Be careful, don't let the pendulum swing too far. Remember back at what we thought was the "end" of disco? Everyone was burning disco records, "Death before Disco" shirts were everywhere, etc. And what happened? Disco came SCREAMING back into popularity later. We can't let this happen again!
All you have to do to make it Quake is put people in stupid outfits before you shoot them.
As opposed to the not-stupid Urban fatigues most paintballers wear? C'mon, if it's only the outfits that make the difference, then paintball is already Quake.
Only parents who are already paying attention to what their kids are doing on the Internet will filter based on the.kids.us TLD. The kids who really need some protection in this manner still won't get it because if the parents were paying attention, the kids wouldn't need it in the first place.
OK, this is going to be deep, so read slowly and try to really get what I'm saying:
Nothing: the absence of "ever"
It doesn't matter if humans blip out of existence.
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You are absolutely correct. Communism will never work because there will always be at least a few slack-asses who won't contribute to the whole. At least with a Capitalist system the slack-asses eventually get what they deserve, which usually is a broken down trailer in some armpit of a backwater town in which to spend their golden years.
"Spam just tastes better when you buy it with food stamps."
Wrong. If the lazy US voters would get off their collective TV watching ass and get involved in Government, our society would be vastly different. But who has time for that when Rachel is having a baby?!?!?!?
You show me ONE case, just ONE case where someone successfully kept the spooks from recovering the data they were after and I'll eat my freaking hat. I don't know your experience level, but I can say that if you have spent any time in the IT field then you know that if a disk isn't completely physically destroyed, the data can be partially if not completely recoved. The data isn't in "a million places", it's in one place: on the disk. Furthermore, as to the proprietary format argument, where do you live? If it's in the US, then you don't have encryption that the spooks can't break! Period. The fact is that if the govt wants your data, nothing short of breaking the molecular bonds that hold your disk together is going to keep them from it.
Since when has a lack of funds ever stopped the government from starting a program such as this? Look at the "war on drugs" for example. This program has cost BILLIONS of dollars and what have we gained? A few hundred thousand people in prison that we tax payers have to support now and virtually no reduction in drug trafficking. If the govt wants to investigate an ISP, believe me, cost is going to be the absolute LAST concern.
I didn't miss the point. Most of the time when searches are performed they are not performed by Police officers. These searches are carried out mostly by "officers of the court", such as coroners, forensic investigators, assistant DA's, and civil servants in related fields to the scope of the investigation. The Police officers are there simply to aid the investigators IF some evidence is found.
So, following this logic, only people who are breaking the law in their homes should be concerned about the police searching their homes? We all should be concerned. This type of thing is covered in the Constitution under illegal search and seizure. Besides, for a warrant to be issued in the first place there has to be some probable cause or at least SOME evidence or implication that a crime has occured.
Many police departments now have officers who specialize in (I hate cliches) "Cybercrime." These officers would be perfect for searching through logs and the like. Being knowledgeable about computers is not limited to those people who work directly in the IT field. I'm certain that the FBI and CIA etc. all have IT specialists who would look at a trivial web log and laugh their spooky behinds off.
If the search is court ordered, it only makes sense that some law enforcement agency should be there to assist in carrying out the "warrant." However, the agency should only become directly involved if something illegal is found. They should maintain impartiality until some law has been found to have been broken, after all, in this country we are innocent until proven guilty, right?
There are many, many strains of bacteria that are resistant to one or more supposedly "anti-bacterial" agents. This is the reason we have to keep coming up with new antibiotics. In some rare cases, bacterial infections have become resistant to all forms of antibiotic that we have available, the patient goes septic and dies. It is terrible, but true. As a species we are "anti-bacterializing" ourselved into immunological weakness.
The most compelling proof for me has been my own experience working in mixed Windows/Linux/Unix environments. I know for a fact that my TCO has been so much lower for the Unix/Linux installations that there can not even be a comparison made with the Windows installations. I'm not bashing Microsoft, I'm stating facts from personal experience.
Your comment should be "Anything that replaces NT/2000 IS at a reduced cost and is great in my book." I hate to throw around buzz words, but if you're talking TCO here, Microsoft will lose every time.
