Because a thought crime was committed, citizen. The mere mention of certain words is no longer accepted, especially any pertaining to race, religion, or sexual orientation. Welcome to the future. Now please perform crimestop.
Yup. Government breaks the law. Government gets caught. Politician accuses person who denounces their lawbreaking of endangering "national security". Reality is that governments own actions has endangered "national security". Ahh politics. And remember it (Kenya mall attack) has absolutely nothing to do with Islam...
Because if you're not for us you're against us, and other mental distortions... You do realize that many of the countries spied on are friends and allies, right? Or were. A great way to lose friends quickly of course is to treat them like an enemy.
'Because there is no sign of an impact crater, it has been a mystery as to what kind of celestial event actually could have caused this debris field'
Are these people dim-witted? We had firsthand video footage of what happens when a big chunk of rock burns into the atmosphere. You get a huge multi-megaton blast like in Chelyabinsk as the meteorite breaks apart due to wanting to move faster through the atmosphere than the air can actually move out of the way... This blast IS NOT NECESSARILY THE IMPACT SITE. It would be a rare thing for a meteorite to be headed perpendicular to the earth's surface. Extrapolating this mechanism to even larger chunks of rock, you'd expect fused sand and little lumps of meteorite, but you wouldn't expect to see the main part of the meteorite where the sand is. That thing landed far away from the blast site. Same for Tunguska - they never found anything because the "crater" is the epicenter of the shock wave, not the actual impact with the ground. All these theories of mysterious "evaporating comets" should be re-evaluated in the face of this new, modern evidence.
Because Apple wants it that way. If you don't like it, don't buy their products. Unfortunately the rest of the market seems not to care at all about cable issues (which makes sense because the "value" of an Apple product is in being able to show off to others you have an Apple product, not the actual quality of the product itself), so they get away with it.
Not sure if your questions are rhetorical or not. But the #2 killer is cancer, and that is even more expensive to treat. Personally I'd choose a heart attack even in my mid 60's (reality is I had my first one in my 20's and have had a whole bunch already) over cancer in my 70's. Outliving your money/income can't be nice, even when you have progeny to depend on. And if you don't, well then you're screwed.
Only because you haven't taken the appropriate precautions. Surgeons wear gloves. Soldiers wear body armor. And quantum scientists... well here... puff puff pass, then your brain won't hurt so much with quantum...dude
Your reply smacks of apologism. Awwwww POOOR THEM their site wasn't designed to handle that load.... No, this is not a $100M site that was badly designed and needed $500M more to cope with an unusual load problem, no, this is a $600M site that is still going to need even more money to work as intended. For $600M you can buy companies that are used to working with huge traffic loads. Certainly you can get consulting from companies like say Blizzard, Facebook, Google, Amazon, hell even CCP (makers of EVE Online, famous for working with large simultaneous loads on a single server) for a fraction of the cost. At the end of the day you'd have a rock solid site for your money on launch day built on knowledge that has already been acquired by leaders in the field. No, now you have $600M spent and you STILL don't have a website that works. This amounts to treason you know. Heads used to get chopped off for this kind of thing, back when there were real leaders.
Sure there was video in the link! Oh, wait... you must have gotten the "other" version. Well, quantum stuff can suck sometimes but hey, at least you're not a cat!
Maybe on the desktop it was for hobbyists but linux has been pretty solid in the server market for a number of years. It was not unheard of in 2003, and certainly still had growth potential if not the market share it has today. It's not my field of work so exact figures and citations escape me, but I'm pretty sure I'm not completely lost in thinking it a very viable target.
Unless somebody has proof that somebody was trying to create a back door then stop with all of the "X-Files" shit.
Yes. Never try to think that anyone would be interested in compromising a very popular OS. Always assume that it was just a simple mistake, and the fact that safety precautions to avoid this kind of mistake were also bypassed: it's always co-incidence. Never suspect anyone, ever. Security by hiding your head in the sand is the best security ever. By the time you realize they chopped your head off, you're already dead, so you have never have anything to worry about.
After all, what possible kind of advantage would a backdoor like this offer to anyone, anyway? It's not like half the governments of the world are actively trying to break into all the private and public computer networks they can, right?
if they don't get a CEO that has a plan and knows WTF they are doing
I assure you that most CEO's indeed have a plan and have a very good idea about what they're doing. Except usually that plan has everything to do with manipulating the short term stock price and CEO bonus levels and nothing to do with the long term health of a corporation.
You can torture it until it does your bidding, with no legal repercussions.
Slashdot gives me 15 mod points every day for god knows how long, and today, no mod points! LOL thanks for the laugh anyway. Point of note however: when every business owner is running his super efficient entirely automatic operation and everyone else except a few robotic repair people are out of a job, what exactly are the rest of us going supposed to buy their products with? Let me know when short sighted capitalism comes up with the answer to that one. One one side you could exclaim Utopia! I know humans a little better, however...
Welcome to another general news site? You mean you haven't noticed what slashdot has become? We even got to learn about Sandra Bullock's new movie on slashdot. If you want the old slashdot you'll have to go back about 10 years or so in your browser cache... Me I'm just here because I'm too lazy to look for somewhere else, and some of the trolls are kinda funny.
It's going to get a lot more unhealthy in a hurry in about a week or so if they don't either shit or get off the pot. Moody's still thinks US credit is worth AA+. God I'd hate to see what they rate as junk...
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Heh by 2032 the only one allowed to do any traveling at all will be the asteroid.
Because a thought crime was committed, citizen. The mere mention of certain words is no longer accepted, especially any pertaining to race, religion, or sexual orientation. Welcome to the future. Now please perform crimestop.
"I use Apple products because they are 'safer'".
Then you will be busted for not showing the concealed carry permit first.
