Are also arguments against absentee ballots. Perhaps we should get rid of those too- wonder who the president would be today.
When one considers that absentee ballots are the only way military personnel deployed overseas can vote, and that those personnel voted nearly 2-1 in favor of Bush, I think there's little doubt.
While the skill of the operator is certainly the primary consideration in how securely technology is actually implemented, you are standing on completely different ground when you implement open source software as compared to Windows.
In the case of windows, bugs may exist, and you have no way to ever know about them except at the behest of Microsoft. Therefore, your ability as an admin to respond to bugs is limited by whether M$'s marketing department wants you to know about them.
With something like Linux, you've got the source code right there in front of you. You have complete control of the system.
I think I'll release my origin code under the GPL. That'll fix 'em. At least until my kids can't get paid for working under the derivative works clause.
The American system IS corrupt, and has engaged in evil acts. These things I will not defend. Indeed, I would even be willing to amend my statement with the caveat:
setting up a government like ours was originally.
But opening up strip joints in Tehran is not quite in the same category as the Stalinist purges. On the whole, the only hope the people of the world have had for peace, justice, and freedom from oppression has been the United States.
You can make impassioned arguments to the contrary, but the reality is that when bad things happen to virtually anybody in the world, I as an American citizen end up paying to clean up the mess.
And as corrupt as we are, the fact remains that one is hard pressed to find a regime less corrupt than ours.
Looks like the isolationists and anti-globalists are on the same side of the table. What do we do now?
We hashed all this out for y2k. I disagree that our dependence on technology has made us more vulnerable than in the past.
I've worked on many large technology implementations. For all the failures of technology, I have yet to see these weaknesses made evident by having implemented the technology correctly. Read - people's stupidity grossly overshadows any fundamental weakness brought about by using technology.
The argument that the WTC attacks were the result of an excess of world Americanism is like saying the holocaust was the result of too much world jewry.
If you'd prefer that we Americans abandon Marshall Plan world policy and let the rest of the world wallow in hopeless poverty and instability, we'd be perfectly glad to accomodate your requests. Frankly, we're rather tired of fixing problems that are the result of countries not having the insight or courage to set up a government like ours.
Taking this thing to its logical extreme, one could easily imagine civil rights lawsuits regarding space access. I can just imagine the public debate on the Space Tourism Freedom act of 2020.
The restrictions are, of course, meaningless, because the bottom line is that money is the only thing that will get you into space.
This could make for an interesting precedent once we start deciding who can board the "ark" that we'll one day have to build to escape planetary catastrophe.
While certain aspects of this idea are interesting, I think it raises several serious problems.
The currently used shorthand of this security posture is the use of active defenses such as Sentry. While useful in a remote network with a limited range of applications (read: small, and by applications, I'm talking layer7, not Word), rigidly predefined responses to certain incident conditions almost always cause trouble on a large system used for a wide variety of purposes. Even if one were to make the incident response logic near-omnipotent in its ability to respond appropriately, the openness of the standards involved would mean that any intruder would have a VERY good idea of how your systems will react to attack, to say nothing of being able to monitor the response by looking for outbound BNS traffic.
There is also another more sinister possiblity for how this type of protocol might be used. If network security structures could be organized into an "authoritative cloud" of trusted BNS devices controlling the Internet, it would provide a great way for people currently annoyed at the free exchange of information on the Internet to have a good chance of shutting it down.
Would you want to hear about legislation pending in your state government that would force your ISP to shut you down for surfing porn?
I'm having trouble understanding what the writer is comparing.
The point, as I understand it, is that Amazon, et. al. are doing well because they have philosophically distanced themselves from the "tech" industry in terms of their treatment of customers.
What?
Could it be that the author made the connection between people like Amazon and people like Symantec because they both ended in.com? Because otherwise, I don't see a valid comparison.
It seems to me that the writer is making the claim that the.com implosion was the result of "tech culture", and that the answer to the e-commerce question is to expunge Internet culture from Internet business.
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Interesting deconstruction of imagined propaganda. Here's some reality.
Communism, regardless of its various labels and lofty discussions, is the deadliest thing that has ever happened in the history of humans. No idea, religion, social structure, warlord, or disease has ever come close to the colossal death and suffering caused by Communism.
Every implementation of Communism invariably degenerates into a small group of people (read - ruling class) utterly dominating a large group of people. The force required to maintain this pyramid is immense. So much so that even massive censorship and draconian laws are not enough to maintain it. Communism cannot exist without murder, and its adherents (for no lack of trying) seem incapable of killing enough people to make it work.
