The Indian [call center] workers had master's degrees and had drive and ambition.
Where the hell are these call center workers?
Last week I was at a client's place. They had some piece of crap linksys broadband router. They obtained a block of routable IP addresses to use on their network for their ISP. I needed to disable NAT on the linksys box since it wasn't used anymore.
After hunting around the linksys router's web interface and not finding anything relevant, I called Linksys tech support. An Indian answered, of course. I told him what I was trying to do and then he put me on hold for several minutes. When he came back he told me that I could disable NAT by plugging the cable modem into any of the LAN ports on the router (along with the LAN equipment) rather than the WAN port.
After giving up on getting a remotely intellegent answer out of them, I found on the web that a firmware upgrade would do it. And the upgrade did provide a way to disable NAT. However if you disabled NAT, the device ceased to perform any kind of filtering. It was just a wide open router, no firewall at all.
Apparently the software on these linksys broadband routers are designed by the same caliber people who answer the phone support. I ended up putting together a linux machine to act as a router and firewall.
Really? I guess I should throw away my hand-rolled disassemblers I have been using for the last 20 years to debug and inspect sourceless software!
Lets try this again with some emphasis for those lacking in reading comprehension skills:
Its not about the licesne you dolt, its about source code visibility. If you can't see the source code, then you can't easily sure what the program is really doing.
Source is overrated. You can't read half of people's coding styles anyway.
Source is overrated? It doesn't make the life of someone trying to read it much easier?
That we should form policy under the threat of being laughed at?
No. The point is that we should stop enacting and enforcing moronic "decency" policies. And the right wing religous fundies in this country ought to stop acting like 11 year olds every time they see a boob.
What The HELL does a program's license have to do with its quality? Geez, talk about GPL zealotry!
Its not about the licesne you dolt, its about source code visibility. If you can't see the source code, then you can't easily sure what the program is really doing.
well, break the van window and destroy the equipment. or at least do something to let this person know that that activity be tolerated. Not like they're anonymous and untraceable.
Since before the war started, the probability was high that Saddam moved those weapons elsewhere.
If there was a likely chance that he moved the weapons elsewhere before the war, then why were one of the stated primary goals of the war to capture said weapons?
So we're going to be staying in Iraq indefinitely to use it as a launchpad for other attacks? What happened to the plans to set up a democratic government and turn it back over to the folks there?
The WMD's were only one of many reasons put forth by the administration for justification of war.
Yes id feel better myself if they were found, but it was not the only reason we went back, and the other reasons were more then enough justification.
Well what are the many reasons? The only reasons put forth by the administration that I can find center on the current possesion & construction of WMDs and his history of using them, his human rights violations, and alleged associations with terrorists, and that the man is generally crazy and has been aggressive in the past. I've looked through most of Bush's speeches in early 2003 and that's about it.
Due to his ties with Al Quaeda, it seems like a good place to me.
And what is the evidence of ties to al Quaeda? That is what started this thread. So far that question is not answered.
All we have found so far are two shells which are likely to be from before the first gulf war and the pesticides. I haven't heard anything of the brand new chem weapon suits... if you could provide sources please do so.
Someone merely saying they want to dominate the world does not make them a threat to national security. First they would need things like an army comprised of men that won't surrender before the first shot is fired, and more than two WMDs would help too.
And whether or not Iraq was a threat isn't the point of this thread. The point is the Bush administration gave specific reasons and identified specific threats which have not been proven - namely connections to Al Quaeda and the WMDs.
There are other nations that are more of a threat to us than Iraq (North Korea) and there are plenty of other nations which are guilty of human rights violations... as the grandparent mentioned, of all the places on earth worthy of being "liberated", why Iraq?
And furthermore, most of Hussein's mass murders took place before or during the first gulf war. Knowing that and given that this was a big reason for that war too, why did we decide to leave him in power after that war?
As a CS student I have stolen code before, but never gotten caught. It's entirely the right thing in my mind because of the unimaginative assignments I get. A great example would be a 2-3 tree i was supposed to implement two semesters ago. I googled 2-3 trees to do some research and stumbled across a 2-3 tree in c++, with deletion implemented recursively no less. I translated it to java the day before it was due and handed it in. Why should I spend time writing code over that is freely available?
And by the way, if you're so tired of unimaginitive assignments, why don't you start doing imaginitive, creative things? Do you have any examples of useful imaginitive things that you have produced? Or are you just talking out of your ass, trying to come up with excuses for being a lying piece of shit?
