Counterstrike is a great example of that not being the case.. There's a handful of frequently played maps that have stook the test of time. (5 years?)
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Remember when you talked to a reporter, and the reporter would check the facts and find out you lied, you might get a chance to correct yourself before the story went to print, or you'd get exposed as a liar?
What happened to the media? People seem to be lying about all sorts of things these days and nobody seems to care.
There doesn't appear to be any repercussion anymore. People are too willing to ascribe a lie to being a 'mistake'. Why cant we be held accountable for the facts?
Journalism Programs everywhere: Please stop producing these Soft Ball pitchers. While there is a lot of money to be made in 'Infotainment' news shows, it is necessary for democracy that we have impartial journalists that know how to dig up dirt, have integrity, and follow through.
Last time I checked, companies lay people off for any reason they want..
As well, while it may not be cancer, it could be ADHD, depression, alcoholism, predisposition to snapping and shooting co-workers..
Also the effect that a person will have on the company insurance. Gotta keep those premiums down.
While people do just up and die randomly, it's the ones with prolonged illnesses or negative conditions that will get singled out.
-n
In GATTACA, they had laws against genetically profiling.. If you didn't agree to a genetic test, they'd just lift your genetic material off the door knob you used to enter the office, or the glass you drank out of..
Seems like a fairly plausable scenario to me.
'Well, we didn't hire him because his additude didn't seem right for our team... And we wish him the best of luck with his imminent bout with cancer.'
FSP was popular because you could setup sites in your home directory, and run the daemon without root privs.FSP at the time was "important" for the role it temporarily played. It allowed people to 'casually' serve and retrieve files without needing a lot of infrastructure.
Back when FSP was 'hot', lots of people didn't have Linux servers laying around, or root access, or lots of bandwidth, or p2p gui tools. They had FTP which was a pain to setup in your home directory and sometimes wasn't configurable to non-priv ports, they had TFTP which didn't allow for any authentication.
So, while you bring up some interesting points about why FSP is obviated, since you weren't around when it was 'hot', you may lack the perspective to know why it was at one point useful.
If anything, P2P has really obviated FSP, not Rsync, SCP or SFTP.
Rsync, SCP, and SFTP obviate FTP, but not FTP-SSL..
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Besides, who ever heard of an 'public underground rsync site' ?:)
My main assertion is that bypassing airline security is a bit easier than identifying and exploiting a domino failure in the electrical infrastructure.
You're far more likely to just have a weird bug than
a terrorist attack.
I disagree. There are 'minor' (aka so small that it doesn't freak people out) power outages all the time. The odds of 'major' outages occuring like this are higher than someone being able to anticipate the dominos of such a massive failure and specifically engineering this.
I bet if you asked most of the people who work in the electricty grids where there are major problems, they'd tell you they already fixed all the obvious ones after 9/11.
At this point, you'd probably have to find something that the skilled engineers missed.
Well, case in point.. The HAMs usually present themselves as being the last line of defense or communication, or something, I forget -- after a catastrophic event.
Hey, that's fine. If something catastrophic occures and the phone lines (and power!) go out, you're back at the right hand of community service. All the girls who ran away to sidle up on the Broadband through Power hunks will realize the error in their ways and come slinking back in shame.
Will this be like the movie where the stubborn general doesn't listen to the sensitive and intelligent scientist and tries to use force to solve the problem rather than playing a game of tic-tac-toe or having a skiing competition?
Will the HAMs somehow arrange for the FCC or the PUC to end up with a custard pie in the collective faces to underscore how wrong they are, after they win the day?
Just remember. Morse-Code over HAM radio won us the Independence Day Alien showdown. Without HAM we never could have coordinated! And Morse code! Don't forget Morse code!
At this point, most payphones are basically like road-side assistance phones. It's necessary for the well being of society that we have these life-lines, even if they're not profitable.
Just think of Morpheus reaching for the phone, and there's nothing there!
I'm sure that Joe Midwest will be clamoring to buy a mac and iPod, sign up for iTunes, pay a buck a song, and download the soundtrack to extraordinarily old gentlemen!
This can only be indicitive of the luke-warm reception that is expected for this turkey.
They're footing the bill for this "research". Their company provides source code auditing services. So, to gain visibility on their services, they release a few white papers showing how they can strut their stuff.
