So wait.. Google starts some sort of forum/chat site based on invitation (like gmail), everyone wants in, and now, on the Internet, the have discovered people being racist? So what? this happens on the Internet! just because the site is a friends network doesn't mean you're not going to get this sort of thing - most people in the world are friends of friends of friends etc. If Google doesn't like it they can just kick these people like every other forum, whats the big deal?
Im confused, why did we let it go private again? I mean, what was the political bullshit behind it? What excuses would have been given on Question Time? Im just not quite sure what a private company can do that the government can't, especially when all the government needs to do is keep the damn thing running and break even, fuck the proffit, private companies can damn well build their own network, or pay to use track?
He should have said 'oh, and if you pay me anything -- anything less than $300,000 for this fix, you might as well look for a new job too, and a good PR team to cover up the leak i spill.'
You don't seem to understand wireless technology, just because something is designed with a range of '15cm' doesn't mean it can't do more, experiments have shown many of these short-range wireless systems being picked up several meters away, its rather like security through obscurity, except its more security through hoping technology never advances enough to make this possible. And don't forget when your standing in line with your wallet in your back pocket, its not that difficult, theres simply no need fore RFID in most things that are planning to use it.
You can bluejack or take pictures... and if you leave it in your shirt pocket with an open line then the other caller will be able to hear you quietly say things like "the red fox is entering the den, stand by"
Go back to the mid 80's and try telling someone that in the future mobile phones will all be digital, work on multiple bands and include extra functions like bluetooth, wifi, gps and cameras but will be small enough to use inconspicuously and they will say the same thing.
Yeah it just means identity thieves will need to carry multi-protocol scanners, but the police will only be issued with the ones that work for that state.
Well technically thats a restriction of what kind of trousers you can wear - if someone decided to create some trousers that had an extra bit of cloth sewn around the inside top so it _looked_ kinda like you were showing your underwear, that would be illegal even though it wasn't showing anything. You have to wonder where the line gets drawn - just like with the drivers license (see im keeping On-Topic) although with this underwear law, the line has already been drawn in all wobbly by some old republican retard. Sometimes you gotta wonder who 'hates' freedom more - the 'terrorists' or the 'republicans' i 'dont' know.
Jees, whos side are you on? The fact is, these people had absolutely 100% valid ID's period, we all want to be safe and to know that people are who you say im not, this is being done to save lives and if you don't like that you can get just out.
This gives me an idea for a prohect - rent some space on a big major road and put up one of those big screens, attach it to an RFID reader and some net-connected software, then as RFID gets more and more used, just keep flashing up whatever information you can get when an RFID tag passes, linking to databases if possible or just displaying the number.
Ah but remember the republicans want 'less' government! (note: less is more). I don't know how they can go through a day keeping a straight face, what with banning boxer-shorts, gay marriage, breasts and protesting...
The real question is does it mandate the use of RFID or some other wireless technology (if so then this is probably related to under-the-table business dealings) and does it or will it ever require fingerprint or iris scans?
Frankly, I don't blame American individuals per-se. Some might say "well, you voted them in!" but if you have a good long look at the choices, there may as well not be any choices.
I disagree, democracy works on the Mickey Mouse principle, there are plenty of other parties to vote for, some far left, some far right and some a little bit more centre. All the people have to do is give one of them a chance. Animal Farm is a good example of how a party gets used to power and starts abusing it: ALL political parties will suffer from this and lets face it, the Republicans and Democrats are the most abusive, bent, power-hungry sickos in the US political spectrum, simply because they have had centuries of power between them, when it all boils down to it, neither of them have the best interests of their country at heart.
You must keep pruning the tree of politics to remove the bad branches so new ones can grow. Democracy is the pruning tool.
Its because there is infact sometimes a mark called 'attended' where if you fail the class totally but turned up to every lecture you still get something. Also if you keep asking your lecturer to explain things they will check the register and be all bitchy at you for not turning up.
Imagine if cars came with one-way windows and super-effective air-tight seals on doors with air supplied by a special air filter unit as standard. You wouldn't be able to peek in a bit, in fact a dog wouldn't be able to smell anything either. The Internet version of this would just be everyone using encryption because it was the standard to use in all web traffic, from email to IM to even simple web-browsing.
