If the guy were to come outside with a gun, which would be the worst case scenario, he would quickly put it down when the police yelled POLICE repeatedly, as they are trained to do.
Hmm...I wonder if...
Naah. Never happen.
...but what if maybe...just maybe...a criminal shouted 'POLICE'.
If someone breaks into my house shouting 'POLICE', I'm not putting down my gun until I can visually verify they are in fact police officers. And the more they merrier. Criminals usually don't come in packs of 10.
I could equally fairly ask, what kind of idiot thinks there is an omnipotent, omnipresent being?
My debate wasn't about an omnipresent being existing or not existing. The debate was about one existing and whether you could understand his reasoning.
Of course down the 'existence' path, I have never heard anyone prove absolutely that one exists--or does not exist.
If the bible is correct, we won't have proof until we die, or the world ends.
If the bible is wrong, we won't have proof until we die, or the world ends.
Of course that's why faith is such an important thing in religions.
Unfortunately, this also makes it easy for a thief to disable the system after they've stolen your vehicle.
I drive a 1984 Dotson/Nissan pickup truck. It has more rust-spots than paint-spots, it's noisy as hell, and it drives like a BMW would drive during an 8.5 earthquake.
I don't have to worry about it being stolen. Hell--I leave leave the keys in it 24/7 and during the summer the windows are rolled down.
I guess it's just not attractive to car prowlers.
I suppose if anyone did steal it, it would be easy enough to track without onStar--just follow the plume of smoke and look for the POS that can barely make it to 50 and looks like it's probably on fire.
The point was that interpreting the mind of this supposed all-powerful thing is exactly what religions claim to do. Bible studies? Sermons? Ring a bell? You asked what idiots, there's your answer.
Wrong again. If you believe what the bible says, it is not an interpretation. The bible is allegedly the word of God written out by people...(I can't think of the word...inspired?) by him.
In other words they wrote what God said to write.
Bible studies are supposed to be a group of people who get together and read/discuss what is in the bible. You might say they are interpreting it--but I disagree. You could take any complex subject matter and listen to 10 different people tell you what it means to them, and every one will be slightly different--even though they are all talking about the same thing. And because of the small differences in the way people understand it, and the discussion that takes place, you may find new revelations and personal insights.
Plus it's nice to hang out with a group of people who share your same views--weather it's religion, politics, football, or technology.
As for sermons, I probably have a different view than most people on the subject.
If the bible was created as a way to understanding salvation, why would it be so complex that you need someone to read it to you? If you were stranded on a desert island with only enough stuff to survive--and a bible, is it possible to be 'saved'? I would think yes. I do not believe you would burn in hell simply because you couldn't find a Catholic priest to 'absolve' you. (Which I never understood anyways--nothing I have read says you need some retarded church official to 'save' you or absolve you.)
As for idiots, you will find them in every slice of the populous. There are quite a few 'learned' scientists that believe in God. Likewise I know some backwoods idiots who can barely read or write who believe the same.
I wouldn't focus on the people that believe, but rather the belief.
By not condemning murder, rape, and slavery because "what kind of idiot thinks they could understand the mind of an omnipotent, omnipresent being" is condoning it.
No, I am not condoning it. I think the premise is wrong. I'll admit that I haven't read the bible from cover to cover yet, but I haven't seen anything in there that says rape, murder, and enslave.
My question would be what kind of idiot thinks they can please/gain-favor-with/enjoy-the-everlasting-company of an omnipotent, omnipresent being they can never understand?
I never said 'never understand'. But a more appropriate statement would be 'never understand in this lifetime'. Of course my analogy between the child and parent kinda breaks down at this point.
I'm simply saying that if there was a being that was all powerful, has all knowledge, etc...what makes you think you could possibly understand his or her reasons?
It's like a child trying to understand adult reasoning. It's not possible.
So *if* there is a God, you wouldn't understand his reasoning.
What kind of God approves of murder, rape, and slavery?
What kind of idiot thinks they could understand the mind of an omnipotent, omnipresent being?
Not saying I condone those actions, just saying you are retarded for thinking you understand the reasoning of God--in much the same way my 1-year-old doesn't understand *why* I don't want him to stick his finger in the light socket--just that I don't want him to do it.
Yes.
I think everyone missed my point though.
You may not like tomtom, they may not give back, you can refuse to do business with them, or help them, or promote them, etc...
I just hate the people who whine and bitch about it like they are entitled to get something back from tomtom.
They aren't.
But even though I'm not entitled to get anything from tomtom, and they aren't giving anything back--I'm still not going to buy one.
It already is. Look around your doctor's office next time you are there. See the computers? They aren't Macs now, are they?
