Yes. I suggest a noose. A garotte could work, too. To paraphrase Douglas Adams: "A:you hear they are executing lawyers now?" B: "Oh yeah? for what offense?" A:"What do you mean, offense?", although in that case he was referring to insurance people...
Can you give us an example of how another "better" OS would have handled this differently?
Not allowing code to be executed from data segments and not allowing any program to run anything with system level privileges would be a start. This whole concept of having a remote server even be able to execute code on your machine is sheer lunacy. Yeah in a perfect world it's a hell of a concept - centralize the work and every computer becomes a dedicated, specialized terminal. But the world is not perfect. Why oh why do we insist (active desktop, RPC, activex, java, flash) on even allowing remote execution - intentional or not?
At least they are up front about what they want this for:
"16. The onboard unit according to claim 1, wherein the onboard unit contains an acceleration sensor, which in the event of an acceleration exceeding a threshold causes the camera to record an image.
17. The onboard unit according to claim 1, wherein the onboard unit contains a satellite navigation receiver to provide the image recording with the location and time data of its creation."
Reminds me of this poster, except you'll be riding with a traffic cop 24/7. Nice! But why would I need this if my car already comes with On Star?
Being a coder doesn't make you a bad / good computer user...
No I agree. Especially if you learn to code in a cookie-cutter university environment. However I taught myself everything I know about computers back when computers were far simpler than today. I knew how to peek and poke to memory, deal with interrupts and DMA channels and even sometimes write my own drivers before most of today's coders left their diapers. I have intimate and fairly obsolete knowledge not only of CPU's and their supporting chips, but I understand on a fundamental level how a computer works, just like the first automobile owners back at the turn of last century had no need of a mechanic.
But curiously operating systems (including linux) have become bloated. "Features" have become interdependent. I believe it's gotten to a point where one single person is now incapable of knowing all the little details of an OS and all the housekeeping it does in the background. So even someone who really, truly understands computers like myself can easily have the wool pulled over his eyes through some attack vector unknown to him.
look into comodo anti-virus
I tend to avoid 3rd party security software because of previous bad experiences with Zone Alarm and FreeAVG to name but a few (skipping over the obvious McAffee and Norton). They tend to start off well and then when they reach some sort of critical mass suddenly the company decides it wants to force you to have anal sex with it. No thanks. At least Microsoft screws me up front.
That phenomenon was observed before three earthquakes since 2004.
Certainly this opens an argument for more research in this area. However how about actually figuring out if it's not just co-incidence before talking about building "detection systems" and putting numbers to the "lives saved". Otherwise you're going to get all geologists arrested and extradited to Italy to face manslaughter charges.
Stupid users eh? Explain the following: Yesterday I visited the top site google provided for a search I did. I was not searching for anything particularly exotic or deviant, certainly not pornographic or illegal. Immediately on visiting the site with my Windows 7 machine, Microsoft Security Essentials pops up to alert me of a "severe" threat (Trojan:JS/BlacoleRef.A) it had located in my browser cache (Firefox 7.01). I did what the security program said, and it says the threat was removed. I have no idea if it was removed or not, my only choice with such an obfuscated, complicated OS is to assume that the tools I am given are not lying to me and are doing the job that they are.
However should I be infected in the above scenario, how exactly does this make me a "stupid user"? I've had a PC since the late 1970's. I can code in ASM, Cobol, Fortran, Basic, C, C++. I like to think I know how computers work. I don't click "Yes" to everything, and I don't run programs from dubious sources anywhere other than a virtual machine. Should I be going through my registry and boot files daily to not be a "stupid user"? Isn't that what an OS is supposed to do for me - take care of the basic functions of my machine while I run the programs I need? Are you just going to troll me by saying "use linux instead you noob"?
On the contrary it is you who distract: the topic is the ozone hole and cool arctic temperatures. You introduced CO2. TFA does not mention CO2. I did not mention CO2 until after you post. Will you deny that volcanic activity (regardless of the specific gas/dust involved) can cool the planet?
You know that CO2 is nowhere near being the "worst" greenhouse gas, right? Why are you even discussing CO2 when you should be discussing methane and water vapor?
I think the Chinese take the attitude "we will when you will". But hey if Chinese manufacturing bothers you so much, go ahead and boycott Chinese products and I dunno, go live in the forest or something.
No, see, these morons have a very rudimentary understanding of science, ie the went to see a movie called "An Inconvenient Truth". Apparently clouds are formed in the arctic on cold days (go figure, I've lived in Canada many years and on really cold days you don't get clouds at all because it's hard to get water vapor to condense and supersaturate the atmosphere at those temperatures but let's ignore this science for a second). These "cold clouds" then prevent light from reaching the surface but AT THE SAME TIME trap heat underneath them, causing the stratosphere to cool down. Or was it heat up? Now let's ignore the second fact - that the stratosphere starts at above 30,000 feet (not many clouds at that height except the odd thunder-head but most of these morons have never flown in an airplane either). But somehow through the miracle of magic (and I guess convection currents? I'm not a meteorologist), this affects the ozone layer some 90,000 feet above THAT.
