Driving too fast for your abilities Sadly, 90% of the drivers think they are the top 5% of drivers. A lot of people greatly overestimate their abilities as a driver, and think that the rules should apply to 'those other people who obviously can't drive'.
-- There are two kinds of drivers. The idiots behind you and the idiots in front of you.
Ah, but you seem to forget that in the eyes of the current administration, every consumer^H^H^H^H^H^H civilian is a potential terrorist, as soon as s/he starts asking difficult questions about said administration.
Well, from a government viewpoint, this is a very scary scenario. Lately, almost all western governments (especially the US and UK) have intensified their surveillance (spying on it's citizens), the EU has even handed down legislation that needs to be implemented by all it's member states where at least 6 months of communication data for all citizens is recorded... and allowing for free open access, where there is no way of knowing what person might have accessed what information is a surveillance nightmare. If there is one thing governments hate, it's anonymity.
Then again, anonymity does not always bring out the best in people, as Penny Arcade has shown us.
If apparently Google is allowed to read those papers, but when you visit with your browser, you aren't, there should be a simple solution:
Use Firefox, and get the agent-switcher extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/ Add an entry named Google, and add the following user-agent: Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Now you should be able to see the same thing the Google bot sees.
Works great for NY-Times, but you'd have to try to see if it works for these journals as well.
I think the most important part to get people to do evil things is to make sure they do not question their reasoning.
As long as you tell people what to think, and they just accept that as fact, or on blind faith, you can have them do whatever you like. Only when people start to think for themselves, and demand a certain level of proof, instead of simple acceptance of lies and fabricated facts will they become less susceptible to this kind of influence.
Then again, asking people actually use their brain might be pushing it... what's on TV tonight?
Stop thinking that small decline in numbers means THE INDUSTRY IS DEAAAAAAD. It's ridiculous. Because we all know only Netcraft can confirm that something is dying.;)
Uhmm, so if I follow you correctly, the trafic to the DNS is what should be payed for? So if I run a DNS server, and it has a DNS entry cached from the registar, I can send Verisign the bill for that trafic, since they are already charging more for it?
If a blogger writes about an artist or an album, they're going to claim that that blog is illegally using said artist's name. (To make money through site-advertising, which auto-magically results in 5.27 million dollars loss to the *AA a month, according to their calculations.)
And we'll probably get *AA sponsored websites where for only $10.95 a month, you can mention their artists in your blogs.
Who's talking content? We own the hardware. That includes the remote and the controls on the TV. Who owns my remote? Me, or the content provider? If I want to change the channel and watch something else, that's my right.
Keep repeating that to yourself when you open up your XBox to install your modchip... just before you get hauled away for breaking the DMCA (and probably for being a terrorist as well...)
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I have made it a habit to take my hands of the keyboard and mouse whenever I am in a conversation with someone, or whenever I'm not actively typing or using the mouse. Have a pen or pencil to play around with also helps to keep your fingers moving around at that time. I'm also a (not very accomplished:) freeclimber, so I tend to exercise the muscles in my arms once a week, and because you can quickly cramp up while climbing, this has taught me to relax my lower arm muscles whenever I'm not actively using them.
I've been using computers intesively for over 15 years and haven't had any symptoms during all this time.
Imagine a version of Windows where you could actually uninstall messenger, internet explorer, windows media player... or better still, choose not to install it in the first place through a (*gasp*) instalation dialog. Actually, you used to have the option to not install messenger, IE and the media player. Until someone somewhere decided it was an 'essential part' of the OS. (Whoops, did that happen at the same time they got competition in that area?) Then again, what serious server OS wouldn't install pinball by default and demand a GUI to work.
Nothing wrong with bundling, but giving your customers the ability to -not- install a piece of software would be nice.
Actually, from a pure technical point of view, Tamiflu doesn't attack the virus itself, but prevents further distribution of newly form virii by preventing them from leaving the infected cell. So it interacts with the human cells, not the virus.
The cocktail that is administered to HIV patients doesn't do anything against the HIV virus, but is important to combat secondary infections. Since the immune system of HIV patients is severely weakened, simple infections that healthy people wouldn't even notice they had, can become life-threatening for HIV patients.
Well, I certainly hope they don't obey orders from someone posing as a senior officer by email. The fact that this time it really was their own colonel, and not some scriptkiddy that cracked the mailserver doesn't make the threat any less. Whether it's someone claiming to be your boss, your bank, a friend or a superior, don't blindly follow instructions if you can't be sure of the source.
(Lauch the missiles. Look, the president sent an email ordering us to attack the USSR;-)
You are quite right on this, at least speaking out of personal experience. Living in Europe (the Netherlands) to be precise, the only real exposure there is to anime is through conventions. Apart from the obligatory Pokemon shows, not much anime is shown on TV here. Fansubs have caused me to come in contact with an incredible amount of anime series, many of which I would never have heard of, let alone order it in the US and Canada from online retailers. Things like the DTS limited edition of Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex would never have sold, if the only thing people had to go by were 'It's a Ghost in the Shell series', and some DVD cover images. I wouldn't be surprised if over 80% of those that buy the DTS limited edition (instead of the cheaper edition, 5.1) have first seen many, if not all of the episodes on fansub.