One of my clients is a dental office. They are pretty darn secure, but I ran across something interesting when I was down setting up one of their new offices.
I fired up my laptop and it automatically connected to an AP named 'linksys'.
I couldn't get to the internet because it assigned no default gateway. So I started sniffing packets and saw a bunch of windows garbage scroll past.
I fired up the network browser in Ubuntu and started surfing around.
To make a long story short, in about 2 minutes I had an entire copy of the patient database from the dental office next door to my client. I walked in to their front desk and showed them what I managed to access and asked them about their 'IT guy'. They said he was 'sort of an idiot'.
Yeah. Thanks for exposing data on about 2,000 patients. I'm sure they want their Names, DOB's, allergies, medical history, insurance information, work information, physical and mailing addresses, phone numbers, spouse and child information, and even their photographs exposed to anyone who wants to sit in the lobby with a laptop for 5 minutes.
The only slightly redeeming part was that they didn't store and credit card details.
Others might argue that they (the most populous and entrepreneurial state)
lost most of the rest of the country (to backwards thinking) a long time ago...
Yes...and those people are locked away in our nations mental institutions.
Out here in the real world however, most people think California is retarded.
I'm too lazy to look up the source, but the appropriate quote goes something along the lines of "Do what you will, lock him up, torture him, but a man's thoughts are his own until he chooses to reveal them."
The way I see it is that TomTom is saving a nice chunk of change by using OSS/GNU/Linux to build the base of their systems. It would be nice if they took a small part of those savings and just... maybe... wrote some software for OSS/GNU/Linux users.
I agree--it would be nice. But this attitude from the open source community where they get on their soap box and say "I gave it to you for free--but you didn't give me anything back." is retarded. So what if they don't give anything back. They don't have to.
I think Microsoft software sucks, so I run only linux at home. I got it for free. Sure--it'd be nice if I was able to give something back to the open source community, but it's not required.
Because they are benefiting from a mature, open source, and well understood pre-established operating system. If there was no Linux they would have to spend much more development costs in building their own OS for their devices.
That's retarded. It's like bringing in cookies to work and telling everyone to chow down and enjoy. Then a few days later, you start bitching and moaning that no one else brought in cookies, or made your recipe any better, or whatever.
Linux is given to them FREE. There is no requirement that (because they use it) they suddenly have to improve it and give it back. The knife cuts both ways.
If you need to protect the swap file, you can set Windows to zero it out cleanly on shutdown (a setting under security options if you pull up secpol.msc.)
The problem is that if I go steal your server to hack stuff, I'm not going to do an orderly shutdown. I'm just pulling the plug and running.
I doubt windows can zero the pagefile when it loses power. (...or bluescreens.)
That being said, the owner of the access point is entirely within their rights to both improperly secure it, and to attempt to pursue those who improperly use it.
I'm not really good with the analogy thing, but here goes...
If you improperly secure the door to your house, it takes a conscious act of someone to enter it all the while knowing it's not their house, not their door, and they didn't obtain permission to be there.
On the other hand, both the wireless client under Windows XP, and network-manager under Linux auto connect to open access points.
So...er...it'd be like someone else clubbing you upside the head, and forcing you through the door against your will.
So go after Bill Gates or...uh...networkmanager-list@gnome.org. Whoever the hell he is.
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At my company (large telco) every employee is put through a class that specifically instructs him on those things: what fire extinguisher to use,
Lucky for me one of my clients is a fire station. If something catches on fire, there are going to be 10 firefighters jumping up from their daily activities (channel surfing) to take care of it.
It's their job to worry about fires and stuff. It's my job to make sure they can surf to myspace.
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They must serve a good purpose somewhere...
Yeah--I was recently required by my employer to get my A+ cert. I was told it was specifically so it looked good on paper, so we had something to tell out customers. My boss said it sounds impressive to customers when we have lots of certs.
Hopefully the customers won't know about the final question the exam asked me... "What kind of fire extinguisher do you use to put out a computer fire?"
Yes. XP Pro under a domain requires you to hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and provide your username/password.
When not joined to a domain it auto-logs in just like XP home when you don't setup additional accounts.
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If the guy were to come outside with a gun, which would be the worst case scenario, he would quickly put it down when the police yelled POLICE repeatedly, as they are trained to do.
...but what if maybe...just maybe...a criminal shouted 'POLICE'.
Hmm...I wonder if...
Naah. Never happen.
If someone breaks into my house shouting 'POLICE', I'm not putting down my gun until I can visually verify they are in fact police officers. And the more they merrier. Criminals usually don't come in packs of 10.
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua?
