Ever been in a city where they salt the roads? Salt ends up encrusting everything. Runoff is usually high salt content, and puddles during thaws will be salty. The real world doesn't contain pure distilled H20, water can have all sorts of contaminants or additives. Doesn't matter if it's magnesium salt or table salt, it's still corrosive to electronics. Having a laptop hardened vs. that is a good thing.
Great! As a Canadian, I can tell you it's about time we got some decent beer into space! Our first experiment shall, of course, be the effects of alcohol in microgravity!
Now then, while we're up, there's a few things we could dump off in orbit that we've been meaning to for a while now. Celine Dion will be taking the first trip up. She won't be coming back down.
See, I like TOS. I don't see this as being the end of the world, because one of two things can happen here.
This will somehow (unlikely) be an absolutely brilliant edit job that enhances and artistically reimagines the amazing wonder of the original classic series.
(More likely) It will suck donkey yamsack.
One of these two scenarios is going to happen. Unlike Star Wars, if item #2 comes to pass, then we can simply ignore it. Gene Roddenberry isn't around to "tape over" the originals and absolutely refuse to sell them, hell they're still shown on TV. So if it sucks, we can go about our day.
The news in this is that we've reached that particular point in our society where a corporation doesn't even have to have the common decency to fire people in person. There's a certain lack of class here - sure, corporations have to lay people off sometimes, that's not the problem, it's the fact that this company thinks so little of the mindless drones working for them that they don't even have the common courtesy to force their overworked, underpaid manager to take them into the back and fire them personally. This is about as anonymous and abusive as it can get. Yes, Radio Shack sucks, and yes, management are jackasses. Corporations like to fire people when they're at "peak performance", whether or not the whole company is circling the drain. This doesn't excuse the fact that they've chosen to lay their employees off in the most lazy, insulting way they possibly could.
It's not a matter of "you old fogeys, stop whining about walking uphill in snow both ways!" It's entirely a matter of function. I'm 26, and my main consideration when buying anything, cell phones or no, is "What does it do, and how well does it do it?" If the new future phones make calls, have clear reception, and don't drop them every five minutes, I'm all for them. If they have a bunch of semi-functional feature bloat and suck as cell phones, I'm going elsewhere. There's still lots of people who want something to work well rather than be shiny.
Be amazed at the open source research lab, the award winning cafeteria, the empty lot out back where Microsoft employee Vinnie "The Bonecrusher" Vetallini will explain in intricate detail Microsoft's browser strategy.
Yeah - let it unfold as normal. Considering the prior art involved, this guy can sue as many people as he wants - until the courts throw out his garbage. Unlike in America, most European courts do allow legal damages to be awarded if the plaintiff loses, so this will just work itself out. Can I get a confirmation from our/. German-law-knowing guys on this?
Would you consider right wing Christians that gun down abortion doctors to be terrorists? That's about as "use of force" as I can tell. None of them, to date, have been "foreign nationals flying on a passport from a mid-east country". Or do you only see one form of extremism, one color of terrorist?
Yes, there have been American terrorists, and there have also been plenty of non-American, non-Middle-Eastern terrorists too. The IRA has killed more people than Al Qaeda can ever dream of, they just got lucky one Tuesday morning. You'll find no end to the number of groups with a beef about the United States or the UK. When the next group of terrorist attacks come, do you really think it's going to be on a plane by a bunch of Arab-looking guys?
Why then is it not also reasonable that there is a designer that made your eyes, a device more complex and versatile than the most advanced camera?
For the fact that the eye is complex and versatile. Human designers don't go out of their way to make excessively complex things, they make things as simple as can be afforded under the circumstances. I don't think you'll find one scientist that claims that the eye was thrown together whole by some random mutation. That's ridiculous. "Intelligent Design" proponents like to build up that particular straw man, but you just won't find it in the real world. The complexity and versatility of the eye comes from literally billions of years' worth of refinement - a collection of light sensitive cells here, a clear protective covering there, differentiation in the light sensitive cells, and so forth, whatever helps a particular population adapt and survive at the time. I fail to see how this is so far beyond belief. Otherwise, why didn't God design us to see far MORE of the electromagnetic specrtum than we do? Why make the eyeball so fragile and prone to degradation and eventual failure? Why don't I have X-Ray vision?