Now I won't argue that our global climate is not a dynamic system - it is very dynamic and chaotic. I won't even argue against a warming trend for the past 40,000 years or so when glaciers covered most of our land masses. I mean it's pretty obvious the average temperatures are increasing. What I will argue against however is the constant use of bullshit to try and convince people that they should hate themselves for existing, in the name of global warming. I am sure that recent volcanic activity alone has affected the global climate far more than human activity. I am sure that there is a positive correlation between cold weather and ozone holes.
However the tail does not wag the dog, and the cart does not go before the horse. A lot of these idiots really need to get back to basic chemistry and read up on Le Chatelier to understand why temperature changes can affect all sorts of equilibrium states, be it the Co2-Bicarbonate equilibrium between the atmosphere and the oceans, or the oxygen-ozone equilibriums in the stratosphere. But no it's easier to wave pitchforks and call people names instead of actually learning a bit of science.
Oh yes, 2005. And 1999-2000. And the world completely failed to end. In fact everything was back to normal in a few years. Well since the environuts have lost the polar bear debate, I guess now we have to worry about the big bad Northern Ozone Hole coming and killing us in our sleep. But hey make up your mind, is this Arctic cold snap caused by Global Warming too, or what?
Try real hard to make yourself incombustible when you are doused in jet fuel and everything around you ignites. Most crash survivors are killed by burns and smoke inhalation. But nice try, BA.
You could also meet people who are judging the Supreme Court, discussing the building's architecture, etc. and not meet any judges at all. This is why we need lawyers. On the other hand, this is why we should shoot lawyers.
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Lawyers need to be reigned in
Yes. I suggest a noose. A garotte could work, too. To paraphrase Douglas Adams: "A:you hear they are executing lawyers now?" B: "Oh yeah? for what offense?" A:"What do you mean, offense?", although in that case he was referring to insurance people...
I could tell you, but then I would have to sue you.
It might be suspicious, but I dare you to block it at the ISP level.
"We find that we can only spot the Yeti after ingesting at least 2 litres of vodka, therefore somehow this creature must be attracted to the liquid."
At the rate you're going, I will soon be using Java None.
Can you give us an example of how another "better" OS would have handled this differently?
Not allowing code to be executed from data segments and not allowing any program to run anything with system level privileges would be a start. This whole concept of having a remote server even be able to execute code on your machine is sheer lunacy. Yeah in a perfect world it's a hell of a concept - centralize the work and every computer becomes a dedicated, specialized terminal. But the world is not perfect. Why oh why do we insist (active desktop, RPC, activex, java, flash) on even allowing remote execution - intentional or not?
This largely depends on what you google.
Something related to EVE Online character skills?
At least they are up front about what they want this for:
"16. The onboard unit according to claim 1, wherein the onboard unit contains an acceleration sensor, which in the event of an acceleration exceeding a threshold causes the camera to record an image.
17. The onboard unit according to claim 1, wherein the onboard unit contains a satellite navigation receiver to provide the image recording with the location and time data of its creation." Reminds me of this poster, except you'll be riding with a traffic cop 24/7. Nice! But why would I need this if my car already comes with On Star?
Being a coder doesn't make you a bad / good computer user...
No I agree. Especially if you learn to code in a cookie-cutter university environment. However I taught myself everything I know about computers back when computers were far simpler than today. I knew how to peek and poke to memory, deal with interrupts and DMA channels and even sometimes write my own drivers before most of today's coders left their diapers. I have intimate and fairly obsolete knowledge not only of CPU's and their supporting chips, but I understand on a fundamental level how a computer works, just like the first automobile owners back at the turn of last century had no need of a mechanic. But curiously operating systems (including linux) have become bloated. "Features" have become interdependent. I believe it's gotten to a point where one single person is now incapable of knowing all the little details of an OS and all the housekeeping it does in the background. So even someone who really, truly understands computers like myself can easily have the wool pulled over his eyes through some attack vector unknown to him.
look into comodo anti-virus
I tend to avoid 3rd party security software because of previous bad experiences with Zone Alarm and FreeAVG to name but a few (skipping over the obvious McAffee and Norton). They tend to start off well and then when they reach some sort of critical mass suddenly the company decides it wants to force you to have anal sex with it. No thanks. At least Microsoft screws me up front.
That phenomenon was observed before three earthquakes since 2004.
Certainly this opens an argument for more research in this area. However how about actually figuring out if it's not just co-incidence before talking about building "detection systems" and putting numbers to the "lives saved". Otherwise you're going to get all geologists arrested and extradited to Italy to face manslaughter charges.