It's an improvement for Microsoft. Now they don't have to make all those pesky hidden API calls and hashed up binary formats that even their own developers must have trouble with decyphering. Now they can just hold up the money bowl and say, 'Sure, everyone can read what it says, but we happen to have a law that says you have to pay up if you can read. And you'll have to say pretty, pretty, pretty please, with sugar on top.'
"Oh crap, is this the first chink in the armor, ISP's can disconnect people based on their traffic... Virus, Trojan, P2P, Torrent"
Fortunately, they can yank the plug because these machines are attacking their DNS servers. Not because these computers are just sending out a lot of DNS requests.
Actually, they did the same thing with MSWord, which went from version 2 to version 6. (Because some 'other' word processing software at that moment was at version 5 and going to 6) Not just breeza teen-boppers fall for this, as long as it's new and shiny, you can sell it to PHBs as well.;)
Actually, there's one party that's definately gaining over this lawsuit. It's the same party that's making millions of dollars over patent lawsuits, or class-actions against fast-food stores (that... -gasp- might make you fat is you switch exclusively to their diet)
Lawyers!
If anything, it seems that lately, all laws are made to create the most possible lawsuits over the highest possible compensation claims. And they get a percentage of all of them.
Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it... Why was there such a big push to get software patents through in the EU before the end of the year, why was the dutch deligation applying pressure on Poland to accept software patents without a vote? Could it have been related to the judgement date of the Microsoft appeal? Through court actions, Microsoft postpones having to give more information about their protocols, until Software Patents are safely in place, to turn their punishment into a completely ineffective slap on the wrist.
You're using the same arguments the music industry has been making against P2P and the internet in general: "Something user X does conflicts with our business model, so user X should adapt. And if he doesn't, we should have a law that makes what user X does illegal... huh? Change our business model?"
If you're using a windows based system, check the following page: http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
This has nearly all possible programs that can run during startup on a windows machine, and explains what it is. (Regular proces, virus, trojan, etc..) I use it whenever I encounter an unknown process in the task list. (It's getting more difficult though... my company installed laptop (illegal to change anything on it), runs nearly 50 processes after a clean startup:( )
I hate to be the devil's advocate in this, but this also raises some privacy issues.
If (for a legitimate reason) you need to call someone on one of those islands, how are you going to whitelist this number? Do you have to register with name and address? Additional information?
You wouldn't be able to make an anonymous call anymore, because even public phones would have to be unblocked.
Of course, there's always the question 'Why would you want to make an anonymous call', but I feel that falls in the same category as 'If you have nothing to hide....'
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There are two kinds of drivers. The idiots behind you and the idiots in front of you.
Ah, but you seem to forget that in the eyes of the current administration, every consumer^H^H^H^H^H^H civilian is a potential terrorist, as soon as s/he starts asking difficult questions about said administration.
66lawyers? Must be a typo, you're one 6 short.
Well, from a government viewpoint, this is a very scary scenario.
Lately, almost all western governments (especially the US and UK) have intensified their surveillance (spying on it's citizens), the EU has even handed down legislation that needs to be implemented by all it's member states where at least 6 months of communication data for all citizens is recorded... and allowing for free open access, where there is no way of knowing what person might have accessed what information is a surveillance nightmare. If there is one thing governments hate, it's anonymity.
Then again, anonymity does not always bring out the best in people, as Penny Arcade has shown us.
If apparently Google is allowed to read those papers, but when you visit with your browser, you aren't, there should be a simple solution:
Use Firefox, and get the agent-switcher extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/
Add an entry named Google, and add the following user-agent:
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Now you should be able to see the same thing the Google bot sees.
Works great for NY-Times, but you'd have to try to see if it works for these journals as well.
I think the most important part to get people to do evil things is to make sure they do not question their reasoning.
As long as you tell people what to think, and they just accept that as fact, or on blind faith, you can have them do whatever you like. Only when people start to think for themselves, and demand a certain level of proof, instead of simple acceptance of lies and fabricated facts will they become less susceptible to this kind of influence.
Then again, asking people actually use their brain might be pushing it... what's on TV tonight?
Uhmm, so if I follow you correctly, the trafic to the DNS is what should be payed for? So if I run a DNS server, and it has a DNS entry cached from the registar, I can send Verisign the bill for that trafic, since they are already charging more for it?
I think I can guess what is next.
If a blogger writes about an artist or an album, they're going to claim that that blog is illegally using said artist's name. (To make money through site-advertising, which auto-magically results in 5.27 million dollars loss to the *AA a month, according to their calculations.)
And we'll probably get *AA sponsored websites where for only $10.95 a month, you can mention their artists in your blogs.
Keep repeating that to yourself when you open up your XBox to install your modchip... just before you get hauled away for breaking the DMCA (and probably for being a terrorist as well...)
