If humans were rats we would have cured all major illnesses by now. It seems everyday I read something that we have been able to cure or cause in rats. Unfortunately progress on humans has been much slower.
Russians have dusted off their Bears and Backfires and are sending them on patrol loaded with cruise missiles
Well I was in the Airforce for 20 years. Ten of which was spent maintaining avionics on a B-52. And there is a huge difference between standard cruise missiles and nukes. Those nukes by treaty and national directives aren't supposed to fly anywhere unless there is direct national authority. Meaning President, Vice President,joint chiefs etc.
During the cold war, there was a lot of worry about this type of thing. Each bomber base has an alert facility. That is where the crews wait for what they hope will never come. Well most of them, hope that! There are secret sicko's in every group. There are checklists upon checklists. No enlisted person can work alone on an aircraft, there most be 2 people in view of each other at all times. Each has to have knowledge of the task to recognize when the other is deviating. Inside the aircraft cockpit in addition to the 2 maintenance, you have to have 2 officers both cockpit certified. If you notice something isn't right you stop the task. If your not sure if you trust the other guy, you radio in a 'helping hand'. You both will then spend time spread eagle on the tarmac with a gun pointed at you.
To work on nuclear weapons system, you are subject to the 'personal reliability program' , this means you can lose certification for drinking too much, divorce proceedings etc. Anything where your supervisor or commander believes you might not be thinking about the task at hand. Its non punitive, you can also be temporarily de-certified for a tooth extraction. What seems to me happened here is someone removed that aircraft from alert status and did not notify every one in the checklist. The aircraft munitions didn't get unloaded. This is a major screw up.
Your right I don't know you. Especially with just the 3 things you mentioned. Is that all there is?
I ride motorcycles, play music and teach Hapkido. Among a dozen or so other things. All things that exist in this world. I don't care about the casual game. But if you add up the time on a computer, and then list the things in life you want to do. You be your own judge, I was just venting a little frustration. I surf the internet, the time I waste here could be spent doing something productive. But I'm bored right now with my laptop and stuck in a meeting all day, but come 5pm EST....
My son in law is 35 plays video games all day long. My daughter works 2 jobs and pays his $700 a month child support. I hope one day she will realize her child is better off without him. He will ramble on about how stupid the ratings are while his kids sit and watch him play. To him, I have the problem because I believe at 30, video games should be the lowest on your priorities list. So forgive me, but I wouldn't sell beer to an alcoholic. I wouldn't care if they jacked the price up of AO or whatever you want to call it 100 fold. Every single 'gamer' I've met in their 30's has serious problems in their emotional development. So forgive me if I fail to care.
So what is true for you must be true for everyone? I looked back at 40 and I have changed many of my beliefs. And I am almost 50 and can easily change my mind when there is a persuasive argument.
He didn't just look, he placed back doors in that allowed him in whenever he wanted. That took man hours to check every single system. Whenever your hacked, you don't just look at one machine. You have to check every single machine on your network! How many machines do you think NASA owns! Plus, time to clean up the root kits he used. So I'm sure the price was high.
Also he was a systems administrator, someone who is a position of trust. Personally, I'd give him the option of Saudi Arabian or Iranian law if he thinks the US system is so unfair. In Saudi Arabia he would be typing with a hook. The British system also has a form of plea bargaining so whats his beef? You have to agree to a plea, your not beaten up. You only agree to a plea only if you think your going to lose, usually because of overwhelming evidence.
Absolutely, record companies used to be run by people who loved music. Now they're multi-million dollar conglomerates and its all marketing. Chess records changed the music seen by introducing the blues to Europe. Sam Phillips brought rockabilly music. Motown etc. Unfortunately those days are history. Now corporations like Sony sell music. And market there crap along with MTV, TV series and Wrestling.
Looks like you're a Unix sysadmin, and find things boring with Windows servers... point, click, clickety-click, click, mouse over, click.. and Reboot!
