Anytime you're moving and your eyes aren't on the road, you're putting yourself and everyone around you at much greater risk. When my regime rises to power, everyone will be required to ride a motorcycle for 1 year as their only motor vehicle before getting a license for a car. Weed out the bad drivers...
Amen. I just want to kill people when I see some dumb bitch soccer mom driving a Hummer or Expedition and yapping on a cell phone. She can't drive for shit to begin with, but add the poor visibility and bad handling of an SUV with the distraction of the cell phone, and that's why we have so many traffic accidents (and therefore so much traffic).
Or some fat slob chumping on a Big Mac in his crappy wife-made-me-get-it minivan while on the highway.
Supposedly the Audi navigation systems were going to support this as well...as early as 1999 or 2000 in the US, but to my knowledge they're still not doing it; I have no idea about the euro units. I think it was mostly an infrastructure problem- either lack or incompatibility.
I haven't heard that before from Audi. But Audi has always been an innovator and on the leading edge of technology. Did you know the Audi A8 has an all-aluminum body? And Audi's been doing all-aluminum bodied cars for over 10 years now? very cool.
Honestly, I question the value of such information in the first place. Rarely are other routes unblocked, at least here in Boston. You're pretty much screwed no matter which way you go. If that wasn't enough, they randomly close/open exits due to the massive construction(the Big Dig), and in the last 6-12 months, lots of big changes have been going on as new tunnels and exchanges open(which is going to wreak havoc with people with old databases for their nav systems!)
Seems like it would be more useful in some cities than in others. I'm in DC and there are several different highways and/or bridges that I could choose to use to get from point A to point B. I use different routes depending on what time of day it is, but having real-time traffic maps would be great for the DC area and all it's traffic problems.
"It's not bad because we can stop it from happening" Right...
Not quite. It's not a problem because we can stop it from happening. Herpes is bad. Wear a condom and voila - it isn't a problem. Getting hit by a train is bad. Look both ways before crossing the tracks - and it isn't a problem.
No, this is really smart. You can't help it, so you'd better like it.
Not at all. I'm not telling you to like it, I'm telling you that it isn't as nefarious as you make it out to be. And Yes, governments should keep an eye on their people - within limits. Do you consider the US Census an invasion of privacy? They keep very detailed statistics about more things than you would thing. (And it's all public knowlege - go to www.census.gov and look). You are putting your head in the sand if you think that the plaintext data packets you send across the 'net and around the globe aren't being read by others - and not necessarily be others in the US.
No. But as you so kindly pointed out with your China-example, they could.
Yes, and they could also install cameras in every room in your house and implant GPS tracking devices in your body. Will they? No. Would the people stand for such a thing? No. Should anyone waste their time worrying about hypothetical situations that have a near 0 probability of occuring? No.
it has no authority whatsovever to collect data on people from other countries.
Yeah, right... The CIA doesn't collect data on anyone from other countries. ha!
You should be more worried about your data being collected by more threatening non-US entities.
What's even more important is that any agency that for whatever reason tries to control the flow of free information is a threat to freedom of speech. You cared about that.
Absolutely. But neither the NSA nor the CIA are trying to stop the flow of free information.
The only reason I care is because infringment of privacy and monitoring info the way they do is the first step to that privacy. If China couldn't monitor what was going on, they couldn't do the censorship thing, now could they?
True, but we have the ability to encrypt our communications (GPG email and SSL web) and prevent that monitoring from taking place.
Is it not a government's job to keep an eye on what it's people are doing? Are you that shocked that we have an "information agency" who is - surprise - collecting information? Governments always have, and always will collect information on their people - get over it.
Encrypt your communications if you are so concerned. It isn't like the government is sending an agent to your door daily to collect your web browser history, cache, and cookies. sheesh.
The same people who collect everything I do online?
Forgive me, but I hope they rot in hell with their compromised software.
What's worse - collecting some bits of what some people do online? Or as China does, censor what online content is available (right down to individual posts on messageboards) to over 1 Billion people?
Agreed that privacy is an important issue, but like most things, it is relative. Look around at what others have (or haven't) before bitching about your individual situation.
Obviously, having all software written in the US eliminates the risk of having security risks.
Perhaps this is why Microsoft is regarded as the pinnacle of secure software design, the mecca of privacy, and the role model for secure software coders the world over.
These case moding fools will find a use for any old scrap of crap lying around. Some people have more time than money and this is how they spend it.
Well it's either that or they go and buy chrome wheels and a large wing for their throw-away disposable economy car. And don't forget the beer-keg sized super-loud muffler and the clear tail lights. Yeah... the clear tail lights... they add like 50 horsepower!
