Meh. Small price to pay for not having to run a mac XD
Seriously, I don't consider it to be much work. I have a fancy linux firewall set up to do my NAT and packet routing, and I have a windows box running Norton antivirus. Since the Linux stuff is something I do for a living, I don't consider that wasted work, and who can't install Norton?
If you read the article, the guy who threw his comp away has a PhDCS (Comp Sci), so theoretically he ought to be able to manage a format reinstall by himself.
Mind you, with that much ejumucation his grasp on practical reality must be a bit shaky already. Notice that even though he is a DOCTOR of COMP SCI he's still got a box so infected with spyware he feels the need to throw it away. I'm just a code monkey with a little piddly B.S, but I've never had a major virus or spyware infection on any box I've run.
'Course I've got code monkey friends who routinely tell me things like, "That firewall script you gave me was keeping (insert insecure application name here) from working right, so I just plugged my network cable into the cable modem for a minute and now my box is acting funny."
All the stuff you need to do that is available for free, or over the counter, and takes an insignificant amount of time to install, compared to the time it'll save you in the long run. It just boils down to users taking the time to do it.
You're being a moron. You've got more chance of stopping the sun from rising than you do of catching all the "criminals" who have access to the internet. They're a fact of life, and if you don't realize that, you're living in a fantasy world.
That being the case, it is incumbent upon administrators to secure, monitor, and protect their systems. If they don't do that, sure as hell no one's going to get caught, and it'll happen over and over and over again.
So instead of wishing for pie in the sky or some other such fairy tale, stop whining and secure your damn machines.
Block whole countries? What a extrememly bad idea. You know how many evil hackers live in the US and in Europe? Not much of an internet without those two. We could switch to all encrypted connections, which would solve the problem, but cause tons of others, and it's hard to imagine asking regular users to do it. There is, however a way to stop people from Hacking websites...SECURE THEM!
All the good stuff they pull out of longhorn, then they keep crap like this? Screw them. The day it stops making my life easier to have a Windows machine lying around is the last day I'll ever use it.
Heh. The UN is too untrustworthy, but commercial telephone and cable companies aren't? They've got corruption already built into the system. Talk about a universal tax. You'd be charged for every pageview, and DNS lookup.
Whoever controls it, they have to be accountable to the users of the system, or they need not exist at all.
Just for the record, I'm fine with the "not exist at all option." If various groups set up their own master domain servers, we could have a little biological competition to determine which ones are the most efficient and respectful of the rights of users.
A lot of countries invested a lot in the internet, and, at this point, the Master Domain Servers could be replicated by any country with a moderate amount of knowhow. That's a simple fact.
A lot of countries have a lot to lose. Putting control of something in the hands of the people who have the most to lose is a bad idea.
There is already a universal tax. It's called a "Registration Fee".
There is nothing stopping us from keeping the same tabs on extremists. It's like you think the internet is in a building somewhere. All we control are ten or so big domain servers. And, if you want to google "How to build a Nuclear Bomb" you'll find plenty of video on that. Not like Terrorists need the internet to figure out how to bomb a bus. They do have a bit of experience.
China != the UN. We may "believe" in free speech, but the surest way to make sure it stays free is to make sure that no one entity has complete control over it.
Yea, it'd be nice. They do listen to that kind of logic here, thankfully, so I only have to worry when I'm too industrious and make a production-quality application on a crap-quality machine, and then have to hope it holds together until I can spend money to get a replacement.
The last place I worked however, I came in one day and found a nest of cat5 on the floor in my office, and a sticky note on my monitor that said, "DO NOT REBOOT". My desktop had become the primary mailserver.
Bah. I can't tell you the number of places I've worked where "Single point of failure" was the rule. In an ideal world, yes, we'd have all the hardware we need, but in the real world it is difficult to convince the PHBs why you need another machine that does X when you already have one.
So the desktop becomes the emergency backup system. Every single service I am responsible for is duplicated on my desktop. It functions as my test environment, but, if it hit the fan, I could swap it out with the primary app server and things would keep running.
