Easy way to make combo bomb: have all your cronies each bring one bottle of whatever is necessary. Get the TSA checkpoint blokes to dump 'em all down the disposal. Now the chemicals are nicely mixed, the airport blows up, and meanwhile you've all flown away on that wonderfully safe airplane, and cannot possibly be suspects.
(Okay, so it's farfetched. But no worse than the scenarios the TSA is trying to terrorize us with.)
In 1966, a UFO was reported over the commercial airport at Great Falls, Montana -- also home to Malmstrom Air Force Base, which was then NORAD's backup command center (we always joked that as the #2 target in North America, we were already dead). Remember this was during the height of the Cold War, and there was a lot of paranoia about Soviet missiles etc. So the AFB was pretty much combat-ready at all times.
Even so, it took them a good hour to scramble jets and go forth to investigate whatever was hovering over Gore Hill (about two minutes from the AFB by jet, or 20 minutes by road). And they didn't have to hunt around for an off-course plane, either.
So, yeah, unless a squad was already in the air at the time, AND carrying live missiles (which to my understanding, they often don't), the likelihood of intersecting with and shooting down the correct aircraft within a mere hour was essentially zilch. Makes for a good paranoid fantasy movie, but doesn't play so well in Real Life.:)
In contrary oddities, I have a Vietnam-era Army-issue combat knife that won't take an edge -- you can sharpen it all you like and it's still so blunt that if you tried to slash your wrists with it, you'd get blisters.
But even so, its blunt edge will slice through sheet metal like it's butter. I used it to open cans for years.
(It might be older than Vietnam, dunno... I found it laying in the gutter in 1966.)
"On some of the government chartered flights after 911, the screeners were making soldiers give up their personal tools and pockets knives, but the M16's they had slung on their shoulders were ok to take on board."
Never mind the M16's; explain to me how someone gets into the U.S. Military in the first place, if they can't be trusted with personal tools and pocket knives?? aren't these the guys who are supposed to be protecting us, not the guys we're being paranoid about??
Consider a bra with a lift that gives the appearance of "enhanced" boobies. Now consider the space inside that lift/padding. You could probably put a good fistful of something nefarious in there and no one would notice. Go to the john, take it out, rearrange your boobies, and likely STILL no one would notice. Have your way with the plane. Ooops! NOW everyone notices. Strip searches forevermore!!
The hijacker has already demonstrated his willingness to kill the baby (you don't break a baby's fingers without being willing to break any part of it you need to), and thereby his willingness to kill everyone else. Therefore I would be willing to sacrifice one baby in the interests of saving everyone else.
And as you say, this scenario is not preventable. Even an enclosed "infants section" (like theatres used to have) can't guarantee it -- maybe that woman who comes aboard with a baby isn't its mother, and is perfectly willing to break its fingers.
So... the solution is to recognise when a sacrifice of one will save the many, and act accordingly. This, in fact, is what soldiers do every day -- potentially sacrifice their own lives in the interests of saving the majority's lives.
Water in one hand, metallic sodium in the other. 'Nuf said.
Tho I agree, the whole thing is stupid beyond belief. They let us drive around in these portable bombs called "cars", often passing in range of critical infrastructure, yet they won't let us take a bottle of water on a plane.
That's a good thought too... but I'm wondering just how long the digital economy can be sustained primarily by advertising revenue, before we get another popped bubble. Doesn't seem like most companies are interested in a product anymore, just in marketing someone else's product, for a suitable fee. What happens when NO ONE is *making* a real product?
Well, that's true -- sometimes it's just "time for" whatever invention, and everyone does it at once. But it's one thing to look around and see what others are doing, then copy it, and another to encourage others to believe you'll pay them for a finished product, get a look at the specs and prototypes they've already developed, and THEN go do it yourself.
Tho as you say, sometimes the initial developer thinks they have the world by the balls, and can demand whatever they want... and that's begging to get the "invite it in for tea, then steal it" treatment.