Tell me about it. CS degree, 17+ years experience , I developed web apps, been the sole database manger,and have done all of the network security. I administer Solaris, OS X, Linux in addition to windows. I just built a a 68 node cluster for image rendering. For years our firewall was a Linux box I configured. Our mail server is cyrus imap and postfix. A windows admin who takes care of the company a few windows machines for all the secretaries and and managers is in the cubicle down the hall. He took on line training for 6 weeks for a certification yet still can't manage a DNS server and I found out he gets the same pay!
For me its quit usable. People who complain about it grew up with Photoshop. What they want is Photoshop for free on whatever OS they use. Every college graphics course teaches Photoshop. That is hard to over come. The gimp is not photo shop, get over it. Photoshop is a lot more powerful. When you sit down and maybe use a book like "Grokking the Gimp" or one of the other books I've seen at Barnes & Noble. It works, its free, and after using it a while it becomes second nature. Any program is foreign at first. Try using POV ray when all you've ever used is Bryce. For me Gimp does what I used to do in Paint Shop Pro, image editing, creating web graphics etc. Fireworks is closer to Gimp in features than Photoshop. If I were a photo journalist or doing magazine layouts. I wouldn't choose Gimp and the UI is not the reason.
Spammers plight my ass, your analogy is extremely poor. That 100 emails times the fifty thousand users in my company's email server. How much time and effort to try and block that crap at our expense. Storage & Bandwidth at our expense. Paying 50,000 people to spend 10-20 minutes a day pressing delete. Spammers should pay us, preferably in a cell.
Musicians don't write songs in a vacuum either. How many of those song 'writers' have performed others work for years without paying? Almost every song uses chord progressions exactly the same as those in other songs. Try searching the lyrics one line at a time on google and find out how many other songs or poems have many of the exact same phrases.
Funny how many people here bring up morality. Morality is just as moving a target as laws. The only real difference is one is codified by governments. What is considered morally right in China is not the same as elsewhere. So who's standards do you apply? Western nations or the rest of the world? By population, the entire world would be fine with, "death penalty for insulting {'the Tai King','the Government','Mohammad','your mother'}. Killing daughters because they married someone the family didn't approve of is morally right in much of the world. If a Chinese employee does what is both morally and legally right in the country of his employ, you want to sue the stockholders in other countries? How does that help?
1) Suing unwed mothers, children and the elderly makes you a terrorist.
2) How many songs are just I-IV-V, I,V etc. chord progressions with some attached phrases that go "I was born", "Hold On," "Without You," or "All I Want." etc. your all a bunch of plagiarists.
3) Manufactured bands have been around since before file sharing, the Monkees and Milli Vanilli come to mind.
4) Many artists have had huge hits followed by instant bankruptcy. Quit ripping off artists and you might gain some sympathy.
5) Most of those so-called "anti-copyright" people are really "anti-copyright-abuse", "anti-lobby-congress-to-change-the copyright-terms" people. Sonny Bono got his copyrights extended and personally profited from his bill introduced when he was in congress.
Personally, I could care less about Europe. They are ungrateful little bastards and need to be left to their own. That means gone with the social programs to pay for defense. Without the protection afforded by the US, they would be conquered faster than the French can surrender. Whether it becomes an Islamic super state or a Russian gulag, I could care less. I'm tired on your incessant whining. Like a spoiled child Europe needs to be bitch slapped back into reality.
I think a real solution is to make copyright non-transferable. A corporation is a juristic person that is legally treated, in certain instances, as a person. Corporations don't create art, people do. Having corporations own the copyright is ridiculous. After an artist dies, all copyrighted works should be transfered to the public domain. If an employee creates a something of value, the corporation would then have to make a deal with the employee. If the employee leaves, so does the copyright unless the employee grants the corporation usage rights for a fee. Then you would stop corporations like Disney from taking public domain stories, make a cartoon and copyrighting it. Artists would then have the upper hand in negotiations.