And when the app server hits its max load, and I can't add more stuff to it, and I can't spend my capital budget for 5 more months, where do the new apps go? The one place they can go.
I can wish it wasn't that way, but with limited resources and unlimited demands, I've gotta do what I've gotta do, and if people at freaking SUN are doing it, I am certainly NOT alone in this.
Sure, which sucks for peacekeeping and human rights embargos, etc, but would be great for something like ICANN, because it would end up effectively independant, because some liberal countries have unilateral veto power where it matters.
I just think it's a hugely bad idea to have one country with that sort of oversight.
It was the US who put him in power in the first place. They did that about the same time they were putting groups like the Taliban in charge of the Afgani's to resist Soviet occupation, and training people like Bin Laden to do the guerilla fighting.
The UN is inefficient, but bad stuff tends not to come out of the UN because too many people have veto power. As opposed to here.
I actually did an extensive thesis about the role of the Czechs in building up the German war machine. The Czechs actually had a large and quite modern army, a large store of munitions, and a fortified border. The Germans had a bigger army, but in 1938 they were not as modern, and not as well supplied as the Czechs.
When they let the Germans take the Sudetenland without a shot fired because they believed (erroneously) that the Germans were fully prepared to fight a prolonged war, they gave the Germans the means to fight a prolonged war. The Skoda gunworks was one of the most advanced military industrial complexes in all of europe.
If the Czechs had fought, they had the means to hold the Germans off considerably longer than the Poles managed (due to a less prepared German army, a fortified border, and a more modern supply infrastructure), and the actual conflict would have galvanized public opinion in the european powers that were still set on appeasement. Moreover, it is unlikely that Stalin would have gone in with Hitler against the Czechs because they shared no immediate border, and had no pursuable territorial claims.
The Czechs had a powerful, mechanized army of almost two million men, which were supported by a well organized industry, and the second largest munitions factory in Europe-the Skoda and Tatra ordnance works. To force the Czech defense would require some thirty-five divisions; which left only thirteen divisions to guard the Western Front against the sixty or seventy divisions the French could muster (some sources cite as many as one-hundred French divisions).
--David Sedivy, Modern European History
People tend not to talk about it, or pretend the Czechs were unable to resist, but the truth of it is, Hitler bluffed hard, and we caved. The war could have been over almost immediately.
I'm a libertarian. I do support the criminalization of abortion.
The definition of "criminalization" which stands for "no government funding" must be one I missed. You did say, "funding of stem cells" I admit, but then you used my lumping them together as a strawman to avoid dealing the with abortion question. Jackass.
And your argument about the harvesting of stem cells is (of course) ignorant in imprecise. You can harvest enough stem cells for a transplant from an adult donor, using a blood recirculator. Oh so violent. Good thing its not funded.
Back to Poland and the Jews.
First off, Jews aren't religious pacifists as you seem to think. A lot of civillian Jews were rounded up and deported, but I fail to see how it would have been any different if they were targeting slavs or gays or gypsys...as in fact they did, and it wasn't. They could have targeted any group, and all the rest would have let them do it.
You should look up the Warsaw uprising. The jews took over a decent chunk of the city with small arms and clubs, and held it against the Germans for more than a month. More. Than. A. Month. In 1943. Again, you prove you know nothing about World War II, and this time you've added Jews to the mix. Anyone who has delusions of Jewish pacifism and/or cowardice should look at modern Israel.
You seem to have this idea that there is some weakness in moral fiber inherent in unarmed civillians not choosing to fight well-armed soldiers to the death. The resistance movements in Poland, the Ukraine, and even France were widespread and worked under conditions you can't even imagine. Just because they chose not to fight a conventional war they could not win doesn't mean they gave up.
I find your ignorant contempt for other peoples heroism to be repellent. I find your quasi-moral self-riteousness to be disgusting. And your ignorance frankly amazing. Do you know anything, or do you just spout unformed opinions all the time?
If you had problems with Heart of Darkness, and/or think Heart of Darkness was written by Flannery O'Connor, you've got bigger problems.
