reading that again.
I wish the likes of Microsoft would read it (and read it, and read it, ...).
I do not believe there is any way to limit the ability of corporations to publish what they want that does not result in the government picking and choosing who gets to control public dialogue about political issues.
This makes no sense. I say again, the shareholders of that corporation are already individually protected by the 1st. Why does a business entity made up of the banding together of those shareholders deserve to have its "freedom of speech" protected in addition to the protection already afforded the individual shareholders? What is gained in that situation except the bullying power of corporate machinery?
And how in the world do you get, "government picking and choosing who gets to control public dialogue" out of this? Every individual citizen is already protected, so where's the leeway for gov't to pick and choose?
The question still is, why should the New York Times Corporation get protected by the First Amendment but Citizens United Corporation shouldn't?
i) Freedom of the Press is explicitly named in the 1st.
ii) The shareholders of Citizens United Corp. are already protected by the 1st.
iii) Because it shouldn't. See ii).
I realize iii) is a value judgment, but similar judgments were made creating the patent and copyright regimes.
What is gained for society by giving golems freedom of speech? The golem's owners already enjoy that freedom. Why do they deserve a second kick at the can?
The average person is innocent and therefore has nothing to hide thus rendering encryption unnecessary.
Yo, identity theft? The TLAs aren't the only people after all your seeeecret stuff. If I drop my phone and don't notice it, I like to know it's locked and nobody's going to get any use of it, or any of the data that's stored on it. I'd really hate it if losing it hurt someone who's info was stored on it.
On the other hand, would I trust the NSA to not enable a back door? Probably not (and I don't even particularly dislike them).
... Convert date to char in YYYYDDMM format ...
A few years ago, one of the fixes I made to a front end security tool was to change all the YYYYDDMMs to YYYYMMDDs, to match up with all the other YYYYMMDDs elsewhere in the code.
It's astonishing to me that having gone through Y2k, some people are *still* failing miserably at handling dates. I mean, it's not like YYYYMMDD is an ISO Standard or anything, right?
Either that, or they are just trying to spend money and justify their existance and vast budget somehow.
"Mr. President, I have an idea. How's about we just piss off the whole world to the point that they come and invade us, instead of us invading them? We can't afford to keep on offshoring war. We should bring that market home to the USA mainland. Just think what that would do for your poll ratings if the whole world was against us. The Sheeple would love you for it."
"Brillant [sic]!"
I believe the poster was requesting a citation for this part of what was posted
Famine only proves to the people of North Korea that we are their enemies and only the Kims are keeping them alive.
If so, Stockholm Syndrome and Battered Wife Syndrome are both fairly common knowledge, and both seem applicable. However, apologies to the GP if I supposed too much. I'm just tired of seeing that "citation $whatever" from too many people who ought to know better.
North Korea saw true famine in the 90s ...
Citation, please.
Ever heard of Wikipedia, or Google, or iXQuick, or Bing, ...? Don't be such a lazy twit. That comment's only valid *after* you've proved to yourself that the GP is deluded. You didn't even try!
I have not read TFA (sue me). However in this and in many other physics questions, I often wonder if they're over-thinking the problem.
So, Big Bang goes off sending some amount of matter and anti-matter flying off in all directions. The matter and anti-matter in close proximity to each other annihilate each other. Some matter or anti-matter will be left in pockets locally assuming inequal amounts of each landed in proximity to each other.
Why even bother to postulate unequal amounts of each were created when the leftovers of each are just on the other side of the Universe from each other and can't possibly interact with each other at that distance? Wouldn't it be simpler to assume they were equal amounts, but what's left can't possibly interact?
If only there was a cheaper way to communicate over great distances...
One of his bail conditions is no Internet, and thanks to the evil Alan Cox and friends, that may rule out carrier pigeons as well.
... because after he gets convicted then it will set prescient to ...
How the !@#$ did you end up with prescient there?!? Are you idiots using auto-completion now? Well, STOP IT!
When the risk of participating becomes too high, most members will abandon Anonymous.
Cf. Islamic extremist suicide bombers. :-|
If their machines show evidence of participation (e.g. LOIC tools ...
A bit more thought on your part would be appreciated. I have nmap on all of my boxes. That doesn't mean I'm attacking other people's networks.
And I was surprised to notice that nobody had referred OP to alt.syadmin.recovery, which makes abundantly clear what the only real way to stop being a sysadmin is.
"Down, not across"? If I were a Win* admin, that would be good advice.
You might have tried clarifying in your original posting.
For some people, no amount of clarification will be enough. Plenty of professionally minded folks in this thread understood exactly what he was asking for and offered what they had knowingly and politely.
A few have replied with suspicion and accusations. C'est la vie.
What's with all the last minute changes? Clearly it's not a 'best practice' to change anything just before you hand it over, as some issues can take days, weeks, or months to become noticed ...
It can be done "right". Eg., a sort of "Dead Man's Switch":
touch ~user/I_am_here
Then in jobs you want to be run (untested!):
if [ ! -f "~user/I_am_here" ]; then
echo "you need to \$(touch ~/I_am_here) then edit $0 to look for it." | \
mutt -s "$0 will not run until \*YOU\* TAKE IT OVER!" root << \
~user/.signature
exit 0
fi
When you leave, "rm ~/I_am_here". Your successor need only check their mail, or root's mail, for every job that'll need tweaking.
Run, run like the wind, burn every bridge and make it known you will be moving on far away and never communicating with the ex employer again ...
Please, go and play in traffic on the freeway. A Mack truck in the back of the head would be good for you. You're not adding anything of value here.