I keep hearing people questioning the credibility of his accusers, the FBI, the CIA, etc and so on. But how does Assuage have any credibility either way? How do we know that everything he posts on Wikileaks is legit and he didn't make the shit up? And contrary to what someone is probably going to mark me with moderation, I'm not trying to be a troll here, I'm totally serious. How do we know this guy isn't fabricating any of this just so he can try to be a fame magnet?
Not only is there no mention of Windows, there was apparently no actual "blue screen". The car simply didn't spring to life and the displays were blank.
Somebody obviously needed to sensationalize by using "blue screen of death" even where it wasn't.
Even though I think Senator Stevens was as corrupt as they come, I'm sorry to see anyone die in a horrific way. (Although I will admit that the death of Osama bin Laden in any manner will not bring a tear to my eye.)
As for the jokes on here about Stevens calling the internet "tubes", I'm laughing. Not at Stevens, but the ones of you making the jokes. Because the pipe analogy is actually a very good one, is easy for the layman to understand, and is, in a manner of speaking, technically correct. Your jokes are only showing your own lack of intelligence, and that's why I laugh. I'm not laughing with you, I'm laughing at you.
I'll say the same thing. I grant that its anecdotal and thus does not apply to the whole group. But I live next door to two teen girls, and that pretty much hits the nail on the head. They don't look at the net like we do. They're not in to hacking. They don't care how elegant (or crufty) something may be. "Cool" has nothing to do with it. They just want to keep contact with their friends, and they want it to work.
Its my understanding, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, the whole drive will not work with most current hardware. It has to do with LBA, 64-bit addressing, yadda yadda yadda.
It's great that we can now store 2 TB on one hard drive and that 3-TB hard drives are already feasible.
3TB drives are already well past "feasible". Seagate has one for sale in the form of the STAC3000100 FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. Its an enclosure with a single SATA 3TB hard drive. The reason its currently only available as an external drive is because most motherboards will not support a boot drive that large, hence not a lot of reason to offer it as an internal yet.
>>US is also the only country in the world that is constantly in war with other countries
And most of this is because when other countries get attacked by enemy forces, the US is the first country they come begging to for help. A perfect, and recent, example is when Iraq invaded Kuwait*.
Don't even get me started on WWII.
(*And we wouldn't have had a problem in Iraq later if, during that first Iraq war, the US hadn't pulled up short because the rest of the middle eastern countries cried out "We know he's evil, but please don't kill our brother Saddam!!!111oneoneone".)
A lot of people here are whining that the post office charges too much. So why don't you call UPS or Fed Ex and see if they'll ship a 1 pound package from Supai, Arizona 86435 to Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 for the same $4.95 that the USPS will charge for flat rate Priority Mail.
And don't even get me started on first class mail. Even if they were allowed to carry it, I'd be willing to bet money that UPS or Fed Ex would laugh in my face if I expected them to deliver a letter just from one side of town to the other for 44 cents.
For some mail and packages, yes, UPS and Fed Ex can do it cheaper. But for *many* places and types of mail, USPS is a freaking bargain (and that's why it doesn't make money).
We should look at the positive side of this. Since the states have so little to do now that they can waste time and money on bullshit like this, that must mean that the economy is fixed, everyone has jobs, there is no poverty or hunger, and crime and violence is a thing of the past.
Loopholes and such aside, why is this so surprising?
When a company operates here in the US we expect them to obey US law, even on the web, regardless of where they may happen to originate. For an example, look how hard the US works to ban online gambling, even when the companies involved are not physically located in the US, and just operate here via the web. (Whether or not the US is successful at this is a whole 'nother topic, which I won't get in to here.)
Why does everyone expect Google to obey anything other than Chinese law when it operates in China?
I'll skip leaving a "this is not a DSLR" comment because that has already been covered.
While its interesting from the "can this be done?" standpoint, I see absolutely no practical reason for doing this. He's basically taking a point and shoot cellphone camera and putting another lens on it, and it gains nothing useful by doing so. The device is no longer pocketable, and the pictures certainly won't be as good as the DSLR the lens came from could produce. If you're going to lug something around that you can't stick in a pocket anyway, why not just lug around a good DSLR.
This is definitely something only a iPhone fanboy could get excited about.
>>You cannot reliably connect a signature with an individual
That is correct. That's why petitions like this always ask for an address. Someone at a government office will then go through the names and addresses and verify that the people exist and they in fact live in the jurisdiction that they claim. And if 82 signatures with different names all look like they were signed by the same person, said someone will look in to that also.
I don't really see a need to remake or update movies. I think that's just a euphemism for "we've run out of original ideas".
And y'all must have seen a different "Sunshine" than I did. What I saw was a standout science fiction film only because of how bad I thought it sucked. The effects were interesting and the spaceship design was cool, but other than that...
I wasn't at all surprised. Another thing the big parties have in common besides little concern for individual rights is neither party can take any criticism. This is what happens when you have extremists running the show in both parties, instead of having a party that truly represents the majority.
