still, a stealthy nest for your rootkit is always welcome. A system should remain transparent enough to make the intrusion obvious, this trick allows to install stealthy backdoor.
They are afraid of getting sued for propogating the stuff they do not know if users bought...
Why are you making excuses for them? You don't know whether that's actually the reason or not.
It's just as likely the did it because the want to make it harder to deal with music that was not purchased through them.
I can turn on my GPS receiver and watch the time readout wander back and forth compared to the steady watch.
It is your watch that is wandering.
The entire concept of GPS requires accurate timekeeping to a scale of nanoseconds.
If your GPS receiver's clock was ACTUALLY wandering around by whole seconds, your GPS unit would be completely useless. Your position fix would be off by hundreds of thousands of miles!
Or do you forget that the biggest political sex scandal ever involved a democrat whose first name is Bill?
You must not know of very many sex scandals then, because Clinton was not anywhere close to the biggest. I suggest you turn off Fox News and go read something.
You ARE aware that Osama isn't exactly close with the rest of the bin Laden family, either, aren't you? Sammy's little habit of sponsoring terrorism against Western countries kind of has a harmful effect on the family's global business prospects. He was formally disowned in 1994.
How gullible are you?
Being "formally disowned" means nothing. The guy is a fugitive. Of course his family is going to cut off "official" relations with him. It is no reflection upon their closeness.
I'm not necessarily claiming they ARE best buddies, but your "evidence" that they are not is farcical.
The absence of any legitimate evidence to support the premise
I PROVIDED EVIDENCE. Read the article I linked to.
Since we are talking about questions of law and legal questions of fact here, I'm afraid you are completely wrong about that.
No actually, I'm not. You're deliberately trying to alter the frame of the debate. I'm talking about what ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
Quite often what a court finds, or does not find is in direct contradiction to the facts. Quite often people who are guilty of various crimes are never prosecuted. These are both especially true when the person in question is a high ranking gov't official.
The case seems pretty clear that he WAS "Absent WithOut Leave" it's just that nobody in a position to go after him cared to do so because of who his daddy was.
Failure to be prosecuted for going AWOL does not mean that it did not happen.
Yes. It is. If you can be hauled off without trial, without counsel, to a secret prision then something is just flat-out wrong. That is supposed to be the stuff of crappy dictatorships and and dystopian novels, not the land of the "free" home of the "brave".
FISA is NOT what we're talking about here. FISA is sufficient for all those things you think we might need to capture terrorists while maintaining due process and any level of secrecy you desire. The Bush administration is not playing by FISA rules. You are either ignorant of this or you are trying to be deliberately misleading.
Electronic voting isn't prima facie more vulnerable than previous voting methods; rather it's the current crop of voting machines that are poorly engineered that's the problem.
As an electrical engineer, I wholeheartedly disagree with you.
It is fairly simple for someone from each party to stand there an watch ballots get stuffed into a box and to observe the count.
It is much harder to disassemble all the hardware and software inside an electronic voting machine.
One requires a budget in the millions. The other requires a couple people standing around for an evening.
When Edison first made an vote counting machine, the patent office rejected his invention citing concerns that could lead to vote tampering and yet, over a hundred years later, we have all of these problems...Maybe we should just GET RID OF ELECTRONIC VOTING until somebody can make uncrackable DRM software.
Even if you created magical, unhackable software, the hardware tiself is still hackable.
Give me a nice budget, and I'll make you some chips that look just like normal, but have some extra special functionality that is effectively undetectable without depackaging the chip.
In short: Electrons are not visible with the naked eye and as such should not be a critical part of the voting process.
Am I the only one who thinks Olbermann is a left-wing O'Reilly? I don't know whether he's quite such a pathological liar as O'Reilly but his whole rhetoric...
So you're judging this guy without even checking into the validity of his arguments?
Olbermann is spot on and his facts are right. He's just telling it like it is, which is something you're not used to hearing. It hurts to hear the truth sometimes, but maybe, just maybe you should at least check his facts before calling him a windbag.
I don't mind the idea of electronic voting, just be sure to give me a printout of my vote in plain english with a tracking number so that I can validate it later on.
A tracking number is a monumentally bad idea.
It is important, for your own safety, that you are never able to PROVE who you voted for.
If you could, it would be a simple matter to coerse people to vote in whatever manner you wanted by a variety of means.
Paper is good, but you should never be permitted to take it somewhere anyone else can see it.
Seriously, why is it bad inteligence when clinton acts on bad inteligence, it is reasonable. But Bush gets bad inteligence he's a lier and "he lied and people died" all hell is breaking loose?
Because Bush also had GOOD intelligence which he deliberately ignored.
