The problem is, you don't address your own counterpoint.
Why should law-abiding gun owners be REQUIRED to give up their firearms just because some disgruntled whack-job "might" use firearms to kill a bunch of people?
"let's just get the automatics & semi-automatics out of circulation, and shit like at VA Tech won't happen."
Bullshit.
And no, I won't beg your parton.
Moreover, I'll say it again.
BULLSHIT!
Why would having to repeatedly (and cathartically) pull the trigger deter some disgruntled whack-jop from still putting a hail of bullets into a crowd?
Because they'd only be able to fire 12 bullets from a pair of six-shooters before reloading? Yep, because speed-loaders are SO much harder than exchanging a 9 round clip.
Again, wireless is a shared medium. Everything has a single 100-ish Mbps "space" in which to "play".
Also, depending on the construction and other interference in the area, your connection speeds can vary tremendously.
Additionally, the wi-fi paint thing doesn't do much unless you paint the windows too.
Solid-state wiring is far more secure. Someone actually has to physically TAP the line, as opposed to standing out in the street soaking up signal.
Also, as has been noted (extensively), if you plan properly, and run conduit, your networking solution can grow with you quite easily.
Note: This is NOT saying you cannot use wireless for SOME aspects of your networking needs. Merely that it's DUMB to use it as the backbone for your entire connectivity solution.
While greenboard is good for short dousings, the minute you get water infiltration behind the sheetrock, it wets down the back paper and you have to tear it out anyhow.
Also, in the event of a sustained home inundation, you have to rip the walls out anyhow to biocide against mold and mildew.
I'm saying that we should NOT enter into one of these agreements without making certain that all other participants are truly held to the same standards.
If they're not, or it's easy for them to cheat out of it?
My company gets delivered (hey, it's free, so they don't argue). As such, I've run across their "reviews" before this. And I believe I can summarize.
They look at things from a distinctly user-centric POV. They're focused on what the apps/solutions/OS they review do for the end user.
As such, they're not a "technical review" in any real way, shape, or form.
The term "fluff piece" comes to mind.
They add just enough to give the business users who read CRN a bare taste of what they're talking about. Any more, and the reader would go glassy-eyed.
So, lots of hype, lots of buzz, a couple explanations of things the user MAY encounter directly in a business environment, and that's about it for CRN.
For you techies out there, think about the general technical "IQ" of the sales guys in your organization (if they have one at all). THIS is who CRN is writing for.
As such, it's easy to see how the non-techie reviewers at CRN could look at a naked Vista install.
Understanding NOTHING of the security process, comparing it to the loaded out XP install on the locked-down machine his IT department provided him would be easy.
Because he hasn't seen the process, going on behind the scenes, that are necessary to secure an XP machine.
If that was so, why propose that China not be held to the same standards?
This "because they're a developing country" bullshit is just that. Bullshit.
Will it make it more expensive for them to modernize if they avoid 50 years of industrialization-based pollution (on a scale that'd dwarf the US pollution history, even in the short run) and go straight for clean(er) energy from the get-go?
Sure!
Yet that's what the person I responded to was proposing.
Translation, what China doesn't have on a per-capita basis, they make up for in sheer quantity.
What's more, the drive to modernize China will cause a per-capita increase. Additionally, there are initiatives in the US already to reduce emissions. Sure, they may not move as quickly (the day before yesterday please!) as you'd like. But they ARE in progress.
Yet you want to excuse it because "Oh, they're a developing country!"
Essentially what you want is for us to wreck our economy around the same time China finishes building theirs.
Sure. There's pigs, horses, sheep, goats, buffalo, etc.
One thing you notice in the country when you get back from a trip to the city is the smell of fresh air. And the urge to shower to wash the grime and smog of the city off you.
Uh huh. Having actually spent a portion of my life living on a farm in upper Wisconsin, I'm gonna have to laugh at this one.
Satellite.
Except for that multi-second (as opposed to millisecond) latency....download caps....Need I continue?
Slashdot Mirror
You vill show zem to us!
Now off to the concentration camps with you!
The problem is, you don't address your own counterpoint.
Why should law-abiding gun owners be REQUIRED to give up their firearms just because some disgruntled whack-job "might" use firearms to kill a bunch of people?
"let's just get the automatics & semi-automatics out of circulation, and shit like at VA Tech won't happen."
Bullshit.
And no, I won't beg your parton.
Moreover, I'll say it again.
BULLSHIT!
Why would having to repeatedly (and cathartically) pull the trigger deter some disgruntled whack-jop from still putting a hail of bullets into a crowd?
Because they'd only be able to fire 12 bullets from a pair of six-shooters before reloading? Yep, because speed-loaders are SO much harder than exchanging a 9 round clip.
I guess that makes me more of a Trekkie then.
*Shouted* "We come in peace!"
*Whispered* "Shoot to kill."
Yeah. But I'd want to be able to actually HIT my intended target on occasion...
Except nazism, fascism, communism, slavery....
Thank You Protest Warrior!
The first time one of these cafe owners clubs one of their dumb asses to death when they try busting up his shop.
Sorry. The evolutionists are wrong. The creationists are wrong too.
The world came into being when I woke up this morning. It'll end after I fall asleep tonight.
