You may very well die not holding a gun by the same people that take them from us when they pry them out of our hand. The Jews found that out the hard way, and I for one am not going to learn that same lesson. That is the problem with people they become detached and start to think, well that cannot happen here, well it can and it has. History repeats itself and I for one will not play the part of the Jew, or Indian and my gun insures that because I will surly die with it in my hand, before I go to the gallows or the chamber.
And the day democracy falls, I will go out and buy several assault rifles. Call me a nut, but I choose to believe that our country will not be taken over by a lunatic dictator. And I can't believe you're actually using genocide as an excuse for Americans to bear arms.
Did you see the episode about the game designer who was caught for murder because "all game designers program a signature move" into their characters? The most laughable thing I've ever seen.
The sad thing is that there are too many idiots who will actually believe that the video game made him do it.
First off, your language is inaccurate. A video game can't "make" you do anything.
Now, do I believe the video game influenced him to kill people? Yes. Do I believe he would have not killed people if he didn't play the video game? Probably.
You have to understand that video games today offer a high degree of realism, which in turn leads to a high degree of escapism. As you know, escapism can be highly addictive (EverQuest, anyone?). Especially when escapism seems much more compelling than real life.
A 32 year-old overweight, minimum-wage woman plays EverQuest 8 hours a day after work, because it allows her to ignore all aspects of her life which make her unhappy. She doesn't go out and kill people with a sword, but then again, how likely is that?
But now consider the kid who grows up in a ghetto, in an environment glamorized by violence and drug use. And then, he plays a highly realistic game that stars a lead character just like him, just like in his hood. You can pretty much damn well believe that kid is going to be much more susceptible to violence than 32 year-old chunky girl playing EverQuest.
So I'm guessing that you, as a/. poster, have pretty much no idea what it's like to grow up in the ghetto.
I watched war movies all the time when I was a kid. I played cowboys and indians all the time. I've never gone to a reservation and shot some innocent native American.
Wow, you've shown some incredible restraint!
I think you're missing a huge point. As far as I know, you were never a war hero, cowboy, or indian when you were a kid.
Today, video games allow the player to strongly identify with the main character in the video game. A poor urban kid in a bad neighborhood can relate to a video game character who is a poor, violent urban kid in a bad neighborhood.
I suspect that if you grew up in a poor European village, and just watched a movie about a poor European boy who stole a warplane to save his country, you'd try to hop in a warplane too if you saw one right down the street.
I guess some human beings have such strong values that they're beyond influence, corruption, etc.
I play GTA all the time. And even though I'm a quiet, nice, normal, intelligent guy, the game does influence me.
All human beings are influenced by others. Regardless of how your parents raise you, it's possible for you to be exposed to something to which you react in a detrimental fashion.
Now, that being said, I do agree that it's reprehensible for lawyers to try to get everyone "to pay" for everything that goes wrong in this country.
I keep my guns - all 17 of them, btw - unloaded and locked in a combination safe.
I'm so proud of you, you're such a responsible gun owner!
But the governemnt has NO goddamn business imposing any restrictions on my rights, especially based on what I might do.
I hate to tell you this, but humans don't have any fundamental rights. Goverments and religion are, in essence, forms of restriction that define rights by the things that can not be restricted. So don't get high and mighty on who can and cannot impose restrictions upon you.
However, when people start clamoring for the government of the United States to start behaving like Hitler's Gestapo, then I take offence.
Please share with us what you know about Hitler's Gestapo. I know that the goverment may be inefficient and take certain stances with which individuals disagree, but for you to compare our government to Hitler's forces is an indication of something that can only be described through insults.
While it's cliched to say so, the government will take my guns out of my cold dead hands.
If you are radical enough to die for the right to hold a gun in your hand, god speed, my friend.
Without the second ammendment, the constitution is just another piece of paper.
No, actually, it isn't.
The second is the only guarantee we have for the all of the other ammendments. Without it, none of the others are worth squat.
Yes, you are so right. Our freedom of expression is SO totally worthless unless we can shoot other people to keep it.
Do me a favor and lock yourself in your gun cabinet.
And what else would they be used for if not accelerating 3d for the desktop?
Actually, there are many experimental programs out there that use the GPU for non-rendering purposes. We can expect to see this usage grow in the future.
But my point was that CPU != GPU, and the grandparent poster said "cycles" and not "CPU cycles."
