While I would like to agree with the general sentiment of your post, I will also point out two things:
- we, as participants in this culture, may not be the best suited to decide what is worty of being preserved - we simply don't know what questions the future will ask. Imagine if, say, the spanish inquisition had been allowed to decide how we now view them, several centuries hence.
- archaeologists tend to be very happy about finding what the people back then would have thought of as something useful but ultimately unimportant, like a plate or some cutlery. Hell, they go ecstatic when they find a cesspit. Their goal is not just to find what a society thought were their greatest achievements, but rather to find how the society as a whole functioned, including the bad things. They want the historical truth.
I can't actually prove you wrong, but I would still like to point out that traveling through the air to other continents was also thought to be impossible, a hundred years ago.
Entirely agreed. How exactly do you propose to inform people about all the nitty gritty legal details you need to know to build a meaningful opinion on how to best implement government policies, so they can partake in the "real decisions" ?
> But nobody's ever tried to hijack an airplane with that yet (as far as I know), so security ignores the possibility.
And *that* is exactly what is wrong with TSA and the like: they only look at what's been tried, but never stop to think about what else might be possible.
In other words, despite all the noise they make, they still do nothing more than running after the facts and cleaning up the mess, instead of preventing new ones.
Deserves is a rather strong word; but if you additionally do so over a non-encrypted wireless link and then act surprised about it I *will* slap you, yes.
To be specific: debt became widespread because the banks gave loans to mostly anyone who asked for them, thereby allowing the people to decide wether they should get a loan.
Yes, that is what happens when you let people decide for themselves on issues where they lack the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions.
I may be remembering this wrong, but doesn't the time (and thus energy) needed to cook something in a microwave grow more than linearly with quantity, and wouldn't that make this method scale badly ?
Maybe I'm taking the microwave meal analogy too far:-)
> A person can be born in the US and raised and educated speaking a non-english language.
Yep. My mother could have perfectly raised me in Japanese. That is irrelevant, though: the only thing that matters is the country/state/region's official language(s).
I live in Belgium, and I conduct all my official business in dutch. Other parts of the country do so in french, some parts in german, and a limited few areas even offer multilingual services, as a *courtesy* because of of their closeness to a language frontier.
I'm not a windows type, either, but I do occasionally come into contact with it:-)
It wouldn't surprise me if the search box still works even with indexing turned off, really - regardless of how bad they sometimes implement things, the general ideas are often good; and it seems to me that they would remove a searchbox that isn't going to work anyway.
Have you tried simply putting up a "No flyers please" sticker ? Worked wonders for me. I now have about one box of trash paper every two months or something.
The only ones who ignore it are delivery people who don't speak dutch (you may have heard something about Belgium's language struggles:-p ) and the occasional politician's zealots during election periods. Neither of those flyers elicits my further business, and I've made this clear to the originators on several occasions.
Oh, don't worry your pretty ass, it's not a burden. It's more like second nature, really - has been ever since I've been forced to work with the utter crud they shit out.
Some of it is actually reasonably good, these days - I was surprised how smooth Win7 runs even on a 256M VM. Other stuff keeps being utterly disgusting - I'm looking at you, sharepoint - and will keep being bashed on, although the main reason I so detest the company is the way they conduct business.
None of this is relevant to you, however, as a single glance has sufficed for you to clearly and fully grasp what kind of an evil, mentally incapacitated "M$" hater that I am. The dollar sign isn't cool, incidentally, nor even remotely witty.
Possibly because MS belongs more in the "religion" section ? You know, where people talk to inanimate objects in the hope that it will get something done for them ?
Where it belongs ? You lot are the ones who ramped it up following the 9/11 attack resulting in what is, objectively, a minor number of victims. It was a tragedy, don't misunderstand me, but there's a lot more victims in traffic every year. The whole terrorist thing has been wildly overreacted to, to the point that you, yourselves have made the terrorists succesful: you've allowed not only your own country, but the entire world to become terrorized.
Well, this is like those people who drive half the speed limit on the highway, because they're afraid of getting a speeding ticket.
Is it really so hard to stick to a reasonable middle ground ?
Don't worry. With net neutrality soon to be gone, either it goes in the evil-bandwidth-hog queue, or MS has to pay off so many ISPs that it's simply too expensive to keep running.
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While I would like to agree with the general sentiment of your post, I will also point out two things:
- we, as participants in this culture, may not be the best suited to decide what is worty of being preserved - we simply don't know what questions the future will ask. Imagine if, say, the spanish inquisition had been allowed to decide how we now view them, several centuries hence.