Pretty complex ecosystem there, full of pitfalls and sharks.
But if the domain is squatted BY a registrar -- it costs them effectively NOTHING.
That's why I think registrars should be prohibited from holding any domains they don't actually use in their immediate business. If someone is found using a shell corp to squat domains -- yank their registrar status.
And from the long list of "accredited" registrars, it's become clear that any bozo can now set up in the business, and ICANN accredidation means NOTHING.
But that takes it back to the situation we used to have, where only profitable businesses and rich people could afford domains.
I don't think the solution is raising prices, unless the object is to lock out anyone who lacks money to burn. But I do think "domain tasting" needs to go away. Where else do you get to test-drive a product, sometimes over and over ad infinitum, until you've sucked all the potential profit out of it??
I've heard that Google does the same thing. You come in to pitch your product, and tell them everything they want to know about it; next thing you hear they've implemented their own version.
As to this "acquisition" -- good gods, they want to pay HOW much more than Yahoo stock is worth?? That's utterly nuts. Time to sell my M$ stock.
I've seen other people do the same thing. Seems to go along with being a fairly slow reader who takes it literally one word (or syllable) at a time. (I know someone who sometimes capitalizes individual syllables!) Might be a coping method for a mild form of dyslexia.
Good idea. Shouldn't be hard to implement a browser plugin that updates itself regularly, from a list of known linkfarm domains -- that could put a serious crimp in that bogus economy. In fact, it could probably be adapted from one of the existing anti-phishing plugins.
The new discussion system is also totally broken on the essentially-textmode browser I use here (to keep my eyes from bleeding). Can't see any links on non-expanded comments. Makes slashdot mostly useless/invisible, and would prevent me from posting or modding, both of which I do all too regularly (this being post #9500 or so).
I played with D2 some in another browser and decided I hated it even more than I do the "normal" slashdot you see if your browser does CSS. (Without CSS/JS, it behaves as very nearly plain text, which makes my eyes and my brain happy.)
As to the nominal topic, I *HATE* running into those parked/adpage domains. Good way to make me remember which domains I *DON'T* ever want to visit again!
Actually, my right eye is my better eye (R 20/40 and L 20/80)... seems to be some sort of space relations oddity, which is strange in itself as normally that's a particular talent of mine (I can eyeball-estimate accurate to within a small fraction of an inch).
So I gather once you have a given storage type reverse-engineered, it takes no longer to recover than a standard HD?
By results is certain fair. Yep, not fair to charge the customer for learning time, but since it won't be the last of any given type, as you say you'll make it up.
Well, you're right that the conclusion "tools are an extension of the body" could be reached by any Captain Obvious, but what was interesting is that the neurons fired in the same way, thus proving empirically what we already knew intuitively.
"That would be akin to not being aware of our own bodies, and since we're quite capable of not bumping into door ways..."
I have this weird thing where sometimes I'll whang my right shoulder into the doorjamb as I'm passing thru the doorway -- but only in big wide doorways. Never happens in narrow doorways, nor to the left. Maybe I need my shoes rotated or my feet balanced.:)
I find it interesting that so many people here on/. (including myself:) expressed essentially this same thought -- "Isn't the computer an extension of my brain, just as the hand tool or vehicle is an extension of my body?"
Occurs to me that computer-aided robots blur the line back in the other direction -- the robot is an extension of the computer that is in turn an extension of your brain, controlled by the mouse and keyboard that your brain regards as extensions of your hands.
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I sure hope Hillary and Obama were on the same flight!!
I don't give a shit WHAT he believes, SO LONG AS HE DOESN'T INSIST THAT I BELIEVE THE SAME.
I'm perfectly fine with a candidate who says "I believe in X, but I don't believe that I have the right to force you into X".