I'll create a new one while I sleep. Hell, I've been doing it for the past thirty-odd years. I'm getting pretty good at it.
I'm even creative enough that I've given it multiple back-stories.
Shit, I should write this up in a novel.
*Big*Fscking*Grin*
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but care to illuminate your actual point?
I didn't say they didn't pander to the right as well. But, normally, then tend to lean farther left.
Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want
Other than the fact that Hollywood tends to pander to the far left, I can't, for the life of me, imagine why this is a Bad Thing <TM>.
Again, wireless is a shared medium. Everything has a single 100-ish Mbps "space" in which to "play".
Also, depending on the construction and other interference in the area, your connection speeds can vary tremendously.
Additionally, the wi-fi paint thing doesn't do much unless you paint the windows too.
Solid-state wiring is far more secure. Someone actually has to physically TAP the line, as opposed to standing out in the street soaking up signal.
Also, as has been noted (extensively), if you plan properly, and run conduit, your networking solution can grow with you quite easily.
Note: This is NOT saying you cannot use wireless for SOME aspects of your networking needs. Merely that it's DUMB to use it as the backbone for your entire connectivity solution.
No.
While greenboard is good for short dousings, the minute you get water infiltration behind the sheetrock, it wets down the back paper and you have to tear it out anyhow.
Also, in the event of a sustained home inundation, you have to rip the walls out anyhow to biocide against mold and mildew.
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying that we should NOT enter into one of these agreements without making certain that all other participants are truly held to the same standards.
If they're not, or it's easy for them to cheat out of it?
Fuck.
That..
Noise...
Last I checked, Sling was by NO stretch of the imagination "broadcast".
The content is shifted in a private connection between the Sling server in a person's home and the Sling player on their remote PC.
This isn't like a podcast, where the files are out there for download by anyone.
Nor is it like streaming audio via Icecast or something like that where anyone can tune in up to the system's connection limits.
There are exactly two discrete endpoints here. Slingbox and the Slingbox's owner.
My company gets delivered (hey, it's free, so they don't argue). As such, I've run across their "reviews" before this. And I believe I can summarize.
They look at things from a distinctly user-centric POV. They're focused on what the apps/solutions/OS they review do for the end user.
As such, they're not a "technical review" in any real way, shape, or form.
The term "fluff piece" comes to mind.
They add just enough to give the business users who read CRN a bare taste of what they're talking about. Any more, and the reader would go glassy-eyed.
So, lots of hype, lots of buzz, a couple explanations of things the user MAY encounter directly in a business environment, and that's about it for CRN.
For you techies out there, think about the general technical "IQ" of the sales guys in your organization (if they have one at all). THIS is who CRN is writing for.
As such, it's easy to see how the non-techie reviewers at CRN could look at a naked Vista install.
Understanding NOTHING of the security process, comparing it to the loaded out XP install on the locked-down machine his IT department provided him would be easy.
Because he hasn't seen the process, going on behind the scenes, that are necessary to secure an XP machine.
Austin: Really?
The Sun: No. Not really....
And they are.
The monthly fees paid by service subscribers. The people paying for unfettered access.
What they're trying to do is double-dip. They charge you to receive content, then charge the sender as well.
It's not our fault if they've priced their subscription service in such a way they cannot turn profit.
If that was so, why propose that China not be held to the same standards?
This "because they're a developing country" bullshit is just that. Bullshit.
Will it make it more expensive for them to modernize if they avoid 50 years of industrialization-based pollution (on a scale that'd dwarf the US pollution history, even in the short run) and go straight for clean(er) energy from the get-go?
Sure!
Yet that's what the person I responded to was proposing.
Per capita....
Great way to offset the reality.
US: 300 million
China: 1.5 BILLION
Translation, what China doesn't have on a per-capita basis, they make up for in sheer quantity.
What's more, the drive to modernize China will cause a per-capita increase.
Additionally, there are initiatives in the US already to reduce emissions. Sure, they may not move as quickly (the day before yesterday please!) as you'd like. But they ARE in progress.
Yet you want to excuse it because "Oh, they're a developing country!"
Essentially what you want is for us to wreck our economy around the same time China finishes building theirs.
Good idea! (NOT!)
Two of them are "The GPL can cause you problems."
Two of them are "Product Maturity".
And one is "Someone might think it's not scaleable". Possibly valid. Probably not.
You don't HAVE to live next to cows.
Sure. There's pigs, horses, sheep, goats, buffalo, etc.
One thing you notice in the country when you get back from a trip to the city is the smell of fresh air. And the urge to shower to wash the grime and smog of the city off you.
Uh huh. Having actually spent a portion of my life living on a farm in upper Wisconsin, I'm gonna have to laugh at this one.
Satellite.
Except for that multi-second (as opposed to millisecond) latency....download caps....Need I continue?
Little pod I see
The screaming, it's so damn loud
Anger or pleasure?
Quick! Now that Lower East Bumblefuckistan is so empty, let's move out there and take over!
Out where there's fresh air and open spaces.
And cows...
And...dirt...
And broadband is more myth than reality...
And even phone service is barely out of the "two cans and a piece of string" era!
Uhhhh...Forget I said anything. I'm just going to go beat myself about the head and shoulders with an old solid steel XT-style keyboard...
Yes my precious!
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