Heart of Darkness was one of the only things I read in high school that I truly loved. It's short, it makes you think, and it is beautifully written.
Then you can watch "Apocalypse Now" afterward to show kids a different perspective on it. I have a fond memory of the school principal walking into the classroom during our screening of "Apocalpyse Now" (go AP English), at just the exact moment when a helicopter pilot was gunning down a fleeing villager screaming "F*** HER IN THE ASS! F*** HER IN THE ASS!" The expression on his face makes me laugh to this day.
You clearly don't know much about WWII if you think the Poles didn't fight. Thye fought with everything they had, on three fronts, against the Germans and the Soviets. There are (possibly apocryphal) stories of Polish cavalry...horse cavalry charging tanks when they had nothing left to fight with. If the Czechs had had one third of the stubborn courage the Poles showed, there wouldn't have even been a world war II.
I find it very typical of the Republican viewpoint you claim not to espouse that you can wave away war deaths like they're nothing, and then start denouncing people for a moral choice you don't agree with.
One of the foundations of Libertariansim is small government, the very opposite of the sort of large paternal government that would ban abaortion/stem cell research.
Time for me to steal Microsoft's identity and go on a permanent bender, buying everyone drinks, going on vacation, snorting blow off hookers asses, while the corporation, it's grounds and corporate offices in disarray, sits in a dingy police station trying to explain to the cops that the guy pretending to be a multinational downtown in the strip club is really not one.
Heh. When I was at school, I used to listen to music while walking to/from class. I can't count the number of times I slung my heavy backpack full of math and science textbooks into the car, only to find that I'd accidentally wrapped my extremely resilient headphone cord around one of the straps. Headphone cable came out of the left side, phones wrapped around the back, but the mp3 player was on the right side, because I'm right-handed. Bag moves forward, pulls tough wire tight around neck...GAAK!
Have since purchased headphones with a breakaway plug in the middle.
If everything plays nice, then it'll be a good thing. Redundancy (the good kind), increased efficiency (You deal with me quickly and fairly or I'll go over there to them, nyah), and reduced odds that someone'll start fiddling with information at the top level.
I don't see it as a bad thing. Competing registries should forment some of that biological competition we all love so much. The best ones will out, and the worst ones will fall into disuse.
The only issue is how it gets worked into the existing framework so that we aren't stuck with any particular set depending on our geographic locale.
We all know its stupid anyway. If Rockstar released an AO version of GTA, horny twelve yearolds would be lined up around the block to buy it. They'd have their moms with them, of course, because how you you think they buy the M games now? "Mommy can I get this?" "Will it shut you up?" "Uh huh" "Okay then"
Ooops, I talked about parental responsibility. Along with corporate, and political responsibilty, it's one of the least popular subjects in our society.
Always amuses me when people say that, like its actually possible for the human mind to function without catagorizing things all the time.
Take the word "Tree" for example. It is the most utterly broad of stereotypes. It covers so much ground it's hard to wrap your mind around it. Trees of all types, in all stages of growth and decay, they are all represented by that one word, and represented equally well.
The ability to group things with similar charactersistics into large semi-arbitrary groups is one of the very hallmarks of our thought process as an entire species. We spend the first years of our lives doing nothing but building up categories in our heads. These things are edible, these things are friendly, these things can hurt me.
Apparently you, however, don't do this. I'm quite surprised you manage to function in society at all! Of course, for you there is no society. There is only one huge collection of non-grouped things, and you have no ability to predict in any way what they are going to do, or what they are going to be like without studying each and every one individually and distinctly. Must be fun crossing the street...Oh wait, for you there is no street. My bad.
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Meh. Small price to pay for not having to run a mac XD
Seriously, I don't consider it to be much work. I have a fancy linux firewall set up to do my NAT and packet routing, and I have a windows box running Norton antivirus. Since the Linux stuff is something I do for a living, I don't consider that wasted work, and who can't install Norton?
All it takes is a reasonable amount of care.