- archaeologists tend to be very happy about finding what the people back then would have thought of as something useful but ultimately unimportant, like a plate or some cutlery. Hell, they go ecstatic when they find a cesspit. Their goal is not just to find what a society thought were their greatest achievements, but rather to find how the society as a whole functioned, including the bad things. They want the historical truth.
I can't actually prove you wrong, but I would still like to point out that traveling through the air to other continents was also thought to be impossible, a hundred years ago.
I suspect OP was asking about user security, not MAFIAA security.
Entirely agreed. How exactly do you propose to inform people about all the nitty gritty legal details you need to know to build a meaningful opinion on how to best implement government policies, so they can partake in the "real decisions" ?
> monitors website traffic and identifies anomalies in real-time.
mod_security.
> creates models of what is normal traffic for a website’s population and uses that to identify threats
Looking for peaks in the bandwith and connection rate graph.
> But nobody's ever tried to hijack an airplane with that yet (as far as I know), so security ignores the possibility.
And *that* is exactly what is wrong with TSA and the like: they only look at what's been tried, but never stop to think about what else might be possible.
In other words, despite all the noise they make, they still do nothing more than running after the facts and cleaning up the mess, instead of preventing new ones.
Deserves is a rather strong word; but if you additionally do so over a non-encrypted wireless link and then act surprised about it I *will* slap you, yes.
To be specific: debt became widespread because the banks gave loans to mostly anyone who asked for them, thereby allowing the people to decide wether they should get a loan.
Yes, that is what happens when you let people decide for themselves on issues where they lack the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions.
I guess they should've used PNG, then.
> Go is about becoming good at genocide
> Go also has a definition to it's goal. "Remove all of your opponents pieces"
Incorrect. You could win a game of Go without capturing a single stone.
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I may be remembering this wrong, but doesn't the time (and thus energy) needed to cook something in a microwave grow more than linearly with quantity, and wouldn't that make this method scale badly ?
:-)
Maybe I'm taking the microwave meal analogy too far
> A person can be born in the US and raised and educated speaking a non-english language.
Yep. My mother could have perfectly raised me in Japanese. That is irrelevant, though: the only thing that matters is the country/state/region's official language(s).
I live in Belgium, and I conduct all my official business in dutch. Other parts of the country do so in french, some parts in german, and a limited few areas even offer multilingual services, as a *courtesy* because of of their closeness to a language frontier.
The dutch says "about two more years", literally.
I'm not a windows type, either, but I do occasionally come into contact with it :-)
It wouldn't surprise me if the search box still works even with indexing turned off, really - regardless of how bad they sometimes implement things, the general ideas are often good; and it seems to me that they would remove a searchbox that isn't going to work anyway.
Junkmail isn't MY mail, it's recipient:*@*.
I don't know a single ISP that accepts that for email. They wouldn't last half an hour.
I do hope this is opt-in. You know, don't be evil and all that.
Have you tried simply putting up a "No flyers please" sticker ? Worked wonders for me. I now have about one box of trash paper every two months or something.
:-p ) and the occasional politician's zealots during election periods. Neither of those flyers elicits my further business, and I've made this clear to the originators on several occasions.
The only ones who ignore it are delivery people who don't speak dutch (you may have heard something about Belgium's language struggles
Oh, don't worry your pretty ass, it's not a burden. It's more like second nature, really - has been ever since I've been forced to work with the utter crud they shit out.
Some of it is actually reasonably good, these days - I was surprised how smooth Win7 runs even on a 256M VM. Other stuff keeps being utterly disgusting - I'm looking at you, sharepoint - and will keep being bashed on, although the main reason I so detest the company is the way they conduct business.
None of this is relevant to you, however, as a single glance has sufficed for you to clearly and fully grasp what kind of an evil, mentally incapacitated "M$" hater that I am. The dollar sign isn't cool, incidentally, nor even remotely witty.
Possibly because MS belongs more in the "religion" section ? You know, where people talk to inanimate objects in the hope that it will get something done for them ?
Where it belongs ? You lot are the ones who ramped it up following the 9/11 attack resulting in what is, objectively, a minor number of victims. It was a tragedy, don't misunderstand me, but there's a lot more victims in traffic every year. The whole terrorist thing has been wildly overreacted to, to the point that you, yourselves have made the terrorists succesful: you've allowed not only your own country, but the entire world to become terrorized.
Well, this is like those people who drive half the speed limit on the highway, because they're afraid of getting a speeding ticket. Is it really so hard to stick to a reasonable middle ground ?
The Scotty Principle is very much alive, and arguably indispensable when dealing with bureaucracy.
Don't worry. With net neutrality soon to be gone, either it goes in the evil-bandwidth-hog queue, or MS has to pay off so many ISPs that it's simply too expensive to keep running.
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