Right now the government is far too paranoid, marijuana is, and lets face it, not very bad. I would regard someone with a parking ticket as a worse offender. Now if you disagree, fine, you obviously have warped logic and express extreme moral outrage at everything, but im sure even you can understand that possession of a substance that isn't in the least bit harmful to anyone else, is hardly a crime that needs your basic human rights to be violated. Your basic liberties are just about the most important thing around and unless the police have been told that a terrorist cell is planning to transport some bomb or bio-weapon down the highway and there's a description on the vehicle then there's absolutely no reason to violate peoples rights like that.
I see the Bill of Rights being kicked out in the next few years, either by Bush or the next republican. (remember republicans want 'less' government, that means 'less' bills of rights..)
There really is no way to exploit something like html/scripting if its implemented properly - by properly i mean scripting languages etc must be sand boxed and have absolutely no functionality regarding sensitive commands - creating and editing files etc. HTML on its own is tight, there's just nothing you can do, java/script is also pretty tight (as long as the implementation is good) A virus works by having a decent amount of 'access' to the machine, depending on what sort of access it has it can achieve a varying amount of bad things - requesting more and more memory or cpu priority, deleting files, annoying the user by moving things on the screen etc, Outlook and IE are such a disaster simply because they have scripting features with access to these things and they are turned on and run by default! Firefox is developed by a team thats not under pressure to enable things like this so that the "PHB can have his word files load the macros easily" Buffer overflows etc aside, if your scripting environment cant do what it shouldn't then no script can force it. Now if spyware gets on the machine as an actual executable then it can alter firefox and do whatever but thats a proper virus - browser scripts are not virii simply because they are retarded and anyone who calls a VB script a virus is just playing into the Microsoft FUD: Build millions of houses without doors and expect no-one to get burgled (get it? without doors - windows but no doors... eh? eh?)
If the full amount is reached then does that mean the contributors will collectively own the rights or the rights to a copy or something? If its shown on TV will it have adverts? I think it would be easier to either petition or get people to come up with half or a quarter of the amount that way producers would see the demand and put up the other half of the money, say reduce the amount of advertising and still make a tidy profit? What will happen if the target isn't reached? mass refunds?
I do think this is an interesting way of funding films, although I reckon it could be done on a far lower budget - actors, once they get their face in it know that the fans want them and they are essentially well paid hookers who eat out most of the money (COUGH Friends COUGH) and unfortunately that's going to happen to absolutely every actor so there's really no way around it. production work however, certainly for something like star trek would draw massive interest from people willing to donate their time - both professionals and amateurs who want to get into the industry (deep down everyone wants to get into tv). I see a big future for films paid for this way if you can get the right mix of donated budget, good, focused volunteers and people who can act without getting up themselves - guess who is absolutely missing from this loop? ill give you a clue, they do allot of coke and get allot of head.
Unfortunately there are some big downsides to this: Things with big fan bases - star trek, star wars etc are owned by the crack addicts and they're not gonna let fan episodes start getting made. It needs good film ideas/scripts etc that people can really get into and most people are going to want to sell their good scripts/ideas to movie studios for shit loads of cash (i certainly would) thats capitalism for you, its a bitch until you're actually making the shit loads of cash and then you don't give a shit about stupid volunteer films. Ok i need to make some millions..
As much as I hate those fucking greedy pigs that are phone companies, I was rather hoping that one day I would have my own company raking in the cash:\ I suppose I will have to go into running sweatshops to sell £80 trainers in pretentious stores..
I was kinda expecting some profiles and exicution graphs from major OS's/environments. KDE is one of the worst offenders known to man here, Windows is a sain't in comparision. I tried to run the latest Knoppix on a 333Mhz PC the other day (from harddrive!) and KDE was absolutely un-usable. you can't even load a file manager in under 20 seconds, yet Windows runs fine. Im guessing allot of speed has gone to new age programming ideas - not that thats a bad thing, windows API for example is something no-one should be punished with using. KDE just takes the piss tho, they say its linking, even on a 2GHz machine it starts eating resources.
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So wait.. Google starts some sort of forum/chat site based on invitation (like gmail), everyone wants in, and now, on the Internet, the have discovered people being racist? So what? this happens on the Internet! just because the site is a friends network doesn't mean you're not going to get this sort of thing - most people in the world are friends of friends of friends etc. If Google doesn't like it they can just kick these people like every other forum, whats the big deal?
