No way, man! Do you know how boring that would be to develop? What we really need is transparency and alpha channel blending effects. And skins! There is a serious dearth of quality skins for mplayer!
Most "leaks" come from poorly written extensions/add-ons.
Isn't Firefox supposed to be a bare-bones browser that requires tons of addons in order to be useful? This is what I hear every time I criticize Firefox for being so useless in its out-of-the-box state. Defective by design?
Why not? If there were any problems with pirates or aggressive nations, the British fleet would be over to deal with them. The Yankee Clippers didn't have to pay a dime in taxes for that, much like the world rides for free on the USN today. Do you have any idea of how much the goods on a single container ship are worth? Hint: more than the gold on an entire Spanish treasure fleet.
Let's see: go back to my code and my cubicle, or deal with a problem that is purely judgement and requires a lot of thinking about and dealing with other people?
The story was written by journalists, as all news stories are - and we know for a fact that they aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. They believe all sorts of weird things, especially about smart people...they move in a very restricted social stratum, and they are typically very out-of-touch. There must be something wrong with computer programmers, because if they were really that smart, they would have become journalism professors.
I find it incredible how much you can't do as an XP limited account.
That's kind of the idea there, buddy. Bringing network interfaces up and down is definitely an administrative task. If XP were a real operating system, it'd have some way to temporarily become administrator during a session. Even "run as Administrator" with the proper password doesn't work for tons of programs, QQ and Alibaba Trade Manager being the offenders I'm pissed off with currently.
Yup, should do wonders to rehabilitate his reptutation - the robber barons of the 19th century aren't remembered for their crimes, but rather for the funds that they set up with their ill-gotten wealth.
Yeah, that's the only situation that I can see heavy online gaming being a good thing - crippled people. Otherwise, it's a colossal waste of time and productivity. I can see a future where the barbarians are at the gates, and half the people don't care because they're enjoying virtual magic world or virutal harem.
Again, the America-centric viewpoint. Can't anyone ever think outside the box?
Ever thought of asking the Chinese what they think about America? They're robbing America blind right now, and they're chomping at the bit to take Uncle Sam down a couple of notches. However, being Chinese, they take the long view of things and are willing to wait until they are fully ready. For a sample of this thinking, check out how they don't care one whit about Darfur or Steven Speilberg.
So you're a liberal journalist - surprise, surprise. You're against nuclear power, you think Republicans are bastards because they don't agree with your worldview, and you think the New York Times is insufficiently leftist.
1. The authors of the new Trojan Horse are well-funded professionals whose malware has "specific designs to capture something and not leave traces,"
2. Computer Associates has traced the Trojan to a specific group in China
3. It spreads by USB drives
4. "It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence,"
Follow the money. My money's on an espionage tool from the Chinese government or its affiliated corporations. Let the flaming begin...I said "China" and "espionage" in the same sentence, I'm sure folks out there would like to lynch me just for even suggesting that there is such a laughable concept as espionage, or bash me for so-called China-bashing (which includes any criticism of China except those for human rights, that's OK).
Guess what? Chinese people do not particularly care what Westerners think of their society. 99% of them never meet with any "Western colleagues".
And frankly, Chinese people, having only formed an impression of us through our media (just like your impression of China, yes?) think that Westerners are horrid people. The women are either gigantasaurs who can't stop eating or dirty sluts ("Sex in the City" was widely popular). The men are weak and are infested with disfiguring body hair. We are also inexplicably allowing them to rob us blind of technology, a fact that causes much head-scratching - the Chinese would certainly not stand for that if the situation were reversed.
Torturing babies, oh, no! You forgot about the fuzzy bunnies and the duckies! What are you, a born-again Christian?
Again, someone misses the point entirely, which is why do business owners and others feel that they need such a device? If they didn't feel the need for it, then it wouldn't exist, period. And no, media scaremongering isn't responsible for kids smashing your shop windows in. Business owners don't like to spend money on anything that isn't absolutely necessary for their business, and security systems are one of the places that they cut corners.
Notice how he carefully avoids saying anything about how people might need this device? England is becoming more like the nightmare dystopia of Clockwork Orange every day. But let's not say anything about how why a business might want to protect itself from children, instead let's attack those who have the temerity to try and defend themselves.
