" first of all do some real world testing on volunteers" This was already done.. they asked the volunteers to remove glasses & contacts first
I think you missed the important words "real world", I don't think people removing everyday objects before the test could be considered real world, do you?
As has already been stated I don't hink anyone has any problems with the military using these weapons in a responsible manner, however the first thing I'd say is that the testing of this device was far from real world. The next problem is that although, the vast majority of US troops are honourable there have been some terrible acts committed by, for want or a better word, some idiots in the US and other forces. The one that comes to my mind is the death of the Canadian tank crew.
So in short if it's really not so dangerous then first of all do some real world testing on volunteers, I'd suggest starting with the CEO of the company who makes it;-). Next find and punish, not a slap on the wrist, those armed force memebers who are giving you all a bad name.
Especially for the slashdot type (not being elitist... just pragmatic) it would be nice to be able to get to a support call where you either get to skip the preamble (see above list) and immediately discuss symptoms and possible causes along with solutions.
I have worked for a very large IT company supporting both internal and external customers and I can tell you that this really isn't possible. Do you know how many people claim to be experts on things they know nothing about? And yes, programmers are one of the worst culprits I've ever met.
Plus how do you know who's an expert and who's just chancing their arm? Should the company organise a test for all it's customers to see who really has a clue about what they are doing?
Also cost of living in Dublin is extremly high as is accomadation.
I won't say that Dublin is very cheap to live in (or for that much very expensive) as I can't really compare to any other European capital having never lived outside the country, but I know that rent has started to come down. You can get very nice two bed to bathroom duplexes for a little under a 1,000/month. I can't comment on the jobs either as I haven't been looking as I'm currently happy enough in IBM (hmm... maybe I should start looking!).
The I.R.A. will not decommission so much as a peashooter, until the green, white and gold flies over the Six Counties.
You should check your facts, they have actually decommissioned arms and this has been verified by the internation commitee. Yes, there is a problem at the moment but hopefully.....
If they had a clue, they would grow 10000 acres of canabis which
Actually the town I come from in Ireland has a state owned research centre just on the outskirts. The work on all sort of farming studies developing new strains of barley and potatoes and such but they have also been running trials on using hemp for paper over the last few years.
When they first started they spent a lot of money advertising the fact that the hemp they would be growing would be of no use to anybody interested in its "medicinal" effects.
The M-16 was designed to be something of a poor man's sniper rifle, so if a solider in an airport had to shoot someone from a distance, he could probably do it with striking accuracy.
I'm not saying that they will or will not use them, I think this basically comes down to a mixture of situation, orders and individual, but the problem isn't the accuracy of the weapon so much as its design. It's a small bullet shot with a lot of power, the problems occur when the bullet exits the target assuming it hits the target. A bullet from an M16 is going to keep going for some distance, the MP5 that was mentioned earlier wouldn't be any where nearly as bad in this regards.
I can't see it metnioned in the article, and neither can I find the relevant stuff at secunia.com, but this is the first question I want to answered before I spend another 10 seconds on this: do the numbers actually compare Windows with RedHat/SuSE stripped down to what a plain Windows install does, or do they yet again include all the security advisories for the 3.000 (or whatever) packages included with the distros?
The list of advisories for RedHat AS 3 is listed at the bottom and currently it contains 51 advisories and what they were issued for. I copied the list and sorted them so here you can see a list of exactly what they included:
CVS
ethereal
FreeRADIUS
gaim
glibc
gnupg
httpd
iproute
ipsec-tools
kdelibs
kdepim
kernel
krb5
lftp
LHA
libpng
libxml2
mod_python
mod_ssl
mozilla
Mutt
NetPBM
net-snmp
nfs-utils
OpenOffice
OpenSSL
PWLib
Quagga
rsync
slocate
squid
squirrelmail
sysstat
tcpdump
utempter
XFree86
As you can see a lots of these are what might be called non-OS components. I've had a quick look at XP Home and it doesn't even seem to include issues with IE which according to MS is an integral part of the OS unlike Linux and Mozilla, yet they happily bundled them together.
That proves there's no freedom of expression at all in France today. Yes, you can say anything at all, as long as you don't criticise [Hitler | Stalin | Fidel | Mao | The Pope | Elvis | Jay Leno], but who would do that anyway? Freedom of speech means being allowed to say anything, no matter how controversial or disgusting it may be.
You get a US citizen who is also a muslim to go around telling others to rise up and kill their capitalist oppressors and see how long he has free speech for!
By your logic there is no freedom of expression in the US either!
