This is true, but what is your point? That we shouldn't have crack dealers? That crack dealing is bad? That script kiddies are bad? Or that we should legalize and tax narcotics? My point is that while the computer security industry is vital and necessary given the reality of the world, the revolving door makes me a little weary of the "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine" scenario that could easily pop up with both sides working in close quarters.
Of course, this is in the drug enforcement arena too, which is also a bad thing.
He caused damage on his way in. Its more like, I invented a new tool to open up car doors. I'm going to run down the street, hit the button on every car, and then throw a bucket of paint in on the seat. People had to clean up his mess. Sure, let him work for a security company. He'll need a good job to pay off the bill they stick him with for his troubles.
Crack dealers are often very good businessmen, and have to work hard to keep the supply chains running, salesmen on the streets, etc. We don't normally see them working for the DEA afterwards, or getting jobs on Wall Street with their acquired skills. Instead we lock them up for 20 years.
There's a big interest in keeping guys like these around. This one kid "cost" some people millions but also help justified thousands of jobs for people in the security industry, virus protection firms, etc. I think it hurts the credibility of the security industry that there's an absolute revolving door of black hats to white after they grow up and figure that they need a paycheck more than 1337 status on IRC. If anything these guys should be more like paid informants than actual employees. Use them for what they know but keep them far away with a long stick.
Given that this kid is a juvenile I'm all for a second chance, but I don't think 6 months in lockup would hurt him either. There should definately be a punishment here. The world isn't exactly hurting for promising programmers. 1000 IT guys aren't worth the pause given to some kid about to hit the enter button on a destructive command and thinking "Hmmm...I could get 5 years for this."
Unfortunately half his facts were wrong. That makes it "uninformed." It was informative that the average person is misinformed, but the analysis itself was not useful beyond that.
If you think Sony is launching anytime before Christmas 2006 you're dead wrong. Know any US devs with _beta_ hardware? I sure don't. Japan before June, US in October.
One of the tenets of dismissing evolution is that cavemen are just retarded humans, or guys that were based in a few too many times. If thier DNA is shown to be different, won't that proove they are a different species, thus showing that there are in fact multiple branches of humans? What does the bible say about cave men, I wonder?
Actually, I guess it doesn't matter. You can't fight creationism with science. Someone will come right back with "those were bad humans, Satan twisted their DNA, and they all drowned in the flood!"
What do you mean massivily network? 64 players? Its getting close to that on _this_ generation (Black Hawk Down) The only thing missing is dedicated servers, and there's a crop of new games that will have them. Player counts will be the same on PC & Next Gen consoles for those games that take the time & money to do dedicated servers.
Lets tally it up...
+1 - Elitism in the terms of your superior computer knowledge vs. whatever else they do, the irony being the average Slashdotter's hygiene is probably somewhat below your "unwashed masses"
+1 - Use a clever name in reference to Microsoft or its OS.
+1 - Mention you use Linux.
+1 - Mention you are ahead of even the elite Linux crowd by doing something special (IPv6, hand compiling kernel code would also have applied here.)
Total: +4.
Summary: Mod Parent Up! The comrade speaks the truth!
You know, that statistic is always thrown about (and has been at least twice in this document already), and I'm just curious as to _why_ we're the biggest. Do we have that many more laws or more criminals? Or more poeple we classify as criminal? I'm thinking drug use is a big seperator, but as far as I know in most western countries you can't legally buy herion or crack in a store. So what is it? The greater number of working poor? Does having more people in jail mean more crime? Could the US have as much crime as Russia and just be more efficient at prosecuting it?
Sorry, no answers, just pondering.
So you're saying it was so cool you had to do something extremely nerdy to balance out the cool, lest you start driving a motorcycle, smoking Camels, and refer to women as "babe"?
Is where they embed it a secret? I hope so, or else when they get the kid back there's a lot of stumpy little children running around.
Right now standard prodcedure is to go round up every sex offender in the area and haul them in after the fact and see what they were doing. There's no difference betweeb that and tagging them and seeing where they went (besides lying about it).
Sex offenders have no right to privacy. That's the group this law is intended for. Whether you agree with that is another argument entirely.
Cars are already tagged through a variety of methods, and the owner is ultimately accountable through those methods. If I steal a car and run people down, we at least know where the car came from so we can find out where the car was stolen.
