All the copier and printer maintenance techs I have ever worked with have silver or gray briefcases w/ their cleaning tools in them (I do silent visual inspections of the ones I am responsible for escorting). From the outside, the case is totally innocuous and all of them do use them. It would make sense for the penetration testers to do so as well. Put a few screwdrivers and a few rags in it and no one would notice the other stuff. Makes perfect sense to me.
The "9 out of 10 times we are caught" didn't sound accurate to me...
I think the 9 out of 10 thing is 90% of the cases where they are caught...not the entire set of cases. I didn't see any reference to total number of cases vs total number of times caught..I read it differently.
If the GOP had carried one or both houses of congress by a slim margin, you people would be screaming about this. The article references many of the same problems that have been expressed in past elections w/ electronic voting machines and in many of the same well known precincts such as Broward County in the Miami area yet there has been little to no response here on/. or elsewhere. I repeat, if the GOP had carried one or both houses and the problems happened as reported in this article, there would be screaming matches over it...Why aren't there now?
I am conservative and I was very unhappy to learn about all the problems w/ e-voting..even when Conservatives won elections. I want it to be understood by all involved that if someone wins an election, they did so by real votes, not fake ones. Just because someone wins by a close margin should not automatically mean the opposition can immediately accuse them of vote rigging. The fact that no one is making a stink about these problems now that the GOP lost ground bothers me a lot. If you were out there preaching the evils of e-voting before, do so now as well..I don't see any significant improvement from the last election in this area. Where are your voices now liberals? Practice what you preach!
When it comes down to it, there has to be a sysadmin at some level who is trusted to have complete access to the network. My mentor in college taught me and my classmates that a good sysadmin should always have a VERY trusted person who has access to a copy of the main password(s) to the network in case of physical injury or incapacitation. This trusted person has to know and be held accountable that they cannot use this information other than in an emergency.
You simply cannot run a network effectively if you do not have full access to it. Somebody at some level has to be entrusted with this. The check/balance on this has to come from some kind of background check that would leave a resonable amount of certainty in the trustworthiness of the potential sysadmin.
As Peter Parker's Uncle told him: "With great power comes great responsibility". A sysadmin should be trusted with that power in order to be as effective as possible but should also have to live up to the responsibility as well.
I've seen a half-dozen or so times where I get a windows dialog box w/ text that says "You should not see this" or something similar. Always made me wonder...
I can see those others reverse engineering the Yahoo toolbar just to see how it was able to survive the rollback
I was thinking the same thing myself. If yahoo can survive the rollback, the spyware developers will figure out how they did it and soon enough, all of them will survive the rollback.
Bnetd allowed circumvention of Blizzard's copy protection and thats about all it did
Not true. It was a full host to networked games of most of Blizzard's titles. the bnetd project probably put the cart before the cart by asking blizz to give them the ability to check for auth codes *after* writing their software but they did ask. Blizz said no. Blizz only took them to court after they got a hold of the war3 beta and modded bnetd to host it. Blizz looked the other way more or less up to that point.
...but I eventually bought the legit game in the store.
I bought them all too. With one exception, I owned all of them before I ever heard of bnetd. I bought the final one(broodwar) after hearing of bnetd. I loved bnetd because it let my group of friends play the games we love without having to deal w/ bnet's huge lag..We all owned legitimate copies of the games and would not allow anyone to play with us who did not own a legit copy(we didn't have a public server so we could control who had an account). I know that is not necessarily the norm for bnetd users but that's our story.
I wish blizz and bnetd could have come to an agreement that would have allowed bnetd to be legal.
...So, while the hardcore gamers may be satisfied, the rest of us have just gotten tired of the computer handing us our asses on a regular basis.
