I'm sorry, maybe I'm missing something. There's one real story on that page, and that is about the jailing of the reporter who outed a CIA agent. If that is the only thing they're holding against us this year, I'd say we did pretty well. I'd be pretty pissed if someone outed me as an agent too. Good thing this Intarweb is anonymous...
"More to the point, people in civilized democracies (such as most of Europe) mostly ignores american politics, except that they dislike Bush, and thought Clinton was a jolly good fellow."
"Secondly, in the eyes of most people in civilized democracies, US politics has mostly been dominated by rabid right-wing capitalists, dictated by powerful companies, since at least the 1960s."
Thanks for the generalization. Most civilized Europeans are snobs disconnected from the rest of the World.
Ha, that one doesn't really work, especially as I'm in the US. Anyway, you get my point...
"This is a new restriction being placed on an existing use of a material."
The idea is to see if the material is being used for the "existing use." If the person with rocket fuel gets pissed off and goes crazy, maybe they'll start to use it for not so existing uses.
"The risks haven't changed since the 1960's"
The risks have changed. The material still has the same properties, yes, but it is much easier to learn how to build explosives these days.
"By the way, what happens when someone fails the check? They can't launch a model rocket because they did something stupid in collage?"
What stupid thing did they do in college to fail the background check? The government isn't out to get regular people, I'm sorry to say. It'd be great if rogue FBI agents went chasing people like they do in the movies, but real life generally isn't like the movies. Most of the US's law enforcement officers probably did stupid stuff in college too. Most probably think rockets are pretty cool too. They're citizens just like the rest of us (sorry for non US citizens out there) and most don't want to abuse your rights, or their power.
I love the hell out of my freedoms. Other people in this country have freedoms too. One of those should be the freedom to walk down the street and not worry about getting blown up, whether by a terrorist or some jerk who didn't know how to properly store explosive materials. The debate about where to draw the line on our freedoms is raging right now. Please be sensible.
Wrong. Clearly you don't understand how the Soviet Russia jokes are formatted. In this post, the "Anonymous Coward" is attacking Powerpoint. Therefore, you need to say something like...
That update during the install is a great idea. I remember one of those worms made installing Windows hell. You'd install, then it'd reboot, and if it was connected to the Internet it'd be infected within about a minute. Too fast to install the necessary updates. I hope Microsoft gets vista right...
That might also make the whole situation worse. It is important to get all the facts before pointing fingers, and unfortunately, with this kind of thing, it's very difficult to get all the facts.
Firefox is free. Not that no cost is an excuse for it to have vulnerabilities, but rather, why pay for something that's broken? Not that MS should get every bug out of IE before it ships, but it should catch more than it does now.
I think this is just one of many examples of how the current set of US laws is unfit to deal with issues in cyberspace. Right now, we adopt laws to fit the crime, and come up with (often poor) analogies to make them fit. I'm glad some spammers got busted; spam is anoying and, truly, if someone throws out enough spam, it can act as a form of denial of service. At the same time, though, we need to come up with a new way to govern cyberspace. One where the penalties fit the crime, and one that can move much more quickly than the US judicial system.
Patches are great, but if you're running a server, they shouldn't be your main line of defense. Besides, why would you be using IE or many of those other consumer features on a server that needs to be up 24/7.
I agree with you, though. Patches shouldn't require a reboot. XP isn't a monolithic OS, right? So it should be possible to restart parts of the OS without doing the whole thing. I guess many of those "parts" are required by the services that need to be up 24/7... Even if this type of functionality is difficult to implement, isn't that what we pay Microsoft to do?
Interesting. I know that I have essentially forfeited part of my right to privacy while I serve in the Military. I'd say police, and many other types of public servants must forfeit part of their rights as well. It's not so much that the public has the right to monitor public officals' performance, but when they control a person's life or freedom, they must be held accountable. At the same time, remember that everyone's human and everyone screws up sometimes.
Have you ever thought that torture and detention without reason has been the norm throughout history? The United States has been around for 200 something years and the whole time we have tried to encourage freedom and equality. We started out as a country that depended on human slavery. We used to have public hangings and witch trials, burnings and other forms of torture. Please consider the fact that it is better now than it once was. Corruption, racism and sexism still exist, but not with such prevalence as they used to. It is impossible to fix stuff overnight, and in the grand sense of history, the night is not even close to being over. You have to give things time.