These were meant for kids in 3rd world nations. Kids learn fast when they aren't glued to a TV. My kids at 10 could log in to linux and windows. And that way RedHat 5.0 with KDE 1. They didn't want windows 95, they were used to windows 3.1. They knew what a root or admin log in was I told them. They are now in their early 20's and still know a thing or two. My kids were more interested in ipods, aim, cellphones and MTV. But they weren't stupid, just not interested. In a third world country, a large minority would learn what a root password is, they wouldn't know any different. The other group would be more worried about eating and surviving.
If I walk up to your door and check if its locked, if it isn't then do I have a right to plug in my RV to your wall socket? My argument is if the owner didn't care then that should have been the end of it.
They sue karaoke bars, clubs with jukeboxes that don't have 'live music' licenses. The suing spree doesn't stop at p2p music. That just what gets the most press attention. Bars that have bands pay a tax that goes to the RIAA, whether the band plays covers or original. It is their intention to 'own' all recorded works.
What they are doing is instead of suing slashdot, they are instilling fear by suing kids and their parents. It makes people scared to download music. Sounds like a "strategic lawsuit planned to punish" to me. I personally think of it as terrorizing music lovers.
Is that with all the thousands of pending lawsuits, not one defendant has snapped and gone on a shooting spree.
When you SLAPP to many times eventually someone hits back.
-- "The RIAA disrespects Allah" ---
Back in about 95 we put about 200+ servers and and workstations in huge steal trailers that looked like shipping containers on wheels. We then removed the sides and daisy chained them in the desert in Saudi Arabia after that HVAC & Aircraft style PDU's were attached and a satellite link was setup to the US. We would process & store data from the U2 sensors. In the US, intelligence agencies could get that data. IT was called CARS (Contingency Airborne Reconnaissance System). It was a mobile data center, we had to do this because you have to be line of site from the aircraft. Now they just stream the data over the satellite to the States. They use just one small system to relay data stream instead of a fully deployed mobile data center. A heck of a lot cheaper than the $320 million the original data system system cost. Deployment costs were astronomical. After Osama Bin Laden blew up the barracks they decided it might be better to rethink things.
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If humans were rats we would have cured all major illnesses by now. It seems everyday I read something that we have been able to cure or cause in rats. Unfortunately progress on humans has been much slower.
Well I was in the Airforce for 20 years. Ten of which was spent maintaining avionics on a B-52. And there is a huge difference between standard cruise missiles and nukes. Those nukes by treaty and national directives aren't supposed to fly anywhere unless there is direct national authority. Meaning President, Vice President,joint chiefs etc.
During the cold war, there was a lot of worry about this type of thing. Each bomber base has an alert facility. That is where the crews wait for what they hope will never come. Well most of them, hope that! There are secret sicko's in every group. There are checklists upon checklists. No enlisted person can work alone on an aircraft, there most be 2 people in view of each other at all times. Each has to have knowledge of the task to recognize when the other is deviating. Inside the aircraft cockpit in addition to the 2 maintenance, you have to have 2 officers both cockpit certified. If you notice something isn't right you stop the task. If your not sure if you trust the other guy, you radio in a 'helping hand'. You both will then spend time spread eagle on the tarmac with a gun pointed at you.
To work on nuclear weapons system, you are subject to the 'personal reliability program' , this means you can lose certification for drinking too much, divorce proceedings etc. Anything where your supervisor or commander believes you might not be thinking about the task at hand. Its non punitive, you can also be temporarily de-certified for a tooth extraction. What seems to me happened here is someone removed that aircraft from alert status and did not notify every one in the checklist. The aircraft munitions didn't get unloaded. This is a major screw up.
Don't worry, him and 4400 others will reappear.
Your right I don't know you. Especially with just the 3 things you mentioned. Is that all there is? I ride motorcycles, play music and teach Hapkido. Among a dozen or so other things. All things that exist in this world. I don't care about the casual game. But if you add up the time on a computer, and then list the things in life you want to do. You be your own judge, I was just venting a little frustration. I surf the internet, the time I waste here could be spent doing something productive. But I'm bored right now with my laptop and stuck in a meeting all day, but come 5pm EST....
I ride my Harley, have a black belt,and do charity work. Try living a real life instead of a simulation.