Hear Hear! I play war3:tft once a week in skirmish mode with some old college friends for fun while we chat using skype and we resorted to playing games with us outnumbering the computer opponents by 1...2v1, 3v2, etc...we sometimes can manage 2v2 but that's with 1 comp on normal and one on easy. In 3v2 we can do one insane and one normal but we still outnumber the comp team by 1. We found that to do even teams with comp was to invite us getting killed. We also have to use some very specific tactics to hold off computer opponents.
I call myself a conservative, but I find you and people like you revolting in the extreme and am embarassed that you call yourself an American.
I don't even know where to start. I feel like you didn't even read what I wrote....
Maybe I am just not very eloquent but all the things you accuse me of are pretty much patently the opposite of what I was trying to convey.
To answer as best I can, I do not believe that torture or "atrocities" as you put it are appropriate. I am talking, as I said in my post, about due process. My point was about upholding the punishments...Please read my post again, I tried to make that clear. Apparently not clear enough
I have one more thing to say on this topic. I reserve the right to support defense of my country from attacks even if that means making some group who opposes my country mad at me and more determined to hurt me. I will not stop that defense on the premise that the other side plans to up their attacks if I don't. That idea is ludicrous. I don't see what point there is to letting terrorists walk all over this country. To stop that requires action by definition. Not inaction. If you read my post again, I tried to support due-process based action..and argue against inaction, which is what I see happening now. My opening statement might be a bit over the top, now that I look at it, but read the rest of the post as well. My closing statement was not meant to be supportive of torture or harsh treatment but to get people like you to see what is happening to US citizens and why we need action. If we stop defending our citizens and were to totally withdraw all troops from the globe back to the US, the terrorists would then know they could force us to do what they want by capturing and torturing our citizens and soldiers. This does not in any way mean I support that type of treatment of them..but they need to learn their actions will not be tolerated.
I am sorry you are so upset by what I said. I firmly believe you read a lot into what I wrote that wasn't there.
...Though I did find it very disconcerting when Colonel Mitchell joined SG-1 and they made Vala Maldoran a main character.
Disconcerting? I find them both to be great actors and the character of Vala is hilarious...she gave a much needed shot in the arm to SG-1. I was fading from watching SG-1 in seasons 8 and 9 til she came along. I haven't missed an episode in season 10.
What happened to the good old days... when crimes against the entire country were dealt with as "treason" and the bastards were hanged?
Liberals happened. Now-a-days when such a crime happens, we are forced to treat the criminal as a luxury resident at whatever prison. 9/11 was just such a crime yet the current administration is being thwarted at every turn from dealing with this. I don't agree w/ warrantless wiretaps but even if they had warrants, the liberals would cry foul.
The only problem with the "good old days" as you put it was that there tended to be some innocent people caught up along w/ the guilty. Should the administration be forced to bring official charges against suspect? Of course. Should they get warrants (even the emergency court ones would do)? Sure. But if you want this terror problem dealt with, you have to punish those who are caught and convicted. Not let them off easy.
Do you think for 1 second that the enemy would treat our soldiers w/ even 1% the respect that suspects we are holding are treated with? Fat Chance.
The judiciary has no right to say what is legal and what isn't. That's up to the legislature. They do have the ability to declare constitutionality but declaring something illegal is tantamount to a dictatorship.
The DVDs that force me to fast forward through all the marketing bullshit already piss me off to no end.
You can actually fast-forward? My last video rental forced me to wait 3 or 4 minutes through ads and previews before I could get to the menu to play the movie at all...Total crap...
1) Don't have a good reader other than my palm and I would want a bigger screen for serious reading
2) I loathe DRM. I try not to download or use any DRM material based on the sheer concept that DRM takes away legal fair use along w/ illegal use. Way too many e-books are DRMd
"I just wasted all my time playing Parsec while my mom tried to learn BASIC."
I both learned TI-BASIC and played Parsec...but my younger brother was the Parsec master. He got to the point where the game wouldn't speed up anymore and he could go on nearly indefinitely...
