I don't think at any point the cop ever thought "I'm going to kill this kid".
If his finger was on the trigger and his weapon was pointed at someone whom he didn't want dead, then he should just put the gun down, walk away from it and never touch a firearm ever again.
There are four simple rules for gun safety and if you can't be bothered to pay attention to them then the ghost of Col. Jeff Cooper is going to track you down and haunt your sorry ass.
1) That gun is loaded.
1 a) Yes, it is. Even if you know it isn't.
2) Don't point a loaded gun at anything that you are not willing to destroy.
2 a) Yes, it is still loaded.
3) Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
3 a) Yes, it's still loaded. Please stop asking that.
4) Know what you're shooting at and what's behind it.
4 a) No, that gun is loaded. Don't act like it isn't.
If these rules are too complicated, or if you're just too loaded to remember them, then maybe you shouldn't be handling anything more dangerous than a butter knife.
RFC 2119 is pretty basic stuff. You may wish to extend it with RFC 6919, which could include additional language which you must use for clarity (but we know you won't).
We had 12.9 gigabytes of PowerPoint slides on our network. And I thought, "What a huge waste of corporate productivity." So we banned it. And we've had three unbelievable record-breaking fiscal quarters since we banned PowerPoint. Now, I would argue that every company in the world, if it would just ban PowerPoint, would see their earnings skyrocket. Employees would stand around going, "What do I do? Guess I've got to go to work."
If the news was "bad guys leveraged a vulnerability in the White House's cardboard gate to break through", would people acknowledge the breach without questioning the cardboard gate?
Or would the media refuse to report on the Gate? It's about ethics, I tell ya'.
There's a rule at work here. It's the result of a drunken hookup between Clarke's Third Law and Poe's Law.
"Any post on Slashdot, advanced or not, is indistinguishable from sarcasm."
NYCL's friend has a point, as my analogy was an exaggeration and it expressed a viewpoint which he does not agree with -- See his other posts on the topic for more.
I stand by my original point. According to Brian Benchoff's article, FTDI's new driver is being distributed automatically via Windows Update and it causes damage to devices which use FTDI USB IDs but which are not authentic FTDI chip, rendering them unusable with any computer by permanently resetting their USB Product ID to zero. While I believe that FTDI has every right to protect their name and the reputation of their products, producing malware designed to damage or destroy competing products is overstepping their authority, and whoever authorized this may want to read up on the Computer Misuse Act and ask themselves a few questions about what they are doing.
Here's one. "Am I engaging in 'an act which causes an unauthorized modification of the contents of any computers' with the intent of 'causing a modification of the contents of any computer' which may 'impair the operation of any computer', 'prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in any computer' or 'impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data'?" If the answer to this is yes, then the Home Office would like to have a word with you.
The correct response to this is one which FTDI had already made earlier. They changed their official drivers to not work with fake chips. Being clearer about the cause of the problem would have been nice (The new drivers only returned zeros, no matter what the faux-232 reported, leaving end users wondering what had gone wrong), this was a reasonable and proportionate response. Going from that to distributing vigilante malware crossed the line.
If they didn't feel safe doing it, they would stop instead.
And if by "every conceivable edge case" you meant "every intersection in every city", then yes I am bringing those up in a discussion about safety. What were you doing?
You don't increase time on the yellow.... you let the yellow turn red on the same timer, but you leave both directions red for 2 seconds just to ensure...
...that drivers will feel safe going through the intersection after the light turns red.
It's a nice idea, but the universe will always build a better idiot.
I look forward to reading Bennett's article entitled "How I made Burning Man a more efficient place by selling ice out of the back of my own truck and then volunteering to direct traffic after" next September.
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This isn't about police brutality and it never was.
This is all about ethics in games journalism.
I don't think at any point the cop ever thought "I'm going to kill this kid".
If his finger was on the trigger and his weapon was pointed at someone whom he didn't want dead, then he should just put the gun down, walk away from it and never touch a firearm ever again.
There are four simple rules for gun safety and if you can't be bothered to pay attention to them then the ghost of Col. Jeff Cooper is going to track you down and haunt your sorry ass.
1) That gun is loaded.
1 a) Yes, it is. Even if you know it isn't.
2) Don't point a loaded gun at anything that you are not willing to destroy.
2 a) Yes, it is still loaded.
3) Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
3 a) Yes, it's still loaded. Please stop asking that.
4) Know what you're shooting at and what's behind it.
4 a) No, that gun is loaded. Don't act like it isn't.