Goods NEED to be tagged for inventory. They already are in some manor or another. And no one is saying to put the tags IN the inventory, just next to it. Put the RFIDs on the shoe box, not the shoes, or a tag attached to the shoes. No one is doing inventory on the shoes inside the box. You're also assuming Wal-Mart cares that you (the shoe owner) is back in the store. Casinos track every single move you make from entering the place to leaving it (though supposedly not in the bathroom or bedroom, who knows, right?). I haven't received too many pop up ads walking in there (I'm guessing the high rollers do in the form of casino hosts.)
Finally, the gun argument is the same as cars. We tag guns to owners via registered serial #s. If a gun is stolen, we at least know where the gun was bought, when it was stolen, etc. That assumes we have the gun. If we could find a way to embed RFID inside bullets, not just on the casing, that would be cool too, as not many people stop and dig the bullets out after they shoot someone.
Tagging sex offenders sounds like a great idea when you think about it, but the slippery slope is there and waiting for us. Sex offenders automatically have less rights for life based on their type of crime (murderers dont' register everywhere they go once they're paroled or finished serving time, and their crime is far worse). I'm guessing the fact that we haven't extended Meghan's Law to non-sex offenders helps the argument that this would remain amongst sex offenders.
You yourself said _starting_ salary. Hopefully one progresses past that. It seems a little more reasonable once you factor in experienced software engineers and the fact that many of the big high-tech areas are also some of the most expensive places to live (San Francisco, New York, DC, etc).
Yeah, because you know what and what not a 3 foot high fictional little green man can and can't do. Why does this bother you so much? I prefer the new episode light saber fights to the stupid stand and swing battles of the first movie. These are swords made out of light, the battles in the new ones are much more how _I_ would imagine them being, especially with people with supernatural abilities. Obi-wan and Darth facing off in the first movie made it seem like they were fighting with 80 lb long swords or something, not fast and light katanas....
Am I really arguing the merits of a light saber battle? Excuse me, I need to go do something extremely manly right now, thanks.
Light breakfast Salad for lunch or dinner Reasonable meal with protien and carbs the rest of the time
Run 3 times a week, lift twice a week. Running = 40 minutes, lifting = working major muscle groups another, half hour a day.
Have a few hardy meals a week, enjoy yourselves.
No regular soda, no candy. No fast food.
If you like those, sorry, find an endorphin high, find a food high, find somethign to take you off the urge of crap.
You might have to sacrifice an hour of MMPORPG a week, maybe an hour of non-profit coding. But isn't not beign a fat ass, being someone people can appreciate, being someone you don't have to meet online worth it. Comment me down if you will for being unrealistic and being unappreciative of people that "are big boned" but dammit this is somthign I overcame and you can to. I council poeple at my work at this all the time, I've helped at least half a dozen coworkers lose FIFTY pounds EACH, you CAN TOO!!!
I just burned a bunch of moderator points (stuff I already moderated but now I'm replying...oh well). The fact is here that just losing weight does not contribute to the overall healthiness of your body. Working your heart above the daily "sitting in the chair" level is what really makes the difference in fighting heart disease and giving yourself an overall sense of balance in life.
Yeah, you can eat cheeseburgers, but can you run a mile? Weight isn't everything, as this study proves. I know plenty of people in great shape but that probably don't meet the rigid BMI standards. That means exercising AND eating correctly. Cutting out fast food and soda (geek staples I know, what the hell, cook for yourself ONCE, drink DIET COKE, its NOT THAT HARD!) is a start, but getting out of doors and going jogging is the other part of that. Situps, pushups, etc. Don't be satisfied with yourself just by not stuffing your maw with fatty foods. Self improvement is the way to self enligtenment.
Wal-mart. 7-11. Citgo. McDonalds. Anyone with a mass franchise presence suddenly has the potential to power an ISP with a 20 mile range by slapping a $500 antenna on top of their stores. Pay as you go validation at the checkout counter and you're off and running. If Exxon put this at every one of their stations they could supply internet to travelers to pretty much everyone within range of an interstate. That's a lot of people.
Chuck, why do you post the same thing in every article?
Like here and here?
Sorry, I just remembered the same thing from another article. I'm guessing you didn't even write it originally and are just trying for karma. It hasn't worked so far so why keep trying?