In short the "bad intelligence" excuse is nothing but a lie being fed to you.
Credible accounts now show that they KNEW the evidence was spotty and best and was conflicted by reliable sources. Their response was to ignore the credible evidence and to present the poor intelligence to congress as reliable.
Bill is on the short list of people who could have simply met with George personally and explained the problem.
And what if he did? Would you say that wasn't enough either, the he should have browbeat Bush into actually doing something?
What if Bush refused to see him, should he have forced his way into the oval office? Challenged him to a duel?
What it comes down to is that Clinton made reasonable efforts and Bush irresponsibly ignored them.
We know for sure that this information made into into the president's daily briefing and was (essentially) ignored. Claiming that somehow Clinton should have MADE him listen is ridiculous. Bush is an adult and should be considered responsible for his own actions.
I will voice my opinion in the tried and tested way of consumer protesting. I will just not buy Intel for my OpenBSD box's. I will buy hardware that has an open support commitment and prove those vendors right in there move.
Even better:
Vote with your wallet and write two emails:
One to the company you didn't buy from, explaining why and another to the company you did buy from explaining why.
It is human nature to think "I woulda seen it coming if I were in your shoes" -
A document entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Within the US" is pretty conclusive proof that somebody DID see it coming.
Quit trying to equate Cliton and Bush here. Clition ACTIVELY persued and tried to kill Bin Laden prior to 9/11. He provided everything necessary for Bush to continue this effort, which Bush did not.
Grow UP and realize that the people who founded this country PUBLICLY signed the Declaration of Independence knowing that it would be used to execute them if they lost.
You cannot live Free if you sell your Freedoms for "protection" from the "bad men" hurting you.
What an excellent way to but it. Too many people fail to realize that living in a "free" society always comes with certain risks.
I agree that a TV signal will take more time to figure out than a phonorecord, but I believe it is a problem within the grasp of a reasonably-advanced alien civilization.
Although our societies might be radically different, the physics on both worlds will be the same. IMO, this means they will develop many of the same designs we have, oscillators, filters, etc.
It could very well take them years to figure it out (just look how long it took us to "decrypt" hieroglyphics) but I believe it is a tractable problem. I can't help but think how much fun it would be to work on too.
Of course there's always the theory that the administration thought that a terrorist attack would be a great way to rally the American populace and take their minds off much larger problems at home...
Which would seem crazy if they hadn't come up with the idea themselves and publicized it.
Indeed, the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
...
Further, the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event like a
new Pearl Harbor.
...
Since todays peace is the unique product of American preeminence, a failure to preserve that preeminence allows others an opportunity to shape the world in ways antithetical to American interests and principles.
The document concludes:
Global leadership is not something exercised at our leisure, when the mood strikes us or when our core national security interests are directly threatened; then it is already too late. Rather, it is a choice whether or not to maintain American military preeminence, to secure American geopolitical leadership, and to preserve the American peace.
Tables that stand at about 4.5 ft tall (average elbo hight for an average sized adult), that force people to stand and interact with each other. Intel uses this idea, and from what I've heard it's really effective at shortening meeting times, since it's less comfortable. And shorter meetings are a good thing.
Only if your company doesn't do anything even remotely complicated. Do you really want to stand up for a review of a 300 page document?
Too many managers think meetings are an expensive waste of time to be reduced as much as possible.
Even if they get a broadcast at a certain frequency - how intuitive will it be for an alien listener, that this broadcast will be audio/video in PAL, SECAM or NTSC coding?
It's not that crazy to expect them to figure it out.
Remember the scene in "The Hunt for Red October" where he plays back the tape at 10X speed and says it has to be man-made?
That's what would happen here.
A video signal has obvious cues that tell the receiver to go to a new line or go back to the top. Given two such cues in the signal, it's not a crazy leap to guess that the signal might be a two dimensional representation of something.
If they actually find the signal, they should be able to work out the encoding.
You don't have any proof that peak oil is going to happen. It's just the standard catastrophist call of "you better do what I say or something very bad will happen."
For all you know, we'll get fusion worked out in five years and we'll have tons of cheap, clean energy causing a massive DROP in oil prices.
IMO, I think neither case is likely. As oil prices rise, we will gradually shift towards other sources of energy and materials. (At least, that's how it will happen if we can manage to get the Texas oilmen out the Whitehouse.)
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still, a stealthy nest for your rootkit is always welcome. A system should remain transparent enough to make the intrusion obvious, this trick allows to install stealthy backdoor.
If they have root this is simply not possible.
They are afraid of getting sued for propogating the stuff they do not know if users bought...
Why are you making excuses for them?
You don't know whether that's actually the reason or not.