Won't work. Had to work telemarketing about five years ago (not the high point of my life), and they DO distinguish between "no thanks" and "do not call". "No thanks" simply means you're getting recycled back into the "2nd run" call list. "Do not call" means just that, if they violate it it's a $500.00 fine. So here's what you say:
"Let me interrupt you. I do not appreciate these calls, period. I'm not interested in your (service/product/political pitch). Put me on your Do Not Call list, and I forbid you from sharing my phone information with affiliates or third parties. This WILL take effect immediately, I will take action if I get another call. Thank you. *click*"
If they try to sell you that "Our systems process do not call requests within thirty days, you may get another phone call" bullshit, inform them that do not call requests are immediate. If you get another call, you will take legal action and report it to the authorities. They DO have to record their calls, so they will have a backlog including the DNC request. Just be firm, tell them to put you on the do not call list, reassure them that you expect it to be immediate, and hang up. Don't take any shit from them, and you'll be fine.
Thus, in effect, there's a money filter. The poorest, brightest kid from West Texas isn't going to be getting into any school, regardless of how well they score on "standardized tests" (another issue which I'll leave for another discussion). The richest, dumbest kid from Dallas or Houston would have a much bigger chance of attending any Ivy League school in the country. Finlanders would likely be judged on their own testing schemes and tuition issues are not going to get in the way, and wouldn't be any more susceptible to corruption than American schools, regardless of how you make it sound.
I play online at shadowland.org, which mainly runs Shadowrun 3rd edition plus a smattering of D&D. It's been running for close to ten years now and they've got all the basic functions you could need, runs as a seperate Java applet. Play by post, not real-time. I highly recommend it.
Given the instinctive fear of snakes that humans possess, coupled with the intense fear that a large portion of the population has towards air travel, I'd say the information found in this informative documentary starts to make sense.
I would guess that you are already doing "probably ilegal things" too. You probably jaywalk, or speed by a very small, fractional amount, or litter, or don't signal correctly when changing lanes, or water your grass on off days, and so on. And what if you are investigated? Sure, there's a small chance you might be taken from your house and tortured for two or three years at Gitmo or another discreet location, but you don't directly relate to terrorism, so you shouldn't be worried.
You see, the problem here is that we're operating with secret evidence. It's not like you can verify that the program is operating as it should with proper evidentiary standards, as this is the War on Terrorism (tm) and any disclosing of methods or evidence is Helping the Terrorists. And why the hell is this program involving itself with "people already doing probably ilegal things" anyways? Are they being investigated due to links with known or suspected terrorists, or are they being investigated simply because they broke the law? If the latter, why aren't the "normal" investigative rules being applied? If it's just criminal behavior, why the police state tactics? I don't suppose you've bothered asking these questions.
Ah yes, but SumDeuxExMachine could have easily claimed well over five grand in damages by simply stating that his whole computer was considered "unsecure" and by listing the total cost of all software and hardware related to his computer (and all computers on his entire network and their software) at an only *slightly* inflated cost, thus driving the "damages" into the tens of thousands easily. Fyodoor was lucky that the individual responsible was doing rather shady business with his equipment (and likely had tons of illegal mp3s/warez/etc.) so that he couldn't report the intrusion. Try that against a corporation with enough money to hire a full legal team and watch what happens.
Fantastic, I just read through the supported chipsets and my laptop's onboard chipset is on there. So now I want to test it. Are there any decent bootable CD distros (Knoppix style) of OpenBSD that I could simply download and play with? If so I'd be more than interested in getting Windows off of it and cruising with BSD.
