I rode a tilting train once from Berlin to Munich, the "ICE-T" (BTW, Germans find it mildly hurtful to their collective pride if you laugh about the name). Anyhow, as least compared to the Amtrak and MBTA trains I ride, this thing was a work of art. You didn't even notice the tilting unless you had to get up and walk somewhere (or use the WC... but that's another story).
Unfortunately, I don't have the same faith in the media that you do. Here's Fox News' version of the story. I was only able to find it by using their search engine and entering "electronic privacy information center". This should be front-page news, not just some generic AP blurb buried somewhere on the site!
Let's see, pick the most rabid group of computer users. Check. Predict their worst nightmare is going to come true. Check. Repeatedly. Check. Drive traffic to advertisers. Check.
If this is not the case, Dvorak is now verifiably stupid.
Checkpoint seriously blows. Rule 9999? WTF? When did I put that one in? Oh wait, implied rules, riiiight. Too bad you need to pay Checkpoint for the privilege of reading the documentation to your $6000 firewall. And the VPN client works, like what, half the time?
There's a flipside to all of this. An educator can also talk about the downsides of intellectual property law, i.e., the social cost, as well as the affirmative rights of copright law, i.e., fair use. I suspect that having more people educated about copyright law will lead to a wider shift in perception of computer-based enforcement of copyright as being unfair. Hopefully that will bring about either a change in technology such that so-called "rights-management" technologies will be more permissive, or a change in law to strengthen the fair use component of copyright law.
The important question is, will this education be a vehicle for {RI,MP}AA propaganda, or will it actually be informative?
It also handles concurrent operations better than Safari (and Firefox, IIRC). In Safari, if you open a new tabbed window, you must wait for that page to finish loading before you can switch to another tab. In Camino, you can flip between tabs regardless of their load state. This is useful when you open a very large page and want to. Camino just feels faster all around.
That's funny. My parents did shell out for the voice emulator add-on. I remember it had this flip-top lid to insert some kind of add-on chip. Anyway, certain games used the chip-- Alpiner, Parsec, Star Trek. It added a whole new dimension to the games.
My parents eventually got sick of me asking for $50 games I would beat within a week, so they bought me a book called "Great Games for the TI-994A", written in TI BASIC. I still have it laying around somewhere. Actually, I remember spending a great deal of time trying to port them to our 286 (without much luck) and learning alot about QUICK BASIC and DOS along the way. Anyhow, we had an early 5 1/4" drive for the TI-- I stored most of my programs on that. But it never really worked very well... the machine crashed all the time with the thing plugged in. I had the TI tape drive, too, but I pretty much commandeered that for my "band".
When I was a kid, my parents use to take me to some department store for TI-99 cartridges. I can't remember which store... it might have been a Sears or JC Penney. Anyway, weird memory. I haven't thought about that in a long time.
My first thought is to string together a large number of cheap BSD boxes. But I don't work with HA stuff. Just email and fileservers for a few hundred people. Doing it cheaply works for this for many reasons, one being that exotic hardware usually just blows when it comes down to it. Need to replace a part? Gotta call the vendor, and you gotta pay out your ass. With my setup, I just keep cheap spares in stock, and ditch the support contracts. But, as I said before, none of this is so-called "high-availability", so I may be missing some important limitations of my cheap and redundant strategy.
Why even make it encrypted? There's so much noise out there, just make the signal look like noise. If you encrypt something, it stands out from the noise. When you stand out others can find the endpoints of the conversation. Shit, want to tell your coconspirators to start attacking now? Tell them to wait for a portknock. Say 5 UDP packets with a DNS payload. How the fuck will the US government know how to look for 5 UDP packets?
What it boils down to is this-- you can't gather intelligence from the net. It's a waste of time and resources, when what you need are people to infiltrate terrorist organizations. If we have the right kind of foreign policy, people will see that we are the good guys. They will want to help us, and we will then have the people we need for real intelligence. This is why unilateralism does not work. It has nothing to do with being a "wishy-washy liberal" or a Euro-lover; allies are just good strategy.
Which goes to show that the only companies that follow these guidelines are the ones full of assholes. Hey, I don't want to work there anyhow! Everybody else will just fudge the numbers and hire qualified people whether or not their applicants strictly meet the guidelines on paper.
From TFA, it appears that this research is still in the speculative stage. While it appears that this virus may be linked to additional fat in chickens, it has not yet been shown in humans (which is not to say that this link does not exist). The article doesn't say how many studies examine the link between adenovirus and obesity, but I get the impression that there are relatively few. Without knowing more about these particular studies, I think that some skepticism on this subject is healthy.
You know what's sad about all this, is that NPR interviewed a woman last night who supported the wiretapping program because "George Bush is a Christian". WTF?! I mean, ever notice how many Christians we've done war with?! That fact alone does NOT guarantee your life, liberty or property, lady!
That was dumb of them. They should have used the opportunity to talk to you and your girlfriend, with the realization that both of you are becoming adults. You'll have to take the higher road.
A lot of parents hold on tighter when they realize that they're losing control. I don't know their backgrounds-- maybe their parents did the same thing. What I suspect is that they're worried about you and-- this is the key thing-- they don't know what to do about it. Yelling and taking away your privileges worked when you were a kid. Unfortunately, it's not going to work now.