One of the meanings of merit is "demonstrated ability or achievement." I am merely claiming that the parent statement demonstrated an achievement of truth.
I guess some people might not be able to comprehend a sentence that doesn't come from a beer commercial, but still...
Now, we can hope that punishment for computer-related crimes is brought down to reasonable levels. As much as I hate the fear of identity thieves and hackers, I think it's ridiculous that someone can get less time in jail for committing murder than for hacking into a corporate network.
And we've all heard of "consultants" who were jailed by a company because the consultant tested the company's network security, but the company didn't like it. Penalties and jail-time were harsh, even though no bad intentions were evident.
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So yes, this means that from a long-term systems security standpoint, we should all move to stronger hashes.
Does anyone know offhand: what is the probability of finding a collision for two hashes - the first a hash of the original message, and the second a hash of the original message with the first byte + 1?
The disadvantages of OSS development include absence of complete documentation or technical support.
And this differs from commercial software, how?
I've spent 20 hours trying to figure out how undocumented or broken features behave in Rational's Enterprise Product Suite 2003. And that's expensive software.
I'll choose the software whose source code I can examine any day of the week. Granted, I'm a developer. But it's much worse to lack both documention and source code.
Not meaning to be incendiary, but am I the only person that thinks John Dvorak is an idiot? He predicted the collapse of Microsoft with no supporting evidence, and some really tenuous stretches of logic.
The thing that bothers me is that some data is unchangeable, e.g. US social security #, date of birth, and mother's maiden name. Once it's out there, you're screwed.
That's the great thing about this country, if you ask me.
We can enter into binding agreements by doing nothing more than provide a signature. We can call over the telephone and enact transactions that have major financial ramifications, just by providing some information that nosy snoopers wouldn't have much trouble finding. And we can use our Social Security Number, whose purpose was never intended to be a unique tracking number.
The truth is, any private investigator has enough tools at their disposal to easily commit identity theft. How long do you think thieves will take to catch up?
It still amazes me that all sorts of transactions can be concluded without biometric verification. My friend got majorly screwed by his family because his father had the same name. You should see how badly mangled his credit history, tax records, health records, and financial transactions are.
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And the day democracy falls, I will go out and buy several assault rifles. Call me a nut, but I choose to believe that our country will not be taken over by a lunatic dictator. And I can't believe you're actually using genocide as an excuse for Americans to bear arms.
Did you see the episode about the game designer who was caught for murder because "all game designers program a signature move" into their characters? The most laughable thing I've ever seen.
Let me also state that I have no idea what you just said.
First off, your language is inaccurate. A video game can't "make" you do anything.
Now, do I believe the video game influenced him to kill people? Yes. Do I believe he would have not killed people if he didn't play the video game? Probably.
You have to understand that video games today offer a high degree of realism, which in turn leads to a high degree of escapism. As you know, escapism can be highly addictive (EverQuest, anyone?). Especially when escapism seems much more compelling than real life.
A 32 year-old overweight, minimum-wage woman plays EverQuest 8 hours a day after work, because it allows her to ignore all aspects of her life which make her unhappy. She doesn't go out and kill people with a sword, but then again, how likely is that?
But now consider the kid who grows up in a ghetto, in an environment glamorized by violence and drug use. And then, he plays a highly realistic game that stars a lead character just like him, just like in his hood. You can pretty much damn well believe that kid is going to be much more susceptible to violence than 32 year-old chunky girl playing EverQuest.
So I'm guessing that you, as a /. poster, have pretty much no idea what it's like to grow up in the ghetto.
Wow, you've shown some incredible restraint!
I think you're missing a huge point. As far as I know, you were never a war hero, cowboy, or indian when you were a kid.
Today, video games allow the player to strongly identify with the main character in the video game. A poor urban kid in a bad neighborhood can relate to a video game character who is a poor, violent urban kid in a bad neighborhood.
I suspect that if you grew up in a poor European village, and just watched a movie about a poor European boy who stole a warplane to save his country, you'd try to hop in a warplane too if you saw one right down the street.
I play GTA all the time. And even though I'm a quiet, nice, normal, intelligent guy, the game does influence me.
All human beings are influenced by others. Regardless of how your parents raise you, it's possible for you to be exposed to something to which you react in a detrimental fashion.
Now, that being said, I do agree that it's reprehensible for lawyers to try to get everyone "to pay" for everything that goes wrong in this country.