Using trash to silence a PC is not cool or geeky. It's stupid. I'm all for reusing things and being resourceful, but use some discression. sheesh.
Folks that have more dollars than sense should not write articles on modding anything.
Hack proof? So how will they protect the onboard database of no-fly zones?
Agreed. Calling something "hack-proof" is an open invitation for hacking attempts. Never call anything hack proof. Heck, even a completely analog system can be hacked - Anyone here old enough to remember "Cap'N Crunch" and his 2600Hz whistle?
What happens when a system failure of some sort causes the plane to start randomly seeing no-fly zones in the middle of the planned flight course?
What happens when a major system failure leaves the system believing that everywhere is a no-fly zone?
What happens when the oxygen machine that a hospital patient is hooked to thinks that the patient is a tire that it needs to inflate? What happens when the electronic cruise control in your car thinks you are in the Indy 500 and gets stuck at maximum speed? What happens when there is a major system failure in your desktop PC and it starts hacking into grandpa's pacemaker?
One could come up with an endless string of preposterous what-if scenarios.
Why, when it's already a major if not impossible task to diagnose a fatal crash, should we submit to having one more system fighting for control of the plane (i.e. millions of additional variables when we try to figure out what happened)?
Hmmm. I think that the "millions of additional variables" that are used in my car's Airbag sensors, Anti-Lock brake sensors, service reminder lights, electronic fuel injector computers, digital turbo boost controller, and tire-pressure warning sensors all provide tangible safety benefits to myself and to other motorists. Why would the addition of a single safety system to an aircraft be any different? There are extremely stringent safety testing and standards requirements before anything like this would be implemented.
It's not like the pilots are going to be downloading, compiling, and installing KSoftWalls 0.1.9 (requires QT 3 and kernel 2.4.x) in their 747's by themselves.
Now why do you want to replace MS Exchange? I love MS exchange so much, that I even help MS produce fixes for the product!
How you ask? Well it's simple. I write tiny bits of code, and release them into the wild. Some of the "glass half empty" folks call them "viruses" and "worms". They also call me nasty names like "hacker" and even "terrorist". I don't like that kind of language though.
I prefer to think of myself as an Independant Microsoft Security Analyst.
What do you guys use to snapshot your Windows network?
Well, right before I got fired, I used a Canon G2 digital camera. I used to use a Fugi Finepix, but it didn't give me enough control over my Windows Snapshots. So one day our mail server dies, and my boss asks for me snapshots, and I brought them to him on a 128MB CF flash card. I still can't figure out why I got fired tho.
No it isn't. That shit should have been canned long ago. When's the last time YOUR pager went off at 2am because the NT4 machine blue-screened again. Good riddance to that trash.
Time to look at the people that support the OSS movement, guys. They are all very much left-wing, and are all acting under the orders of foreign governments. They are seeking to undermine our American way.
I don't care much for liberals, but what do foreign governments have to do with anything??
If anything, foreign governments might adopt open source en-masse, putting OSS in the majority position (globally).
What will this do? It will cause closed source software vendors to "shape up or ship out". Thats right pal, OSS will spawn better closed source products. It's win-win.
I wonder if they include their highly advanced "one-click" technology in with this? It would truly be a gift to experience a technical achievement of this magnitude.
I mean, who would have thunk it? "one-click"! This certainly is the pinnacle of innovation and ingenuity. Sure is a good thing they patented this... otherwise who knows what might happen if such power was available to mere mortals? Inconcievable!
I use 8 parts distilled water, 3 parts "G12" (pink colored) VW/Audi/Mercedes engine coolant* and 1 part denatured alcohol.
I've been algae and critter free** for over year now with no maintenance required at all.
* This is probably the best coolant you can buy. It is free of all corrosive chemicals that "regular" coolant has, and it prevents corrosion due to dissimilar metals better than other coolants.
** My PC watercooling rig is pristine and clear and free of bacteria and algae and small animals. If it weren't for the toxic coolant and alcohol, I could drink it.
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Damn...need some anger management classes Champ?
Arrrrrggghhh!!!
DO I LOOK LIKE I NEED ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES?!?
What the hell is wrong with you people!!?????
Anytime you're moving and your eyes aren't on the road, you're putting yourself and everyone around you at much greater risk. When my regime rises to power, everyone will be required to ride a motorcycle for 1 year as their only motor vehicle before getting a license for a car. Weed out the bad drivers...
Amen. I just want to kill people when I see some dumb bitch soccer mom driving a Hummer or Expedition and yapping on a cell phone. She can't drive for shit to begin with, but add the poor visibility and bad handling of an SUV with the distraction of the cell phone, and that's why we have so many traffic accidents (and therefore so much traffic).
Or some fat slob chumping on a Big Mac in his crappy wife-made-me-get-it minivan while on the highway.