Anyone who's done any software development at all will tell you about the 90/90 rule. A can assume from the response that you haven't?
I think you missed the point of his joke, according to the original poster the development time takes 180%. The first 90% of the code takes 10% of the development time, not 90% of the development time as stated.
This is not a good argument. People get taken advantage of to one degree or another all the time to provide "civilized" countries with things they desire.
I think you are missing the point of what I am saying, the point I was trying to make isn't so broad. I'm just saying that by posessing the "illegal information" may not do anybody harm directly but indirectly you can be pretty sure that it does.
This quote from the parent of my original post will probably make it clearer:
If you go up to people without raising the emotional context of child porn and ask them what they think of the concept of "criminal possession of information", no criminal action to harm anyone, no criminal intent to do anything, just pure criminal possession of information, I think it would strike most people as absurd, as the sort of "crime" that only oppressive thought-control regimes like China would ever have.
It seems pretty simple. If someone does any of those things then you throw them in prison, especially if they do one of those things to a child.
This is the same arguement that cannabis users often use, "we're not hurting anyone". While this is true it doesn't take into account the fact that the drug dealers/producers may have enslaved or murdered people to supply this drug to some rich kids in the states or Europe, the same is true for child porn. While they didn't harm the child directly that child might never of been raped if nobody was willing to pay for the pictures.
OK fine. So you don't have a GMail account, but what if you send mail to one?
Again I would imagine that it is your concern whom you send mail to, if you don't trust a mail domain then you should not send mail to it. This is valid not matter what domain you are sending to.
If you are going to argue about the sender not being aware of what is going to happen to their mail remeber that's the same when you send to Hotmail or whatever, it's up to you to read the fine print when you send mail to someone.
This is pretty impressive considering that Australians pay more for CDs than most people.
I don't know what the rest of the world pays but I can tell you that Ireland is more expensive with prices around Euro 24.99 for top of the charts CDs. I also imagine that people in the UK pay far more especially with the strength of the GB pound.
The DMCA does not apply in this case as the poster is in Europe not the US. As far as I am aware there is no law in Europe which prevents you from hacking the copy protection on CD's.
Are you kidding me? They're getting away with it because it's a foriegn company. Japanese corporations get away with things we'd never dream of in this country.
I have seen a lot of these type of comments stating that Japanese companies are doing these things but yet nobody has given a specific example.
If MS was asking people to sign away intellectual rights then this was a real breech of their dominant position regardless of where they are from.
1. They had reason to stop and talk to him as they were investigating a reported crime.
2. I believe that in any country a reasonable question is your name and address plus a form of identification when being questioned by the police, especially when it's not just a random stop; he was reported as having commited a crime.
3. His body language was very bad as was his manner.
4. Assuming point 2 the guy was obstructing the police in performing there duty.
I'm from Ireland and here I'm not even aware if the Gardai (Irish Police force) are allowed to ask you for ID and we also have no national ID at any level. All documents are purely on a if you want them basis, although you must have your licence if driving.
I really can't believe this post got modded up as insifghtful. The poster obviously didn't know what they were talking about and was making rediculous arguements. The UK and Ireland are ruled by common law which gives a person the right to defend themselves with up to and including the use of deadly force.
Also you should remember that the city of London is over twice as big as New York, yes not everything American is the biggest. In the year 2002 there was a total of 587 murders in NY city while in 2000 there was only 517 in the whole of England and Wales. Also I would imagine that there are more polce officers killed in an average year in New York than has been killed in the last ten years in the UK, excluding NI for obvious reasons.
What does this show us? That having a load of criminals, civilians and police running around with guns does not make for a safer society.
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I think you missed the important words "real world", I don't think people removing everyday objects before the test could be considered real world, do you?
So in short if it's really not so dangerous then first of all do some real world testing on volunteers, I'd suggest starting with the CEO of the company who makes it ;-). Next find and punish, not a slap on the wrist, those armed force memebers who are giving you all a bad name.
I have worked for a very large IT company supporting both internal and external customers and I can tell you that this really isn't possible. Do you know how many people claim to be experts on things they know nothing about? And yes, programmers are one of the worst culprits I've ever met.
Plus how do you know who's an expert and who's just chancing their arm? Should the company organise a test for all it's customers to see who really has a clue about what they are doing?
I won't say that Dublin is very cheap to live in (or for that much very expensive) as I can't really compare to any other European capital having never lived outside the country, but I know that rent has started to come down. You can get very nice two bed to bathroom duplexes for a little under a 1,000/month. I can't comment on the jobs either as I haven't been looking as I'm currently happy enough in IBM (hmm... maybe I should start looking!).