Im confused, why did we let it go private again? I mean, what was the political bullshit behind it? What excuses would have been given on Question Time? Im just not quite sure what a private company can do that the government can't, especially when all the government needs to do is keep the damn thing running and break even, fuck the proffit, private companies can damn well build their own network, or pay to use track?
Its called a jo.. ah this is /. never mind
He should have said 'oh, and if you pay me anything -- anything less than $300,000 for this fix, you might as well look for a new job too, and a good PR team to cover up the leak i spill.'
You don't seem to understand wireless technology, just because something is designed with a range of '15cm' doesn't mean it can't do more, experiments have shown many of these short-range wireless systems being picked up several meters away, its rather like security through obscurity, except its more security through hoping technology never advances enough to make this possible. And don't forget when your standing in line with your wallet in your back pocket, its not that difficult, theres simply no need fore RFID in most things that are planning to use it.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh you mean like one throwing out all the politicians and having one leader?
You can bluejack or take pictures... and if you leave it in your shirt pocket with an open line then the other caller will be able to hear you quietly say things like "the red fox is entering the den, stand by"
Go back to the mid 80's and try telling someone that in the future mobile phones will all be digital, work on multiple bands and include extra functions like bluetooth, wifi, gps and cameras but will be small enough to use inconspicuously and they will say the same thing.
trolled, hook, line, sinker.
Yeah it just means identity thieves will need to carry multi-protocol scanners, but the police will only be issued with the ones that work for that state.
Well technically thats a restriction of what kind of trousers you can wear - if someone decided to create some trousers that had an extra bit of cloth sewn around the inside top so it _looked_ kinda like you were showing your underwear, that would be illegal even though it wasn't showing anything. You have to wonder where the line gets drawn - just like with the drivers license (see im keeping On-Topic) although with this underwear law, the line has already been drawn in all wobbly by some old republican retard. Sometimes you gotta wonder who 'hates' freedom more - the 'terrorists' or the 'republicans' i 'dont' know.
Jees, whos side are you on? The fact is, these people had absolutely 100% valid ID's period, we all want to be safe and to know that people are who you say im not, this is being done to save lives and if you don't like that you can get just out.
This gives me an idea for a prohect - rent some space on a big major road and put up one of those big screens, attach it to an RFID reader and some net-connected software, then as RFID gets more and more used, just keep flashing up whatever information you can get when an RFID tag passes, linking to databases if possible or just displaying the number.
Ah but remember the republicans want 'less' government! (note: less is more). I don't know how they can go through a day keeping a straight face, what with banning boxer-shorts, gay marriage, breasts and protesting...
The real question is does it mandate the use of RFID or some other wireless technology (if so then this is probably related to under-the-table business dealings) and does it or will it ever require fingerprint or iris scans?
Frankly, I don't blame American individuals per-se. Some might say "well, you voted them in!" but if you have a good long look at the choices, there may as well not be any choices.
I disagree, democracy works on the Mickey Mouse principle, there are plenty of other parties to vote for, some far left, some far right and some a little bit more centre. All the people have to do is give one of them a chance. Animal Farm is a good example of how a party gets used to power and starts abusing it: ALL political parties will suffer from this and lets face it, the Republicans and Democrats are the most abusive, bent, power-hungry sickos in the US political spectrum, simply because they have had centuries of power between them, when it all boils down to it, neither of them have the best interests of their country at heart.
You must keep pruning the tree of politics to remove the bad branches so new ones can grow. Democracy is the pruning tool.
Its because there is infact sometimes a mark called 'attended' where if you fail the class totally but turned up to every lecture you still get something. Also if you keep asking your lecturer to explain things they will check the register and be all bitchy at you for not turning up.
The solution? A legal principle that you own the data about you
Already been done, works great. Oh wait, in America?
Well the upside to all this is that if a major school shooting takes place, the university will be all set up for the bodies.
(ducks)
Imagine if cars came with one-way windows and super-effective air-tight seals on doors with air supplied by a special air filter unit as standard. You wouldn't be able to peek in a bit, in fact a dog wouldn't be able to smell anything either. The Internet version of this would just be everyone using encryption because it was the standard to use in all web traffic, from email to IM to even simple web-browsing.