Stupid users eh? Explain the following: Yesterday I visited the top site google provided for a search I did. I was not searching for anything particularly exotic or deviant, certainly not pornographic or illegal. Immediately on visiting the site with my Windows 7 machine, Microsoft Security Essentials pops up to alert me of a "severe" threat (Trojan:JS/BlacoleRef.A) it had located in my browser cache (Firefox 7.01). I did what the security program said, and it says the threat was removed. I have no idea if it was removed or not, my only choice with such an obfuscated, complicated OS is to assume that the tools I am given are not lying to me and are doing the job that they are.
However should I be infected in the above scenario, how exactly does this make me a "stupid user"? I've had a PC since the late 1970's. I can code in ASM, Cobol, Fortran, Basic, C, C++. I like to think I know how computers work. I don't click "Yes" to everything, and I don't run programs from dubious sources anywhere other than a virtual machine. Should I be going through my registry and boot files daily to not be a "stupid user"? Isn't that what an OS is supposed to do for me - take care of the basic functions of my machine while I run the programs I need? Are you just going to troll me by saying "use linux instead you noob"?
And yet your sig speaks of tolerance. Like, piss off, lol.
Because the people who award them want to be almost-completely-sure it's legit
This must not be the same committee that decides who gets a Peace prize, you know, like in 2009.
On the contrary it is you who distract: the topic is the ozone hole and cool arctic temperatures. You introduced CO2. TFA does not mention CO2. I did not mention CO2 until after you post. Will you deny that volcanic activity (regardless of the specific gas/dust involved) can cool the planet?
Volcanoes emit about 1% as much CO2
You know that CO2 is nowhere near being the "worst" greenhouse gas, right? Why are you even discussing CO2 when you should be discussing methane and water vapor?
I think the Chinese take the attitude "we will when you will". But hey if Chinese manufacturing bothers you so much, go ahead and boycott Chinese products and I dunno, go live in the forest or something.
No, see, these morons have a very rudimentary understanding of science, ie the went to see a movie called "An Inconvenient Truth". Apparently clouds are formed in the arctic on cold days (go figure, I've lived in Canada many years and on really cold days you don't get clouds at all because it's hard to get water vapor to condense and supersaturate the atmosphere at those temperatures but let's ignore this science for a second). These "cold clouds" then prevent light from reaching the surface but AT THE SAME TIME trap heat underneath them, causing the stratosphere to cool down. Or was it heat up? Now let's ignore the second fact - that the stratosphere starts at above 30,000 feet (not many clouds at that height except the odd thunder-head but most of these morons have never flown in an airplane either). But somehow through the miracle of magic (and I guess convection currents? I'm not a meteorologist), this affects the ozone layer some 90,000 feet above THAT.
Now I won't argue that our global climate is not a dynamic system - it is very dynamic and chaotic. I won't even argue against a warming trend for the past 40,000 years or so when glaciers covered most of our land masses. I mean it's pretty obvious the average temperatures are increasing. What I will argue against however is the constant use of bullshit to try and convince people that they should hate themselves for existing, in the name of global warming. I am sure that recent volcanic activity alone has affected the global climate far more than human activity. I am sure that there is a positive correlation between cold weather and ozone holes.
However the tail does not wag the dog, and the cart does not go before the horse. A lot of these idiots really need to get back to basic chemistry and read up on Le Chatelier to understand why temperature changes can affect all sorts of equilibrium states, be it the Co2-Bicarbonate equilibrium between the atmosphere and the oceans, or the oxygen-ozone equilibriums in the stratosphere. But no it's easier to wave pitchforks and call people names instead of actually learning a bit of science.
Not to mention that Bush decided not to have the US sign the Kyoto agreement.
it would be nice to be able to reach through the screen and tear him a new asshole, or rip off his head and shit down his neck
This is the hallmark of pretty much all fanatics everywhere. Well done. Why don't you throw in a couple Allahu-ackbars too, before you decapitate me?
Oh yes, 2005. And 1999-2000. And the world completely failed to end. In fact everything was back to normal in a few years. Well since the environuts have lost the polar bear debate, I guess now we have to worry about the big bad Northern Ozone Hole coming and killing us in our sleep. But hey make up your mind, is this Arctic cold snap caused by Global Warming too, or what?
Sign of the times, perhaps? I wasn't sure if you were trying to be funny or pedantic :)
I meant those who survive the impact.
Try real hard to make yourself incombustible when you are doused in jet fuel and everything around you ignites. Most crash survivors are killed by burns and smoke inhalation. But nice try, BA.
Except the numbers the government puts out are pure bullshit.
You could also meet people who are judging the Supreme Court, discussing the building's architecture, etc. and not meet any judges at all. This is why we need lawyers. On the other hand, this is why we should shoot lawyers.