Easy way to make combo bomb: have all your cronies each bring one bottle of whatever is necessary. Get the TSA checkpoint blokes to dump 'em all down the disposal. Now the chemicals are nicely mixed, the airport blows up, and meanwhile you've all flown away on that wonderfully safe airplane, and cannot possibly be suspects.
(Okay, so it's farfetched. But no worse than the scenarios the TSA is trying to terrorize us with.)
"Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyrrany."
-- Lloyd Biggle Jr.
All good points.
:)
In 1966, a UFO was reported over the commercial airport at Great Falls, Montana -- also home to Malmstrom Air Force Base, which was then NORAD's backup command center (we always joked that as the #2 target in North America, we were already dead). Remember this was during the height of the Cold War, and there was a lot of paranoia about Soviet missiles etc. So the AFB was pretty much combat-ready at all times.
Even so, it took them a good hour to scramble jets and go forth to investigate whatever was hovering over Gore Hill (about two minutes from the AFB by jet, or 20 minutes by road). And they didn't have to hunt around for an off-course plane, either.
So, yeah, unless a squad was already in the air at the time, AND carrying live missiles (which to my understanding, they often don't), the likelihood of intersecting with and shooting down the correct aircraft within a mere hour was essentially zilch. Makes for a good paranoid fantasy movie, but doesn't play so well in Real Life.
In contrary oddities, I have a Vietnam-era Army-issue combat knife that won't take an edge -- you can sharpen it all you like and it's still so blunt that if you tried to slash your wrists with it, you'd get blisters.
But even so, its blunt edge will slice through sheet metal like it's butter. I used it to open cans for years.
(It might be older than Vietnam, dunno... I found it laying in the gutter in 1966.)
"On some of the government chartered flights after 911, the screeners were making soldiers give up their personal tools and pockets knives, but the M16's they had slung on their shoulders were ok to take on board."
Never mind the M16's; explain to me how someone gets into the U.S. Military in the first place, if they can't be trusted with personal tools and pocket knives?? aren't these the guys who are supposed to be protecting us, not the guys we're being paranoid about??
Bah. The whole thing is spherically senseless.
Consider a bra with a lift that gives the appearance of "enhanced" boobies. Now consider the space inside that lift/padding. You could probably put a good fistful of something nefarious in there and no one would notice. Go to the john, take it out, rearrange your boobies, and likely STILL no one would notice. Have your way with the plane. Ooops! NOW everyone notices. Strip searches forevermore!!
The hijacker has already demonstrated his willingness to kill the baby (you don't break a baby's fingers without being willing to break any part of it you need to), and thereby his willingness to kill everyone else. Therefore I would be willing to sacrifice one baby in the interests of saving everyone else.
And as you say, this scenario is not preventable. Even an enclosed "infants section" (like theatres used to have) can't guarantee it -- maybe that woman who comes aboard with a baby isn't its mother, and is perfectly willing to break its fingers.
So... the solution is to recognise when a sacrifice of one will save the many, and act accordingly. This, in fact, is what soldiers do every day -- potentially sacrifice their own lives in the interests of saving the majority's lives.
Water in one hand, metallic sodium in the other. 'Nuf said.
Tho I agree, the whole thing is stupid beyond belief. They let us drive around in these portable bombs called "cars", often passing in range of critical infrastructure, yet they won't let us take a bottle of water on a plane.
That's a good thought too... but I'm wondering just how long the digital economy can be sustained primarily by advertising revenue, before we get another popped bubble. Doesn't seem like most companies are interested in a product anymore, just in marketing someone else's product, for a suitable fee. What happens when NO ONE is *making* a real product?
Well, that's true -- sometimes it's just "time for" whatever invention, and everyone does it at once. But it's one thing to look around and see what others are doing, then copy it, and another to encourage others to believe you'll pay them for a finished product, get a look at the specs and prototypes they've already developed, and THEN go do it yourself.
Tho as you say, sometimes the initial developer thinks they have the world by the balls, and can demand whatever they want... and that's begging to get the "invite it in for tea, then steal it" treatment.
