But you will never get that percentage to anything that even looks fair, nor should we try.
Example. If I made ten times what I make now, I doubt I would spend ten times what I make now. Even now that I make roughly double what I made 5 years ago, I don't spend double on taxable items. My income mostly goes toward things like housing an investments.
If you tried to make the percentages equal, you'd crush the middle class without affecting the rich very much at all.
Because no matter how much we pay lip service to the idea that our values are for us and their values are for them, we don't really believe it. Deep down inside, we believe that everyone should agree with us, unless they're stupid or evil
Excellent comment on the foibles (hypocrisies?) of human thought.
However, you seem to imply that there are no "universal values." As an American, I was brought up to believe that the rights of freedom of religion, speech, press were universal and objective. Everyone has those rights, and they are not subject to the prevailing powers' contstraints. The fact that many governments attempt to restrict those rights was an injustice to be righted, not to be tolerated. Meaning that, humans instrinsically have those rights, and the governments over them should be unable to constrain them. Do you believe otherwise? Can the case be made otherwise?
I don't pretend to have the answers, and a stable civlization will have a few guidelines on the use of those rights, such as keeping pornography from children without restricting it from adults and the classic 'shouting fire in a crowded theater.'
No reasonable compromises allowed! If your post cannot be used to conveniently put you into a stereotype (liberal, conservatice, D, R) then you must be one of those neutrals!
<Zapp Brannigan> What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality? </Zapp Brannigan>
Yes, it's entirely possible that a 75 year old white male could be a terrorist.
But it's really not very likely. I think we computer people have been trained so much to only accept mathematical exactness (99.5% is not enough to call something true) that we forget that for operations in an imperfect world, 99.5% is usually quite good ORM (operational risk mamangement.)
OTOH, profiling will give you some false positives. I'm a blond haired, blue eyed US military officer. I never show anyone any ID but my military ID card. Frankly, the likelihood that I'm a hijacker is pretty slim. Yet, I get searched "randomly" quite often, I suspect because my last name looks slightly arabic.
This could have good uses, and assuming it was used exactly for the intent stated, this would be an excellent service. BUT, more often then not, these kinds of things get abused in some form or another.
This reminds me of the famous question so often asked of us conservatives: Will you like the goverment to have the powers of the Patriot Act when Hillray Clinton is the President?
How can we measure the value of what it prevents against what it will allow? I'm a firm believer that it's better for a hundred guilty to go free rather than one innocent be jailed.
Another concern: will parents have access to this database? How much access?
If you looking for the answer to this question, ask your organizations SSO or the SSO for the org that's hiring you. Anything you do yourself is probably not going to dot the i's and cross the t's.
The problem is that both sides of the argument here are looking for the slam-dunk answer, and there isn't one.
On the one hand, leaving an AP open cannot be considered intent. How many times have you been at Best Buy and overheard someone ask the salesdroid 'I just got a laptop and I want to use my cable modem, but it's attached to the kid's computer." "Oh, just buy this. Plug it into the modem, plug the kid's computer into this box and you're all set. You need a wireless card for your laptop, too?" Customer goes home, plugs everything in, scratches his head, then say "aha" when his laptop screen says "Found Linksys: connected." As far as he's concerned he's done, he's got it set up. He did not intentionally share his internet, and if asked, he would say he's not sharing.
In the context of computer networking, he has allowed access. In the context of human interaction and intent, he is not.
On the other hand, there is very little way for a home user who intends to share to make it know than he actually intends to share. Other than changing his SSID to fubar_OPEN
So this leaves a burden on the third party: is this AP open by intent or ignorance. Personally, I don't connect unless the SSID looks like it's inviting you in. I don't connect when it says "linksys" or "network" or something obviously unconfigured. I don't open up access either, because I don't want to risk liability for what is access. Sad, but unavoidable. If anyone knows a way to share my access that it bulletproof both legally (protects me) and technically (protects my computers,) please share! I'd love to help make wireless more available.
Oh, and the unlocked front door analogy is worn out. It wasn't ever an good analogy, because there is no situation analogous to an intentionally open access point.
I'm sorry, you must be the unusual guy. I only go to small stores for the occasional "shadetree" service that I know will cost an arm and a leg at BB or CUSA, like re-soldering the power jack on a laptop or other difficult work in a laptop case. Since I left DC and the great local store that is Advanced 2000, I can't find anything that doesn't cost at 25% more than anywhere else.
Well, I'm an American. I voted for Bush, who won both elections amid some calls for better counting.
And I want EVERY SINGLE VOTE COUNTED! Even if it means that my choice loses.
Of course, that means every vote, both the votes in heavily Democratic counties and the military absenteee ballots.
Even though Kerry conceded, I would like to see a recount in Ohio. I'd like to see it laid open. We claim to be the leaders of the free world. Let's back it up.
Yes, and what about that other ripoff movie, Galaxyquest? I mean, the captain was always after the ladies, just like Capt Kirk! and the comm officer was so hot, just like Uhura!