If these rules are too complicated, or if you're just too loaded to remember them, then maybe you shouldn't be handling anything more dangerous than a butter knife.
It can help with lateral move into politics at least by giving them anticorruption cred.
Followed by another lateral move into an unfortunate fatal car accident.
A police investigation of the scene will reveal that the cause was driver error.
You can stop hitting yourself in the face with a hammer too.
If you read carefully, Adobe has been collecting data through Adobe Digital Editions, which has about five letters in common with Adobe reader.
If you have evidence of a built-in epub reader in Chrome and Firefox, feel free to share it with the rest of the class.
You've probably seen these guys before without realizing it. They also manufacture Hollywood OS and keyboards without space bars.
RFC 2119 is pretty basic stuff. You may wish to extend it with RFC 6919, which could include additional language which you must use for clarity (but we know you won't).
If only they had listened to Scott McNealy back in 1997...
If the news was "bad guys leveraged a vulnerability in the White House's cardboard gate to break through", would people acknowledge the breach without questioning the cardboard gate?
Or would the media refuse to report on the Gate? It's about ethics, I tell ya'.
They also removed Sendmail and BIND. Where's the outcry there?
And some are directly controlled by Skynet, but we're not supposed to talk about that yet.
There's a rule at work here. It's the result of a drunken hookup between Clarke's Third Law and Poe's Law.
"Any post on Slashdot, advanced or not, is indistinguishable from sarcasm."
NYCL's friend has a point, as my analogy was an exaggeration and it expressed a viewpoint which he does not agree with -- See his other posts on the topic for more.
I stand by my original point. According to Brian Benchoff's article, FTDI's new driver is being distributed automatically via Windows Update and it causes damage to devices which use FTDI USB IDs but which are not authentic FTDI chip, rendering them unusable with any computer by permanently resetting their USB Product ID to zero. While I believe that FTDI has every right to protect their name and the reputation of their products, producing malware designed to damage or destroy competing products is overstepping their authority, and whoever authorized this may want to read up on the Computer Misuse Act and ask themselves a few questions about what they are doing.
Here's one. "Am I engaging in 'an act which causes an unauthorized modification of the contents of any computers' with the intent of 'causing a modification of the contents of any computer' which may 'impair the operation of any computer', 'prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in any computer' or 'impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data'?" If the answer to this is yes, then the Home Office would like to have a word with you.
The correct response to this is one which FTDI had already made earlier. They changed their official drivers to not work with fake chips. Being clearer about the cause of the problem would have been nice (The new drivers only returned zeros, no matter what the faux-232 reported, leaving end users wondering what had gone wrong), this was a reasonable and proportionate response. Going from that to distributing vigilante malware crossed the line.
no, the scumbags making fake chips are the problem.
lemme guess, you from china.
"Your friend was carrying a fake iPhone, so I shot her. Don't blame me, blame whoever made the phone!"
If they didn't feel safe doing it, they would stop instead.
And if by "every conceivable edge case" you meant "every intersection in every city", then yes I am bringing those up in a discussion about safety. What were you doing?
It's really sad to see Google turning inwards like this. What happened to working towards open standards for such things?
Too true. Couldn't they have used an open standard like FIDO's U2F instead of using proprietary technology like...
Wait, what was your objection again?
In the UK they draw rulers on the road and the camera takes two pictures of you, one second apart.
Who's [sic] second are they using?
Interestingly enough it's a secondde or "short second" which is equal to 0.94 Imperial seconds.
Please follow at a safe distance, and go back to drivers training.
Never! It's in the Constitution that I can drive as fast as I like and everybody else has to get out of the way.
Why do you hate America?
You don't increase time on the yellow.... you let the yellow turn red on the same timer, but you leave both directions red for 2 seconds just to ensure...
...that drivers will feel safe going through the intersection after the light turns red.
It's a nice idea, but the universe will always build a better idiot.
I look forward to reading Bennett's article entitled "How I made Burning Man a more efficient place by selling ice out of the back of my own truck and then volunteering to direct traffic after" next September.
It's only a matter of time before the walkers go rogue and a special task force has to be formed to stop them.
Individuals should have the freedom to decide which viruses meat their needs and to choose the type of hemorrhagic fever is best for them.
If they did, they would all be on the next ship to Madagascar.
Hopefully better then when 3000 some people died in NY a decade ago.
But not quite like that time when almost 150,000 died in NY every year since then.
You register as hot, you get side-lined for a med check.
That's been going on for years now, and all it has led to is an increase in unnecessary strip searches.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Providing for your citizens is king in Sweden.
No, that's Carl XVI Gustaf.