Crime is the fault of society, not the individual criminal. Child criminals are entitled to what they smash. Submitting to criminal predation is more virtuous than resisting it.
The poor are victims. Criminals are victims. And only victims are virtuous. Therefore only the poor and criminals are virtuous. (Rich people can borrow some virtue by identifying with poor people and criminals.)
For a virtuous person, defending oneself is never justified. It is always better to be a victim than to take proactive measures. An ASBO is more than enough, in any case.
Young campus radicals like your former self formed the Weather Underground, SLA, RAF, and other terrorist groups. These actually did shoot people, rob banks, and blow up buildings. And these were in the tame days of the 70s, when you had to give people bomb instructions by hand, or photocopy.
Reading jihadist materials from the internet is one of the ways that ordinary people become radicals. I'm sure your "information wants to be free" types will be out here defending it, but let's be honest, your average Muhammad isn't going to build his own bomb so he can ride the subway without reading instructions on how to do so. Racist skinheads also use online materials to self-radicalize, and I bet that nobody here would be against coming down hard on them.
Examples of people making the jump from online materials to radical Islam are the two
leading members of the cell responsible for the July 7, 2005, London
bombings -- Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shahzad Tanweer. Both had
life-changing experiences through their exposure to online materials, though by 2001
the men had left the Tablighi mosque they had been attending in the
British city of Beeston, because they found it to be too apolitical.
They apparently were frustrated by the mosque's elders, who forbid the
discussion of politics in the mosque.
After Khan and Tanweer left the Tablighi mosque, they began attending
the smaller Iqra Learning Center bookstore in Beeston, where they
reportedly were exposed to frequent political discussions about places
such as Iraq, Kashmir and Chechnya. The store's proprietors reportedly
even produced jihad videos depicting crimes by the West against the
Muslim world. Exposed to this environment, the two men eventually became
radicalized to the point of traveling to Pakistan to attend a terrorist
training camp and then returning to the United Kingdom to plan and
execute a suicide attack that resulted in the death of them both.
Yeah, well after living abroad for a number of years, I find that most foreign films are absolute crap. Hey, I'm not defending Hollywood here, which produces tons of crap every year. But jeez, Hollywood crap really is better, on average.
Sure, it's a possibility. It's also a possibility that I could find a $100 bill on the street tomorrow. Corporations are evil, and have only their own self-interest at heart. Their job is not to make profit, but to maximize profit.
Because people used to be able to make comments anonymously, before Slashdot started filtering them out by default. Also, a security researcher would have an interest in staying anonymous. I know I was on slashdot when it was new, and I never bothered to get an account until it became obvious that nobody was reading my comments due to the "Score: 1" threshold.
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No way, man! Do you know how boring that would be to develop? What we really need is transparency and alpha channel blending effects. And skins! There is a serious dearth of quality skins for mplayer!
Isn't Firefox supposed to be a bare-bones browser that requires tons of addons in order to be useful? This is what I hear every time I criticize Firefox for being so useless in its out-of-the-box state. Defective by design?
Why not? If there were any problems with pirates or aggressive nations, the British fleet would be over to deal with them. The Yankee Clippers didn't have to pay a dime in taxes for that, much like the world rides for free on the USN today. Do you have any idea of how much the goods on a single container ship are worth? Hint: more than the gold on an entire Spanish treasure fleet.
Yup. The world's happiest times always come when one nation rules the seas and makes it safe for the commerce of all.
Let's see: go back to my code and my cubicle, or deal with a problem that is purely judgement and requires a lot of thinking about and dealing with other people?
The story was written by journalists, as all news stories are - and we know for a fact that they aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. They believe all sorts of weird things, especially about smart people...they move in a very restricted social stratum, and they are typically very out-of-touch. There must be something wrong with computer programmers, because if they were really that smart, they would have become journalism professors.
If they were so smart, they would have thought of an excuse to get out of jury duty.
That's kind of the idea there, buddy. Bringing network interfaces up and down is definitely an administrative task. If XP were a real operating system, it'd have some way to temporarily become administrator during a session. Even "run as Administrator" with the proper password doesn't work for tons of programs, QQ and Alibaba Trade Manager being the offenders I'm pissed off with currently.
Yup, should do wonders to rehabilitate his reptutation - the robber barons of the 19th century aren't remembered for their crimes, but rather for the funds that they set up with their ill-gotten wealth.