Pretty complex ecosystem there, full of pitfalls and sharks.
Routing separators, IIRC.
But if the domain is squatted BY a registrar -- it costs them effectively NOTHING.
That's why I think registrars should be prohibited from holding any domains they don't actually use in their immediate business. If someone is found using a shell corp to squat domains -- yank their registrar status.
And from the long list of "accredited" registrars, it's become clear that any bozo can now set up in the business, and ICANN accredidation means NOTHING.
But that takes it back to the situation we used to have, where only profitable businesses and rich people could afford domains.
I don't think the solution is raising prices, unless the object is to lock out anyone who lacks money to burn. But I do think "domain tasting" needs to go away. Where else do you get to test-drive a product, sometimes over and over ad infinitum, until you've sucked all the potential profit out of it??
I've heard that Google does the same thing. You come in to pitch your product, and tell them everything they want to know about it; next thing you hear they've implemented their own version.
As to this "acquisition" -- good gods, they want to pay HOW much more than Yahoo stock is worth?? That's utterly nuts. Time to sell my M$ stock.
I've seen other people do the same thing. Seems to go along with being a fairly slow reader who takes it literally one word (or syllable) at a time. (I know someone who sometimes capitalizes individual syllables!) Might be a coping method for a mild form of dyslexia.
Good idea. Shouldn't be hard to implement a browser plugin that updates itself regularly, from a list of known linkfarm domains -- that could put a serious crimp in that bogus economy. In fact, it could probably be adapted from one of the existing anti-phishing plugins.
The new discussion system is also totally broken on the essentially-textmode browser I use here (to keep my eyes from bleeding). Can't see any links on non-expanded comments. Makes slashdot mostly useless/invisible, and would prevent me from posting or modding, both of which I do all too regularly (this being post #9500 or so).
I played with D2 some in another browser and decided I hated it even more than I do the "normal" slashdot you see if your browser does CSS. (Without CSS/JS, it behaves as very nearly plain text, which makes my eyes and my brain happy.)
As to the nominal topic, I *HATE* running into those parked/adpage domains. Good way to make me remember which domains I *DON'T* ever want to visit again!
LOL!! "Frex" is APA-speak for "for example", and I'm so in the habit of using it that it sounds perfectly normal to me :)
;)
But yes, I think maybe you DO need to go outside. I'll be out in a minute, right after I finish reading slashdot.
Actually, my right eye is my better eye (R 20/40 and L 20/80) ... seems to be some sort of space relations oddity, which is strange in itself as normally that's a particular talent of mine (I can eyeball-estimate accurate to within a small fraction of an inch).
:)
Or maybe I just have bad aim
So I gather once you have a given storage type reverse-engineered, it takes no longer to recover than a standard HD?
By results is certain fair. Yep, not fair to charge the customer for learning time, but since it won't be the last of any given type, as you say you'll make it up.
You mean all you other slashdotters are extensions of my brain??!
[runs away screaming]
Well, you're right that the conclusion "tools are an extension of the body" could be reached by any Captain Obvious, but what was interesting is that the neurons fired in the same way, thus proving empirically what we already knew intuitively.
:)
"That would be akin to not being aware of our own bodies, and since we're quite capable of not bumping into door ways..."
I have this weird thing where sometimes I'll whang my right shoulder into the doorjamb as I'm passing thru the doorway -- but only in big wide doorways. Never happens in narrow doorways, nor to the left. Maybe I need my shoes rotated or my feet balanced.
I find it interesting that so many people here on /. (including myself :) expressed essentially this same thought -- "Isn't the computer an extension of my brain, just as the hand tool or vehicle is an extension of my body?"
Occurs to me that computer-aided robots blur the line back in the other direction -- the robot is an extension of the computer that is in turn an extension of your brain, controlled by the mouse and keyboard that your brain regards as extensions of your hands.
My brain hurts. I think I strained a servo.