If you want to have a look take a look at the following two sites: http://www.irishjobs.ie/ http://www.monster.ie/
You should check your facts, they have actually decommissioned arms and this has been verified by the internation commitee. Yes, there is a problem at the moment but hopefully.....
The only international sport I know of in which NI competes as part of an Irish team is rugby union. Do you know of any others?
People born in NI can claim Irish citizenship and as a result may play for (Republic of) Ireland so that may be where your confusion lies.
Actually the town I come from in Ireland has a state owned research centre just on the outskirts. The work on all sort of farming studies developing new strains of barley and potatoes and such but they have also been running trials on using hemp for paper over the last few years.
When they first started they spent a lot of money advertising the fact that the hemp they would be growing would be of no use to anybody interested in its "medicinal" effects.
I'm not saying that they will or will not use them, I think this basically comes down to a mixture of situation, orders and individual, but the problem isn't the accuracy of the weapon so much as its design. It's a small bullet shot with a lot of power, the problems occur when the bullet exits the target assuming it hits the target. A bullet from an M16 is going to keep going for some distance, the MP5 that was mentioned earlier wouldn't be any where nearly as bad in this regards.
The list of advisories for RedHat AS 3 is listed at the bottom and currently it contains 51 advisories and what they were issued for. I copied the list and sorted them so here you can see a list of exactly what they included:
Strange that..........CVS
ethereal
FreeRADIUS
gaim
glibc
gnupg
httpd
iproute
ipsec-tools
kdelibs
kdepim
kernel
krb5
lftp
LHA
libpng
libxml2
mod_python
mod_ssl
mozilla
Mutt
NetPBM
net-snmp
nfs-utils
OpenOffice
OpenSSL
PWLib
Quagga
rsync
slocate
squid
squirrelmail
sysstat
tcpdump
utempter
XFree86
As you can see a lots of these are what might be called non-OS components. I've had a quick look at XP Home and it doesn't even seem to include issues with IE which according to MS is an integral part of the OS unlike Linux and Mozilla, yet they happily bundled them together.
You get a US citizen who is also a muslim to go around telling others to rise up and kill their capitalist oppressors and see how long he has free speech for!
By your logic there is no freedom of expression in the US either!
I think you missed the point of his joke, according to the original poster the development time takes 180%. The first 90% of the code takes 10% of the development time, not 90% of the development time as stated.
Anyone??? Did you ever see my attempts to write C code? :o)
I think you are missing the point of what I am saying, the point I was trying to make isn't so broad. I'm just saying that by posessing the "illegal information" may not do anybody harm directly but indirectly you can be pretty sure that it does.
This quote from the parent of my original post will probably make it clearer:
That's the bigger picture.This is the same arguement that cannabis users often use, "we're not hurting anyone". While this is true it doesn't take into account the fact that the drug dealers/producers may have enslaved or murdered people to supply this drug to some rich kids in the states or Europe, the same is true for child porn. While they didn't harm the child directly that child might never of been raped if nobody was willing to pay for the pictures.
You have to look at the bigger picture.Again I would imagine that it is your concern whom you send mail to, if you don't trust a mail domain then you should not send mail to it. This is valid not matter what domain you are sending to.
If you are going to argue about the sender not being aware of what is going to happen to their mail remeber that's the same when you send to Hotmail or whatever, it's up to you to read the fine print when you send mail to someone.
I don't know what the rest of the world pays but I can tell you that Ireland is more expensive with prices around Euro 24.99 for top of the charts CDs. I also imagine that people in the UK pay far more especially with the strength of the GB pound.
You're lucky, here in Ireland it costs about AU$40 for an album...
I have seen a lot of these type of comments stating that Japanese companies are doing these things but yet nobody has given a specific example. If MS was asking people to sign away intellectual rights then this was a real breech of their dominant position regardless of where they are from.
Just consider these points:
I'm from Ireland and here I'm not even aware if the Gardai (Irish Police force) are allowed to ask you for ID and we also have no national ID at any level. All documents are purely on a if you want them basis, although you must have your licence if driving.
Also you should remember that the city of London is over twice as big as New York, yes not everything American is the biggest. In the year 2002 there was a total of 587 murders in NY city while in 2000 there was only 517 in the whole of England and Wales. Also I would imagine that there are more polce officers killed in an average year in New York than has been killed in the last ten years in the UK, excluding NI for obvious reasons. What does this show us? That having a load of criminals, civilians and police running around with guns does not make for a safer society.
I for one would rather be mugged than murdered.