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Ever been in a city where they salt the roads? Salt ends up encrusting everything. Runoff is usually high salt content, and puddles during thaws will be salty. The real world doesn't contain pure distilled H20, water can have all sorts of contaminants or additives. Doesn't matter if it's magnesium salt or table salt, it's still corrosive to electronics. Having a laptop hardened vs. that is a good thing.
That rhythmic thudding sound you hear is the sound of every computer professional on the planet simultaneously laughing their balls off.
Well that ought to be enough for anybody.
Now then, while we're up, there's a few things we could dump off in orbit that we've been meaning to for a while now. Celine Dion will be taking the first trip up. She won't be coming back down.
- This will somehow (unlikely) be an absolutely brilliant edit job that enhances and artistically reimagines the amazing wonder of the original classic series.
- (More likely) It will suck donkey yamsack.
One of these two scenarios is going to happen. Unlike Star Wars, if item #2 comes to pass, then we can simply ignore it. Gene Roddenberry isn't around to "tape over" the originals and absolutely refuse to sell them, hell they're still shown on TV. So if it sucks, we can go about our day.- Surfing anonymously is hard, and therefore not worth it.
- Oh noes! My Amazon purchase list is broken! This is stupid!
- Evil criminals can use it!
An excellent thing for a reporter to be saying to his readers. I'd sure love to be one of this guy's sources.It'd grab your attention, that's for sure.
The news in this is that we've reached that particular point in our society where a corporation doesn't even have to have the common decency to fire people in person. There's a certain lack of class here - sure, corporations have to lay people off sometimes, that's not the problem, it's the fact that this company thinks so little of the mindless drones working for them that they don't even have the common courtesy to force their overworked, underpaid manager to take them into the back and fire them personally. This is about as anonymous and abusive as it can get. Yes, Radio Shack sucks, and yes, management are jackasses. Corporations like to fire people when they're at "peak performance", whether or not the whole company is circling the drain. This doesn't excuse the fact that they've chosen to lay their employees off in the most lazy, insulting way they possibly could.
Well it all depends. How many employees left their red Swingline staplers in their stores before they were locked out?
It's not a matter of "you old fogeys, stop whining about walking uphill in snow both ways!" It's entirely a matter of function. I'm 26, and my main consideration when buying anything, cell phones or no, is "What does it do, and how well does it do it?" If the new future phones make calls, have clear reception, and don't drop them every five minutes, I'm all for them. If they have a bunch of semi-functional feature bloat and suck as cell phones, I'm going elsewhere. There's still lots of people who want something to work well rather than be shiny.
Be amazed at the open source research lab, the award winning cafeteria, the empty lot out back where Microsoft employee Vinnie "The Bonecrusher" Vetallini will explain in intricate detail Microsoft's browser strategy.
Now the terrorists will win! Think of the children!
Yeah - let it unfold as normal. Considering the prior art involved, this guy can sue as many people as he wants - until the courts throw out his garbage. Unlike in America, most European courts do allow legal damages to be awarded if the plaintiff loses, so this will just work itself out. Can I get a confirmation from our /. German-law-knowing guys on this?
Would you consider right wing Christians that gun down abortion doctors to be terrorists? That's about as "use of force" as I can tell. None of them, to date, have been "foreign nationals flying on a passport from a mid-east country". Or do you only see one form of extremism, one color of terrorist?
Yes, there have been American terrorists, and there have also been plenty of non-American, non-Middle-Eastern terrorists too. The IRA has killed more people than Al Qaeda can ever dream of, they just got lucky one Tuesday morning. You'll find no end to the number of groups with a beef about the United States or the UK. When the next group of terrorist attacks come, do you really think it's going to be on a plane by a bunch of Arab-looking guys?
For the fact that the eye is complex and versatile. Human designers don't go out of their way to make excessively complex things, they make things as simple as can be afforded under the circumstances. I don't think you'll find one scientist that claims that the eye was thrown together whole by some random mutation. That's ridiculous. "Intelligent Design" proponents like to build up that particular straw man, but you just won't find it in the real world. The complexity and versatility of the eye comes from literally billions of years' worth of refinement - a collection of light sensitive cells here, a clear protective covering there, differentiation in the light sensitive cells, and so forth, whatever helps a particular population adapt and survive at the time. I fail to see how this is so far beyond belief. Otherwise, why didn't God design us to see far MORE of the electromagnetic specrtum than we do? Why make the eyeball so fragile and prone to degradation and eventual failure? Why don't I have X-Ray vision?
