I wasn't aware you were at war with the general citizens of either of those countries to the degree that no other military devices at your disposal were capable of dealing with them, should the need arise.
Which means... what? We never went to war with the Soviet Union either, but that didn't stop both sides from preparing for the possibility. I have news for you: the world is not safe, the need for nuclear weapons has not gone away since the end of the Cold War. The harsh reality is that if we ever come to blows with China (given the rate at which they are militarizing, both conventional and nuclear) odds are that conventional weaponry won't be enough, not nearly enough... and you'll wish we'd kept a few functional ICBMs around to even the odds.
And as the poster below (or above?) pointed out, don't discount the deterrent effect of the nuclear-tipped ICBM. One MIRV can do a lot of damage: the number of megatons we can throw at an enemy, even now after decades of post-Cold War force reductions, is enough to make anyone who isn't fucking nuts think twice about pulling that particular trigger.
And who in their right mind thinks that a foreign nation doesn't already know the existence, location and layout of various bases around the world?
Well, that big Chinese base that came to light last year was apparently something of an unpleasant surprise. Point is, you never know what the enemy knows, and in any event you never let him have something for free.
What is it with companies and selling personal information these days?
You answered your own question: money. As long as millions upon millions of not-particularly-bright people insist on buying useless stuff that advertisers tell them they absolutely must own, our personal information will continue to be valuable. Me, I quite pointedly a. don't watch advertising and b. will not buy anything from an advertisement to which I might accidentally find myself exposed.
Look, I know the UK gets slammed regularly here on Slashdot for CCTV privacy issues and government spying, but at least we have a halfway decent Data Protection Act with teeth. A company pulling this kind of shit wouldnt get 2 steps in the UK. Doesnt the US have something similar to deter blatant abuses like this?
As well as this, there are also some machines that will look nostalgically familiar to kids who grew up with the home computer generation, including a BBC Micro, an Atari 800XL, a Dragon 32 and an Amstrad CPC464.
This probably really isn't about boxee - it is about the content owners wanting to get rid of hulu and build their own individual sites. So anything they can do to make it harder to use hulu, especially on something likely to be playing on a TV screen is in their interest.
Yeah well... any outfit that would pick that Baldwin dimbulb as its spokesman has problems anyway.
Yeah....OK. You must oruginate from such an enlightened place that you can make statements like this. Ignorance is rampant everywhere, not just the U.S., my poor delusional friend. I am sure you know where to stick your bigotry.
Yes, there are a number of orifices available for that purpose. I suggest we allow him the privilege of choosing which one.
>Nice over-generalization
Are you serious?
I'm not even from the US and even I know that well over half of the US thinks this way.
Hell, i'd be surprised if half even know that there are places OUTSIDE the US.
They probably think the state next door is the enemy and Iraq is somewhere south of New York or whatever...
Well, thank you for proving to me that ignorance and intolerance are alive and well in other parts of the world. Seriously, you made what is unquestionably the most bigoted, unreasoning, ignorant remark I've heard on Slashdot recently. If you're going to pull out such inflammatory rhetoric you'd best have some facts to back them up... which don't exist so I don't expect you to.
Tell you what, why don't you come over here and spend a couple years in a major U.S. city, and then see if you feel the same way. Go to one of our better Universities. Learn something, because it's plain to see that you have a long way to go before you've earned the right to discuss America, particularly among those who live there.
It never fails to astound me that people (I suspect you're from somewhere in Europe, but I can't tell for certain) can, in one breath, claim that half the population of the United States is ignorant and stupid, while simultaneously exhibiting the very characteristics of which they are complaining! Doesn't the cognitive dissonance make you dizzy when you write such offensive nonsense?
Dude, your hypocrisy is showing. There are plenty of legitimate issues you can bring up regarding the United States, its policies and its people, but that simply isn't one of them. Those of us who live here (and wouldn't dream of insulting your culture or your nation without any knowledge of said culture) would appreciate your going elsewhere for your U.S.-bashing fix. It's irritating, and I don't come here to be irritated by the likes of you.