Crappy wallpaper and dancing images are not professional. Bullets are and make emails covering a wide range of ideas easier to read.
Colors make it easier to decipher who is saying what without relying on everyone to not mess up the quoting. Just because they weren't available from day one on the internet (aka "The good old days where we had plain text and by gosh we liked it!") doesn't mean its not useful.
Growing up primarily on the east coast I'd say you have the attitudes pegged. I don't know that I've ever really thought of Ohio as "midwest" like Kansas, OK, Nebraska, but I've definately never grouped it in the "east". When I think "eastern" cities I mainly think Eastern Seaboard - Boston, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, etc.
One interesting thing is that people who've lived their whole lives in one place have far more definate attitudes about where they are. Virginians consider themselves "the south" (seat of the Confederacy, after all), but when I moved to Texas and said I previously lived in Virginia they said "Oh, a Northerner huh?" Considering we were south of parts of Mexico, I can see their point:)
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I was thinking the exact same thing, even last night. I didn't even know the thing was coming out until the guy in the next cube said something about it. I asked the price and he says "$250", and I almost spat out my coke. "WTF $250 for a portable? Hello TurboGraphix16!" That is until he brought his to work today.
WOW.
Seriously, like holding this thing is like being able to hold on of those fake portable electornic devices they always have on shows from the "near future". The screen on this baby is BEAUTIFUL. Try playing Metroid on the DS with its squinty little screen, then bust out Waverunner on the PSP and see which one is better.
As for MP3 playing, well, I don't know. I think if you think of it as a game machine first and Mp3 player as an extra, it makes better sense. Movie playing I can see though. Yeah, its a second format, but I usually rent movies anyways. If blockbuster rents these I could easily see taking this on a trip and watching movies here. The picture quality is great, easily beats some dedicated portable DVD players costing as much.
Bottom line: don't knock this sexy beast until you've actually used it.
+1 Ironic
Because the guy who copied their game and put it online is the "innovator" This wouldn't be an issue if he actually did innovate and make his own game.
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This is true, but what is your point? That we shouldn't have crack dealers? That crack dealing is bad? That script kiddies are bad? Or that we should legalize and tax narcotics? My point is that while the computer security industry is vital and necessary given the reality of the world, the revolving door makes me a little weary of the "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine" scenario that could easily pop up with both sides working in close quarters.
Of course, this is in the drug enforcement arena too, which is also a bad thing.
He caused damage on his way in. Its more like, I invented a new tool to open up car doors. I'm going to run down the street, hit the button on every car, and then throw a bucket of paint in on the seat. People had to clean up his mess. Sure, let him work for a security company. He'll need a good job to pay off the bill they stick him with for his troubles.
Crack dealers are often very good businessmen, and have to work hard to keep the supply chains running, salesmen on the streets, etc. We don't normally see them working for the DEA afterwards, or getting jobs on Wall Street with their acquired skills. Instead we lock them up for 20 years.
There's a big interest in keeping guys like these around. This one kid "cost" some people millions but also help justified thousands of jobs for people in the security industry, virus protection firms, etc. I think it hurts the credibility of the security industry that there's an absolute revolving door of black hats to white after they grow up and figure that they need a paycheck more than 1337 status on IRC. If anything these guys should be more like paid informants than actual employees. Use them for what they know but keep them far away with a long stick.
Given that this kid is a juvenile I'm all for a second chance, but I don't think 6 months in lockup would hurt him either. There should definately be a punishment here. The world isn't exactly hurting for promising programmers. 1000 IT guys aren't worth the pause given to some kid about to hit the enter button on a destructive command and thinking "Hmmm...I could get 5 years for this."
Do you know how many Bothans died for those plans? They damn well BETTER use them!
Unfortunately half his facts were wrong. That makes it "uninformed." It was informative that the average person is misinformed, but the analysis itself was not useful beyond that.
If you think Sony is launching anytime before Christmas 2006 you're dead wrong. Know any US devs with _beta_ hardware? I sure don't. Japan before June, US in October.
One of the tenets of dismissing evolution is that cavemen are just retarded humans, or guys that were based in a few too many times. If thier DNA is shown to be different, won't that proove they are a different species, thus showing that there are in fact multiple branches of humans? What does the bible say about cave men, I wonder? Actually, I guess it doesn't matter. You can't fight creationism with science. Someone will come right back with "those were bad humans, Satan twisted their DNA, and they all drowned in the flood!"