My son in law is 35 plays video games all day long. My daughter works 2 jobs and pays his $700 a month child support. I hope one day she will realize her child is better off without him. He will ramble on about how stupid the ratings are while his kids sit and watch him play. To him, I have the problem because I believe at 30, video games should be the lowest on your priorities list. So forgive me, but I wouldn't sell beer to an alcoholic. I wouldn't care if they jacked the price up of AO or whatever you want to call it 100 fold. Every single 'gamer' I've met in their 30's has serious problems in their emotional development. So forgive me if I fail to care.
So what is true for you must be true for everyone? I looked back at 40 and I have changed many of my beliefs. And I am almost 50 and can easily change my mind when there is a persuasive argument.
He didn't just look, he placed back doors in that allowed him in whenever he wanted. That took man hours to check every single system. Whenever your hacked, you don't just look at one machine. You have to check every single machine on your network! How many machines do you think NASA owns! Plus, time to clean up the root kits he used. So I'm sure the price was high. Also he was a systems administrator, someone who is a position of trust. Personally, I'd give him the option of Saudi Arabian or Iranian law if he thinks the US system is so unfair. In Saudi Arabia he would be typing with a hook. The British system also has a form of plea bargaining so whats his beef? You have to agree to a plea, your not beaten up. You only agree to a plea only if you think your going to lose, usually because of overwhelming evidence.
Absolutely, record companies used to be run by people who loved music. Now they're multi-million dollar conglomerates and its all marketing. Chess records changed the music seen by introducing the blues to Europe. Sam Phillips brought rockabilly music. Motown etc. Unfortunately those days are history. Now corporations like Sony sell music. And market there crap along with MTV, TV series and Wrestling.
Looks like you're a Unix sysadmin, and find things boring with Windows servers... point, click, clickety-click, click, mouse over, click.. and Reboot! Tell me about it. CS degree, 17+ years experience , I developed web apps, been the sole database manger,and have done all of the network security. I administer Solaris, OS X, Linux in addition to windows. I just built a a 68 node cluster for image rendering. For years our firewall was a Linux box I configured. Our mail server is cyrus imap and postfix. A windows admin who takes care of the company a few windows machines for all the secretaries and and managers is in the cubicle down the hall. He took on line training for 6 weeks for a certification yet still can't manage a DNS server and I found out he gets the same pay!
Me! In the event that is unlikely, I would then suggest a charity. I'm thinking a lawsuit defense fund for people sued by the RIAA.
For me its quit usable. People who complain about it grew up with Photoshop. What they want is Photoshop for free on whatever OS they use. Every college graphics course teaches Photoshop. That is hard to over come. The gimp is not photo shop, get over it. Photoshop is a lot more powerful. When you sit down and maybe use a book like "Grokking the Gimp" or one of the other books I've seen at Barnes & Noble. It works, its free, and after using it a while it becomes second nature. Any program is foreign at first. Try using POV ray when all you've ever used is Bryce. For me Gimp does what I used to do in Paint Shop Pro, image editing, creating web graphics etc. Fireworks is closer to Gimp in features than Photoshop. If I were a photo journalist or doing magazine layouts. I wouldn't choose Gimp and the UI is not the reason.
Spammers plight my ass, your analogy is extremely poor. That 100 emails times the fifty thousand users in my company's email server. How much time and effort to try and block that crap at our expense. Storage & Bandwidth at our expense. Paying 50,000 people to spend 10-20 minutes a day pressing delete. Spammers should pay us, preferably in a cell. Musicians don't write songs in a vacuum either. How many of those song 'writers' have performed others work for years without paying? Almost every song uses chord progressions exactly the same as those in other songs. Try searching the lyrics one line at a time on google and find out how many other songs or poems have many of the exact same phrases.
I read somewhere 50% of Europeans are idiots. I also read the other 50% used to under Soviet Rule.