Right now the government is far too paranoid, marijuana is, and lets face it, not very bad. I would regard someone with a parking ticket as a worse offender. Now if you disagree, fine, you obviously have warped logic and express extreme moral outrage at everything, but im sure even you can understand that possession of a substance that isn't in the least bit harmful to anyone else, is hardly a crime that needs your basic human rights to be violated. Your basic liberties are just about the most important thing around and unless the police have been told that a terrorist cell is planning to transport some bomb or bio-weapon down the highway and there's a description on the vehicle then there's absolutely no reason to violate peoples rights like that.
I see the Bill of Rights being kicked out in the next few years, either by Bush or the next republican. (remember republicans want 'less' government, that means 'less' bills of rights..)
There really is no way to exploit something like html/scripting if its implemented properly - by properly i mean scripting languages etc must be sand boxed and have absolutely no functionality regarding sensitive commands - creating and editing files etc. HTML on its own is tight, there's just nothing you can do, java/script is also pretty tight (as long as the implementation is good) A virus works by having a decent amount of 'access' to the machine, depending on what sort of access it has it can achieve a varying amount of bad things - requesting more and more memory or cpu priority, deleting files, annoying the user by moving things on the screen etc, Outlook and IE are such a disaster simply because they have scripting features with access to these things and they are turned on and run by default! Firefox is developed by a team thats not under pressure to enable things like this so that the "PHB can have his word files load the macros easily" Buffer overflows etc aside, if your scripting environment cant do what it shouldn't then no script can force it. Now if spyware gets on the machine as an actual executable then it can alter firefox and do whatever but thats a proper virus - browser scripts are not virii simply because they are retarded and anyone who calls a VB script a virus is just playing into the Microsoft FUD: Build millions of houses without doors and expect no-one to get burgled (get it? without doors - windows but no doors... eh? eh?)
If the full amount is reached then does that mean the contributors will collectively own the rights or the rights to a copy or something? If its shown on TV will it have adverts? I think it would be easier to either petition or get people to come up with half or a quarter of the amount that way producers would see the demand and put up the other half of the money, say reduce the amount of advertising and still make a tidy profit? What will happen if the target isn't reached? mass refunds?
I do think this is an interesting way of funding films, although I reckon it could be done on a far lower budget - actors, once they get their face in it know that the fans want them and they are essentially well paid hookers who eat out most of the money (COUGH Friends COUGH) and unfortunately that's going to happen to absolutely every actor so there's really no way around it. production work however, certainly for something like star trek would draw massive interest from people willing to donate their time - both professionals and amateurs who want to get into the industry (deep down everyone wants to get into tv). I see a big future for films paid for this way if you can get the right mix of donated budget, good, focused volunteers and people who can act without getting up themselves - guess who is absolutely missing from this loop? ill give you a clue, they do allot of coke and get allot of head.
Unfortunately there are some big downsides to this: Things with big fan bases - star trek, star wars etc are owned by the crack addicts and they're not gonna let fan episodes start getting made. It needs good film ideas/scripts etc that people can really get into and most people are going to want to sell their good scripts/ideas to movie studios for shit loads of cash (i certainly would) thats capitalism for you, its a bitch until you're actually making the shit loads of cash and then you don't give a shit about stupid volunteer films. Ok i need to make some millions..
As much as I hate those fucking greedy pigs that are phone companies, I was rather hoping that one day I would have my own company raking in the cash :\ I suppose I will have to go into running sweatshops to sell £80 trainers in pretentious stores..
I was kinda expecting some profiles and exicution graphs from major OS's/environments. KDE is one of the worst offenders known to man here, Windows is a sain't in comparision. I tried to run the latest Knoppix on a 333Mhz PC the other day (from harddrive!) and KDE was absolutely un-usable. you can't even load a file manager in under 20 seconds, yet Windows runs fine. Im guessing allot of speed has gone to new age programming ideas - not that thats a bad thing, windows API for example is something no-one should be punished with using. KDE just takes the piss tho, they say its linking, even on a 2GHz machine it starts eating resources.
You could have just said "we're number one, fuck yeah, the world can stick it cos we're going to go take over something again"