What do you mean massivily network? 64 players? Its getting close to that on _this_ generation (Black Hawk Down) The only thing missing is dedicated servers, and there's a crop of new games that will have them. Player counts will be the same on PC & Next Gen consoles for those games that take the time & money to do dedicated servers.
Lets tally it up... +1 - Elitism in the terms of your superior computer knowledge vs. whatever else they do, the irony being the average Slashdotter's hygiene is probably somewhat below your "unwashed masses" +1 - Use a clever name in reference to Microsoft or its OS. +1 - Mention you use Linux. +1 - Mention you are ahead of even the elite Linux crowd by doing something special (IPv6, hand compiling kernel code would also have applied here.) Total: +4. Summary: Mod Parent Up! The comrade speaks the truth!
You know, that statistic is always thrown about (and has been at least twice in this document already), and I'm just curious as to _why_ we're the biggest. Do we have that many more laws or more criminals? Or more poeple we classify as criminal? I'm thinking drug use is a big seperator, but as far as I know in most western countries you can't legally buy herion or crack in a store. So what is it? The greater number of working poor? Does having more people in jail mean more crime? Could the US have as much crime as Russia and just be more efficient at prosecuting it? Sorry, no answers, just pondering.
So you're saying it was so cool you had to do something extremely nerdy to balance out the cool, lest you start driving a motorcycle, smoking Camels, and refer to women as "babe"?
Is where they embed it a secret? I hope so, or else when they get the kid back there's a lot of stumpy little children running around.
Right now standard prodcedure is to go round up every sex offender in the area and haul them in after the fact and see what they were doing. There's no difference betweeb that and tagging them and seeing where they went (besides lying about it).
Sex offenders have no right to privacy. That's the group this law is intended for. Whether you agree with that is another argument entirely.
Cars are already tagged through a variety of methods, and the owner is ultimately accountable through those methods. If I steal a car and run people down, we at least know where the car came from so we can find out where the car was stolen.
Goods NEED to be tagged for inventory. They already are in some manor or another. And no one is saying to put the tags IN the inventory, just next to it. Put the RFIDs on the shoe box, not the shoes, or a tag attached to the shoes. No one is doing inventory on the shoes inside the box. You're also assuming Wal-Mart cares that you (the shoe owner) is back in the store. Casinos track every single move you make from entering the place to leaving it (though supposedly not in the bathroom or bedroom, who knows, right?). I haven't received too many pop up ads walking in there (I'm guessing the high rollers do in the form of casino hosts.)
Finally, the gun argument is the same as cars. We tag guns to owners via registered serial #s. If a gun is stolen, we at least know where the gun was bought, when it was stolen, etc. That assumes we have the gun. If we could find a way to embed RFID inside bullets, not just on the casing, that would be cool too, as not many people stop and dig the bullets out after they shoot someone.
Tagging sex offenders sounds like a great idea when you think about it, but the slippery slope is there and waiting for us. Sex offenders automatically have less rights for life based on their type of crime (murderers dont' register everywhere they go once they're paroled or finished serving time, and their crime is far worse). I'm guessing the fact that we haven't extended Meghan's Law to non-sex offenders helps the argument that this would remain amongst sex offenders.
You yourself said _starting_ salary. Hopefully one progresses past that. It seems a little more reasonable once you factor in experienced software engineers and the fact that many of the big high-tech areas are also some of the most expensive places to live (San Francisco, New York, DC, etc).
Yeah, because you know what and what not a 3 foot high fictional little green man can and can't do. Why does this bother you so much? I prefer the new episode light saber fights to the stupid stand and swing battles of the first movie. These are swords made out of light, the battles in the new ones are much more how _I_ would imagine them being, especially with people with supernatural abilities. Obi-wan and Darth facing off in the first movie made it seem like they were fighting with 80 lb long swords or something, not fast and light katanas. ...
Am I really arguing the merits of a light saber battle? Excuse me, I need to go do something extremely manly right now, thanks.
Light breakfast
Salad for lunch or dinner
Reasonable meal with protien and carbs the rest of the time
Run 3 times a week, lift twice a week. Running = 40 minutes, lifting = working major muscle groups another, half hour a day.