It can be renewed for another 35 years. I don't know where the extra 5 comes from.
--SP
If you read the article, the guy who threw his comp away has a PhDCS (Comp Sci), so theoretically he ought to be able to manage a format reinstall by himself.
Mind you, with that much ejumucation his grasp on practical reality must be a bit shaky already. Notice that even though he is a DOCTOR of COMP SCI he's still got a box so infected with spyware he feels the need to throw it away. I'm just a code monkey with a little piddly B.S, but I've never had a major virus or spyware infection on any box I've run.
'Course I've got code monkey friends who routinely tell me things like, "That firewall script you gave me was keeping (insert insecure application name here) from working right, so I just plugged my network cable into the cable modem for a minute and now my box is acting funny."
All the stuff you need to do that is available for free, or over the counter, and takes an insignificant amount of time to install, compared to the time it'll save you in the long run. It just boils down to users taking the time to do it.
You're being a moron. You've got more chance of stopping the sun from rising than you do of catching all the "criminals" who have access to the internet. They're a fact of life, and if you don't realize that, you're living in a fantasy world.
That being the case, it is incumbent upon administrators to secure, monitor, and protect their systems. If they don't do that, sure as hell no one's going to get caught, and it'll happen over and over and over again.
So instead of wishing for pie in the sky or some other such fairy tale, stop whining and secure your damn machines.
Block whole countries? What a extrememly bad idea. You know how many evil hackers live in the US and in Europe? Not much of an internet without those two. We could switch to all encrypted connections, which would solve the problem, but cause tons of others, and it's hard to imagine asking regular users to do it. There is, however a way to stop people from Hacking websites...SECURE THEM!
Meh. Up until recently I was doing support on a number of access databases, and similar such nonsense.
Now I just keep it for the games.
Until they plug their video capable iPod into it.
All the good stuff they pull out of longhorn, then they keep crap like this? Screw them. The day it stops making my life easier to have a Windows machine lying around is the last day I'll ever use it.
Heh. The UN is too untrustworthy, but commercial telephone and cable companies aren't? They've got corruption already built into the system. Talk about a universal tax. You'd be charged for every pageview, and DNS lookup.
Whoever controls it, they have to be accountable to the users of the system, or they need not exist at all.
Just for the record, I'm fine with the "not exist at all option." If various groups set up their own master domain servers, we could have a little biological competition to determine which ones are the most efficient and respectful of the rights of users.
A lot of countries invested a lot in the internet, and, at this point, the Master Domain Servers could be replicated by any country with a moderate amount of knowhow. That's a simple fact.
A lot of countries have a lot to lose. Putting control of something in the hands of the people who have the most to lose is a bad idea.
There is already a universal tax. It's called a "Registration Fee".
There is nothing stopping us from keeping the same tabs on extremists. It's like you think the internet is in a building somewhere. All we control are ten or so big domain servers. And, if you want to google "How to build a Nuclear Bomb" you'll find plenty of video on that. Not like Terrorists need the internet to figure out how to bomb a bus. They do have a bit of experience.
China != the UN. We may "believe" in free speech, but the surest way to make sure it stays free is to make sure that no one entity has complete control over it.
Just my opinion.
Yea, it'd be nice. They do listen to that kind of logic here, thankfully, so I only have to worry when I'm too industrious and make a production-quality application on a crap-quality machine, and then have to hope it holds together until I can spend money to get a replacement.
The last place I worked however, I came in one day and found a nest of cat5 on the floor in my office, and a sticky note on my monitor that said, "DO NOT REBOOT". My desktop had become the primary mailserver.
Bah. I can't tell you the number of places I've worked where "Single point of failure" was the rule. In an ideal world, yes, we'd have all the hardware we need, but in the real world it is difficult to convince the PHBs why you need another machine that does X when you already have one.
So the desktop becomes the emergency backup system. Every single service I am responsible for is duplicated on my desktop. It functions as my test environment, but, if it hit the fan, I could swap it out with the primary app server and things would keep running.