Funny how many people here bring up morality. Morality is just as moving a target as laws. The only real difference is one is codified by governments. What is considered morally right in China is not the same as elsewhere. So who's standards do you apply? Western nations or the rest of the world? By population, the entire world would be fine with, "death penalty for insulting {'the Tai King','the Government','Mohammad','your mother'}. Killing daughters because they married someone the family didn't approve of is morally right in much of the world. If a Chinese employee does what is both morally and legally right in the country of his employ, you want to sue the stockholders in other countries? How does that help?
1) Suing unwed mothers, children and the elderly makes you a terrorist. 2) How many songs are just I-IV-V, I,V etc. chord progressions with some attached phrases that go "I was born", "Hold On," "Without You," or "All I Want." etc. your all a bunch of plagiarists. 3) Manufactured bands have been around since before file sharing, the Monkees and Milli Vanilli come to mind. 4) Many artists have had huge hits followed by instant bankruptcy. Quit ripping off artists and you might gain some sympathy. 5) Most of those so-called "anti-copyright" people are really "anti-copyright-abuse", "anti-lobby-congress-to-change-the copyright-terms" people. Sonny Bono got his copyrights extended and personally profited from his bill introduced when he was in congress.
Personally, I could care less about Europe. They are ungrateful little bastards and need to be left to their own. That means gone with the social programs to pay for defense. Without the protection afforded by the US, they would be conquered faster than the French can surrender. Whether it becomes an Islamic super state or a Russian gulag, I could care less. I'm tired on your incessant whining. Like a spoiled child Europe needs to be bitch slapped back into reality.
I think a real solution is to make copyright non-transferable. A corporation is a juristic person that is legally treated, in certain instances, as a person. Corporations don't create art, people do. Having corporations own the copyright is ridiculous. After an artist dies, all copyrighted works should be transfered to the public domain. If an employee creates a something of value, the corporation would then have to make a deal with the employee. If the employee leaves, so does the copyright unless the employee grants the corporation usage rights for a fee. Then you would stop corporations like Disney from taking public domain stories, make a cartoon and copyrighting it. Artists would then have the upper hand in negotiations.
These were meant for kids in 3rd world nations. Kids learn fast when they aren't glued to a TV. My kids at 10 could log in to linux and windows. And that way RedHat 5.0 with KDE 1. They didn't want windows 95, they were used to windows 3.1. They knew what a root or admin log in was I told them. They are now in their early 20's and still know a thing or two. My kids were more interested in ipods, aim, cellphones and MTV. But they weren't stupid, just not interested. In a third world country, a large minority would learn what a root password is, they wouldn't know any different. The other group would be more worried about eating and surviving.
If I walk up to your door and check if its locked, if it isn't then do I have a right to plug in my RV to your wall socket? My argument is if the owner didn't care then that should have been the end of it.
They sue karaoke bars, clubs with jukeboxes that don't have 'live music' licenses. The suing spree doesn't stop at p2p music. That just what gets the most press attention. Bars that have bands pay a tax that goes to the RIAA, whether the band plays covers or original. It is their intention to 'own' all recorded works.
What they are doing is instead of suing slashdot, they are instilling fear by suing kids and their parents. It makes people scared to download music. Sounds like a "strategic lawsuit planned to punish" to me. I personally think of it as terrorizing music lovers.
Is that with all the thousands of pending lawsuits, not one defendant has snapped and gone on a shooting spree. When you SLAPP to many times eventually someone hits back. -- "The RIAA disrespects Allah" ---
Back in about 95 we put about 200+ servers and and workstations in huge steal trailers that looked like shipping containers on wheels. We then removed the sides and daisy chained them in the desert in Saudi Arabia after that HVAC & Aircraft style PDU's were attached and a satellite link was setup to the US. We would process & store data from the U2 sensors. In the US, intelligence agencies could get that data. IT was called CARS (Contingency Airborne Reconnaissance System). It was a mobile data center, we had to do this because you have to be line of site from the aircraft. Now they just stream the data over the satellite to the States. They use just one small system to relay data stream instead of a fully deployed mobile data center. A heck of a lot cheaper than the $320 million the original data system system cost. Deployment costs were astronomical. After Osama Bin Laden blew up the barracks they decided it might be better to rethink things.
That's why they spy on them.