It's just as likely the did it because the want to make it harder to deal with music that was not purchased through them.
I can turn on my GPS receiver and watch the time readout wander back and forth compared to the steady watch.
It is your watch that is wandering.
The entire concept of GPS requires accurate timekeeping to a scale of nanoseconds.
If your GPS receiver's clock was ACTUALLY wandering around by whole seconds, your GPS unit would be completely useless. Your position fix would be off by hundreds of thousands of miles!
Or do you forget that the biggest political sex scandal ever involved a democrat whose first name is Bill?
You must not know of very many sex scandals then, because Clinton was not anywhere close to the biggest. I suggest you turn off Fox News and go read something.
You ARE aware that Osama isn't exactly close with the rest of the bin Laden family, either, aren't you? Sammy's little habit of sponsoring terrorism against Western countries kind of has a harmful effect on the family's global business prospects. He was formally disowned in 1994.
How gullible are you?
Being "formally disowned" means nothing. The guy is a fugitive. Of course his family is going to cut off "official" relations with him. It is no reflection upon their closeness.
I'm not necessarily claiming they ARE best buddies, but your "evidence" that they are not is farcical.
The absence of any legitimate evidence to support the premise
I PROVIDED EVIDENCE. Read the article I linked to.
Since we are talking about questions of law and legal questions of fact here, I'm afraid you are completely wrong about that.
No actually, I'm not. You're deliberately trying to alter the frame of the debate. I'm talking about what ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
Quite often what a court finds, or does not find is in direct contradiction to the facts. Quite often people who are guilty of various crimes are never prosecuted. These are both especially true when the person in question is a high ranking gov't official.
And he wasn't AWOL from the TANG,
How do you know this?
The case seems pretty clear that he WAS "Absent WithOut Leave" it's just that nobody in a position to go after him cared to do so because of who his daddy was.
Failure to be prosecuted for going AWOL does not mean that it did not happen.
Are you saying that everyone who didn't see him where he was legally required to be is a liar?
Is it so black and white?
Yes. It is. If you can be hauled off without trial, without counsel, to a secret prision then something is just flat-out wrong. That is supposed to be the stuff of crappy dictatorships and and dystopian novels, not the land of the "free" home of the "brave".
FISA is NOT what we're talking about here. FISA is sufficient for all those things you think we might need to capture terrorists while maintaining due process and any level of secrecy you desire. The Bush administration is not playing by FISA rules. You are either ignorant of this or you are trying to be deliberately misleading.
Electronic voting isn't prima facie more vulnerable than previous voting methods; rather it's the current crop of voting machines that are poorly engineered that's the problem.
As an electrical engineer, I wholeheartedly disagree with you.
It is fairly simple for someone from each party to stand there an watch ballots get stuffed into a box and to observe the count.
It is much harder to disassemble all the hardware and software inside an electronic voting machine.
One requires a budget in the millions. The other requires a couple people standing around for an evening.
It's simply amazing the lengths you'll go to in order to make excuses for this guy.
So it's okay to have ignored it because Bush routinely ignores his briefings?
Do you have any idea how silly that sounds?
When Edison first made an vote counting machine, the patent office rejected his invention citing concerns that could lead to vote tampering and yet, over a hundred years later, we have all of these problems...Maybe we should just GET RID OF ELECTRONIC VOTING until somebody can make uncrackable DRM software.
Even if you created magical, unhackable software, the hardware tiself is still hackable.
Give me a nice budget, and I'll make you some chips that look just like normal, but have some extra special functionality that is effectively undetectable without depackaging the chip.
In short: Electrons are not visible with the naked eye and as such should not be a critical part of the voting process.
Am I the only one who thinks Olbermann is a left-wing O'Reilly? I don't know whether he's quite such a pathological liar as O'Reilly but his whole rhetoric...
So you're judging this guy without even checking into the validity of his arguments?
Olbermann is spot on and his facts are right. He's just telling it like it is, which is something you're not used to hearing. It hurts to hear the truth sometimes, but maybe, just maybe you should at least check his facts before calling him a windbag.
I don't mind the idea of electronic voting, just be sure to give me a printout of my vote in plain english with a tracking number so that I can validate it later on.
A tracking number is a monumentally bad idea.
It is important, for your own safety, that you are never able to PROVE who you voted for.
If you could, it would be a simple matter to coerse people to vote in whatever manner you wanted by a variety of means.
Paper is good, but you should never be permitted to take it somewhere anyone else can see it.
Seriously, why is it bad inteligence when clinton acts on bad inteligence, it is reasonable. But Bush gets bad inteligence he's a lier and "he lied and people died" all hell is breaking loose?