I applaud people who speak out about the problems in the World and try and bring people's attention to them. Being someone who hopes to be in a position of authority someday, and would like to make a difference on this planet, I hope that people realize that it does take time for change to occur. If people stop shouting about things, even the smallest of things, than that change will never occur. However, it would help if we could be kind to each other, and understanding. Do you really think that the government wants to arrest thousands of people for nearly no reason? Maybe someday they could get away with it, but why would they want to? The leaders of our country are not trying to bring about the end of the earth. Most are trying their hardest to make stuff better, misguided as some might be.
Anyway, keep fighting for whatever you want to fight for. Even if I disagree with what a person fights for, I'd die to give them the opportunity to fight for it. Please realize deep down that your leaders are human.
I've never considered/. "the best in science journalism," and think you should think hard about life, the universe and everything if you do. It's more like a club where everyone is invited to throw shit at a wall and everyone can see it. Sometimes it's good shit, and sometimes it stinks. This is interesting shit, multicolored maybe...
"This isn't about asking society to raise my kids, its about asking for reasonable precautions to help protect children against criminals."
It'd be great if there was a way to keep criminals from interracting with children on services like myspace, but what MA wants to do is prevent children from using this service at all. Shouldn't we let them make their own decisions and mistakes? It sounds like you do educate your children, and I'd think if you educated them about the problems of meeting people on the internet, you could be comfortable letting them use this service.
Come on, are you telling me you're actually busy finals week? My finals week typically involves drinking, video games, then lots more drinking after each final. Come to think of it, I guess that's a pretty full week...
If the computer is broken, that is one thing. If you can't figure out how to fill in the application, just ask the manager or an employee for help. They'd probably read each question to you and fill in your answers if you really needed them to. Did you bother to ask the manager for help filling out the questionaire, or did you just jump straight to "can I sue them?"
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I'm sorry, maybe I'm missing something. There's one real story on that page, and that is about the jailing of the reporter who outed a CIA agent. If that is the only thing they're holding against us this year, I'd say we did pretty well. I'd be pretty pissed if someone outed me as an agent too. Good thing this Intarweb is anonymous...
"More to the point, people in civilized democracies (such as most of Europe) mostly ignores american politics, except that they dislike Bush, and thought Clinton was a jolly good fellow."
"Secondly, in the eyes of most people in civilized democracies, US politics has mostly been dominated by rabid right-wing capitalists, dictated by powerful companies, since at least the 1960s."
Thanks for the generalization. Most civilized Europeans are snobs disconnected from the rest of the World.
Ha, that one doesn't really work, especially as I'm in the US. Anyway, you get my point...
"Battlefield Mobile Starbucks"
Without coffee, I swear the Air Force would shut down. Coffee is the real black gold.
Force feedback porn... That's awesome!
"This is a new restriction being placed on an existing use of a material."
The idea is to see if the material is being used for the "existing use." If the person with rocket fuel gets pissed off and goes crazy, maybe they'll start to use it for not so existing uses.
"The risks haven't changed since the 1960's"
The risks have changed. The material still has the same properties, yes, but it is much easier to learn how to build explosives these days.
"By the way, what happens when someone fails the check? They can't launch a model rocket because they did something stupid in collage?"
What stupid thing did they do in college to fail the background check? The government isn't out to get regular people, I'm sorry to say. It'd be great if rogue FBI agents went chasing people like they do in the movies, but real life generally isn't like the movies. Most of the US's law enforcement officers probably did stupid stuff in college too. Most probably think rockets are pretty cool too. They're citizens just like the rest of us (sorry for non US citizens out there) and most don't want to abuse your rights, or their power.
I love the hell out of my freedoms. Other people in this country have freedoms too. One of those should be the freedom to walk down the street and not worry about getting blown up, whether by a terrorist or some jerk who didn't know how to properly store explosive materials. The debate about where to draw the line on our freedoms is raging right now. Please be sensible.
Damn. I love how this has generated a discussion...
Wrong. Clearly you don't understand how the Soviet Russia jokes are formatted. In this post, the "Anonymous Coward" is attacking Powerpoint. Therefore, you need to say something like...
"In Soviet Russia, Powerpoint attacks you!"
Try again
Maybe, but the DoD doesn't use Lenovo laptops in sensitive places. http://www.gcn.com/print/25_25/41717-1.html
That update during the install is a great idea. I remember one of those worms made installing Windows hell. You'd install, then it'd reboot, and if it was connected to the Internet it'd be infected within about a minute. Too fast to install the necessary updates. I hope Microsoft gets vista right...