Jar Jar? Is that you?
Falwell, Phelps, Bush...
Yeah, Falwell is a douche--and I'll admit I'm on the fence about Bush. But Phelps?!? That guy is beyond idiot, and way beyond 'screwed up'.
I could equally fairly ask, what kind of idiot thinks there is an omnipotent, omnipresent being?
My debate wasn't about an omnipresent being existing or not existing. The debate was about one existing and whether you could understand his reasoning.
Of course down the 'existence' path, I have never heard anyone prove absolutely that one exists--or does not exist.
If the bible is correct, we won't have proof until we die, or the world ends.
If the bible is wrong, we won't have proof until we die, or the world ends.
Of course that's why faith is such an important thing in religions.
Unfortunately, this also makes it easy for a thief to disable the system after they've stolen your vehicle.
I drive a 1984 Dotson/Nissan pickup truck. It has more rust-spots than paint-spots, it's noisy as hell, and it drives like a BMW would drive during an 8.5 earthquake.
I don't have to worry about it being stolen. Hell--I leave leave the keys in it 24/7 and during the summer the windows are rolled down.
I guess it's just not attractive to car prowlers.
I suppose if anyone did steal it, it would be easy enough to track without onStar--just follow the plume of smoke and look for the POS that can barely make it to 50 and looks like it's probably on fire.
The point was that interpreting the mind of this supposed all-powerful thing is exactly what religions claim to do. Bible studies? Sermons? Ring a bell? You asked what idiots, there's your answer.
Wrong again. If you believe what the bible says, it is not an interpretation. The bible is allegedly the word of God written out by people...(I can't think of the word...inspired?) by him.
In other words they wrote what God said to write.
Bible studies are supposed to be a group of people who get together and read/discuss what is in the bible. You might say they are interpreting it--but I disagree. You could take any complex subject matter and listen to 10 different people tell you what it means to them, and every one will be slightly different--even though they are all talking about the same thing. And because of the small differences in the way people understand it, and the discussion that takes place, you may find new revelations and personal insights.
Plus it's nice to hang out with a group of people who share your same views--weather it's religion, politics, football, or technology.
As for sermons, I probably have a different view than most people on the subject.
If the bible was created as a way to understanding salvation, why would it be so complex that you need someone to read it to you? If you were stranded on a desert island with only enough stuff to survive--and a bible, is it possible to be 'saved'? I would think yes. I do not believe you would burn in hell simply because you couldn't find a Catholic priest to 'absolve' you. (Which I never understood anyways--nothing I have read says you need some retarded church official to 'save' you or absolve you.)
As for idiots, you will find them in every slice of the populous. There are quite a few 'learned' scientists that believe in God. Likewise I know some backwoods idiots who can barely read or write who believe the same.
I wouldn't focus on the people that believe, but rather the belief.
By not condemning murder, rape, and slavery because "what kind of idiot thinks they could understand the mind of an omnipotent, omnipresent being" is condoning it.
No, I am not condoning it. I think the premise is wrong. I'll admit that I haven't read the bible from cover to cover yet, but I haven't seen anything in there that says rape, murder, and enslave.
My question would be what kind of idiot thinks they can please/gain-favor-with/enjoy-the-everlasting-company of an omnipotent, omnipresent being they can never understand?
I never said 'never understand'. But a more appropriate statement would be 'never understand in this lifetime'. Of course my analogy between the child and parent kinda breaks down at this point.
I'm not saying anything about religion.
I'm simply saying that if there was a being that was all powerful, has all knowledge, etc...what makes you think you could possibly understand his or her reasons?
It's like a child trying to understand adult reasoning. It's not possible.
So *if* there is a God, you wouldn't understand his reasoning.
What kind of God approves of murder, rape, and slavery?
What kind of idiot thinks they could understand the mind of an omnipotent, omnipresent being?
Not saying I condone those actions, just saying you are retarded for thinking you understand the reasoning of God--in much the same way my 1-year-old doesn't understand *why* I don't want him to stick his finger in the light socket--just that I don't want him to do it.
Yes.
I think everyone missed my point though.
You may not like tomtom, they may not give back, you can refuse to do business with them, or help them, or promote them, etc...
I just hate the people who whine and bitch about it like they are entitled to get something back from tomtom.
They aren't.
But even though I'm not entitled to get anything from tomtom, and they aren't giving anything back--I'm still not going to buy one.
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Too far.
The line must be drawn *HERE*...and no farther.
It already is. Look around your doctor's office next time you are there. See the computers? They aren't Macs now, are they?
One of my clients is a dental office. They are pretty darn secure, but I ran across something interesting when I was down setting up one of their new offices.