This one will probably get trolled too, because a "troll" mod is just another way of saying "too close to the truth and it makes me unhappy".
If nothing else, this proves that a Democrat administration is no more concerned about individual rights than the previous Republican administration was.
This is exactly how it should be. And it should extend to private employers as well as government. We live in an age where companies can be, and routinely are, punished for employees using company equipment for sexual harassment, etc. If I can be held responsible for what my employees do with my equipment, then I'm going to monitor its usage and I don't give a damn what employees think of it. Period.
Instead of waiting for the general public to catch on, which simply is not going to happen, a better question would be how long is it going to be before ISPs and providers update email protocols so that fake emails are simply not possible (or at least make it a lot harder than it is now)?
I do have a problem when listening to the Democrats and the Republicans argue over who's to blame for this election result and why. And that problem is that both parties are so full of shit and cannot be believed. So the challenge now is to figure out which party is lying about this story the least.
If Congress is really mad that the Obama administration is shutting down the moon program, then there is a simple way they can handle the situation. They can vote to fully fund NASA's programs. So far, all I hear from Congresscritters is lip service. If they really want to send humans back to the moon, then show us the money. Talk is cheap. Space hardware is not.
If Congress wants the US space program to be top notch and succeed, then they need to *fully* fund it. Its "put up or shut up" time. Either give them the money to go to the moon, or close down the program.
8 2TB hard drives in a RAID-6 configuration running Mandriva Linux 10.0, and using a Pentium D and motherboard I had laying on the Pile Of Unloved Parts. Its not the quietest solution, nor is it the greenest, but neither of those points was my concern. I was more interested in the ability to have two drives die and not lose files.
On the one hand, yeah, they're right. We're losing our status as a front-runner in space tech. I think we need a strong manned space program.
But on the other hand, if we're going to do it, we need to do it right and give NASA the proper funding to do it right. If we're instead going to continue to bumblefuck our way through it with yet another half-assed woefully underfunded attempt, why waste even that much money?
We need to either lead, or bow our heads in shame and get the fuck out entirely. Anything else is a waste of money. I grew up during the space program (born shortly after Shepard's Mercury launch) and think space is where mankind needs to be looking. But I'm not interested in seeing another half-assed shuttle project where we create the shuttle, and then have to create the space station so the shuttle has something to do. Go big, or go home.
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I keep hearing people questioning the credibility of his accusers, the FBI, the CIA, etc and so on. But how does Assuage have any credibility either way? How do we know that everything he posts on Wikileaks is legit and he didn't make the shit up? And contrary to what someone is probably going to mark me with moderation, I'm not trying to be a troll here, I'm totally serious. How do we know this guy isn't fabricating any of this just so he can try to be a fame magnet?
No matter how way out these whack-jobs are, there are people who believe them and will vote for them.
Not only is there no mention of Windows, there was apparently no actual "blue screen". The car simply didn't spring to life and the displays were blank.
Somebody obviously needed to sensationalize by using "blue screen of death" even where it wasn't.
Even though I think Senator Stevens was as corrupt as they come, I'm sorry to see anyone die in a horrific way. (Although I will admit that the death of Osama bin Laden in any manner will not bring a tear to my eye.)
As for the jokes on here about Stevens calling the internet "tubes", I'm laughing. Not at Stevens, but the ones of you making the jokes. Because the pipe analogy is actually a very good one, is easy for the layman to understand, and is, in a manner of speaking, technically correct. Your jokes are only showing your own lack of intelligence, and that's why I laugh. I'm not laughing with you, I'm laughing at you.
I'll say the same thing. I grant that its anecdotal and thus does not apply to the whole group. But I live next door to two teen girls, and that pretty much hits the nail on the head. They don't look at the net like we do. They're not in to hacking. They don't care how elegant (or crufty) something may be. "Cool" has nothing to do with it. They just want to keep contact with their friends, and they want it to work.
Its my understanding, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, the whole drive will not work with most current hardware. It has to do with LBA, 64-bit addressing, yadda yadda yadda.
From the summary:
It's great that we can now store 2 TB on one hard drive and that 3-TB hard drives are already feasible.
3TB drives are already well past "feasible". Seagate has one for sale in the form of the STAC3000100 FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. Its an enclosure with a single SATA 3TB hard drive. The reason its currently only available as an external drive is because most motherboards will not support a boot drive that large, hence not a lot of reason to offer it as an internal yet.
>>US is also the only country in the world that is constantly in war with other countries
And most of this is because when other countries get attacked by enemy forces, the US is the first country they come begging to for help. A perfect, and recent, example is when Iraq invaded Kuwait*.
Don't even get me started on WWII.
(*And we wouldn't have had a problem in Iraq later if, during that first Iraq war, the US hadn't pulled up short because the rest of the middle eastern countries cried out "We know he's evil, but please don't kill our brother Saddam!!!111oneoneone".)
A lot of people here are whining that the post office charges too much. So why don't you call UPS or Fed Ex and see if they'll ship a 1 pound package from Supai, Arizona 86435 to Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 for the same $4.95 that the USPS will charge for flat rate Priority Mail.