Have a few hardy meals a week, enjoy yourselves.
No regular soda, no candy. No fast food.
If you like those, sorry, find an endorphin high, find a food high, find somethign to take you off the urge of crap.
You might have to sacrifice an hour of MMPORPG a week, maybe an hour of non-profit coding. But isn't not beign a fat ass, being someone people can appreciate, being someone you don't have to meet online worth it. Comment me down if you will for being unrealistic and being unappreciative of people that "are big boned" but dammit this is somthign I overcame and you can to. I council poeple at my work at this all the time, I've helped at least half a dozen coworkers lose FIFTY pounds EACH, you CAN TOO!!!
I just burned a bunch of moderator points (stuff I already moderated but now I'm replying...oh well). The fact is here that just losing weight does not contribute to the overall healthiness of your body. Working your heart above the daily "sitting in the chair" level is what really makes the difference in fighting heart disease and giving yourself an overall sense of balance in life. Yeah, you can eat cheeseburgers, but can you run a mile? Weight isn't everything, as this study proves. I know plenty of people in great shape but that probably don't meet the rigid BMI standards. That means exercising AND eating correctly. Cutting out fast food and soda (geek staples I know, what the hell, cook for yourself ONCE, drink DIET COKE, its NOT THAT HARD!) is a start, but getting out of doors and going jogging is the other part of that. Situps, pushups, etc. Don't be satisfied with yourself just by not stuffing your maw with fatty foods. Self improvement is the way to self enligtenment.
Wal-mart. 7-11. Citgo. McDonalds. Anyone with a mass franchise presence suddenly has the potential to power an ISP with a 20 mile range by slapping a $500 antenna on top of their stores. Pay as you go validation at the checkout counter and you're off and running. If Exxon put this at every one of their stations they could supply internet to travelers to pretty much everyone within range of an interstate. That's a lot of people.
Compare the first season of Enterprise to the first run of the new Battlestar Gallactica. It can be done.
Chuck, why do you post the same thing in every article?
Like here and here?
Sorry, I just remembered the same thing from another article. I'm guessing you didn't even write it originally and are just trying for karma. It hasn't worked so far so why keep trying?
Crappy wallpaper and dancing images are not professional. Bullets are and make emails covering a wide range of ideas easier to read.
Colors make it easier to decipher who is saying what without relying on everyone to not mess up the quoting. Just because they weren't available from day one on the internet (aka "The good old days where we had plain text and by gosh we liked it!") doesn't mean its not useful.
Growing up primarily on the east coast I'd say you have the attitudes pegged. I don't know that I've ever really thought of Ohio as "midwest" like Kansas, OK, Nebraska, but I've definately never grouped it in the "east". When I think "eastern" cities I mainly think Eastern Seaboard - Boston, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, etc. One interesting thing is that people who've lived their whole lives in one place have far more definate attitudes about where they are. Virginians consider themselves "the south" (seat of the Confederacy, after all), but when I moved to Texas and said I previously lived in Virginia they said "Oh, a Northerner huh?" Considering we were south of parts of Mexico, I can see their point :)
I was thinking the exact same thing, even last night. I didn't even know the thing was coming out until the guy in the next cube said something about it. I asked the price and he says "$250", and I almost spat out my coke. "WTF $250 for a portable? Hello TurboGraphix16!" That is until he brought his to work today. WOW. Seriously, like holding this thing is like being able to hold on of those fake portable electornic devices they always have on shows from the "near future". The screen on this baby is BEAUTIFUL. Try playing Metroid on the DS with its squinty little screen, then bust out Waverunner on the PSP and see which one is better. As for MP3 playing, well, I don't know. I think if you think of it as a game machine first and Mp3 player as an extra, it makes better sense. Movie playing I can see though. Yeah, its a second format, but I usually rent movies anyways. If blockbuster rents these I could easily see taking this on a trip and watching movies here. The picture quality is great, easily beats some dedicated portable DVD players costing as much. Bottom line: don't knock this sexy beast until you've actually used it.
+1 Ironic Because the guy who copied their game and put it online is the "innovator" This wouldn't be an issue if he actually did innovate and make his own game.
Wow, really cool stuff! I think I'm going to try that tonight, I might not have to switch web hosts after all! MOD PARENT UP!