I have made it a habit to take my hands of the keyboard and mouse whenever I am in a conversation with someone, or whenever I'm not actively typing or using the mouse. Have a pen or pencil to play around with also helps to keep your fingers moving around at that time. :) freeclimber, so I tend to exercise the muscles in my arms once a week, and because you can quickly cramp up while climbing, this has taught me to relax my lower arm muscles whenever I'm not actively using them.
I'm also a (not very accomplished
I've been using computers intesively for over 15 years and haven't had any symptoms during all this time.
Imagine a version of Windows where you could actually uninstall messenger, internet explorer, windows media player... or better still, choose not to install it in the first place through a (*gasp*) instalation dialog.
Actually, you used to have the option to not install messenger, IE and the media player. Until someone somewhere decided it was an 'essential part' of the OS. (Whoops, did that happen at the same time they got competition in that area?)
Then again, what serious server OS wouldn't install pinball by default and demand a GUI to work.
Nothing wrong with bundling, but giving your customers the ability to -not- install a piece of software would be nice.
Actually, from a pure technical point of view, Tamiflu doesn't attack the virus itself, but prevents further distribution of newly form virii by preventing them from leaving the infected cell. So it interacts with the human cells, not the virus.
The cocktail that is administered to HIV patients doesn't do anything against the HIV virus, but is important to combat secondary infections. Since the immune system of HIV patients is severely weakened, simple infections that healthy people wouldn't even notice they had, can become life-threatening for HIV patients.
Well, I certainly hope they don't obey orders from someone posing as a senior officer by email. The fact that this time it really was their own colonel, and not some scriptkiddy that cracked the mailserver doesn't make the threat any less.
;-)
Whether it's someone claiming to be your boss, your bank, a friend or a superior, don't blindly follow instructions if you can't be sure of the source.
(Lauch the missiles. Look, the president sent an email ordering us to attack the USSR
You are quite right on this, at least speaking out of personal experience. Living in Europe (the Netherlands) to be precise, the only real exposure there is to anime is through conventions. Apart from the obligatory Pokemon shows, not much anime is shown on TV here.
Fansubs have caused me to come in contact with an incredible amount of anime series, many of which I would never have heard of, let alone order it in the US and Canada from online retailers.
Things like the DTS limited edition of Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex would never have sold, if the only thing people had to go by were 'It's a Ghost in the Shell series', and some DVD cover images. I wouldn't be surprised if over 80% of those that buy the DTS limited edition (instead of the cheaper edition, 5.1) have first seen many, if not all of the episodes on fansub.
It's an improvement for Microsoft. Now they don't have to make all those pesky hidden API calls and hashed up binary formats that even their own developers must have trouble with decyphering.
Now they can just hold up the money bowl and say, 'Sure, everyone can read what it says, but we happen to have a law that says you have to pay up if you can read. And you'll have to say pretty, pretty, pretty please, with sugar on top.'
Uhmmm.. Military Seeks Approval to Develop Air flight Weapons
Computer Networking weapons?
Atomic weapons?
Satelite weapons?
Nope, still don't see anything positive in this.
Fortunately, they can yank the plug because these machines are attacking their DNS servers. Not because these computers are just sending out a lot of DNS requests.
Actually, they did the same thing with MSWord, which went from version 2 to version 6. (Because some 'other' word processing software at that moment was at version 5 and going to 6) ;)
Not just breeza teen-boppers fall for this, as long as it's new and shiny, you can sell it to PHBs as well.
Actually, there's one party that's definately gaining over this lawsuit.
It's the same party that's making millions of dollars over patent lawsuits, or class-actions against fast-food stores (that... -gasp- might make you fat is you switch exclusively to their diet)
Lawyers!
If anything, it seems that lately, all laws are made to create the most possible lawsuits over the highest possible compensation claims. And they get a percentage of all of them.
Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it...
Why was there such a big push to get software patents through in the EU before the end of the year, why was the dutch deligation applying pressure on Poland to accept software patents without a vote?
Could it have been related to the judgement date of the Microsoft appeal?
Through court actions, Microsoft postpones having to give more information about their protocols, until Software Patents are safely in place, to turn their punishment into a completely ineffective slap on the wrist.
You're using the same arguments the music industry has been making against P2P and the internet in general: .. huh? Change our business model?"
"Something user X does conflicts with our business model, so user X should adapt.
And if he doesn't, we should have a law that makes what user X does illegal.
If you're using a windows based system, check the following page:
:( )
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
This has nearly all possible programs that can run during startup on a windows machine, and explains what it is. (Regular proces, virus, trojan, etc..)
I use it whenever I encounter an unknown process in the task list.
(It's getting more difficult though... my company installed laptop (illegal to change anything on it), runs nearly 50 processes after a clean startup
I hate to be the devil's advocate in this, but this also raises some privacy issues.
If (for a legitimate reason) you need to call someone on one of those islands, how are you going to whitelist this number? Do you have to register with name and address? Additional information?
You wouldn't be able to make an anonymous call anymore, because even public phones would have to be unblocked.
Of course, there's always the question 'Why would you want to make an anonymous call', but I feel that falls in the same category as 'If you have nothing to hide....'
.. the stench of a Beowulf cluster of these things....