Who are they kidding, they are so ripping off Star Trek.
Pat Robertson would support a lynching?
Sorry, I don't realy like the guy, but I have to laugh at your hate-mongering.
For many years, Pat Robertson's co-host on the 700 Club was Ben Kinchloe, who was black.
Please, Pat Robertson's got enough faults. You don't need to tack on more.
I'll throw my hat into the ring. I'm a conservative Christian. I've never met a Christian in Free Methodist, Southern Baptist or Assemblies of God, the three denomination I've attended, who would aprove of it. All three would be consiedered "Christian Right" denominations.
8 hours standby? I've got a T610 (TMobile version of same phone) and my BT is always on for my Jabra Freespeak. I charge my phone about every three days, same with the Freespeak.
Reaching way back, way way back into the dusty attic of my mind, no not that, not that either, got it!
I remember in high school or college (late 80's) reading a book about code optimization, possibly Apple Basic, that said variables were faster at run time than constants. They actually showed an example similar to the above.
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You what I always thought was funny?
Teacher says "What did you do to him?"
"Nothing!"
"Well, you must have done something to him or he wouldn't have hit you!"
WTF? Why are the people we pay to educate our children the most un-observant people in the world? If you've been teaching for longer than a week you should know that some people don't need a reason to hit someone. Yet for years, the same stupid comments from teachers.
Notebook backup to CD's or DVD's? I've never been enamored of backup's that require multiple peices of media. My notebok backup solution is my 20gb Archos, enough space to back up my 10gb notebook drive.
Having said this, I'd still want the Powerbook over the VAIO, but for OS X, not the Superdrive.
The most likely reason the s/w has been written for Windows is because it makes it universally available to servicemembers. The Desktop Common Operating Environment has been some variation of Windows NT for years. The standard document formats have been MS Office for even longer. Consequently, every servicemember can get access to a Windoze box, therefore every service member's right to vote is unimpeded by the technology demonstration.
This was the point of the exercise, wasn't it? I'm a big a fan of UNIX as anyone, but I'm a bigger fan of right tool for the job.
As far as why it wasn't written in java or implemented in html over https, I can't answer that, but I suppose it was the desire for a completely black box solution. Some people still believe in security through obscurity, and while StO doesn't work alone, it can enhance an otherwise robust solution.
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How do mod something - "last post"? I don't think there's anything to add -- this was an excellent post.
But you will never get that percentage to anything that even looks fair, nor should we try.
Example. If I made ten times what I make now, I doubt I would spend ten times what I make now. Even now that I make roughly double what I made 5 years ago, I don't spend double on taxable items. My income mostly goes toward things like housing an investments.
If you tried to make the percentages equal, you'd crush the middle class without affecting the rich very much at all.
Excellent comment on the foibles (hypocrisies?) of human thought.
However, you seem to imply that there are no "universal values." As an American, I was brought up to believe that the rights of freedom of religion, speech, press were universal and objective. Everyone has those rights, and they are not subject to the prevailing powers' contstraints. The fact that many governments attempt to restrict those rights was an injustice to be righted, not to be tolerated. Meaning that, humans instrinsically have those rights, and the governments over them should be unable to constrain them. Do you believe otherwise? Can the case be made otherwise?
I don't pretend to have the answers, and a stable civlization will have a few guidelines on the use of those rights, such as keeping pornography from children without restricting it from adults and the classic 'shouting fire in a crowded theater.'
Missed my point.
Loss of income is punishable by death? That's a really messed up view of justice.
Hey! This is /.
No reasonable compromises allowed! If your post cannot be used to conveniently put you into a stereotype (liberal, conservatice, D, R) then you must be one of those neutrals!
<Zapp Brannigan>
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
</Zapp Brannigan>
Yes, it's entirely possible that a 75 year old white male could be a terrorist.
But it's really not very likely. I think we computer people have been trained so much to only accept mathematical exactness (99.5% is not enough to call something true) that we forget that for operations in an imperfect world, 99.5% is usually quite good ORM (operational risk mamangement.)
OTOH, profiling will give you some false positives. I'm a blond haired, blue eyed US military officer. I never show anyone any ID but my military ID card. Frankly, the likelihood that I'm a hijacker is pretty slim. Yet, I get searched "randomly" quite often, I suspect because my last name looks slightly arabic.
Wow. I'm losing money so he deserves to die. You work for the RIAA?
SELECT NAME FROM EVERYONE WHERE BOYFRIEND =
'cuz you know it's the crazy ones that make the best flings
This could have good uses, and assuming it was used exactly for the intent stated, this would be an excellent service. BUT, more often then not, these kinds of things get abused in some form or another. This reminds me of the famous question so often asked of us conservatives: Will you like the goverment to have the powers of the Patriot Act when Hillray Clinton is the President? How can we measure the value of what it prevents against what it will allow? I'm a firm believer that it's better for a hundred guilty to go free rather than one innocent be jailed. Another concern: will parents have access to this database? How much access?