Yeah, that's the only situation that I can see heavy online gaming being a good thing - crippled people. Otherwise, it's a colossal waste of time and productivity. I can see a future where the barbarians are at the gates, and half the people don't care because they're enjoying virtual magic world or virutal harem.
Ever thought of asking the Chinese what they think about America? They're robbing America blind right now, and they're chomping at the bit to take Uncle Sam down a couple of notches. However, being Chinese, they take the long view of things and are willing to wait until they are fully ready. For a sample of this thinking, check out how they don't care one whit about Darfur or Steven Speilberg.
So you're a liberal journalist - surprise, surprise. You're against nuclear power, you think Republicans are bastards because they don't agree with your worldview, and you think the New York Times is insufficiently leftist.
2. Computer Associates has traced the Trojan to a specific group in China
3. It spreads by USB drives
4. "It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence,"
Follow the money. My money's on an espionage tool from the Chinese government or its affiliated corporations. Let the flaming begin...I said "China" and "espionage" in the same sentence, I'm sure folks out there would like to lynch me just for even suggesting that there is such a laughable concept as espionage, or bash me for so-called China-bashing (which includes any criticism of China except those for human rights, that's OK).
And frankly, Chinese people, having only formed an impression of us through our media (just like your impression of China, yes?) think that Westerners are horrid people. The women are either gigantasaurs who can't stop eating or dirty sluts ("Sex in the City" was widely popular). The men are weak and are infested with disfiguring body hair. We are also inexplicably allowing them to rob us blind of technology, a fact that causes much head-scratching - the Chinese would certainly not stand for that if the situation were reversed.
Neocons are Jews. Rush Limbaugh isn't a Jew. You keep using that word...I do not think it means what you think it means.
Again, someone misses the point entirely, which is why do business owners and others feel that they need such a device? If they didn't feel the need for it, then it wouldn't exist, period. And no, media scaremongering isn't responsible for kids smashing your shop windows in. Business owners don't like to spend money on anything that isn't absolutely necessary for their business, and security systems are one of the places that they cut corners.
Women's rights activists don't walk into subway cars and explode in order to kill disbelievers.
Reading jihadist materials from the internet is one of the ways that ordinary people become radicals. I'm sure your "information wants to be free" types will be out here defending it, but let's be honest, your average Muhammad isn't going to build his own bomb so he can ride the subway without reading instructions on how to do so. Racist skinheads also use online materials to self-radicalize, and I bet that nobody here would be against coming down hard on them.
Examples of people making the jump from online materials to radical Islam are the two leading members of the cell responsible for the July 7, 2005, London bombings -- Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shahzad Tanweer. Both had life-changing experiences through their exposure to online materials, though by 2001 the men had left the Tablighi mosque they had been attending in the British city of Beeston, because they found it to be too apolitical. They apparently were frustrated by the mosque's elders, who forbid the discussion of politics in the mosque.
After Khan and Tanweer left the Tablighi mosque, they began attending the smaller Iqra Learning Center bookstore in Beeston, where they reportedly were exposed to frequent political discussions about places such as Iraq, Kashmir and Chechnya. The store's proprietors reportedly even produced jihad videos depicting crimes by the West against the Muslim world. Exposed to this environment, the two men eventually became radicalized to the point of traveling to Pakistan to attend a terrorist training camp and then returning to the United Kingdom to plan and execute a suicide attack that resulted in the death of them both.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, 1933
-- Jean-Louis Gassée, CEO Be, Inc.
Yeah, well after living abroad for a number of years, I find that most foreign films are absolute crap. Hey, I'm not defending Hollywood here, which produces tons of crap every year. But jeez, Hollywood crap really is better, on average.
Well, you've convinced me. The US is more at fault than any other country for WWII, especially Switzerland.
Sure, it's a possibility. It's also a possibility that I could find a $100 bill on the street tomorrow. Corporations are evil, and have only their own self-interest at heart. Their job is not to make profit, but to maximize profit.
Because people used to be able to make comments anonymously, before Slashdot started filtering them out by default. Also, a security researcher would have an interest in staying anonymous. I know I was on slashdot when it was new, and I never bothered to get an account until it became obvious that nobody was reading my comments due to the "Score: 1" threshold.