if we can find a way to take away their motivations, we'll have less hassles to do with on our networks.
Bored children break stuff for the sheer hell of it. To seek deeper meaning here is to completely fail to understand bored children. Distract (and that's all you can do, merely distract) child A from breaking a thing, and child B will come along and break it while you're still busy with child A. There's nothing to see here. Move along.
we'd like to know what motivates black hats
You're presuming to use logic (or something similar) to understand a non-logical phenomenon. Don't work. Human emotion is a manifestly NONlinear function and additionally changes from one state to another with about the same level of predictabliity as the position and momentum of a particular subatomic particle. Fuggabouddit.
we'd like to find a way to get them to play on the white team
That way has already been found: Let them grow up. They'll get over it. Or at least most of them will. But you can never predict with certainty exactly which ones. And every year a new crop is growing.
Gaining control of "this kind of thing" to your own advantage promising to control "this kind of thing" to protect others is what's driven political change since the days of bearskins and flint axes.
You are wise beyond my ken. Your powers of insight reveal all. You may have 100% of my harvest, as well as all of my daughters for as long as the stars shine in the nighttime sky.
The reason many unethical businesses fail is that they are fleeced by unethical executives.
Concur.
The mindset of this sort of individual will be to bleed whatever is most conveniently at hand to bleed. Including the corporate body in which they are imbedded.
Eventually this sort of behavior will get its comeuppance, but an awful lot of blood winds up on the floor before it happens. Unfortunately.
Controlling this kind of thing is what's driven political change since the days of bearskins and flint axes. Needless to say, NOBODY has come up with an effective solution to the problem in all that time. Expect no magic bullets any time soon. Or ever.
There will be no money left. Before this is over, the lawyers will be at each other's throats, snarling over scraps so small as to require a microscope to find.
It will be as if Michael Valentine Smith had rotated SCO ninety degrees away from everything, taking your license money with it.
at that point you could rely on the effects of centrifgul force and use lighter cables.
the first thing that pops into my mind is sea kelp forrest of Monteray Bay. Maybe a space elevator with bouyancy ballons would resemble that in construction.
Not to sound too pessimistic, but a quick, in the head calculation, gives me to believe that the thing would scale similar to a thousand foot tall kelp forest, with floats helping to hold it up bobbing on the surface of the foot-deep water it was growing in. Or something along those lines.
if you consider some of the *cough* art that's being foisted upon the music consumer these days by the Big Corps, this might be considered a sign of Coming Improvements in the product.
Mark my words (or perhaps mark somebody else's words, it don't matter), before this is over we're gonna look back on what the East Germans were doing to their olympic athletes as the good old days.
This shit's gonna get weird as hell before it plays itself out.
By the time your grandchildren reach voting age, "enhanced" humans are going to be SERIOUS trouble to deal with for the rest of us.
And the Pentagon, ever the sucker for Faustian Bargains, will cheerfully smooth the way for this nightmare to bring itself into existence.
unmanne motorcycle is going to be way short on payload capacity - something that DARPS probably care deeply about
If the bike takes the prize, you may shortly expect to see perhaps house-sized robotic bikes with various military insignia upon them. Which is a pretty weird vision, if you ask me.
Don't mean to troll, but isn't this argument a contradiction? If every other system is down, then you'd get no interference and HAM radio would work fine.
All very well and good, but if ham radio is interfered out, at all times excepting those times when the power is down, ham radio is dead for all intents and purposes.
Ok, so we've now got a dead technology.
Exactly how many people do you expect to shell out the money and the effort to learn this dead technology when it's not working correctly 363 and a half days a year? My guess is nobody. Ergo, when the chutney eventually hits the fan large, there will be no hams around to bail our sorry asses out of the jam we're in.
The blame for that unfortunate situation will lie squarely at the feet of the instrumentality that rendered ham radio operators an extinct species: Broadband over powerlines.
When the disaster hits, and the air is crystal clear, there's not going to be anybody talking. Me no like.
Hubble is the first to go - followed a close second by the IIS.
Don't be so sure that this isn't some kind of ploy to kill the Space Station with a minimum of political fallout.
