Wow! IBM seems to really be doing well in a geek's eyes right now.
Don't get too excited. They failed to rule the world by force. Now they're trying to do it peacefully, by co-opting us geeks. It could only be done through Linux. Now we know who Linus was working for when he said "world domination."
In mid-20th-century, The Historical Inevitability of Progress was a religion. Now, we are disillusioned and skeptical, because we have lost The Faith. That's the diff.
I think there's been some noise about ISPs being able to figure out you're NATting from the packet info. I think you can obscure that with OpenBSD. With the Linksys et al you can't. Who cares? When the ISP decides to charge per computer on your LAN...
I remember those days... I had to walk 5 miles, through 10 feet of snow, with newspapers wrapped around my feet, uphill both ways just to get to an arcade...
Speaking as a industry veteran, a games designer of some years, I now understand what I've been doing wrong all these years. Fun. Damnit! Why didn't I think of that before?
Well, I sure am looking forward to some fun games, for a change! Hope you guys don't drop the ball.
Sounds impressive, actually. If there are 4-5 hijackers, and each has a 61% chance of being noticed, then the odds are good that at least one will be and the plot will be foiled.
Who are all these known hijackers floating around? How are they on the loose? If they are known to be hijackers or terrorists, how come they're not in jail already? Light sentencing, I suppose. And, how do you catch the ones about to do it for the first time?
And, at the end of the day, if you simply force people to take off their hats and sunglasses, so that the camera can get a nice, long look at them in closeup, I wonder how much greater the success rate for facial recognition would be?
How would such a system ID an as-yet-unknown terrorist? The one who's not in the DB?
So it doesn't work, won't help, and might even end up hurting more that a few people, but it's going to enhance passport security?
Hey, this is the government we're talking about. No government program ever fails on its merits; it's always lack of money, or lack of will, or lack of education. Never because it was a bad or stupid or unworkable idea.
Once in a great while, a couple of nuts raised by twats go off and kill somebody. Obviously it's a very rare case. Or should we try to make it impossible? Oh, this is America, we're working for a zero-risk world. See you in Utopia!
It's strange to me that so much emphasis is being placed on the suspect's age. If he was, say, 34, would all of the press reports be saying "The 34-year-old suspect will be in custody today and will be charged as an adult."?
That's because this is America. An 18-year old is more likely to behave like a 10-year-old than like an adult.
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Garfield is insanely stupid, and this _is_ America. Two dots, easy to connect.
Because he's a geek looking for /. cred? (Of course, it wouldn't be Madonna.)
+1 Informative.
Don't get too excited. They failed to rule the world by force. Now they're trying to do it peacefully, by co-opting us geeks. It could only be done through Linux. Now we know who Linus was working for when he said "world domination."
In mid-20th-century, The Historical Inevitability of Progress was a religion. Now, we are disillusioned and skeptical, because we have lost The Faith. That's the diff.
I agree with the replies, but these _are_ the days of creative revenue streaming (to babble on like a marketdroid).
I think there's been some noise about ISPs being able to figure out you're NATting from the packet info. I think you can obscure that with OpenBSD. With the Linksys et al you can't. Who cares? When the ISP decides to charge per computer on your LAN...
Just as a historical nitpick, the Maginot Line _did_ in fact work--the Germans didn't attack it directly, but went around it, quite successfully.
Nothin' like the old days: paper maps and cardboard counters and dice and charts. Just don't let the kids near!
Obligatory "You were lucky!"
Well, I sure am looking forward to some fun games, for a change! Hope you guys don't drop the ball.
No.
Who are all these known hijackers floating around? How are they on the loose? If they are known to be hijackers or terrorists, how come they're not in jail already? Light sentencing, I suppose. And, how do you catch the ones about to do it for the first time?
How would such a system ID an as-yet-unknown terrorist? The one who's not in the DB?
Hey, this is the government we're talking about. No government program ever fails on its merits; it's always lack of money, or lack of will, or lack of education. Never because it was a bad or stupid or unworkable idea.
And some manners.
Need to start writing "$CO" instead of "SCO".
Bueller?
Not in America. We specialize in taking offense at anything here.
Once in a great while, a couple of nuts raised by twats go off and kill somebody. Obviously it's a very rare case. Or should we try to make it impossible? Oh, this is America, we're working for a zero-risk world. See you in Utopia!
This is America. Nothing is anybody's fault, it's always someone else's fault.
That's because this is America. An 18-year old is more likely to behave like a 10-year-old than like an adult.
Let's give him a fair trial, _then_ let's give him a first-class hangin'!
If anyone breaks any of the rules, just beat them up. That way you won't have to nag.
And Godwin was right, too.