Your parallels of the kind of ruthless domination of which Communists are guilty to Ken Lay are entertaining, but I think the investigation will reveal that very little Enron stock was traded at the point of an AK-47. Your ability to overlook events such as Tiananmen square in your crusade to impune people like Ken Lay demonstrates the extent to which reason must be contorted for Communism to seem like a good idea.
As for the inevitable discussion of the theory behind Communism, the only way you'll be able to convince me of the value of its intentions is to separate me from my very capitalist ideas about looking at things in terms of their results.
Considering the mindlessly litigious nature in which business in the US operate, a data control policy is absolutely necessary and in no way reflects the ethics of the organization in question.
There's another side to this too, kids. As someone who does expert testimony in cases involving data stored on personal computers, I can tell you that every individual also has a need for data control measures. Every one of us needs to shred documents, delete files, and scrub file slack space and "empty" space on our disks. Windoze users should also scrub out their swapfiles.
These are realities imposed upon us by the nanny state, which has grown a lot bigger since 9/11.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
It gets better! Exceeding the EMF from computer equipment, power lines, etc. are:
HEI ignition in modern cars @50000 volts
solar activity
lightning (duh)
If you go by what the OSHA stuff says, then Morg wouldn't have survived the EMF created by the ion flux of the fire he invented.
I disagree that this has nothing to do with "the internet, geeks, or nerds". Schools and shopping malls cause similar congregation of kids and the "corresponding" violence, and I have yet to see a city council place a moratorium on new shopping malls for this reason.
Furthermore, to suggest that these events do not raise the specter of shutdowns and bans is short sighted at best. This is how such bans begin.
I think this situation is expemplary of the cultural divide of fear between people who understand technology and those who do not. As people like Kevin Mitnick or David McOwen well understand, the fear of the latter is outrageous, pervasive, and incredibly destructive. It is a social phenomenon that borders on racism in its capacity for evil. Indeed, the greatest challenge I face as a technology professional is managing this fear on the part of my clients and managers which sometimes expresses itself as outright hatred toward me!
We have a responsibility to stand up when this fear manifests itself in public policy. It is, in my opinion, nothing less than a matter of civil rights.
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When one considers that absentee ballots are the only way military personnel deployed overseas can vote, and that those personnel voted nearly 2-1 in favor of Bush, I think there's little doubt.
Do you advocate preventing our military volunteers from voting? It seems Bill Clinton's defense department agreed with you.
Who wants to see inside their PC? It just turns into one big dust ball over time.
That's not really true.
While the skill of the operator is certainly the primary consideration in how securely technology is actually implemented, you are standing on completely different ground when you implement open source software as compared to Windows.
In the case of windows, bugs may exist, and you have no way to ever know about them except at the behest of Microsoft. Therefore, your ability as an admin to respond to bugs is limited by whether M$'s marketing department wants you to know about them.
With something like Linux, you've got the source code right there in front of you. You have complete control of the system.
I think I'll release my origin code under the GPL. That'll fix 'em. At least until my kids can't get paid for working under the derivative works clause.
Here's the details on what exactly the vulnerability is
Basically, the assertion that one could gain access to the whole hard drive is false. Looks like a FUD attack on file sharing to me.
The American system IS corrupt, and has engaged in evil acts. These things I will not defend. Indeed, I would even be willing to amend my statement with the caveat:
But opening up strip joints in Tehran is not quite in the same category as the Stalinist purges. On the whole, the only hope the people of the world have had for peace, justice, and freedom from oppression has been the United States.You can make impassioned arguments to the contrary, but the reality is that when bad things happen to virtually anybody in the world, I as an American citizen end up paying to clean up the mess.
And as corrupt as we are, the fact remains that one is hard pressed to find a regime less corrupt than ours.
Looks like the isolationists and anti-globalists are on the same side of the table. What do we do now?
We hashed all this out for y2k. I disagree that our dependence on technology has made us more vulnerable than in the past.
I've worked on many large technology implementations. For all the failures of technology, I have yet to see these weaknesses made evident by having implemented the technology correctly. Read - people's stupidity grossly overshadows any fundamental weakness brought about by using technology.
The argument that the WTC attacks were the result of an excess of world Americanism is like saying the holocaust was the result of too much world jewry.
If you'd prefer that we Americans abandon Marshall Plan world policy and let the rest of the world wallow in hopeless poverty and instability, we'd be perfectly glad to accomodate your requests. Frankly, we're rather tired of fixing problems that are the result of countries not having the insight or courage to set up a government like ours.
Huntsville, AL is the center of activity for the ISS. Excerpt from the site:
Interesting.
Taking this thing to its logical extreme, one could easily imagine civil rights lawsuits regarding space access. I can just imagine the public debate on the Space Tourism Freedom act of 2020.