That might also make the whole situation worse. It is important to get all the facts before pointing fingers, and unfortunately, with this kind of thing, it's very difficult to get all the facts.
Firefox is free. Not that no cost is an excuse for it to have vulnerabilities, but rather, why pay for something that's broken? Not that MS should get every bug out of IE before it ships, but it should catch more than it does now.
My first thought was that this title was a Hackers movie reference...
HAL:
A rabbit replicates till it overloads a file, then it spreads like cancer.
MARGO:
Cancer?
Even if it is pretty ridiculous, you have to admit it's a cool movie.
I think this is just one of many examples of how the current set of US laws is unfit to deal with issues in cyberspace. Right now, we adopt laws to fit the crime, and come up with (often poor) analogies to make them fit. I'm glad some spammers got busted; spam is anoying and, truly, if someone throws out enough spam, it can act as a form of denial of service. At the same time, though, we need to come up with a new way to govern cyberspace. One where the penalties fit the crime, and one that can move much more quickly than the US judicial system.
Patches are great, but if you're running a server, they shouldn't be your main line of defense. Besides, why would you be using IE or many of those other consumer features on a server that needs to be up 24/7.
I agree with you, though. Patches shouldn't require a reboot. XP isn't a monolithic OS, right? So it should be possible to restart parts of the OS without doing the whole thing. I guess many of those "parts" are required by the services that need to be up 24/7... Even if this type of functionality is difficult to implement, isn't that what we pay Microsoft to do?
Interesting. I know that I have essentially forfeited part of my right to privacy while I serve in the Military. I'd say police, and many other types of public servants must forfeit part of their rights as well. It's not so much that the public has the right to monitor public officals' performance, but when they control a person's life or freedom, they must be held accountable. At the same time, remember that everyone's human and everyone screws up sometimes.
Have you ever thought that torture and detention without reason has been the norm throughout history? The United States has been around for 200 something years and the whole time we have tried to encourage freedom and equality. We started out as a country that depended on human slavery. We used to have public hangings and witch trials, burnings and other forms of torture. Please consider the fact that it is better now than it once was. Corruption, racism and sexism still exist, but not with such prevalence as they used to. It is impossible to fix stuff overnight, and in the grand sense of history, the night is not even close to being over. You have to give things time.
I applaud people who speak out about the problems in the World and try and bring people's attention to them. Being someone who hopes to be in a position of authority someday, and would like to make a difference on this planet, I hope that people realize that it does take time for change to occur. If people stop shouting about things, even the smallest of things, than that change will never occur. However, it would help if we could be kind to each other, and understanding. Do you really think that the government wants to arrest thousands of people for nearly no reason? Maybe someday they could get away with it, but why would they want to? The leaders of our country are not trying to bring about the end of the earth. Most are trying their hardest to make stuff better, misguided as some might be.
Anyway, keep fighting for whatever you want to fight for. Even if I disagree with what a person fights for, I'd die to give them the opportunity to fight for it. Please realize deep down that your leaders are human.
-Keep on rocking in the free World
Too much cyberpunk for you...
Pour me a pint of the black stuff and get ready for one of the more exciting sports games! That's the world cup!
I've never considered /. "the best in science journalism," and think you should think hard about life, the universe and everything if you do. It's more like a club where everyone is invited to throw shit at a wall and everyone can see it. Sometimes it's good shit, and sometimes it stinks. This is interesting shit, multicolored maybe...
I agree. Ever since I watched that show I've wanted to be him... Now if only I could meet my Aeryn...
It'd be great if there was a way to keep criminals from interracting with children on services like myspace, but what MA wants to do is prevent children from using this service at all. Shouldn't we let them make their own decisions and mistakes? It sounds like you do educate your children, and I'd think if you educated them about the problems of meeting people on the internet, you could be comfortable letting them use this service.
Oh, I guess they already did...
Come on, are you telling me you're actually busy finals week? My finals week typically involves drinking, video games, then lots more drinking after each final. Come to think of it, I guess that's a pretty full week...
I bet the original poster uses the acronym IANAL a lot...
If the computer is broken, that is one thing. If you can't figure out how to fill in the application, just ask the manager or an employee for help. They'd probably read each question to you and fill in your answers if you really needed them to. Did you bother to ask the manager for help filling out the questionaire, or did you just jump straight to "can I sue them?"