It doesn't matter to them who wins or loses, just that someone says 'Ah, OUR product could use a source code audit...' and goes to their webpage to check out their services.
Don't always be so quick to whip out the Microsoft tin-foil hat!:)
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Newsweek gave it 'Two Thumbs up'?
Did two people write the article?
Was one of them Roger Ebert?
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Wired soda machines and all that brain-candy didn't come along until about 10 years ago..
The internet's mid-life crisis perhaps?
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Counterstrike is a great example of that not being the case.. There's a handful of frequently played maps that have stook the test of time. (5 years?) -n
And you may just learn a little something -- about yourself.
What happened to the media? People seem to be lying about all sorts of things these days and nobody seems to care.
There doesn't appear to be any repercussion anymore. People are too willing to ascribe a lie to being a 'mistake'. Why cant we be held accountable for the facts?
Journalism Programs everywhere: Please stop producing these Soft Ball pitchers. While there is a lot of money to be made in 'Infotainment' news shows, it is necessary for democracy that we have impartial journalists that know how to dig up dirt, have integrity, and follow through.
-n
Last time I checked, companies lay people off for any reason they want.. As well, while it may not be cancer, it could be ADHD, depression, alcoholism, predisposition to snapping and shooting co-workers.. Also the effect that a person will have on the company insurance. Gotta keep those premiums down. While people do just up and die randomly, it's the ones with prolonged illnesses or negative conditions that will get singled out. -n
Seems like a fairly plausable scenario to me.
'Well, we didn't hire him because his additude didn't seem right for our team... And we wish him the best of luck with his imminent bout with cancer.'
-n
woof, woof, woof woof! -n
FSP was popular because you could setup sites in your home directory, and run the daemon without root privs.FSP at the time was "important" for the role it temporarily played. It allowed people to 'casually' serve and retrieve files without needing a lot of infrastructure.
Back when FSP was 'hot', lots of people didn't have Linux servers laying around, or root access, or lots of bandwidth, or p2p gui tools. They had FTP which was a pain to setup in your home directory and sometimes wasn't configurable to non-priv ports, they had TFTP which didn't allow for any authentication.
So, while you bring up some interesting points about why FSP is obviated, since you weren't around when it was 'hot', you may lack the perspective to know why it was at one point useful.
If anything, P2P has really obviated FSP, not Rsync, SCP or SFTP.
Rsync, SCP, and SFTP obviate FTP, but not FTP-SSL..
</historylesson>
Besides, who ever heard of an 'public underground rsync site' ? :)
You're far more likely to just have a weird bug than a terrorist attack.
-n
I bet if you asked most of the people who work in the electricty grids where there are major problems, they'd tell you they already fixed all the obvious ones after 9/11.
At this point, you'd probably have to find something that the skilled engineers missed.
I'll resist the Trinity/Matrix Reloaded jokes.
Hey, that's fine. If something catastrophic occures and the phone lines (and power!) go out, you're back at the right hand of community service. All the girls who ran away to sidle up on the Broadband through Power hunks will realize the error in their ways and come slinking back in shame.
Will this be like the movie where the stubborn general doesn't listen to the sensitive and intelligent scientist and tries to use force to solve the problem rather than playing a game of tic-tac-toe or having a skiing competition?
Will the HAMs somehow arrange for the FCC or the PUC to end up with a custard pie in the collective faces to underscore how wrong they are, after they win the day?
Just remember. Morse-Code over HAM radio won us the Independence Day Alien showdown. Without HAM we never could have coordinated! And Morse code! Don't forget Morse code!
-n
Sorry Charlie!
-n
Doesn't PGP already compress things before it encrypts? (Adds to the difficulty in decyphering it..)
It's not like they're child molestors or anything...
ha!
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The rotten tomato cannot be denied!
Somebody has a case of the mondays! :(
Just think of Morpheus reaching for the phone, and there's nothing there!
PLEASE people.
Think of the Morpheuses!
More bugs to find == a larger report. If they showcased their product's capabilities and turned in 2 pages of minor bugs, who would care?
This can only be indicitive of the luke-warm reception that is expected for this turkey.
-n
It doesn't matter to them who wins or loses, just that someone says 'Ah, OUR product could use a source code audit...' and goes to their webpage to check out their services.
Don't always be so quick to whip out the Microsoft tin-foil hat! :)
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