The restrictions are, of course, meaningless, because the bottom line is that money is the only thing that will get you into space.
This could make for an interesting precedent once we start deciding who can board the "ark" that we'll one day have to build to escape planetary catastrophe.
http://www.sjgames.com/car-wars/aada/
When I was in high school, it was a boardgame. Now it's for real.
...rock on...
While certain aspects of this idea are interesting, I think it raises several serious problems.
The currently used shorthand of this security posture is the use of active defenses such as Sentry. While useful in a remote network with a limited range of applications (read: small, and by applications, I'm talking layer7, not Word), rigidly predefined responses to certain incident conditions almost always cause trouble on a large system used for a wide variety of purposes. Even if one were to make the incident response logic near-omnipotent in its ability to respond appropriately, the openness of the standards involved would mean that any intruder would have a VERY good idea of how your systems will react to attack, to say nothing of being able to monitor the response by looking for outbound BNS traffic.
There is also another more sinister possiblity for how this type of protocol might be used. If network security structures could be organized into an "authoritative cloud" of trusted BNS devices controlling the Internet, it would provide a great way for people currently annoyed at the free exchange of information on the Internet to have a good chance of shutting it down.
Would you want to hear about legislation pending in your state government that would force your ISP to shut you down for surfing porn?
I'm having trouble understanding what the writer is comparing.
.com? Because otherwise, I don't see a valid comparison.
.com implosion was the result of "tech culture", and that the answer to the e-commerce question is to expunge Internet culture from Internet business.
The point, as I understand it, is that Amazon, et. al. are doing well because they have philosophically distanced themselves from the "tech" industry in terms of their treatment of customers.
What?
Could it be that the author made the connection between people like Amazon and people like Symantec because they both ended in
It seems to me that the writer is making the claim that the
Interesting deconstruction of imagined propaganda. Here's some reality.
Communism, regardless of its various labels and lofty discussions, is the deadliest thing that has ever happened in the history of humans. No idea, religion, social structure, warlord, or disease has ever come close to the colossal death and suffering caused by Communism.
Every implementation of Communism invariably degenerates into a small group of people (read - ruling class) utterly dominating a large group of people. The force required to maintain this pyramid is immense. So much so that even massive censorship and draconian laws are not enough to maintain it. Communism cannot exist without murder, and its adherents (for no lack of trying) seem incapable of killing enough people to make it work.
Your parallels of the kind of ruthless domination of which Communists are guilty to Ken Lay are entertaining, but I think the investigation will reveal that very little Enron stock was traded at the point of an AK-47. Your ability to overlook events such as Tiananmen square in your crusade to impune people like Ken Lay demonstrates the extent to which reason must be contorted for Communism to seem like a good idea.
As for the inevitable discussion of the theory behind Communism, the only way you'll be able to convince me of the value of its intentions is to separate me from my very capitalist ideas about looking at things in terms of their results.
was 42. The question is suspected to be 6 X 9.
Damn Vogons.
Considering the mindlessly litigious nature in which business in the US operate, a data control policy is absolutely necessary and in no way reflects the ethics of the organization in question.
There's another side to this too, kids. As someone who does expert testimony in cases involving data stored on personal computers, I can tell you that every individual also has a need for data control measures. Every one of us needs to shred documents, delete files, and scrub file slack space and "empty" space on our disks. Windoze users should also scrub out their swapfiles.
These are realities imposed upon us by the nanny state, which has grown a lot bigger since 9/11.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Ah yes. Mall cops. That'll keep those whipper snappers in line.
It gets better! Exceeding the EMF from computer equipment, power lines, etc. are: HEI ignition in modern cars @50000 volts solar activity lightning (duh) If you go by what the OSHA stuff says, then Morg wouldn't have survived the EMF created by the ion flux of the fire he invented.
I disagree that this has nothing to do with "the internet, geeks, or nerds". Schools and shopping malls cause similar congregation of kids and the "corresponding" violence, and I have yet to see a city council place a moratorium on new shopping malls for this reason.
Furthermore, to suggest that these events do not raise the specter of shutdowns and bans is short sighted at best. This is how such bans begin.
I think this situation is expemplary of the cultural divide of fear between people who understand technology and those who do not. As people like Kevin Mitnick or David McOwen well understand, the fear of the latter is outrageous, pervasive, and incredibly destructive. It is a social phenomenon that borders on racism in its capacity for evil. Indeed, the greatest challenge I face as a technology professional is managing this fear on the part of my clients and managers which sometimes expresses itself as outright hatred toward me!
We have a responsibility to stand up when this fear manifests itself in public policy. It is, in my opinion, nothing less than a matter of civil rights.