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Don't be naive. Our government subsidizes individual criminals every day, i.e., the Senate, the House of Representatives, etc.
Do you find conflict between your scientific and religious pursuits?
Be careful, don't let the pendulum swing too far. Remember back at what we thought was the "end" of disco? Everyone was burning disco records, "Death before Disco" shirts were everywhere, etc. And what happened? Disco came SCREAMING back into popularity later. We can't let this happen again!
Will IBM try to blend aspects of AIX and Linux together, or will the 2 development paths remain discreet?
Now, if only the artists would break away totally from the record labels, everything would be great.
As opposed to the not-stupid Urban fatigues most paintballers wear? C'mon, if it's only the outfits that make the difference, then paintball is already Quake.
That is precisely my point.
Only parents who are already paying attention to what their kids are doing on the Internet will filter based on the .kids.us TLD. The kids who really need some protection in this manner still won't get it because if the parents were paying attention, the kids wouldn't need it in the first place.
Nothing: the absence of "ever"
It doesn't matter if humans blip out of existence.
"Spam just tastes better when you buy it with food stamps."
Wrong. If the lazy US voters would get off their collective TV watching ass and get involved in Government, our society would be vastly different. But who has time for that when Rachel is having a baby?!?!?!?
Popularity usually leads to software bloat, and I hope this doesn't happen to Opera. If it does, we'll have to change its name to Operah.
You show me ONE case, just ONE case where someone successfully kept the spooks from recovering the data they were after and I'll eat my freaking hat. I don't know your experience level, but I can say that if you have spent any time in the IT field then you know that if a disk isn't completely physically destroyed, the data can be partially if not completely recoved. The data isn't in "a million places", it's in one place: on the disk. Furthermore, as to the proprietary format argument, where do you live? If it's in the US, then you don't have encryption that the spooks can't break! Period. The fact is that if the govt wants your data, nothing short of breaking the molecular bonds that hold your disk together is going to keep them from it.
Since when has a lack of funds ever stopped the government from starting a program such as this? Look at the "war on drugs" for example. This program has cost BILLIONS of dollars and what have we gained? A few hundred thousand people in prison that we tax payers have to support now and virtually no reduction in drug trafficking. If the govt wants to investigate an ISP, believe me, cost is going to be the absolute LAST concern.
I didn't miss the point. Most of the time when searches are performed they are not performed by Police officers. These searches are carried out mostly by "officers of the court", such as coroners, forensic investigators, assistant DA's, and civil servants in related fields to the scope of the investigation. The Police officers are there simply to aid the investigators IF some evidence is found.
So, following this logic, only people who are breaking the law in their homes should be concerned about the police searching their homes? We all should be concerned. This type of thing is covered in the Constitution under illegal search and seizure. Besides, for a warrant to be issued in the first place there has to be some probable cause or at least SOME evidence or implication that a crime has occured.
Many police departments now have officers who specialize in (I hate cliches) "Cybercrime." These officers would be perfect for searching through logs and the like. Being knowledgeable about computers is not limited to those people who work directly in the IT field. I'm certain that the FBI and CIA etc. all have IT specialists who would look at a trivial web log and laugh their spooky behinds off.
If the search is court ordered, it only makes sense that some law enforcement agency should be there to assist in carrying out the "warrant." However, the agency should only become directly involved if something illegal is found. They should maintain impartiality until some law has been found to have been broken, after all, in this country we are innocent until proven guilty, right?
There are many, many strains of bacteria that are resistant to one or more supposedly "anti-bacterial" agents. This is the reason we have to keep coming up with new antibiotics. In some rare cases, bacterial infections have become resistant to all forms of antibiotic that we have available, the patient goes septic and dies. It is terrible, but true. As a species we are "anti-bacterializing" ourselved into immunological weakness.
Beats breeze any day!
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The most compelling proof for me has been my own experience working in mixed Windows/Linux/Unix environments. I know for a fact that my TCO has been so much lower for the Unix/Linux installations that there can not even be a comparison made with the Windows installations. I'm not bashing Microsoft, I'm stating facts from personal experience.
Your comment should be "Anything that replaces NT/2000 IS at a reduced cost and is great in my book." I hate to throw around buzz words, but if you're talking TCO here, Microsoft will lose every time.
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