I'm so proud of you, you're such a responsible gun owner!
But the governemnt has NO goddamn business imposing any restrictions on my rights, especially based on what I might do.
I hate to tell you this, but humans don't have any fundamental rights. Goverments and religion are, in essence, forms of restriction that define rights by the things that can not be restricted. So don't get high and mighty on who can and cannot impose restrictions upon you.
However, when people start clamoring for the government of the United States to start behaving like Hitler's Gestapo, then I take offence.
Please share with us what you know about Hitler's Gestapo. I know that the goverment may be inefficient and take certain stances with which individuals disagree, but for you to compare our government to Hitler's forces is an indication of something that can only be described through insults.
While it's cliched to say so, the government will take my guns out of my cold dead hands.
If you are radical enough to die for the right to hold a gun in your hand, god speed, my friend.
Without the second ammendment, the constitution is just another piece of paper.
No, actually, it isn't.
The second is the only guarantee we have for the all of the other ammendments. Without it, none of the others are worth squat.
Yes, you are so right. Our freedom of expression is SO totally worthless unless we can shoot other people to keep it.
Do me a favor and lock yourself in your gun cabinet.
Actually, there are many experimental programs out there that use the GPU for non-rendering purposes. We can expect to see this usage grow in the future.
But my point was that CPU != GPU, and the grandparent poster said "cycles" and not "CPU cycles."
Man, I'm really glad this crap gets posted, and my (somewhat) interesting submissions get rejected.
But that implies there's only one merit, whereas I contend there are multiple merits of truth.
ps Get a sense of humor.
I'm trying. These posts are just what I do in between (Score: 5, Funny)
Don't feel bad, my submissions are just flat out rejected, regardless of how newsworthy the topic, or how slow the day.
Mod me offtopic, I've got karma to spare.
True, but it will be eating more of your GPU cycles.
Where you english speak learn did?
Why, what's wrong with that phrase?
One of the meanings of merit is "demonstrated ability or achievement." I am merely claiming that the parent statement demonstrated an achievement of truth.
I guess some people might not be able to comprehend a sentence that doesn't come from a beer commercial, but still...
There's a merit of truth to this statement. Save the bandwidth, and unmod this post as being flamebait.
Where I live, they execute murderers.
Just out of curiosity, where you live, do companies have their own jails?
What does "posable" have to do with anything? Do mannequins somehow come into play?
Yes, I'm glad that global warming is a universal truth, and that there are no nay-sayers.
Now, we can hope that punishment for computer-related crimes is brought down to reasonable levels. As much as I hate the fear of identity thieves and hackers, I think it's ridiculous that someone can get less time in jail for committing murder than for hacking into a corporate network.
And we've all heard of "consultants" who were jailed by a company because the consultant tested the company's network security, but the company didn't like it. Penalties and jail-time were harsh, even though no bad intentions were evident.
Does anyone know offhand: what is the probability of finding a collision for two hashes - the first a hash of the original message, and the second a hash of the original message with the first byte + 1?
I would say that the subject of this post is hard to understand at this point.
Mod this post up.
And this differs from commercial software, how?
I've spent 20 hours trying to figure out how undocumented or broken features behave in Rational's Enterprise Product Suite 2003. And that's expensive software.
I'll choose the software whose source code I can examine any day of the week. Granted, I'm a developer. But it's much worse to lack both documention and source code.
Not meaning to be incendiary, but am I the only person that thinks John Dvorak is an idiot? He predicted the collapse of Microsoft with no supporting evidence, and some really tenuous stretches of logic.
Oh my, I guess Bill Gates will have to find another message to preach besides "OSS is unsafe, unsupported, and costs more than Microsoft products."
That's the great thing about this country, if you ask me.
We can enter into binding agreements by doing nothing more than provide a signature. We can call over the telephone and enact transactions that have major financial ramifications, just by providing some information that nosy snoopers wouldn't have much trouble finding. And we can use our Social Security Number, whose purpose was never intended to be a unique tracking number.
The truth is, any private investigator has enough tools at their disposal to easily commit identity theft. How long do you think thieves will take to catch up?
It still amazes me that all sorts of transactions can be concluded without biometric verification. My friend got majorly screwed by his family because his father had the same name. You should see how badly mangled his credit history, tax records, health records, and financial transactions are.