Just remember that no matter how much your parents piss you off, how many stupid things they do to shelter you, they're doing it because they care. You'll be on your own in no time at all, and when you are, you'll want a good relationship with your parents. A close family is a source of strength, and you'll need it to be self-reliant.
As for your girlfriend-- congratulations, you're a man now. Be respectful, take responsiblity. Do the right thing, but have fun, too. The women I've met have been the best part of my life, hands down.
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I rode a tilting train once from Berlin to Munich, the "ICE-T" (BTW, Germans find it mildly hurtful to their collective pride if you laugh about the name). Anyhow, as least compared to the Amtrak and MBTA trains I ride, this thing was a work of art. You didn't even notice the tilting unless you had to get up and walk somewhere (or use the WC... but that's another story).
Furthermore, what is the difference between bloggers and major news outlets?
Vote with your preferences. Remember the filter touted as a way for Jon Katz-haters to finally have some relief? Turn off ScuttleMonkey stories.
Unfortunately, I don't have the same faith in the media that you do. Here's Fox News' version of the story. I was only able to find it by using their search engine and entering "electronic privacy information center". This should be front-page news, not just some generic AP blurb buried somewhere on the site!
When you run file on an application bundle, file tells you that it is a directory. Which it is. So this isn't an obvious help to a newb.
If this is not the case, Dvorak is now verifiably stupid.
Checkpoint seriously blows. Rule 9999? WTF? When did I put that one in? Oh wait, implied rules, riiiight. Too bad you need to pay Checkpoint for the privilege of reading the documentation to your $6000 firewall. And the VPN client works, like what, half the time?
You're obviously not using pf!
The important question is, will this education be a vehicle for {RI,MP}AA propaganda, or will it actually be informative?
It also handles concurrent operations better than Safari (and Firefox, IIRC). In Safari, if you open a new tabbed window, you must wait for that page to finish loading before you can switch to another tab. In Camino, you can flip between tabs regardless of their load state. This is useful when you open a very large page and want to. Camino just feels faster all around.
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades.
Please don't zap me with a cattle prod.
My parents eventually got sick of me asking for $50 games I would beat within a week, so they bought me a book called "Great Games for the TI-994A", written in TI BASIC. I still have it laying around somewhere. Actually, I remember spending a great deal of time trying to port them to our 286 (without much luck) and learning alot about QUICK BASIC and DOS along the way. Anyhow, we had an early 5 1/4" drive for the TI-- I stored most of my programs on that. But it never really worked very well... the machine crashed all the time with the thing plugged in. I had the TI tape drive, too, but I pretty much commandeered that for my "band".
I don't know if you noticed this, but everyone does that.
When I was a kid, my parents use to take me to some department store for TI-99 cartridges. I can't remember which store... it might have been a Sears or JC Penney. Anyway, weird memory. I haven't thought about that in a long time.
My first thought is to string together a large number of cheap BSD boxes. But I don't work with HA stuff. Just email and fileservers for a few hundred people. Doing it cheaply works for this for many reasons, one being that exotic hardware usually just blows when it comes down to it. Need to replace a part? Gotta call the vendor, and you gotta pay out your ass. With my setup, I just keep cheap spares in stock, and ditch the support contracts. But, as I said before, none of this is so-called "high-availability", so I may be missing some important limitations of my cheap and redundant strategy.
What it boils down to is this-- you can't gather intelligence from the net. It's a waste of time and resources, when what you need are people to infiltrate terrorist organizations. If we have the right kind of foreign policy, people will see that we are the good guys. They will want to help us, and we will then have the people we need for real intelligence. This is why unilateralism does not work. It has nothing to do with being a "wishy-washy liberal" or a Euro-lover; allies are just good strategy.
...what does it mean when Wagner comes on?
Which goes to show that the only companies that follow these guidelines are the ones full of assholes. Hey, I don't want to work there anyhow! Everybody else will just fudge the numbers and hire qualified people whether or not their applicants strictly meet the guidelines on paper.
You can always unplug a removable hard drive.
From TFA, it appears that this research is still in the speculative stage. While it appears that this virus may be linked to additional fat in chickens, it has not yet been shown in humans (which is not to say that this link does not exist). The article doesn't say how many studies examine the link between adenovirus and obesity, but I get the impression that there are relatively few. Without knowing more about these particular studies, I think that some skepticism on this subject is healthy.
Do you have a reference for that?
You know what's sad about all this, is that NPR interviewed a woman last night who supported the wiretapping program because "George Bush is a Christian". WTF?! I mean, ever notice how many Christians we've done war with?! That fact alone does NOT guarantee your life, liberty or property, lady!
A lot of parents hold on tighter when they realize that they're losing control. I don't know their backgrounds-- maybe their parents did the same thing. What I suspect is that they're worried about you and-- this is the key thing-- they don't know what to do about it. Yelling and taking away your privileges worked when you were a kid. Unfortunately, it's not going to work now.
Just remember that no matter how much your parents piss you off, how many stupid things they do to shelter you, they're doing it because they care. You'll be on your own in no time at all, and when you are, you'll want a good relationship with your parents. A close family is a source of strength, and you'll need it to be self-reliant.
As for your girlfriend-- congratulations, you're a man now. Be respectful, take responsiblity. Do the right thing, but have fun, too. The women I've met have been the best part of my life, hands down.
Just kidding, man. You get caught or something?