Why should I spend time writing code over that is freely available?
The point of the assignment wasn't to write code, it was for you to learn this particular data structure, learn how it works. The assignment wasn't about writing code.
I sure learnt a lot about 2-3 trees doing this
No, you didn't learn anything, except maybe how to translate an algorithm from C++ to JAva. You didn't learn the algorithm yourself, which is the whole point. I don't understand why you're wasting your time and money in college.
so i dont see the problem.
The problem is you're taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own. You are a worthless liar.
Only one shell? An advanced binary mixing shell with the ability to hold 1 gallon of Sarin? Saddam didn't have those before the 1st Gulf War according to Janes. What about the mustard gas that was discovered? Was it too "just leftover"? How many other things are you going to claim were just leftover when they pop up? And leftover from what? Saddam never declared sarin artillery shells to the UN in 1995.
Who is Janes? I found the following article which contradicts what he/she is claiming, and claiming that the shells are pretty old:
The UNMOVIC official said the group needs to know more from the Bush administration before it's possible to determine if this is "old or new stuff. It is known that Iraq used sarin during the Iraq-Iran war, however.
Kimmitt said the shell belonged to a class of ordnance that Saddam's government said was destroyed before the 1991 Gulf war (search). Experts believe both the sarin and mustard gas weapons date back to that time.
The question was answered by the overwhelming number of Senators and House members two years ago.
Based on information taken on faith supplied by the Bush administration.
But judging from your use of "imminent threat" when the President expressed during his State of the Union that he would not wait till the threat was imminent is key to identifying the color of your commentary.
http://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/
They did wait until the threat was deemed imminent, or at least "immediate". I guess you could argue with me about the difference between "imminent" and "immediate".
Yes. Last year, America experienced the lowest number of terrorist attacks, home and abroad, in 20 years according to the State Department. Deposing Saddam Hussein has already born fruit.
How do you know that deposing Hussein is what decreased the number of terroist attacks, and not any of the other security measures put in place or actions taken after 9/11?
And at any rate, I'd imagine this figure changed a bit after the incident in Spain in March.
A gallon of Sarin is not "traces". It is enough to kill more people than died on 9/11
Ok, but what about the other several hundred shells we were told Iraq was hiding, and tons other chemical weapons? What about those mobile chemical weapons factories? And the jets that were modified to spray antrax?
And one gallon of Sarin isn't justification for a war by any other standard. North Korea has nuclear weapons, and their govt doesn't like us very much. Why not invade there?
Of all the places on earth run by people who don't like us, or who have WMDs, or abuse/kill their own people, why Iraq?
This isn't to say that Hussein isn't an asshole and didn't deserve what he got, but it does question the integrity of this administration and whether the costs of this war was worth it.
Is this guy doing the jamming mentally ill or something? What conceiveable reason would anyone have for jamming a frequency being used for emergency communication?
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Where the hell are these call center workers?
Last week I was at a client's place. They had some piece of crap linksys broadband router. They obtained a block of routable IP addresses to use on their network for their ISP. I needed to disable NAT on the linksys box since it wasn't used anymore.
After hunting around the linksys router's web interface and not finding anything relevant, I called Linksys tech support. An Indian answered, of course. I told him what I was trying to do and then he put me on hold for several minutes. When he came back he told me that I could disable NAT by plugging the cable modem into any of the LAN ports on the router (along with the LAN equipment) rather than the WAN port.
After giving up on getting a remotely intellegent answer out of them, I found on the web that a firmware upgrade would do it. And the upgrade did provide a way to disable NAT. However if you disabled NAT, the device ceased to perform any kind of filtering. It was just a wide open router, no firewall at all.
Apparently the software on these linksys broadband routers are designed by the same caliber people who answer the phone support. I ended up putting together a linux machine to act as a router and firewall.
Can you provide links to any of the hate sites?
And its not like HalfLife2 will be the first computer game in history that will never be cracked... with or without the source code leak.
Lets try this again with some emphasis for those lacking in reading comprehension skills:
Source is overrated? It doesn't make the life of someone trying to read it much easier?
Sure.
No. The point is that we should stop enacting and enforcing moronic "decency" policies. And the right wing religous fundies in this country ought to stop acting like 11 year olds every time they see a boob.