Our higher cognitive abilities aren't part of our brains?
Not after you get married, the wife takes over that job
Yeah, no kidding. I'm not even married yet (well, I will be next year) and I'm already feeling the effects. Don't resist, give in to your feelings, let the Dark Side control your actions. Somehow it's just... easier this way.
in the long term, we end up thinking what they want us to think.
Think Different (TM)
Like that line of Durango commercials that just said "Dodge. Different." And they were right... things are bigger and uglier than most other vehicles and get really lousy gas mileage. What do you know, truth in advertising.
"My relatives don't call me so much anymore for that sort of thing. I don't know why, exactly... I have a very potent anti-virus tool. It's called "FORMAT C:". Works every time."
Funny that you mention this! I have a similar policy, After the first time, I make it clear that I will be reinstalling the OS and will make no effort to save any data. This was my nieces first time. If there is another time she will have to backup any data herself. It's amazing how the news gets around. All of a sudden, my relatives use safe computing techniques and don't bother me a second time.
What's impressive about that, is that your relatives are more afraid of your blowing away their oh-so-precious data than they are of identity theft or something else far worse than your reinstalling their OS. Weird, but it's true. I still have one relative that just refuses to accept that there should be any restraints upon her online behavior. I mean, I set her up with Firefox, NoScript, Adblock Plus, and just for good measure I install Privoxy, and a decent antivirus package. What happens? She gets multiple infections anyway, usually because "well this online game I really want to play doesn't work right in Firefox so have to use it in Explorer." It doesn't occur to her the site doesn't work right because the security software is trying to prevent a drive-by download. So she ignores it and just uses Explorer, which I've repeatedly told not to do for anything but WindowsUpdate. Her attitude towards malware is a common one: "what's the big deal? It just makes my machine run a little slower, that's all, and then I run that antivirus thingy you gave me."
"Reversing an eight-year-old limit on potentially life-saving science..."
Currently unproven to save even one life, but proven to destroy human embryos.
To paraphrase Scotty from Wrath of Khan, "They're dead already Jim."
Don't you think we could too, if we held our government to the same level of accountability?
No, because that's impossible at this point. The monster has grown too large, the disease of unaccountability has spread too far. That's the problem with people wanting to nationalize health care in the United States... we simply do not have a trustworthy bureaucracy capable of administering such a system. We just don't. The Germans do, but then again their culture is very, very different from ours. We, on the other hand, have the example of Medicare, Medicaid, and the insurance companies right before us. Do you think those organizations are suddenly going to become honest, efficent, and fraud-free just because Obama says they are? Of course not: the U.S. Federal Government's administration of Medicare has been an unmitigated disaster in terms of criminal fraud, waste, suffering and untimely death, and I see no reason to give it even more power over my health. Period.
Having just gone through the misery of removing the viruses from a relatives computer it is quite likely that he wasn't getting Symantec.
My relatives don't call me so much anymore for that sort of thing. I don't know why, exactly... I have a very potent anti-virus tool. It's called "FORMAT C:". Works every time.
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Brilliant!
I wasn't aware you were at war with the general citizens of either of those countries to the degree that no other military devices at your disposal were capable of dealing with them, should the need arise.
Which means ... what? We never went to war with the Soviet Union either, but that didn't stop both sides from preparing for the possibility. I have news for you: the world is not safe, the need for nuclear weapons has not gone away since the end of the Cold War. The harsh reality is that if we ever come to blows with China (given the rate at which they are militarizing, both conventional and nuclear) odds are that conventional weaponry won't be enough, not nearly enough ... and you'll wish we'd kept a few functional ICBMs around to even the odds.