Think about it: They've proposed scuttling what is perhaps Nasa's most popular program, HST. ISS is a white elephant and everybody knows it, but we're tied to the damn thing by all sorts of binding legal things. So why not propose to kill HST, generate a huge outrage against not only that, but also the money-sucking ISS, and then sit back and "let the people speak" and wash our hands of the whole sordid affair. Europe, Japan, Canada, and everybody else in on the ISS boondoggle get to go suck eggs, while the Americans save themselves a boatload of money, kill off a particularly useless program, and wind up looking like heros for doing it.
The most salient question regarding any redistribution of water to areas near the equator would involve low lying land (coral atolls) in that area. Folks living in places like that could be very concerned indeed, since a small rise in the water translates directly into a large decrease in the land area upon which they're living.
And below, my own:
*****
Regards the bit of fluff by Stephen Evans concerning the alleged "new front in a war waged by those who want to preserve the open-source Linux operating system."
Unfounded claims and sensationalistic opinions do no belong among what I have always presumed to be the more level-headed fare I've come to expect from the BBC.
You've recently taken a direct hit to your credibility with the WMD business, and now this.
Has management shifted the focus of the BBC in an effort to prop up ratings? Has your staff simply become incompetent? Or is this all just coincidence?
Regardless of the reason for this latest lapse, my faith in the objectivity of the BBC has been shaken and it will take some doing on your part to restore it. If, in fact, you're interested in restoring the faith of those of us who read you material.
Regards,
'Fraid not. I done it, just like I says I done. The stripe is DEFINITELY no longer doing its job, or otherwise why would the police be asking me about that? Maybe it was the steel table, maybe it was I just got lucky, maybe it was no damned good from the beginning. I dunno. But it's broke now, that I do know.
And while you're at it, please brush up on your social skills, ok?
Mine does too. So the first thing I did with it after I got it was to lay it on a steel table at work and take a whacking big speaker magnet and just go to town on that thing. I've had law enforcement question me about the lack of data on that stripe, but so far a doofus look and a shrug of the shoulders has seen me on my way. Your mileage will vary.
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Bored children break stuff for the sheer hell of it. To seek deeper meaning here is to completely fail to understand bored children. Distract (and that's all you can do, merely distract) child A from breaking a thing, and child B will come along and break it while you're still busy with child A. There's nothing to see here. Move along.
we'd like to know what motivates black hats
You're presuming to use logic (or something similar) to understand a non-logical phenomenon. Don't work. Human emotion is a manifestly NONlinear function and additionally changes from one state to another with about the same level of predictabliity as the position and momentum of a particular subatomic particle. Fuggabouddit.
we'd like to find a way to get them to play on the white team
That way has already been found: Let them grow up. They'll get over it. Or at least most of them will. But you can never predict with certainty exactly which ones. And every year a new crop is growing.
You are wise beyond my ken. Your powers of insight reveal all. You may have 100% of my harvest, as well as all of my daughters for as long as the stars shine in the nighttime sky.
Concur.
The mindset of this sort of individual will be to bleed whatever is most conveniently at hand to bleed. Including the corporate body in which they are imbedded.
Eventually this sort of behavior will get its comeuppance, but an awful lot of blood winds up on the floor before it happens. Unfortunately.
Controlling this kind of thing is what's driven political change since the days of bearskins and flint axes. Needless to say, NOBODY has come up with an effective solution to the problem in all that time. Expect no magic bullets any time soon. Or ever.
There will be no money left. Before this is over, the lawyers will be at each other's throats, snarling over scraps so small as to require a microscope to find.
It will be as if Michael Valentine Smith had rotated SCO ninety degrees away from everything, taking your license money with it.
So if it's a "mistake" the Slashdot Spike will no doubt bring somebody's attention to it and it will be corrected.
Ok, fine.
Care to place any wagers on how long this presumed correction will take?
Whatta ya say we all periodically keep checking back just to see what happens?
Slashback anyone?
Not likely.
MiG-25="Foxbat" but that's about as close as I got with these folks.
Looks like my browser is safe from any accusations from Ashcroft or any of the rest of that cheersome lot. For now anyway.
At least they didn't name it after the MiG-15.
No guarantee that this will work for anybody else, but it DID just work for me.
Very well then.
Next question please.
the first thing that pops into my mind is sea kelp forrest of Monteray Bay. Maybe a space elevator with bouyancy ballons would resemble that in construction.