And don't even get me started on first class mail. Even if they were allowed to carry it, I'd be willing to bet money that UPS or Fed Ex would laugh in my face if I expected them to deliver a letter just from one side of town to the other for 44 cents.
For some mail and packages, yes, UPS and Fed Ex can do it cheaper. But for *many* places and types of mail, USPS is a freaking bargain (and that's why it doesn't make money).
We should look at the positive side of this. Since the states have so little to do now that they can waste time and money on bullshit like this, that must mean that the economy is fixed, everyone has jobs, there is no poverty or hunger, and crime and violence is a thing of the past.
Loopholes and such aside, why is this so surprising?
When a company operates here in the US we expect them to obey US law, even on the web, regardless of where they may happen to originate. For an example, look how hard the US works to ban online gambling, even when the companies involved are not physically located in the US, and just operate here via the web. (Whether or not the US is successful at this is a whole 'nother topic, which I won't get in to here.)
Why does everyone expect Google to obey anything other than Chinese law when it operates in China?
I'll skip leaving a "this is not a DSLR" comment because that has already been covered.
While its interesting from the "can this be done?" standpoint, I see absolutely no practical reason for doing this. He's basically taking a point and shoot cellphone camera and putting another lens on it, and it gains nothing useful by doing so. The device is no longer pocketable, and the pictures certainly won't be as good as the DSLR the lens came from could produce. If you're going to lug something around that you can't stick in a pocket anyway, why not just lug around a good DSLR.
This is definitely something only a iPhone fanboy could get excited about.
From the summary"
"Ozcan plans on starting case studies in Africa to see how the microscope can help revolutionize global medicine"
Okay, if the goal is really to revolutionize global medicine, where's the parts list, schematic, and software download repository?
>>You cannot reliably connect a signature with an individual
That is correct. That's why petitions like this always ask for an address. Someone at a government office will then go through the names and addresses and verify that the people exist and they in fact live in the jurisdiction that they claim. And if 82 signatures with different names all look like they were signed by the same person, said someone will look in to that also.
I don't really see a need to remake or update movies. I think that's just a euphemism for "we've run out of original ideas".
And y'all must have seen a different "Sunshine" than I did. What I saw was a standout science fiction film only because of how bad I thought it sucked. The effects were interesting and the spaceship design was cool, but other than that...
Tweeting about it wasn't enough. The damned thing should have been broadcast live.
The asshole being executed was shown *far* more mercy than he showed his victims.
I wasn't at all surprised. Another thing the big parties have in common besides little concern for individual rights is neither party can take any criticism. This is what happens when you have extremists running the show in both parties, instead of having a party that truly represents the majority.
This one will probably get trolled too, because a "troll" mod is just another way of saying "too close to the truth and it makes me unhappy".
If nothing else, this proves that a Democrat administration is no more concerned about individual rights than the previous Republican administration was.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
This is exactly how it should be. And it should extend to private employers as well as government. We live in an age where companies can be, and routinely are, punished for employees using company equipment for sexual harassment, etc. If I can be held responsible for what my employees do with my equipment, then I'm going to monitor its usage and I don't give a damn what employees think of it. Period.
If you want privacy, use your own phone.
Instead of waiting for the general public to catch on, which simply is not going to happen, a better question would be how long is it going to be before ISPs and providers update email protocols so that fake emails are simply not possible (or at least make it a lot harder than it is now)?
I do have a problem when listening to the Democrats and the Republicans argue over who's to blame for this election result and why. And that problem is that both parties are so full of shit and cannot be believed. So the challenge now is to figure out which party is lying about this story the least.
If Congress is really mad that the Obama administration is shutting down the moon program, then there is a simple way they can handle the situation. They can vote to fully fund NASA's programs. So far, all I hear from Congresscritters is lip service. If they really want to send humans back to the moon, then show us the money. Talk is cheap. Space hardware is not.
If Congress wants the US space program to be top notch and succeed, then they need to *fully* fund it. Its "put up or shut up" time. Either give them the money to go to the moon, or close down the program.
So Slashdot, what have you done?
8 2TB hard drives in a RAID-6 configuration running Mandriva Linux 10.0, and using a Pentium D and motherboard I had laying on the Pile Of Unloved Parts. Its not the quietest solution, nor is it the greenest, but neither of those points was my concern. I was more interested in the ability to have two drives die and not lose files.
On the one hand, yeah, they're right. We're losing our status as a front-runner in space tech. I think we need a strong manned space program.
But on the other hand, if we're going to do it, we need to do it right and give NASA the proper funding to do it right. If we're instead going to continue to bumblefuck our way through it with yet another half-assed woefully underfunded attempt, why waste even that much money?
We need to either lead, or bow our heads in shame and get the fuck out entirely. Anything else is a waste of money. I grew up during the space program (born shortly after Shepard's Mercury launch) and think space is where mankind needs to be looking. But I'm not interested in seeing another half-assed shuttle project where we create the shuttle, and then have to create the space station so the shuttle has something to do. Go big, or go home.