Its not about the licesne you dolt, its about source code visibility. If you can't see the source code, then you can't easily sure what the program is really doing.
well, break the van window and destroy the equipment. or at least do something to let this person know that that activity be tolerated. Not like they're anonymous and untraceable.
I believe fairplay is What The Fuck He's Talking About(tm).
And how does copying code from the software leave it any more dead than it was to begin with?
DRM is an attempt to remove my control of my private property and place it into the hands of someone who doesn't own it. Period.
I oppose DRM because I believe in the right to private property (namely my computer). Nothing to do with copyright violation.
Actually I agree completely with everything you just said. Kerry is a scatterbrain but Bush doesn't deserve another 4 years :/
If there was a likely chance that he moved the weapons elsewhere before the war, then why were one of the stated primary goals of the war to capture said weapons?
So we're going to be staying in Iraq indefinitely to use it as a launchpad for other attacks? What happened to the plans to set up a democratic government and turn it back over to the folks there?
Well what are the many reasons? The only reasons put forth by the administration that I can find center on the current possesion & construction of WMDs and his history of using them, his human rights violations, and alleged associations with terrorists, and that the man is generally crazy and has been aggressive in the past. I've looked through most of Bush's speeches in early 2003 and that's about it.
And what is the evidence of ties to al Quaeda? That is what started this thread. So far that question is not answered.
All we have found so far are two shells which are likely to be from before the first gulf war and the pesticides. I haven't heard anything of the brand new chem weapon suits... if you could provide sources please do so.
Someone merely saying they want to dominate the world does not make them a threat to national security. First they would need things like an army comprised of men that won't surrender before the first shot is fired, and more than two WMDs would help too.
And whether or not Iraq was a threat isn't the point of this thread. The point is the Bush administration gave specific reasons and identified specific threats which have not been proven - namely connections to Al Quaeda and the WMDs.
There are other nations that are more of a threat to us than Iraq (North Korea) and there are plenty of other nations which are guilty of human rights violations... as the grandparent mentioned, of all the places on earth worthy of being "liberated", why Iraq?
And furthermore, most of Hussein's mass murders took place before or during the first gulf war. Knowing that and given that this was a big reason for that war too, why did we decide to leave him in power after that war?
And by the way, if you're so tired of unimaginitive assignments, why don't you start doing imaginitive, creative things? Do you have any examples of useful imaginitive things that you have produced? Or are you just talking out of your ass, trying to come up with excuses for being a lying piece of shit?
The point of the assignment wasn't to write code, it was for you to learn this particular data structure, learn how it works. The assignment wasn't about writing code.
No, you didn't learn anything, except maybe how to translate an algorithm from C++ to JAva. You didn't learn the algorithm yourself, which is the whole point. I don't understand why you're wasting your time and money in college.
The problem is you're taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own. You are a worthless liar.
Does this use java or something? I just get an empty page in mozilla. No map, just the border stuff.
Well in this case you're asked to agree to the EULA before you're allowed to download it.
Who is Janes? I found the following article which contradicts what he/she is claiming, and claiming that the shells are pretty old:
Based on information taken on faith supplied by the Bush administration.
http://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/
They did wait until the threat was deemed imminent, or at least "immediate". I guess you could argue with me about the difference between "imminent" and "immediate".
How do you know that deposing Hussein is what decreased the number of terroist attacks, and not any of the other security measures put in place or actions taken after 9/11?
And at any rate, I'd imagine this figure changed a bit after the incident in Spain in March.
No, they never moved. The "goal posts" were established by what Bush & friends said before the war and are unchanged.
And I think everyone can agree that Iraq had chemical weapons at one time. Maybe this single shell was leftover from that time.
The only question is did he have enough of them 2 years ago to constitute an imminent threat and neccessitate a war.
Not quite... there are many things in the old testamet which christians no longer believe.
Ok, but what about the other several hundred shells we were told Iraq was hiding, and tons other chemical weapons? What about those mobile chemical weapons factories? And the jets that were modified to spray antrax?
And one gallon of Sarin isn't justification for a war by any other standard. North Korea has nuclear weapons, and their govt doesn't like us very much. Why not invade there?
Of all the places on earth run by people who don't like us, or who have WMDs, or abuse/kill their own people, why Iraq?
This isn't to say that Hussein isn't an asshole and didn't deserve what he got, but it does question the integrity of this administration and whether the costs of this war was worth it.
Is this guy doing the jamming mentally ill or something? What conceiveable reason would anyone have for jamming a frequency being used for emergency communication?