My Dad taught himself enough TI-BASIC to write us some educational games and to help him do his taxes..those were fun too. We had Logo and Assembler also available though my dad and I never figured out assembler back then. I took the class later in college Computer Science where it made much more sense.
"We started out with a TI 99/4A"
Same here
"I just wasted all my time playing Parsec while my mom tried to learn BASIC."
I both learned TI-BASIC and played Parsec...but my younger brother was the Parsec master. He got to the point where the game wouldn't speed up anymore and he could go on nearly indefinitely...
My Dad taught himself enough TI-BASIC to write us some educational games and to help him do his taxes..those were fun too. We had Logo and Assembler also available though my dad and I never figured out assembler back then. I took the class later in college Computer Science where it made much more sense.
My earliest school computer was the original Apple ][ then later the Apple ][e. They could run simple programs and had a BASCIC interpreter and a LOGO interpreter.
-rilian
3 of the original 4 SG1 team members are still on the show. It's already lasted past the 9th season seeing as how the current season is season 10. Is the show in decline? Yeah. Is it ready to call it quits? Not yet.
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All the copier and printer maintenance techs I have ever worked with have silver or gray briefcases w/ their cleaning tools in them (I do silent visual inspections of the ones I am responsible for escorting). From the outside, the case is totally innocuous and all of them do use them. It would make sense for the penetration testers to do so as well. Put a few screwdrivers and a few rags in it and no one would notice the other stuff. Makes perfect sense to me.
If the GOP had carried one or both houses of congress by a slim margin, you people would be screaming about this. The article references many of the same problems that have been expressed in past elections w/ electronic voting machines and in many of the same well known precincts such as Broward County in the Miami area yet there has been little to no response here on /. or elsewhere. I repeat, if the GOP had carried one or both houses and the problems happened as reported in this article, there would be screaming matches over it...Why aren't there now?
I am conservative and I was very unhappy to learn about all the problems w/ e-voting..even when Conservatives won elections. I want it to be understood by all involved that if someone wins an election, they did so by real votes, not fake ones. Just because someone wins by a close margin should not automatically mean the opposition can immediately accuse them of vote rigging. The fact that no one is making a stink about these problems now that the GOP lost ground bothers me a lot. If you were out there preaching the evils of e-voting before, do so now as well..I don't see any significant improvement from the last election in this area. Where are your voices now liberals? Practice what you preach!
Took 5 seconds to google the appropriate page:r s.shtml
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/votemeth/sysvendo
Looks like 3 companies:
Diebold Election Systems
Elections Systems and Software, Inc. &
Sequoia Voting Systems, Inc.
When it comes down to it, there has to be a sysadmin at some level who is trusted to have complete access to the network. My mentor in college taught me and my classmates that a good sysadmin should always have a VERY trusted person who has access to a copy of the main password(s) to the network in case of physical injury or incapacitation. This trusted person has to know and be held accountable that they cannot use this information other than in an emergency.
You simply cannot run a network effectively if you do not have full access to it. Somebody at some level has to be entrusted with this. The check/balance on this has to come from some kind of background check that would leave a resonable amount of certainty in the trustworthiness of the potential sysadmin.
As Peter Parker's Uncle told him: "With great power comes great responsibility". A sysadmin should be trusted with that power in order to be as effective as possible but should also have to live up to the responsibility as well.
I've seen a half-dozen or so times where I get a windows dialog box w/ text that says "You should not see this" or something similar. Always made me wonder...
Draw you own conclusions from there...
I bought them all too. With one exception, I owned all of them before I ever heard of bnetd. I bought the final one(broodwar) after hearing of bnetd. I loved bnetd because it let my group of friends play the games we love without having to deal w/ bnet's huge lag..We all owned legitimate copies of the games and would not allow anyone to play with us who did not own a legit copy(we didn't have a public server so we could control who had an account). I know that is not necessarily the norm for bnetd users but that's our story.
I wish blizz and bnetd could have come to an agreement that would have allowed bnetd to be legal.