And as the poster below (or above?) pointed out, don't discount the deterrent effect of the nuclear-tipped ICBM. One MIRV can do a lot of damage: the number of megatons we can throw at an enemy, even now after decades of post-Cold War force reductions, is enough to make anyone who isn't fucking nuts think twice about pulling that particular trigger.
And who in their right mind thinks that a foreign nation doesn't already know the existence, location and layout of various bases around the world?
Well, that big Chinese base that came to light last year was apparently something of an unpleasant surprise. Point is, you never know what the enemy knows, and in any event you never let him have something for free.
What is it with companies and selling personal information these days?
You answered your own question: money. As long as millions upon millions of not-particularly-bright people insist on buying useless stuff that advertisers tell them they absolutely must own, our personal information will continue to be valuable. Me, I quite pointedly a. don't watch advertising and b. will not buy anything from an advertisement to which I might accidentally find myself exposed.
it is an obvious no brainer at this point if you can deal with a limited selection of phones.
I dunno, man ... what's a true geek to do without his Android G1?
Meaning... no? :P
I should have thought that was obvious.
I shudder at the thought of Comcast ever getting into the cell phone business.
Well, I think we have a really good idea. It's called "Sprint".
Look, I know the UK gets slammed regularly here on Slashdot for CCTV privacy issues and government spying, but at least we have a halfway decent Data Protection Act with teeth. A company pulling this kind of shit wouldnt get 2 steps in the UK. Doesnt the US have something similar to deter blatant abuses like this?
Yes, indeed ... we have Congress ...
i have AT&T and they won't ever try to abuse me.
Ha ... I have Sprint and was going to say the same thing.
Bloodsuckers, all of them.
Why the fuck is my browser choking on pixel.quantserver.com?? what is that?
I dunno ... put Privoxy on your box and point your browser at it. I'll bet your problem goes away.
Why is the Colossus "infamous"? It's famous, and it's use saved thousands of lives and shortened the war.
Brett
Possibly the submitter is German.
As well as this, there are also some machines that will look nostalgically familiar to kids who grew up with the home computer generation, including a BBC Micro, an Atari 800XL, a Dragon 32 and an Amstrad CPC464.
What, no Apple ][?
This probably really isn't about boxee - it is about the content owners wanting to get rid of hulu and build their own individual sites. So anything they can do to make it harder to use hulu, especially on something likely to be playing on a TV screen is in their interest.
Yeah well ... any outfit that would pick that Baldwin dimbulb as its spokesman has problems anyway.
Well, there's a joke in Russia that Moscow and the rest of Russia are separate states: "Are you from Moscow or from Russia?"
Some of us in the United States feel that way about Washington, D.C. The people who run the country aren't really in touch with the rest of it.
Yeah....OK. You must oruginate from such an enlightened place that you can make statements like this. Ignorance is rampant everywhere, not just the U.S., my poor delusional friend. I am sure you know where to stick your bigotry.
Yes, there are a number of orifices available for that purpose. I suggest we allow him the privilege of choosing which one.
>Nice over-generalization Are you serious? I'm not even from the US and even I know that well over half of the US thinks this way.
Hell, i'd be surprised if half even know that there are places OUTSIDE the US. They probably think the state next door is the enemy and Iraq is somewhere south of New York or whatever...
Well, thank you for proving to me that ignorance and intolerance are alive and well in other parts of the world. Seriously, you made what is unquestionably the most bigoted, unreasoning, ignorant remark I've heard on Slashdot recently. If you're going to pull out such inflammatory rhetoric you'd best have some facts to back them up ... which don't exist so I don't expect you to.
Tell you what, why don't you come over here and spend a couple years in a major U.S. city, and then see if you feel the same way. Go to one of our better Universities. Learn something, because it's plain to see that you have a long way to go before you've earned the right to discuss America, particularly among those who live there.
It never fails to astound me that people (I suspect you're from somewhere in Europe, but I can't tell for certain) can, in one breath, claim that half the population of the United States is ignorant and stupid, while simultaneously exhibiting the very characteristics of which they are complaining! Doesn't the cognitive dissonance make you dizzy when you write such offensive nonsense?
