This is about deterring the production of said games. If they can't be bought by minors, then they will be pirated. This destroys the revenue stream, making it unprofitable to make such games.
Evil, huh? This is the premise of much of the censorship we see today, controlling speech through the 'think about the children!' impulse.
Umm, your boy said the exact same things about Iraq to justify his random lobbing of missiles and bombings in 1998. Care to hear the tape? For that matter, it wasn't just him. Kerry, Kennedy, the whole lot were spouting off back then. For that matter, the same crew mostly was saying the same shit in 2002-03.
So, who was lying, and when?
You're so full of shit your eyes are brown, like the rest of the leftist Bush-haters.
While the other one randomly lobbed missiles into the country and conducted airstrikes, to deflect attention from his then proceeding impeachment for lying under oath.
I had a Turbo Pascal version of Eliza which I compiled up and hooked into my BBS as a door called "Chat with the Sysop" back in 1991-92. The database of responses was buttressed with about 50 or so responses that were more personalized towards what I would say. However, the logic was all Eliza.
The older callers who knew me were not fooled and after about 10 exchanges they'd quit the door realizing it was a joke. Those who were brand new, however, would often engage in lengthy conversations with the door. In one particular case, I watched a person spend an hour talking to Eliza trying to figure out a way to have it grant them extra time on the BBS or access to the supposed 'elite files' that were hiding there. Which weren't. But it was quite fun.
The conversations were actually relatively interesting, but Eliza has a pattern of speech that, even when the responses are slightly altered, is easily discernable. It basically keeps plugging you with questions so that it doesn't have to answer anything meaningful.
I don't think today's commercially available AI is much better than Eliza, either.
When you can drive across the border, and time loads to arrive at particular locations at particular times, then time matters. The less weirdness, the better.
Their desktop models in particular have been very flaky over the years. I have a ton of old Vectras here of various versions, and another company I worked for used them as a standard desktop. They were always weird...strange issues with video or certain expansion boards, and they aren't the best choice in the world for Linux.
We waste more time with 20 Vectras than we would with 100 Dells in terms of hardware-related support.
I was really sad when Compaq was bought out. Their higher end x86 compatible machines were very nice indeed, and haven't gotten better since the 'merger'.
There was a hatchet job book on this a few years back, trying to imply IBM was somehow responsible for the Holocaust. Bottom line, IBM sold them to the German government for census data initially. Once they were in German hands, they were reconfigured for other purposes by employees of IBM's German subsidiary.
One could complain about the continued sale when it was pretty obvious (from our viewpoint) that the machines were being used for ill purposes, but explain to me just how IBM was going to approach that issue given the fact that they had no firm proof of anything? Particularly since the employees doing the retrofitting for concentration camp records were German citizens who were under penalty of imprisonment in the same camps if they failed to do their patriotic duty.
Bottom line, it was impossible to be a rational businessman and do anything about the Nazis from the standpoint of a commercial supplier.
The two aren't even on the same network in most cases, and interconnecting the two is only permitted with the knowledge that the data that passes outside the classified network is actually unclassified, and the the host which acts as the link doesn't cache any of the data.
This would seem to rule out the use of search engines that aggregate data.
The whole idea would be laughed out of the room by those who approve such things. The very aggregation of data can raise the classification level of the whole. Anything like a Google for classified data would be so highly classified only the President and close advisers could use it, which defeats the whole purpose of having such an engine, since those high officials aren't the ones who would be using it. They read briefs prepared by others.
It's time to drive a stake through the heart of that protocol and start over. Like telnet and ftp, it just doesn't meet the standards of today's Internet.
And discover the following: Does the Navy train its dolphins for offensive warfare, including attacks on ships and human swimmers or divers? No. The Navy does not now train, nor has it ever trained, its marine mammals to harm or injure humans in any fashion or to carry weapons to destroy ships. A popular movie in 1973 ("The Day of the Dolphin") and a number of charges and claims by animal rights organizations have resulted in theories and sometimes actual beliefs that Navy dolphins are assigned attack missions. This is absolutely false. Since dolphins cannot discern the difference between enemy and friendly vessels, or enemy and friendly divers and swimmers, it would not be wise to give that kind of decision authority to an animal. The animals are trained to detect, locate, and mark all mines or all swimmers in an area of interest or concern, and are not trained to distinguish between what we would refer to as good or bad. That decision is always left to humans.