"Let me interrupt you. I do not appreciate these calls, period. I'm not interested in your (service/product/political pitch). Put me on your Do Not Call list, and I forbid you from sharing my phone information with affiliates or third parties. This WILL take effect immediately, I will take action if I get another call. Thank you. *click*"
If they try to sell you that "Our systems process do not call requests within thirty days, you may get another phone call" bullshit, inform them that do not call requests are immediate. If you get another call, you will take legal action and report it to the authorities. They DO have to record their calls, so they will have a backlog including the DNC request. Just be firm, tell them to put you on the do not call list, reassure them that you expect it to be immediate, and hang up. Don't take any shit from them, and you'll be fine.
Thus, in effect, there's a money filter. The poorest, brightest kid from West Texas isn't going to be getting into any school, regardless of how well they score on "standardized tests" (another issue which I'll leave for another discussion). The richest, dumbest kid from Dallas or Houston would have a much bigger chance of attending any Ivy League school in the country. Finlanders would likely be judged on their own testing schemes and tuition issues are not going to get in the way, and wouldn't be any more susceptible to corruption than American schools, regardless of how you make it sound.
I play online at shadowland.org, which mainly runs Shadowrun 3rd edition plus a smattering of D&D. It's been running for close to ten years now and they've got all the basic functions you could need, runs as a seperate Java applet. Play by post, not real-time. I highly recommend it.
Given the instinctive fear of snakes that humans possess, coupled with the intense fear that a large portion of the population has towards air travel, I'd say the information found in this informative documentary starts to make sense.
In other words, it allows for fatter pipes.
Agreed! It's always good to let private industry widen up those tubes!
So what you're saying is that if you try to trace the rootkit, it runs Trace Buster? Well what if the good guys have Trace Buster Buster?
I've also been noticing signs that say "CRAZY DAVES FIREWORKS."
There could have been multiple Daves.
I would guess that you are already doing "probably ilegal things" too. You probably jaywalk, or speed by a very small, fractional amount, or litter, or don't signal correctly when changing lanes, or water your grass on off days, and so on. And what if you are investigated? Sure, there's a small chance you might be taken from your house and tortured for two or three years at Gitmo or another discreet location, but you don't directly relate to terrorism, so you shouldn't be worried.
You see, the problem here is that we're operating with secret evidence. It's not like you can verify that the program is operating as it should with proper evidentiary standards, as this is the War on Terrorism (tm) and any disclosing of methods or evidence is Helping the Terrorists. And why the hell is this program involving itself with "people already doing probably ilegal things" anyways? Are they being investigated due to links with known or suspected terrorists, or are they being investigated simply because they broke the law? If the latter, why aren't the "normal" investigative rules being applied? If it's just criminal behavior, why the police state tactics? I don't suppose you've bothered asking these questions.
Ah yes, but SumDeuxExMachine could have easily claimed well over five grand in damages by simply stating that his whole computer was considered "unsecure" and by listing the total cost of all software and hardware related to his computer (and all computers on his entire network and their software) at an only *slightly* inflated cost, thus driving the "damages" into the tens of thousands easily. Fyodoor was lucky that the individual responsible was doing rather shady business with his equipment (and likely had tons of illegal mp3s/warez/etc.) so that he couldn't report the intrusion. Try that against a corporation with enough money to hire a full legal team and watch what happens.
Fantastic, I just read through the supported chipsets and my laptop's onboard chipset is on there. So now I want to test it. Are there any decent bootable CD distros (Knoppix style) of OpenBSD that I could simply download and play with? If so I'd be more than interested in getting Windows off of it and cruising with BSD.