Not to sound too pessimistic, but a quick, in the head calculation, gives me to believe that the thing would scale similar to a thousand foot tall kelp forest, with floats helping to hold it up bobbing on the surface of the foot-deep water it was growing in. Or something along those lines.
Yeah, and they'll probably wind up building it in New Jersey, too.
One should hope so, shouldn't one?
Yeah, but what about that creepy-looking guy on the ground right next to it, with the scissors.
an old launch pad (boy, the anchor bolt refurb on that UT was a BASTARD, nevermind any of the rest of it), into a fairly useful facility, but the new new rocket was a piece of shit and they finally decided to just blow the whole damned facility to hell and be done with it, but we sure had some fun there with it for a while.
Maim vt: to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously.
Ok, fair enough.
Is the RIAA looking into this stuff?
Mark my words (or perhaps mark somebody else's words, it don't matter), before this is over we're gonna look back on what the East Germans were doing to their olympic athletes as the good old days.
This shit's gonna get weird as hell before it plays itself out.
By the time your grandchildren reach voting age, "enhanced" humans are going to be SERIOUS trouble to deal with for the rest of us.
And the Pentagon, ever the sucker for Faustian Bargains, will cheerfully smooth the way for this nightmare to bring itself into existence.
If the bike takes the prize, you may shortly expect to see perhaps house-sized robotic bikes with various military insignia upon them. Which is a pretty weird vision, if you ask me.
All very well and good, but if ham radio is interfered out, at all times excepting those times when the power is down, ham radio is dead for all intents and purposes.
Ok, so we've now got a dead technology.
Exactly how many people do you expect to shell out the money and the effort to learn this dead technology when it's not working correctly 363 and a half days a year? My guess is nobody. Ergo, when the chutney eventually hits the fan large, there will be no hams around to bail our sorry asses out of the jam we're in.
The blame for that unfortunate situation will lie squarely at the feet of the instrumentality that rendered ham radio operators an extinct species: Broadband over powerlines.
When the disaster hits, and the air is crystal clear, there's not going to be anybody talking. Me no like.
Don't be so sure that this isn't some kind of ploy to kill the Space Station with a minimum of political fallout.
Think about it: They've proposed scuttling what is perhaps Nasa's most popular program, HST. ISS is a white elephant and everybody knows it, but we're tied to the damn thing by all sorts of binding legal things. So why not propose to kill HST, generate a huge outrage against not only that, but also the money-sucking ISS, and then sit back and "let the people speak" and wash our hands of the whole sordid affair. Europe, Japan, Canada, and everybody else in on the ISS boondoggle get to go suck eggs, while the Americans save themselves a boatload of money, kill off a particularly useless program, and wind up looking like heros for doing it.
Far fetched? Maybe. Maybe not.
The most salient question regarding any redistribution of water to areas near the equator would involve low lying land (coral atolls) in that area. Folks living in places like that could be very concerned indeed, since a small rise in the water translates directly into a large decrease in the land area upon which they're living.
And below, my own: ***** Regards the bit of fluff by Stephen Evans concerning the alleged "new front in a war waged by those who want to preserve the open-source Linux operating system." Unfounded claims and sensationalistic opinions do no belong among what I have always presumed to be the more level-headed fare I've come to expect from the BBC. You've recently taken a direct hit to your credibility with the WMD business, and now this. Has management shifted the focus of the BBC in an effort to prop up ratings? Has your staff simply become incompetent? Or is this all just coincidence? Regardless of the reason for this latest lapse, my faith in the objectivity of the BBC has been shaken and it will take some doing on your part to restore it. If, in fact, you're interested in restoring the faith of those of us who read you material. Regards,
It could happen.
your also a liar
'Fraid not. I done it, just like I says I done. The stripe is DEFINITELY no longer doing its job, or otherwise why would the police be asking me about that? Maybe it was the steel table, maybe it was I just got lucky, maybe it was no damned good from the beginning. I dunno. But it's broke now, that I do know.
And while you're at it, please brush up on your social skills, ok?
Mine does too. So the first thing I did with it after I got it was to lay it on a steel table at work and take a whacking big speaker magnet and just go to town on that thing. I've had law enforcement question me about the lack of data on that stripe, but so far a doofus look and a shrug of the shoulders has seen me on my way. Your mileage will vary.
You pussy! You don't need a hammer to do that! Hell, my little sister could mash that PIV down in there with her bare hands and so can you!
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