Maybe I am just not very eloquent but all the things you accuse me of are pretty much patently the opposite of what I was trying to convey.
To answer as best I can, I do not believe that torture or "atrocities" as you put it are appropriate. I am talking, as I said in my post, about due process. My point was about upholding the punishments...Please read my post again, I tried to make that clear. Apparently not clear enough
I have one more thing to say on this topic. I reserve the right to support defense of my country from attacks even if that means making some group who opposes my country mad at me and more determined to hurt me. I will not stop that defense on the premise that the other side plans to up their attacks if I don't. That idea is ludicrous. I don't see what point there is to letting terrorists walk all over this country. To stop that requires action by definition. Not inaction. If you read my post again, I tried to support due-process based action..and argue against inaction, which is what I see happening now. My opening statement might be a bit over the top, now that I look at it, but read the rest of the post as well. My closing statement was not meant to be supportive of torture or harsh treatment but to get people like you to see what is happening to US citizens and why we need action. If we stop defending our citizens and were to totally withdraw all troops from the globe back to the US, the terrorists would then know they could force us to do what they want by capturing and torturing our citizens and soldiers. This does not in any way mean I support that type of treatment of them..but they need to learn their actions will not be tolerated.
I am sorry you are so upset by what I said. I firmly believe you read a lot into what I wrote that wasn't there.
...I would pay good money to hear Weird Al parody Willian Shatner covering Weird Al songs... ;-p
Yes! Somebody besides me finally gets it...
The only problem with the "good old days" as you put it was that there tended to be some innocent people caught up along w/ the guilty. Should the administration be forced to bring official charges against suspect? Of course. Should they get warrants (even the emergency court ones would do)? Sure. But if you want this terror problem dealt with, you have to punish those who are caught and convicted. Not let them off easy.
Do you think for 1 second that the enemy would treat our soldiers w/ even 1% the respect that suspects we are holding are treated with? Fat Chance.
What have you been smoking? Linux and Mac can be rooted. Hell...the term comes from the *nix world...
1) Don't have a good reader other than my palm and I would want a bigger screen for serious reading
2) I loathe DRM. I try not to download or use any DRM material based on the sheer concept that DRM takes away legal fair use along w/ illegal use. Way too many e-books are DRMd
Thus,
Not worth it to me yet.
"We started out with a TI 99/4A"
Same here
"I just wasted all my time playing Parsec while my mom tried to learn BASIC."
I both learned TI-BASIC and played Parsec...but my younger brother was the Parsec master. He got to the point where the game wouldn't speed up anymore and he could go on nearly indefinitely...
My Dad taught himself enough TI-BASIC to write us some educational games and to help him do his taxes..those were fun too. We had Logo and Assembler also available though my dad and I never figured out assembler back then. I took the class later in college Computer Science where it made much more sense.
"We started out with a TI 99/4A" Same here "I just wasted all my time playing Parsec while my mom tried to learn BASIC." I both learned TI-BASIC and played Parsec...but my younger brother was the Parsec master. He got to the point where the game wouldn't speed up anymore and he could go on nearly indefinitely... My Dad taught himself enough TI-BASIC to write us some educational games and to help him do his taxes..those were fun too. We had Logo and Assembler also available though my dad and I never figured out assembler back then. I took the class later in college Computer Science where it made much more sense. My earliest school computer was the original Apple ][ then later the Apple ][e. They could run simple programs and had a BASCIC interpreter and a LOGO interpreter. -rilian
I saw this: "...would suggest you protect that _content_ by saying that it cannot be used in any content-protection schemes..."
Interesting that he would suggest content protection is best done by not allowing it be "protected"...Most interesting...I like it!
3 of the original 4 SG1 team members are still on the show. It's already lasted past the 9th season seeing as how the current season is season 10. Is the show in decline? Yeah. Is it ready to call it quits? Not yet.