And when the app server hits its max load, and I can't add more stuff to it, and I can't spend my capital budget for 5 more months, where do the new apps go? The one place they can go.
I can wish it wasn't that way, but with limited resources and unlimited demands, I've gotta do what I've gotta do, and if people at freaking SUN are doing it, I am certainly NOT alone in this.
Sure, which sucks for peacekeeping and human rights embargos, etc, but would be great for something like ICANN, because it would end up effectively independant, because some liberal countries have unilateral veto power where it matters.
I just think it's a hugely bad idea to have one country with that sort of oversight.
It was the US who put him in power in the first place. They did that about the same time they were putting groups like the Taliban in charge of the Afgani's to resist Soviet occupation, and training people like Bin Laden to do the guerilla fighting.
The UN is inefficient, but bad stuff tends not to come out of the UN because too many people have veto power. As opposed to here.
I actually did an extensive thesis about the role of the Czechs in building up the German war machine. The Czechs actually had a large and quite modern army, a large store of munitions, and a fortified border. The Germans had a bigger army, but in 1938 they were not as modern, and not as well supplied as the Czechs.
When they let the Germans take the Sudetenland without a shot fired because they believed (erroneously) that the Germans were fully prepared to fight a prolonged war, they gave the Germans the means to fight a prolonged war. The Skoda gunworks was one of the most advanced military industrial complexes in all of europe.
If the Czechs had fought, they had the means to hold the Germans off considerably longer than the Poles managed (due to a less prepared German army, a fortified border, and a more modern supply infrastructure), and the actual conflict would have galvanized public opinion in the european powers that were still set on appeasement. Moreover, it is unlikely that Stalin would have gone in with Hitler against the Czechs because they shared no immediate border, and had no pursuable territorial claims.
The Czechs had a powerful, mechanized army of almost two million men, which were supported by a well organized industry, and the second largest munitions factory in Europe-the Skoda and Tatra ordnance works. To force the Czech defense would require some thirty-five divisions; which left only thirteen divisions to guard the Western Front against the sixty or seventy divisions the French could muster (some sources cite as many as one-hundred French divisions).
--David Sedivy, Modern European History
People tend not to talk about it, or pretend the Czechs were unable to resist, but the truth of it is, Hitler bluffed hard, and we caved. The war could have been over almost immediately.
I'm a libertarian. I do support the criminalization of abortion.
The definition of "criminalization" which stands for "no government funding" must be one I missed. You did say, "funding of stem cells" I admit, but then you used my lumping them together as a strawman to avoid dealing the with abortion question. Jackass.
And your argument about the harvesting of stem cells is (of course) ignorant in imprecise. You can harvest enough stem cells for a transplant from an adult donor, using a blood recirculator. Oh so violent. Good thing its not funded.
Back to Poland and the Jews.
First off, Jews aren't religious pacifists as you seem to think. A lot of civillian Jews were rounded up and deported, but I fail to see how it would have been any different if they were targeting slavs or gays or gypsys...as in fact they did, and it wasn't. They could have targeted any group, and all the rest would have let them do it.
You should look up the Warsaw uprising. The jews took over a decent chunk of the city with small arms and clubs, and held it against the Germans for more than a month. More. Than. A. Month. In 1943. Again, you prove you know nothing about World War II, and this time you've added Jews to the mix. Anyone who has delusions of Jewish pacifism and/or cowardice should look at modern Israel.
You seem to have this idea that there is some weakness in moral fiber inherent in unarmed civillians not choosing to fight well-armed soldiers to the death. The resistance movements in Poland, the Ukraine, and even France were widespread and worked under conditions you can't even imagine. Just because they chose not to fight a conventional war they could not win doesn't mean they gave up.
I find your ignorant contempt for other peoples heroism to be repellent. I find your quasi-moral self-riteousness to be disgusting. And your ignorance frankly amazing. Do you know anything, or do you just spout unformed opinions all the time?
I hear ya. That last thing we need is a form of exercise that's fun.