Dude, your hypocrisy is showing. There are plenty of legitimate issues you can bring up regarding the United States, its policies and its people, but that simply isn't one of them. Those of us who live here (and wouldn't dream of insulting your culture or your nation without any knowledge of said culture) would appreciate your going elsewhere for your U.S.-bashing fix. It's irritating, and I don't come here to be irritated by the likes of you.
Not after you get married, the wife takes over that job
Yeah, no kidding. I'm not even married yet (well, I will be next year) and I'm already feeling the effects. Don't resist, give in to your feelings, let the Dark Side control your actions. Somehow it's just ... easier this way.
in the long term, we end up thinking what they want us to think.
Think Different (TM)
Like that line of Durango commercials that just said "Dodge. Different." And they were right ... things are bigger and uglier than most other vehicles and get really lousy gas mileage. What do you know, truth in advertising.
"My relatives don't call me so much anymore for that sort of thing. I don't know why, exactly ... I have a very potent anti-virus tool. It's called "FORMAT C:". Works every time."
Funny that you mention this! I have a similar policy, After the first time, I make it clear that I will be reinstalling the OS and will make no effort to save any data. This was my nieces first time. If there is another time she will have to backup any data herself. It's amazing how the news gets around. All of a sudden, my relatives use safe computing techniques and don't bother me a second time.
What's impressive about that, is that your relatives are more afraid of your blowing away their oh-so-precious data than they are of identity theft or something else far worse than your reinstalling their OS. Weird, but it's true. I still have one relative that just refuses to accept that there should be any restraints upon her online behavior. I mean, I set her up with Firefox, NoScript, Adblock Plus, and just for good measure I install Privoxy, and a decent antivirus package. What happens? She gets multiple infections anyway, usually because "well this online game I really want to play doesn't work right in Firefox so have to use it in Explorer." It doesn't occur to her the site doesn't work right because the security software is trying to prevent a drive-by download. So she ignores it and just uses Explorer, which I've repeatedly told not to do for anything but WindowsUpdate. Her attitude towards malware is a common one: "what's the big deal? It just makes my machine run a little slower, that's all, and then I run that antivirus thingy you gave me."
Arrgh.
"Reversing an eight-year-old limit on potentially life-saving science..." Currently unproven to save even one life, but proven to destroy human embryos.
To paraphrase Scotty from Wrath of Khan, "They're dead already Jim."
I found another one called JKDefrag that also works very well.
Don't you think we could too, if we held our government to the same level of accountability?
No, because that's impossible at this point. The monster has grown too large, the disease of unaccountability has spread too far. That's the problem with people wanting to nationalize health care in the United States ... we simply do not have a trustworthy bureaucracy capable of administering such a system. We just don't. The Germans do, but then again their culture is very, very different from ours. We, on the other hand, have the example of Medicare, Medicaid, and the insurance companies right before us. Do you think those organizations are suddenly going to become honest, efficent, and fraud-free just because Obama says they are? Of course not: the U.S. Federal Government's administration of Medicare has been an unmitigated disaster in terms of criminal fraud, waste, suffering and untimely death, and I see no reason to give it even more power over my health. Period.
Tomato for the win!
Doesn't support IPv6 AFAIK, which a lot of us would like to play with.
Well, if you basically like the offering, write to the author and see if he's willing to add support.
what credible threats to the life and liberty of the UK citizenry could possibly justify this?
Heads it's terrorists, tails it's pedophiles.
Pederrorists. Bad guys who come in the middle of the night to sodomize your children and put IEDs all around your house.
Having just gone through the misery of removing the viruses from a relatives computer it is quite likely that he wasn't getting Symantec.
My relatives don't call me so much anymore for that sort of thing. I don't know why, exactly ... I have a very potent anti-virus tool. It's called "FORMAT C:". Works every time.