Damn that pisses me off.
Supposedly the Audi navigation systems were going to support this as well...as early as 1999 or 2000 in the US, but to my knowledge they're still not doing it; I have no idea about the euro units. I think it was mostly an infrastructure problem- either lack or incompatibility.
I haven't heard that before from Audi. But Audi has always been an innovator and on the leading edge of technology. Did you know the Audi A8 has an all-aluminum body? And Audi's been doing all-aluminum bodied cars for over 10 years now? very cool.
Honestly, I question the value of such information in the first place. Rarely are other routes unblocked, at least here in Boston. You're pretty much screwed no matter which way you go. If that wasn't enough, they randomly close/open exits due to the massive construction(the Big Dig), and in the last 6-12 months, lots of big changes have been going on as new tunnels and exchanges open(which is going to wreak havoc with people with old databases for their nav systems!)
Seems like it would be more useful in some cities than in others. I'm in DC and there are several different highways and/or bridges that I could choose to use to get from point A to point B. I use different routes depending on what time of day it is, but having real-time traffic maps would be great for the DC area and all it's traffic problems.
"It's not bad because we can stop it from happening" Right...
Not quite. It's not a problem because we can stop it from happening. Herpes is bad. Wear a condom and voila - it isn't a problem. Getting hit by a train is bad. Look both ways before crossing the tracks - and it isn't a problem.
No, this is really smart. You can't help it, so you'd better like it.
Not at all. I'm not telling you to like it, I'm telling you that it isn't as nefarious as you make it out to be. And Yes, governments should keep an eye on their people - within limits. Do you consider the US Census an invasion of privacy? They keep very detailed statistics about more things than you would thing. (And it's all public knowlege - go to www.census.gov and look). You are putting your head in the sand if you think that the plaintext data packets you send across the 'net and around the globe aren't being read by others - and not necessarily be others in the US.
No. But as you so kindly pointed out with your China-example, they could.
Yes, and they could also install cameras in every room in your house and implant GPS tracking devices in your body. Will they? No. Would the people stand for such a thing? No. Should anyone waste their time worrying about hypothetical situations that have a near 0 probability of occuring? No.
it has no authority whatsovever to collect data on people from other countries.
Yeah, right... The CIA doesn't collect data on anyone from other countries. ha!
You should be more worried about your data being collected by more threatening non-US entities.
What's even more important is that any agency that for whatever reason tries to control the flow of free information is a threat to freedom of speech. You cared about that.
Absolutely. But neither the NSA nor the CIA are trying to stop the flow of free information.
The only reason I care is because infringment of privacy and monitoring info the way they do is the first step to that privacy. If China couldn't monitor what was going on, they couldn't do the censorship thing, now could they?
True, but we have the ability to encrypt our communications (GPG email and SSL web) and prevent that monitoring from taking place.
Is it not a government's job to keep an eye on what it's people are doing? Are you that shocked that we have an "information agency" who is - surprise - collecting information? Governments always have, and always will collect information on their people - get over it.
Encrypt your communications if you are so concerned. It isn't like the government is sending an agent to your door daily to collect your web browser history, cache, and cookies. sheesh.
The same people who collect everything I do online? Forgive me, but I hope they rot in hell with their compromised software.
What's worse - collecting some bits of what some people do online? Or as China does, censor what online content is available (right down to individual posts on messageboards) to over 1 Billion people?
Agreed that privacy is an important issue, but like most things, it is relative. Look around at what others have (or haven't) before bitching about your individual situation.
Obviously, having all software written in the US eliminates the risk of having security risks.
Perhaps this is why Microsoft is regarded as the pinnacle of secure software design, the mecca of privacy, and the role model for secure software coders the world over.
Quite possibly.
/. when an ST movie is on.
That's because Star Trek: First Contact was playing on UPN tonight. You know there's no geeks on
If only it were possible for.... OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE!
.13 micron chip fab facility?
So how many of us OSS types have a
Sorry, paroneayea, I think your the only one!
And in nuclear winter, will it really be a priority for regular people to maintain their PCs?
But you just have to run Windows Update. Oh yeah, and don't forget to defrag.
These case moding fools will find a use for any old scrap of crap lying around. Some people have more time than money and this is how they spend it.
Well it's either that or they go and buy chrome wheels and a large wing for their throw-away disposable economy car. And don't forget the beer-keg sized super-loud muffler and the clear tail lights. Yeah... the clear tail lights... they add like 50 horsepower!
Using trash to silence a PC is not cool or geeky. It's stupid. I'm all for reusing things and being resourceful, but use some discression. sheesh.
Folks that have more dollars than sense should not write articles on modding anything.