If you looking for the answer to this question, ask your organizations SSO or the SSO for the org that's hiring you. Anything you do yourself is probably not going to dot the i's and cross the t's.
On the one hand, leaving an AP open cannot be considered intent. How many times have you been at Best Buy and overheard someone ask the salesdroid 'I just got a laptop and I want to use my cable modem, but it's attached to the kid's computer." "Oh, just buy this. Plug it into the modem, plug the kid's computer into this box and you're all set. You need a wireless card for your laptop, too?" Customer goes home, plugs everything in, scratches his head, then say "aha" when his laptop screen says "Found Linksys: connected." As far as he's concerned he's done, he's got it set up. He did not intentionally share his internet, and if asked, he would say he's not sharing.
In the context of computer networking, he has allowed access. In the context of human interaction and intent, he is not.
On the other hand, there is very little way for a home user who intends to share to make it know than he actually intends to share. Other than changing his SSID to fubar_OPEN
So this leaves a burden on the third party: is this AP open by intent or ignorance. Personally, I don't connect unless the SSID looks like it's inviting you in. I don't connect when it says "linksys" or "network" or something obviously unconfigured. I don't open up access either, because I don't want to risk liability for what is access. Sad, but unavoidable. If anyone knows a way to share my access that it bulletproof both legally (protects me) and technically (protects my computers,) please share! I'd love to help make wireless more available.
Oh, and the unlocked front door analogy is worn out. It wasn't ever an good analogy, because there is no situation analogous to an intentionally open access point.
I'm sorry, you must be the unusual guy. I only go to small stores for the occasional "shadetree" service that I know will cost an arm and a leg at BB or CUSA, like re-soldering the power jack on a laptop or other difficult work in a laptop case. Since I left DC and the great local store that is Advanced 2000, I can't find anything that doesn't cost at 25% more than anywhere else.
Wouldn't Mr Shatner's codpiece be more likely to display emergent behavior?
Hmm... I heard about the death count this month on conservative talk radio. I guess the GOP needs to fire their censors and hire new ones.
Well, I'm an American. I voted for Bush, who won both elections amid some calls for better counting.
And I want EVERY SINGLE VOTE COUNTED! Even if it means that my choice loses.
Of course, that means every vote, both the votes in heavily Democratic counties and the military absenteee ballots.
Even though Kerry conceded, I would like to see a recount in Ohio. I'd like to see it laid open. We claim to be the leaders of the free world. Let's back it up.
Also, I've seen movies for sale at Fry's on CD's for Palms and PocketPC's
Yes, and what about that other ripoff movie, Galaxyquest? I mean, the captain was always after the ladies, just like Capt Kirk! and the comm officer was so hot, just like Uhura!
Who are they kidding, they are so ripping off Star Trek.
Ok, I spend too much time on Fark. I read that as "Microsoft's disastro.
Pat Robertson would support a lynching? Sorry, I don't realy like the guy, but I have to laugh at your hate-mongering. For many years, Pat Robertson's co-host on the 700 Club was Ben Kinchloe, who was black. Please, Pat Robertson's got enough faults. You don't need to tack on more. I'll throw my hat into the ring. I'm a conservative Christian. I've never met a Christian in Free Methodist, Southern Baptist or Assemblies of God, the three denomination I've attended, who would aprove of it. All three would be consiedered "Christian Right" denominations.
8 hours standby? I've got a T610 (TMobile version of same phone) and my BT is always on for my Jabra Freespeak. I charge my phone about every three days, same with the Freespeak.
It pretty much shuts down the entire parenting impetus among the religious right.
Oooh yes, let's hammer Christians because I'm on Slashdot/FARK/&$*#* website and it'll make me look 31337!
I remember in high school or college (late 80's) reading a book about code optimization, possibly Apple Basic, that said variables were faster at run time than constants. They actually showed an example similar to the above.
You what I always thought was funny?
Teacher says "What did you do to him?"
"Nothing!"
"Well, you must have done something to him or he wouldn't have hit you!"
WTF? Why are the people we pay to educate our children the most un-observant people in the world? If you've been teaching for longer than a week you should know that some people don't need a reason to hit someone. Yet for years, the same stupid comments from teachers.
That's one reason why my wife and I home-school.
Notebook backup to CD's or DVD's? I've never been enamored of backup's that require multiple peices of media. My notebok backup solution is my 20gb Archos, enough space to back up my 10gb notebook drive. Having said this, I'd still want the Powerbook over the VAIO, but for OS X, not the Superdrive.
This was the point of the exercise, wasn't it? I'm a big a fan of UNIX as anyone, but I'm a bigger fan of right tool for the job.
As far as why it wasn't written in java or implemented in html over https, I can't answer that, but I suppose it was the desire for a completely black box solution. Some people still believe in security through obscurity, and while StO doesn't work alone, it can enhance an otherwise robust solution.