At least in most states in the US, there's technical ability and then there's legal authorization. I technically have the ability to open my neighbor's door and walk into their house. I do not have the legal authorization to do so. This is analogy is more apropos than most because my neighbor is handicapped and has a button which opens the door automatically if it is unlocked.
That's a bad analogy. Do we actually need an analogy for this? Does anyone reading/. not understand how this works? Modern APs come with installation cds and, damn it, a four page cartoon pamphlet showing you how to configure your gear. There is no excuse for not securing your access point if you don't want people to use it.
Fuck's sake people, it's not a car, it's not a house, it's not a wind-up toy doggie. We all understand the concept so quit with the shitty analogies.
You want it kept from you only so long as hiding it keeps people, maybe including you, from dying at the hands of our enemies.
It would be frightening indeed if the state were to somehow shift the definition of "enemy" into an intangible concept. Fortunately we're too informed and, damn it, too smart to fall for a cheap trick like that.
By adjusting for annual increases in productivity, they were able to use the 1929 benchmark to figure out what prices and wages would have been during every year of the Depression had Roosevelt's policies not gone into effect.
Logic like that is why nobody takes economists too seriously.
Actually, now that I've done my own research, it's apparent that you're totally full of shit. In fact it seems like the largest concern is simply that Bisphenol A is ubiquitous, and its effect on people largely unknown. Apparently it passes from mother to child really, really easily.
Most name brand manufacturers have phased out BPA the last time a study came out about the chemical... in 2007? This is on par with doing a study about the adverse effects of lead paint or asbestos insulation.
There's something about the whole concept of "damage" to theoretical profit that I find extremely disturbing. We're getting into some pretty shaky moral and logical ground here.
The quote, or rather it's use, is all the more impressive (though not in a good way) for what it represents, the death of conventional literacy.
Where do you get off talking about "conventional" literacy? The form has been living and evolving for more than five thousand years, and certainly wasn't destined to peak "when you were younger". The quote you're bitching about contains a specific point of view that was communicated effectively enough that at least one reader(whatever) was able to apply it in a manner that conveyed his thinking on a similar but unrelated topic.
The freedom to back a lobbying effort with cash. We're talking about two different scenarios here:
1) "I represent many large oil companies, and we think approach X would be beneficial to not only our interests but the interests of the general public."
2) "I represent many large oil companies, and we think approach X would be beneficial to not only our interests but the interests of the general public. And here's a check for a hundred thousand dollars."
It wouldn't be a matter of if this blew up in our faces, but when. It's still the only workable method.
Fortunately, since this would be run by the US, oversight would be provided by diligent public servants backed by an informed electorate.
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One of those "the authorities won't become interested until you take matters into your own hands" situations. And the reason is that, as a law-abiding (ok, more or less) citizen, you're much easier to prosecute.
What's needed is for one of these new "cyber" security agencies (and I hope this isn't offensive, but they really need to be led by combat veterans with modern prostheses) to be tasked with hunting botnets and taking them over. Displaying a "this computer secured by the U.S. Gub'mint" message is probably the only guaranteed method of getting a user to wipe their machine.
I'll admit that I've never been to a live auction, but I don't think the auctioneer is using an imaging element of a portable computing device to obtain multiple images and then analyzing a change in position of a facial feature.
Not only is he doing it, he's doing it in real time.
But if you're looking for prior art, look no further than Rainbows End, which envisions a world of crap like this.
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If your coworker thinks he's writing secure code, you have a problem.
If you think you're writing secure code, you have two problems.
I'll do you one better:
1) People whose opinions are bought and paid for
2) Assholes, the ignorant, etc
3) People who know what's really going on and care
There, you can use that for any group now. You're welcome.
You know it's quite interesting that both the US energy lobby and Aleister Crowley espouse the same fundamental philosophy.
"Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"
At least in most states in the US, there's technical ability and then there's legal authorization. I technically have the ability to open my neighbor's door and walk into their house. I do not have the legal authorization to do so. This is analogy is more apropos than most because my neighbor is handicapped and has a button which opens the door automatically if it is unlocked.