If you had problems with Heart of Darkness, and/or think Heart of Darkness was written by Flannery O'Connor, you've got bigger problems.
Heart of Darkness was one of the only things I read in high school that I truly loved. It's short, it makes you think, and it is beautifully written.
Then you can watch "Apocalypse Now" afterward to show kids a different perspective on it. I have a fond memory of the school principal walking into the classroom during our screening of "Apocalpyse Now" (go AP English), at just the exact moment when a helicopter pilot was gunning down a fleeing villager screaming "F*** HER IN THE ASS! F*** HER IN THE ASS!" The expression on his face makes me laugh to this day.
You clearly don't know much about WWII if you think the Poles didn't fight. Thye fought with everything they had, on three fronts, against the Germans and the Soviets. There are (possibly apocryphal) stories of Polish cavalry...horse cavalry charging tanks when they had nothing left to fight with. If the Czechs had had one third of the stubborn courage the Poles showed, there wouldn't have even been a world war II.
I find it very typical of the Republican viewpoint you claim not to espouse that you can wave away war deaths like they're nothing, and then start denouncing people for a moral choice you don't agree with.
One of the foundations of Libertariansim is small government, the very opposite of the sort of large paternal government that would ban abaortion/stem cell research.
Wow, really?
Time for me to steal Microsoft's identity and go on a permanent bender, buying everyone drinks, going on vacation, snorting blow off hookers asses, while the corporation, it's grounds and corporate offices in disarray, sits in a dingy police station trying to explain to the cops that the guy pretending to be a multinational downtown in the strip club is really not one.
Heh. When I was at school, I used to listen to music while walking to/from class. I can't count the number of times I slung my heavy backpack full of math and science textbooks into the car, only to find that I'd accidentally wrapped my extremely resilient headphone cord around one of the straps. Headphone cable came out of the left side, phones wrapped around the back, but the mp3 player was on the right side, because I'm right-handed. Bag moves forward, pulls tough wire tight around neck...GAAK!
Have since purchased headphones with a breakaway plug in the middle.
If everything plays nice, then it'll be a good thing. Redundancy (the good kind), increased efficiency (You deal with me quickly and fairly or I'll go over there to them, nyah), and reduced odds that someone'll start fiddling with information at the top level.
If they DON'T play nice, god what a headache.
I don't see it as a bad thing. Competing registries should forment some of that biological competition we all love so much. The best ones will out, and the worst ones will fall into disuse.
The only issue is how it gets worked into the existing framework so that we aren't stuck with any particular set depending on our geographic locale.
We all know its stupid anyway. If Rockstar released an AO version of GTA, horny twelve yearolds would be lined up around the block to buy it. They'd have their moms with them, of course, because how you you think they buy the M games now? "Mommy can I get this?" "Will it shut you up?" "Uh huh" "Okay then"
Ooops, I talked about parental responsibility. Along with corporate, and political responsibilty, it's one of the least popular subjects in our society.
Ah yes, please don't sink to the level of logic. Think that that would do to your unique perception of the world.
Just remember that you are a unique snowflake, just like everyone else.
Always amuses me when people say that, like its actually possible for the human mind to function without catagorizing things all the time.
Take the word "Tree" for example. It is the most utterly broad of stereotypes. It covers so much ground it's hard to wrap your mind around it. Trees of all types, in all stages of growth and decay, they are all represented by that one word, and represented equally well.
The ability to group things with similar charactersistics into large semi-arbitrary groups is one of the very hallmarks of our thought process as an entire species. We spend the first years of our lives doing nothing but building up categories in our heads. These things are edible, these things are friendly, these things can hurt me.
Apparently you, however, don't do this. I'm quite surprised you manage to function in society at all! Of course, for you there is no society. There is only one huge collection of non-grouped things, and you have no ability to predict in any way what they are going to do, or what they are going to be like without studying each and every one individually and distinctly. Must be fun crossing the street...Oh wait, for you there is no street. My bad.
You sir, are a moron.
Most copyright law is tilted toward the little guy. All you have to do to copyright something you wrote is put your name on it.
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