Does the Navy ask the dolphins and sea lions to do dangerous things? The dolphins locate and mark the location of sea mines which are designed to be set off by large ships, not aquatic animals. In the swimmer detection program, dolphins and sea lions move so quickly and with such accuracy that human swimmers in dark or murky waters are located and marked before they know what has happened. Once the marking has been completed, the animals are removed from the area before mines are disarmed or swimmers are apprehended by trained security forces. Marine mammals are actually in more danger from sharks, and wild marine mammals are put in much more danger by people who feed them (which is why it is illegal).
Why have there been so many rumors about the NMMP over the years? Several decades of classification of the program's true missions of mine-hunting and swimmer defense, led to media speculation and animal activist charges of dolphins used as offensive weapons, speculation and charges that could not be countered with facts due to that classification. Additionally, fantasy is often times more interesting than reality. With declassification of the missions of the program in the early 1990s, the Navy has repeatedly and openly discussed those missions, but rumors are not easily forgotten, and there are those who continue to actively promote them.
In response to charges that the program abused the animals, the presidentially appointed Marine Mammal Commission investigated the program in 1988 and 1990. The Commission reported that the allegations were not only false, but that the Navy's care of its marine mammals was "exemplary."
Then, of course, we'd realize this guy was a kook, and that Slashdot is recycling stories that Art Bell wouldn't cover. Certainly makes you think twice about the journalistic integrity of the Guardian, though.
Do you think that perhaps, when cordless phones became the rule rather than the exception, that maybe people's expectations of POTS dropped to the same as their expectations for power?
I know we had a blackout here two Sundays ago and I heard the neighbors scurrying around for the cell phone so they could make the call. Sounds silly, but it's the truth.
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He didn't get his star.
Seriously.
It is true that SHA-1 is required for hashing but AES in various incarnations is a permissible encryption algorithm.
This is about deterring the production of said games. If they can't be bought by minors, then they will be pirated. This destroys the revenue stream, making it unprofitable to make such games.
Evil, huh? This is the premise of much of the censorship we see today, controlling speech through the 'think about the children!' impulse.
Umm, your boy said the exact same things about Iraq to justify his random lobbing of missiles and bombings in 1998. Care to hear the tape? For that matter, it wasn't just him. Kerry, Kennedy, the whole lot were spouting off back then. For that matter, the same crew mostly was saying the same shit in 2002-03.
So, who was lying, and when?
You're so full of shit your eyes are brown, like the rest of the leftist Bush-haters.
While the other one randomly lobbed missiles into the country and conducted airstrikes, to deflect attention from his then proceeding impeachment for lying under oath.
I had a Turbo Pascal version of Eliza which I compiled up and hooked into my BBS as a door called "Chat with the Sysop" back in 1991-92. The database of responses was buttressed with about 50 or so responses that were more personalized towards what I would say. However, the logic was all Eliza.
The older callers who knew me were not fooled and after about 10 exchanges they'd quit the door realizing it was a joke. Those who were brand new, however, would often engage in lengthy conversations with the door. In one particular case, I watched a person spend an hour talking to Eliza trying to figure out a way to have it grant them extra time on the BBS or access to the supposed 'elite files' that were hiding there. Which weren't. But it was quite fun.
The conversations were actually relatively interesting, but Eliza has a pattern of speech that, even when the responses are slightly altered, is easily discernable. It basically keeps plugging you with questions so that it doesn't have to answer anything meaningful.
I don't think today's commercially available AI is much better than Eliza, either.
You forgot the public health measure that always gets ignored...
4. Quarantine
If it worked for other diseases, why isn't it used here?
The tractors without the sleepers in the back of the cab are generally short-haul trucks that are dispatched from a local distribution center.
They don't cross time zones very much, if they can avoid it.
The long-haul trucks are the ones that cross time zone boundaries, and usually have trip lengths measured in days, hence, the China issue again.
Please.
When you can drive across the border, and time loads to arrive at particular locations at particular times, then time matters. The less weirdness, the better.
Their desktop models in particular have been very flaky over the years. I have a ton of old Vectras here of various versions, and another company I worked for used them as a standard desktop. They were always weird...strange issues with video or certain expansion boards, and they aren't the best choice in the world for Linux.
We waste more time with 20 Vectras than we would with 100 Dells in terms of hardware-related support.
I was really sad when Compaq was bought out. Their higher end x86 compatible machines were very nice indeed, and haven't gotten better since the 'merger'.
If they went out to the titty bar in assless chaps you'd be okay with them?
There was a hatchet job book on this a few years back, trying to imply IBM was somehow responsible for the Holocaust. Bottom line, IBM sold them to the German government for census data initially. Once they were in German hands, they were reconfigured for other purposes by employees of IBM's German subsidiary.