I fired up my laptop and it automatically connected to an AP named 'linksys'.
I couldn't get to the internet because it assigned no default gateway. So I started sniffing packets and saw a bunch of windows garbage scroll past.
I fired up the network browser in Ubuntu and started surfing around.
To make a long story short, in about 2 minutes I had an entire copy of the patient database from the dental office next door to my client. I walked in to their front desk and showed them what I managed to access and asked them about their 'IT guy'. They said he was 'sort of an idiot'.
Yeah. Thanks for exposing data on about 2,000 patients. I'm sure they want their Names, DOB's, allergies, medical history, insurance information, work information, physical and mailing addresses, phone numbers, spouse and child information, and even their photographs exposed to anyone who wants to sit in the lobby with a laptop for 5 minutes.
The only slightly redeeming part was that they didn't store and credit card details.
Others might argue that they (the most populous and entrepreneurial state) lost most of the rest of the country (to backwards thinking) a long time ago...
Yes...and those people are locked away in our nations mental institutions.
Out here in the real world however, most people think California is retarded.
I'm too lazy to look up the source, but the appropriate quote goes something along the lines of "Do what you will, lock him up, torture him, but a man's thoughts are his own until he chooses to reveal them."
Like a bridge *entirely *composed *of troubled water...?
20mm...ok. But 25mm is a bridge too far...
So while solid state will fragment, it doesn't matter for performance or reliability.
Yes, but it *needs* to be defragged because I *hate* seeing red in my disk analysis...
The way I see it is that TomTom is saving a nice chunk of change by using OSS/GNU/Linux to build the base of their systems. It would be nice if they took a small part of those savings and just... maybe... wrote some software for OSS/GNU/Linux users.
I agree--it would be nice. But this attitude from the open source community where they get on their soap box and say "I gave it to you for free--but you didn't give me anything back." is retarded. So what if they don't give anything back. They don't have to.
I think Microsoft software sucks, so I run only linux at home. I got it for free. Sure--it'd be nice if I was able to give something back to the open source community, but it's not required.
Because they are benefiting from a mature, open source, and well understood pre-established operating system. If there was no Linux they would have to spend much more development costs in building their own OS for their devices.
That's retarded. It's like bringing in cookies to work and telling everyone to chow down and enjoy. Then a few days later, you start bitching and moaning that no one else brought in cookies, or made your recipe any better, or whatever.
Linux is given to them FREE. There is no requirement that (because they use it) they suddenly have to improve it and give it back. The knife cuts both ways.
I kept mine with the file attribute set to hidden, locked in a footlocker in my closet
Instead of logical security, I opted for physical security.
I had one of those super tiny locks with the weird diamond logo on it locked through one of the holes on the floppy.
I was betting on the fact that my parents didn't know how to take a floppy apart and toss the media into another floppy 'shell'.
If you need to protect the swap file, you can set Windows to zero it out cleanly on shutdown (a setting under security options if you pull up secpol.msc.)
The problem is that if I go steal your server to hack stuff, I'm not going to do an orderly shutdown. I'm just pulling the plug and running.
I doubt windows can zero the pagefile when it loses power. (...or bluescreens.)
You lost me after "...you start out with 10 files".
That being said, the owner of the access point is entirely within their rights to both improperly secure it, and to attempt to pursue those who improperly use it.
I'm not really good with the analogy thing, but here goes...
If you improperly secure the door to your house, it takes a conscious act of someone to enter it all the while knowing it's not their house, not their door, and they didn't obtain permission to be there.
On the other hand, both the wireless client under Windows XP, and network-manager under Linux auto connect to open access points.
So...er...it'd be like someone else clubbing you upside the head, and forcing you through the door against your will.
So go after Bill Gates or...uh...networkmanager-list@gnome.org. Whoever the hell he is.
At my company (large telco) every employee is put through a class that specifically instructs him on those things: what fire extinguisher to use,
Lucky for me one of my clients is a fire station. If something catches on fire, there are going to be 10 firefighters jumping up from their daily activities (channel surfing) to take care of it.
It's their job to worry about fires and stuff. It's my job to make sure they can surf to myspace.
They must serve a good purpose somewhere...
Yeah--I was recently required by my employer to get my A+ cert. I was told it was specifically so it looked good on paper, so we had something to tell out customers. My boss said it sounds impressive to customers when we have lots of certs.
Hopefully the customers won't know about the final question the exam asked me... "What kind of fire extinguisher do you use to put out a computer fire?"
Yes. XP Pro under a domain requires you to hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and provide your username/password. When not joined to a domain it auto-logs in just like XP home when you don't setup additional accounts.