Because Bush also had GOOD intelligence which he deliberately ignored.
In short the "bad intelligence" excuse is nothing but a lie being fed to you.
Credible accounts now show that they KNEW the evidence was spotty and best and was conflicted by reliable sources. Their response was to ignore the credible evidence and to present the poor intelligence to congress as reliable.
Bill is on the short list of people who could have simply met with George personally and explained the problem.
And what if he did? Would you say that wasn't enough either, the he should have browbeat Bush into actually doing something?
What if Bush refused to see him, should he have forced his way into the oval office? Challenged him to a duel?
What it comes down to is that Clinton made reasonable efforts and Bush irresponsibly ignored them.
We know for sure that this information made into into the president's daily briefing and was (essentially) ignored. Claiming that somehow Clinton should have MADE him listen is ridiculous. Bush is an adult and should be considered responsible for his own actions.
I will voice my opinion in the tried and tested way of consumer protesting. I will just not buy Intel for my OpenBSD box's. I will buy hardware that has an open support commitment and prove those vendors right in there move.
Even better:
Vote with your wallet and write two emails:
One to the company you didn't buy from, explaining why and another to the company you did buy from explaining why.
It is human nature to think "I woulda seen it coming if I were in your shoes" -
A document entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Within the US" is pretty conclusive proof that somebody DID see it coming.
Quit trying to equate Cliton and Bush here. Clition ACTIVELY persued and tried to kill Bin Laden prior to 9/11. He provided everything necessary for Bush to continue this effort, which Bush did not.
Grow UP and realize that the people who founded this country PUBLICLY signed the Declaration of Independence knowing that it would be used to execute them if they lost.
You cannot live Free if you sell your Freedoms for "protection" from the "bad men" hurting you.
What an excellent way to but it. Too many people fail to realize that living in a "free" society always comes with certain risks.
I agree that a TV signal will take more time to figure out than a phonorecord, but I believe it is a problem within the grasp of a reasonably-advanced alien civilization.
Although our societies might be radically different, the physics on both worlds will be the same. IMO, this means they will develop many of the same designs we have, oscillators, filters, etc.
It could very well take them years to figure it out (just look how long it took us to "decrypt" hieroglyphics) but I believe it is a tractable problem. I can't help but think how much fun it would be to work on too.
9/11 CANNOT be blamed on one individual.
Sure it can, has name is Osama Bin Laden. We just don't seem very interested in catching him.
Maybe if Bush wasn't so close with the rest of his family we'd be able to find him:
"Salem bin Laden invested through James R. Bath, the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, some money in Arbusto Energy, a company run by George W. Bush"
Which would seem crazy if they hadn't come up with the idea themselves and publicized it.
The document concludes:
Taken from:
"Rebuilding Americas Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century, 2000
Paul Wolfowitz
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense 2001-2005
Tables that stand at about 4.5 ft tall (average elbo hight for an average sized adult), that force people to stand and interact with each other. Intel uses this idea, and from what I've heard it's really effective at shortening meeting times, since it's less comfortable. And shorter meetings are a good thing.
Only if your company doesn't do anything even remotely complicated. Do you really want to stand up for a review of a 300 page document?
Too many managers think meetings are an expensive waste of time to be reduced as much as possible.
Even if they get a broadcast at a certain frequency - how intuitive will it be for an alien listener, that this broadcast will be audio/video in PAL, SECAM or NTSC coding?
It's not that crazy to expect them to figure it out.
Remember the scene in "The Hunt for Red October" where he plays back the tape at 10X speed and says it has to be man-made?
That's what would happen here.
A video signal has obvious cues that tell the receiver to go to a new line or go back to the top. Given two such cues in the signal, it's not a crazy leap to guess that the signal might be a two dimensional representation of something.
If they actually find the signal, they should be able to work out the encoding.
So how do you kill every single one of your "enemies" if you can't tell who your "enemies" are
You simply expand the scope of your attacks to include everyone.
(That's what we did in Dresden.)
Again, I am not advocating this approach, but I do believe the OP was mistaken.
"they're the modern day catastrophists they've got practical solutions (know all the right equations) they're the self-appointed righteous pragmatists and they know 50 ways to save the world"
To put it another way:
You don't have any proof that peak oil is going to happen. It's just the standard catastrophist call of "you better do what I say or something very bad will happen."
For all you know, we'll get fusion worked out in five years and we'll have tons of cheap, clean energy causing a massive DROP in oil prices.
IMO, I think neither case is likely. As oil prices rise, we will gradually shift towards other sources of energy and materials. (At least, that's how it will happen if we can manage to get the Texas oilmen out the Whitehouse.)