Yup. Government breaks the law. Government gets caught. Politician accuses person who denounces their lawbreaking of endangering "national security". Reality is that governments own actions has endangered "national security". Ahh politics. And remember it (Kenya mall attack) has absolutely nothing to do with Islam...
Because if you're not for us you're against us, and other mental distortions... You do realize that many of the countries spied on are friends and allies, right? Or were. A great way to lose friends quickly of course is to treat them like an enemy.
'Because there is no sign of an impact crater, it has been a mystery as to what kind of celestial event actually could have caused this debris field'
Are these people dim-witted? We had firsthand video footage of what happens when a big chunk of rock burns into the atmosphere. You get a huge multi-megaton blast like in Chelyabinsk as the meteorite breaks apart due to wanting to move faster through the atmosphere than the air can actually move out of the way... This blast IS NOT NECESSARILY THE IMPACT SITE. It would be a rare thing for a meteorite to be headed perpendicular to the earth's surface. Extrapolating this mechanism to even larger chunks of rock, you'd expect fused sand and little lumps of meteorite, but you wouldn't expect to see the main part of the meteorite where the sand is. That thing landed far away from the blast site. Same for Tunguska - they never found anything because the "crater" is the epicenter of the shock wave, not the actual impact with the ground. All these theories of mysterious "evaporating comets" should be re-evaluated in the face of this new, modern evidence.
but why does it have to be proprietary?
Because Apple wants it that way. If you don't like it, don't buy their products. Unfortunately the rest of the market seems not to care at all about cable issues (which makes sense because the "value" of an Apple product is in being able to show off to others you have an Apple product, not the actual quality of the product itself), so they get away with it.
There already is a standard. Apple is choosing to ignore it. That's sort of the whole point of this argument.
Errare humanum est
Not sure if your questions are rhetorical or not. But the #2 killer is cancer, and that is even more expensive to treat. Personally I'd choose a heart attack even in my mid 60's (reality is I had my first one in my 20's and have had a whole bunch already) over cancer in my 70's. Outliving your money/income can't be nice, even when you have progeny to depend on. And if you don't, well then you're screwed.
Poor little Apple users. I'll just leave this here, shall I?
Quantum hurts my brain.
Only because you haven't taken the appropriate precautions. Surgeons wear gloves. Soldiers wear body armor. And quantum scientists... well here... puff puff pass, then your brain won't hurt so much with quantum...dude
Your reply smacks of apologism. Awwwww POOOR THEM their site wasn't designed to handle that load.... No, this is not a $100M site that was badly designed and needed $500M more to cope with an unusual load problem, no, this is a $600M site that is still going to need even more money to work as intended. For $600M you can buy companies that are used to working with huge traffic loads. Certainly you can get consulting from companies like say Blizzard, Facebook, Google, Amazon, hell even CCP (makers of EVE Online, famous for working with large simultaneous loads on a single server) for a fraction of the cost. At the end of the day you'd have a rock solid site for your money on launch day built on knowledge that has already been acquired by leaders in the field. No, now you have $600M spent and you STILL don't have a website that works. This amounts to treason you know. Heads used to get chopped off for this kind of thing, back when there were real leaders.
Sure there was video in the link! Oh, wait... you must have gotten the "other" version. Well, quantum stuff can suck sometimes but hey, at least you're not a cat!
Maybe on the desktop it was for hobbyists but linux has been pretty solid in the server market for a number of years. It was not unheard of in 2003, and certainly still had growth potential if not the market share it has today. It's not my field of work so exact figures and citations escape me, but I'm pretty sure I'm not completely lost in thinking it a very viable target.
Unless somebody has proof that somebody was trying to create a back door then stop with all of the "X-Files" shit.
Yes. Never try to think that anyone would be interested in compromising a very popular OS. Always assume that it was just a simple mistake, and the fact that safety precautions to avoid this kind of mistake were also bypassed: it's always co-incidence. Never suspect anyone, ever. Security by hiding your head in the sand is the best security ever. By the time you realize they chopped your head off, you're already dead, so you have never have anything to worry about.
After all, what possible kind of advantage would a backdoor like this offer to anyone, anyway? It's not like half the governments of the world are actively trying to break into all the private and public computer networks they can, right?
if they don't get a CEO that has a plan and knows WTF they are doing
I assure you that most CEO's indeed have a plan and have a very good idea about what they're doing. Except usually that plan has everything to do with manipulating the short term stock price and CEO bonus levels and nothing to do with the long term health of a corporation.
There's nothing better than walking through NYC on a cold winter's morning, eating a potato knish
Then you haven't lived.
You can torture it until it does your bidding, with no legal repercussions.
Slashdot gives me 15 mod points every day for god knows how long, and today, no mod points! LOL thanks for the laugh anyway. Point of note however: when every business owner is running his super efficient entirely automatic operation and everyone else except a few robotic repair people are out of a job, what exactly are the rest of us going supposed to buy their products with? Let me know when short sighted capitalism comes up with the answer to that one. One one side you could exclaim Utopia! I know humans a little better, however...
Be thankful to the French, they saved your ass from the muslims in 732 AD. How far back do you want to go?
It depends on whether or not he has taken his medication today?
Welcome to another general news site? You mean you haven't noticed what slashdot has become? We even got to learn about Sandra Bullock's new movie on slashdot. If you want the old slashdot you'll have to go back about 10 years or so in your browser cache... Me I'm just here because I'm too lazy to look for somewhere else, and some of the trolls are kinda funny.
Or the whole point of government, for that matter.
It's going to get a lot more unhealthy in a hurry in about a week or so if they don't either shit or get off the pot. Moody's still thinks US credit is worth AA+. God I'd hate to see what they rate as junk...