I bet he's the kind of guy who would take the air filter out of his car to "improve performance".
;-)
And don't forget to add the mega-loud beer-keg sized chrome muffler with blinking LED lights. That's good for at least another 50 horsepower.
Hack proof? So how will they protect the onboard database of no-fly zones?
Agreed. Calling something "hack-proof" is an open invitation for hacking attempts. Never call anything hack proof. Heck, even a completely analog system can be hacked - Anyone here old enough to remember "Cap'N Crunch" and his 2600Hz whistle?
What happens when a system failure of some sort causes the plane to start randomly seeing no-fly zones in the middle of the planned flight course?
What happens when a major system failure leaves the system believing that everywhere is a no-fly zone?
What happens when the oxygen machine that a hospital patient is hooked to thinks that the patient is a tire that it needs to inflate? What happens when the electronic cruise control in your car thinks you are in the Indy 500 and gets stuck at maximum speed? What happens when there is a major system failure in your desktop PC and it starts hacking into grandpa's pacemaker?
One could come up with an endless string of preposterous what-if scenarios.
Why, when it's already a major if not impossible task to diagnose a fatal crash, should we submit to having one more system fighting for control of the plane (i.e. millions of additional variables when we try to figure out what happened)?
Hmmm. I think that the "millions of additional variables" that are used in my car's Airbag sensors, Anti-Lock brake sensors, service reminder lights, electronic fuel injector computers, digital turbo boost controller, and tire-pressure warning sensors all provide tangible safety benefits to myself and to other motorists. Why would the addition of a single safety system to an aircraft be any different? There are extremely stringent safety testing and standards requirements before anything like this would be implemented.
It's not like the pilots are going to be downloading, compiling, and installing KSoftWalls 0.1.9 (requires QT 3 and kernel 2.4.x) in their 747's by themselves.
I just shipped a Dec Alpha system (desktop) that weighs 45 lbs, from DC to Miami. Cost was $31 (including insurance) for UPS ground.
Now why do you want to replace MS Exchange? I love MS exchange so much, that I even help MS produce fixes for the product!
How you ask? Well it's simple. I write tiny bits of code, and release them into the wild. Some of the "glass half empty" folks call them "viruses" and "worms". They also call me nasty names like "hacker" and even "terrorist". I don't like that kind of language though.
I prefer to think of myself as an Independant Microsoft Security Analyst.
Which OS?
You want the pinnacle of power, stability, and flexibility. You want... Windows ME.
Certainly I'm not the only one who does this.
Yes. Yes you are.
What do you guys use to snapshot your Windows network?
Well, right before I got fired, I used a Canon G2 digital camera. I used to use a Fugi Finepix, but it didn't give me enough control over my Windows Snapshots. So one day our mail server dies, and my boss asks for me snapshots, and I brought them to him on a 128MB CF flash card. I still can't figure out why I got fired tho.
I live in Virginia, about 30 minutes from Dulles (where AOL is based). For $25, I'll go beat the crap out of their email admin.
It's not a war we want - because (and not to be trite) everyone will lose. Throw these criminals in jail and get on with it.
;-)
Ok fine throw them in jail, whatever. But please get the no-mod-chip hack from them first!!!
After 7 years, it's kind of sad to see NT4 go.
No it isn't. That shit should have been canned long ago. When's the last time YOUR pager went off at 2am because the NT4 machine blue-screened again. Good riddance to that trash.
Time to look at the people that support the OSS movement, guys. They are all very much left-wing, and are all acting under the orders of foreign governments. They are seeking to undermine our American way.
I don't care much for liberals, but what do foreign governments have to do with anything??
If anything, foreign governments might adopt open source en-masse, putting OSS in the majority position (globally).
What will this do? It will cause closed source software vendors to "shape up or ship out". Thats right pal, OSS will spawn better closed source products. It's win-win.
I wonder if they include their highly advanced "one-click" technology in with this? It would truly be a gift to experience a technical achievement of this magnitude.
I mean, who would have thunk it? "one-click"! This certainly is the pinnacle of innovation and ingenuity. Sure is a good thing they patented this... otherwise who knows what might happen if such power was available to mere mortals? Inconcievable!
I use 8 parts distilled water, 3 parts "G12" (pink colored) VW/Audi/Mercedes engine coolant* and 1 part denatured alcohol.
I've been algae and critter free** for over year now with no maintenance required at all.
* This is probably the best coolant you can buy. It is free of all corrosive chemicals that "regular" coolant has, and it prevents corrosion due to dissimilar metals better than other coolants. ** My PC watercooling rig is pristine and clear and free of bacteria and algae and small animals. If it weren't for the toxic coolant and alcohol, I could drink it.
Wiccan is not a real religon. it's phoney baloney BS.