One could complain about the continued sale when it was pretty obvious (from our viewpoint) that the machines were being used for ill purposes, but explain to me just how IBM was going to approach that issue given the fact that they had no firm proof of anything? Particularly since the employees doing the retrofitting for concentration camp records were German citizens who were under penalty of imprisonment in the same camps if they failed to do their patriotic duty.
Bottom line, it was impossible to be a rational businessman and do anything about the Nazis from the standpoint of a commercial supplier.
You win the 'missing the point' award. The great-grandparent was about mingling classified and unclassified networks.
There are things classified higher than TS.
The two aren't even on the same network in most cases, and interconnecting the two is only permitted with the knowledge that the data that passes outside the classified network is actually unclassified, and the the host which acts as the link doesn't cache any of the data.
This would seem to rule out the use of search engines that aggregate data.
The whole idea would be laughed out of the room by those who approve such things. The very aggregation of data can raise the classification level of the whole. Anything like a Google for classified data would be so highly classified only the President and close advisers could use it, which defeats the whole purpose of having such an engine, since those high officials aren't the ones who would be using it. They read briefs prepared by others.
It's a mud. It's not worth encrypting.
Try administering your boxes over telnet, though. Yeah, didn't think so.
FTP in its most common form passes auth info in the clear. That's what's wrong with it.
The problem always is.
It's time to drive a stake through the heart of that protocol and start over. Like telnet and ftp, it just doesn't meet the standards of today's Internet.
Ever heard of a bleeding ulcer, vomiting blood and all? Yes, people have died from this.
The only reason you don't hear about this anymore is the cause is known now. It was a very serious problem when I was a kid.
'nuff said.
However, it would probably make for a nice tie in Times Roman 14.
for the link. Otherwise, you're a total asshole, but it's nice to know that you aren't a total waste of carbon atoms.
I know some of the people involved. I doubt that was the reason why, considering the decision was taken after OS X was available.
Nah. Ugly, smelly women mostly cost as much as nonsmelly, nonugly women. In this case, you don't get what you pay for.
"Minimum expenditure fucking - How to get laid on a budget."
I mean, dude, you can get laid without spending a lot of money. Hell, you can get it for free some nights.
And discover the following:
Does the Navy train its dolphins for offensive warfare, including attacks on ships and human swimmers or divers?
No. The Navy does not now train, nor has it ever trained, its marine mammals to harm or injure humans in any fashion or to carry weapons to destroy ships. A popular movie in 1973 ("The Day of the Dolphin") and a number of charges and claims by animal rights organizations have resulted in theories and sometimes actual beliefs that Navy dolphins are assigned attack missions. This is absolutely false. Since dolphins cannot discern the difference between enemy and friendly vessels, or enemy and friendly divers and swimmers, it would not be wise to give that kind of decision authority to an animal. The animals are trained to detect, locate, and mark all mines or all swimmers in an area of interest or concern, and are not trained to distinguish between what we would refer to as good or bad. That decision is always left to humans.
Does the Navy ask the dolphins and sea lions to do dangerous things?
The dolphins locate and mark the location of sea mines which are designed to be set off by large ships, not aquatic animals. In the swimmer detection program, dolphins and sea lions move so quickly and with such accuracy that human swimmers in dark or murky waters are located and marked before they know what has happened. Once the marking has been completed, the animals are removed from the area before mines are disarmed or swimmers are apprehended by trained security forces. Marine mammals are actually in more danger from sharks, and wild marine mammals are put in much more danger by people who feed them (which is why it is illegal).
Why have there been so many rumors about the NMMP over the years?
Several decades of classification of the program's true missions of mine-hunting and swimmer defense, led to media speculation and animal activist charges of dolphins used as offensive weapons, speculation and charges that could not be countered with facts due to that classification. Additionally, fantasy is often times more interesting than reality. With declassification of the missions of the program in the early 1990s, the Navy has repeatedly and openly discussed those missions, but rumors are not easily forgotten, and there are those who continue to actively promote them.
In response to charges that the program abused the animals, the presidentially appointed Marine Mammal Commission investigated the program in 1988 and 1990. The Commission reported that the allegations were not only false, but that the Navy's care of its marine mammals was "exemplary."
Then, of course, we'd realize this guy was a kook, and that Slashdot is recycling stories that Art Bell wouldn't cover. Certainly makes you think twice about the journalistic integrity of the Guardian, though.
Do you have a hardwired, line-powered handset?
How many people do, anymore?
Do you think that perhaps, when cordless phones became the rule rather than the exception, that maybe people's expectations of POTS dropped to the same as their expectations for power?
I know we had a blackout here two Sundays ago and I heard the neighbors scurrying around for the cell phone so they could make the call. Sounds silly, but it's the truth.