/. not understand how this works? Modern APs come with installation cds and, damn it, a four page cartoon pamphlet showing you how to configure your gear. There is no excuse for not securing your access point if you don't want people to use it.
That's a bad analogy. Do we actually need an analogy for this? Does anyone reading
Fuck's sake people, it's not a car, it's not a house, it's not a wind-up toy doggie. We all understand the concept so quit with the shitty analogies.
They are "requiring" Macs because they have more chic style cache.
It's built right into the hardware? That's awesome and creepy on so many different levels.
Gorilla arm.
You want it kept from you only so long as hiding it keeps people, maybe including you, from dying at the hands of our enemies.
It would be frightening indeed if the state were to somehow shift the definition of "enemy" into an intangible concept. Fortunately we're too informed and, damn it, too smart to fall for a cheap trick like that.
By adjusting for annual increases in productivity, they were able to use the 1929 benchmark to figure out what prices and wages would have been during every year of the Depression had Roosevelt's policies not gone into effect.
Logic like that is why nobody takes economists too seriously.
Oh, advocating. I thought we were talking about actually doing something.
My bad.
It's called an igloo.
Yeah it's a shame we can only do one thing at a time.
I'll take my advice from the scientists, not the lobbyists. Thanks though.
Actually, now that I've done my own research, it's apparent that you're totally full of shit. In fact it seems like the largest concern is simply that Bisphenol A is ubiquitous, and its effect on people largely unknown. Apparently it passes from mother to child really, really easily.
Most name brand manufacturers have phased out BPA the last time a study came out about the chemical... in 2007? This is on par with doing a study about the adverse effects of lead paint or asbestos insulation.
Ok, if most of them have, which ones haven't?
There's something about the whole concept of "damage" to theoretical profit that I find extremely disturbing. We're getting into some pretty shaky moral and logical ground here.
The quote, or rather it's use, is all the more impressive (though not in a good way) for what it represents, the death of conventional literacy.
Where do you get off talking about "conventional" literacy? The form has been living and evolving for more than five thousand years, and certainly wasn't destined to peak "when you were younger". The quote you're bitching about contains a specific point of view that was communicated effectively enough that at least one reader(whatever) was able to apply it in a manner that conveyed his thinking on a similar but unrelated topic.
How many authors have failed to hit that mark?
The freedom to back a lobbying effort with cash. We're talking about two different scenarios here:
1) "I represent many large oil companies, and we think approach X would be beneficial to not only our interests but the interests of the general public."
2) "I represent many large oil companies, and we think approach X would be beneficial to not only our interests but the interests of the general public. And here's a check for a hundred thousand dollars."
You really don't see a problem with this?
It wouldn't be a matter of if this blew up in our faces, but when. It's still the only workable method.
Fortunately, since this would be run by the US, oversight would be provided by diligent public servants backed by an informed electorate.
One of those "the authorities won't become interested until you take matters into your own hands" situations. And the reason is that, as a law-abiding (ok, more or less) citizen, you're much easier to prosecute.
What's needed is for one of these new "cyber" security agencies (and I hope this isn't offensive, but they really need to be led by combat veterans with modern prostheses) to be tasked with hunting botnets and taking them over. Displaying a "this computer secured by the U.S. Gub'mint" message is probably the only guaranteed method of getting a user to wipe their machine.
Things like 2 year contracts make certain that customers can't make use of the free market.
I'd say it's more the fact that the free market is over in europe that prevents people from using it.
So it's the flavor of the bullshit you buy that makes you intelligent. Ok, got it.
I'll admit that I've never been to a live auction, but I don't think the auctioneer is using an imaging element of a portable computing device to obtain multiple images and then analyzing a change in position of a facial feature.
Not only is he doing it, he's doing it in real time.
But if you're looking for prior art, look no further than Rainbows End, which envisions a world of crap like this.
Delightfully pointless. I love /.
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