Who else thinks this is a phenominally stupid idea! If anything we should just get rid of Daylight savings, it costs us tons of money each year to be out of sync with the rest of the world.
Yes, but just think of all the candles we are saving!
Is this where we are filing the Michael Moore rants?
Bowling for Columbine is not an "anti-gun" movie!
I know it is popular to bash his movies as hippie/commie crap but at least watch the friggin movie first. He specifically mentions that Canada has similar per-capita gun ownership and less strict gun control laws yet mysteriously does not suffer from the same gun-crime rates the US does.
I think wikipedia works well, you just have the wrong idea of it. It is by no means a source I'd trust for anything important. It is, however, a source I'd use to get a vague possible idea of a topic, and use as a starting point to find reliable information from authoritative sources.
Exactly! This holds true for normal encyclopedias as well though. You should never use tertiary sources for any sort of good research.
Seriously, as much as we like to joke about crack smocking moderators this place can be hard to read without some filtering. The Signal to Noise Ratio is way too low without someone pointing out the good threads.
You know the difference between those two? It's only that "people" writing respectable applications like IM are actually large software and media corporations, the same ones buying this legislation; like AOL-TimeWarner, Microsoft..
Well, the difference between this and MS is that admins are supposedly being paid to take care of these systems. End users are a bit of a different story.
The authors have not shown that their system is resistant to attacks. Maybe it seems plausible to them and to you that it is, but plausibility is not the same as actually demonstrating that property.
You can prove things in math, logic and by extension computer science without having to physically demonstrate them.
There actually already is a pr0n flick in 3-d that was done back in the seventies. I went and saw it with some friends at the Egyptian in Seattle. Very funny stuff.
The only problem was that apparently 3-d film from that timeframe (possibly still?) degrades over time so it had less depth than it used to have.
This may make hand sets more expensive, as a small computer in both the headset and the transmitter/receiver unit would be required, but it should eliminate this problem.
You're kidding right? Crypto can be done in hardware as well....(snip)..an embedded ARM could do crypto too, an embedded GCM core could
You realize that both of your counter-examples actually are small computers right?
Offtopic I know, but did you realize the link in your sig is broken? I wanted to bookmark it for the next time someone pulled out the old "both parties are euqally bad" line.
Some of the choice quotes from the timeframe. Make your own opinion...
President Bush:
We know that Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade.
Oct. 14, 2002: "After September the 11th, we've entered into a new era and a new war. This is a man [Hussein] that we know has had connections with Al Qaeda. This is a man who, in my judgment, would like to use Al Qaeda as a forward army."
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
Sept. 26, 2002: "Yes, there is a linkage between Al Qaeda and Iraq."
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
Sept. 25, 2002: There "have been contacts between senior Iraqi officials and members of Al Qaeda going back for actually quite a long time."
Dick Cheney "If we're successful in Iraq then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11,"
Colin Powell We know that there had been connections and there had been exchanges between al Qaeda and the Saddam Hussein regime. And those have been pursued and looked at
But to say information wants to be free is like saying my computer monitor wants to be plugged into a high-end video card: it may be better for all parties, but in the end, the monitor is just a monitor. Likewise, information is just information.
I used to vote democrat on occasion. I might again if they would stop trying to put me out of work. I used to have a good job in mining.
To be fair, the repubs. haven't been all that good for the steel industry either (*cough* section 201 tarifs).
Weren't we supposed to have a fancy new energy bill creating large demand for power lines by now? Wasn't that one of Bush's big ticket items on the campaign? (the only reason to vote for him for economic reasons)
Some geeks have attempted to hijack "There's no encryption on this node" or "My SSID is public and is..." to mean this, but given most WAPs are configured by default to have no encryption and to publically broadcast a SSID, and given both can be explained by many other reasons, this is simply legally non-sustainable as an argument.
All they are doing is making themselves the middleman in the trade of services. This has been done throughout the entire history of business in one form or the other. All they did was add "over the internet".
If an OS can crash because of software then it has a basic design flaw. If an OS can get a virus then it has a basic design flaw. The only thing that should cause an OS to crash is severely corrupted memory and or CPU.
I guess if you consider being able to run your own programs a design flaw. How is a computer really supposed to know the difference between a program I write specifically to wipe my hdd (for example) from a nearly identical program written maliciously by someone else.
Why would you shop at a grocery store that sells food you don't like? Would you buy a peach if you were also required to buy a sack of dried beans, a muffin and a tin of Ovaltine?
When you pick up a Portishead CD at the record store they don't make you buy a Garth Brooks CD with it.
Consider this grocery related analogy though: Say you want to go pick up some beer from the store. You get to choose between two 12 packs. One of the packs though only has 1 beer in it, the other bottles are filled with water. You make a huge stink at the counter and the checker finally agrees to allow you to just purchase the single beer. The question is this: knowing they are total scammers do you still want to reward them with your hard earned, finite, beer money?
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Who else thinks this is a phenominally stupid idea! If anything we should just get rid of Daylight savings, it costs us tons of money each year to be out of sync with the rest of the world.
Yes, but just think of all the candles we are saving!
Is this where we are filing the Michael Moore rants?
Bowling for Columbine is not an "anti-gun" movie!
I know it is popular to bash his movies as hippie/commie crap but at least watch the friggin movie first. He specifically mentions that Canada has similar per-capita gun ownership and less strict gun control laws yet mysteriously does not suffer from the same gun-crime rates the US does.
He's pausing during recording, not during playback.
Too bad, I guess she must be ugly...
I think wikipedia works well, you just have the wrong idea of it. It is by no means a source I'd trust for anything important. It is, however, a source I'd use to get a vague possible idea of a topic, and use as a starting point to find reliable information from authoritative sources.
Exactly! This holds true for normal encyclopedias as well though. You should never use tertiary sources for any sort of good research.
Yet another feature stripped from the next release of Windows.
What a cop out excuse too. Oh gee, the scripting language is vulnerable to malicious programmers in the same way every programming language is.
Seriously, as much as we like to joke about crack smocking moderators this place can be hard to read without some filtering. The Signal to Noise Ratio is way too low without someone pointing out the good threads.
You know the difference between those two? It's only that "people" writing respectable applications like IM are actually large software and media corporations, the same ones buying this legislation; like AOL-TimeWarner, Microsoft..
Like Bittorrent?
Just like people don't watch a "hacker" movie to see someone typing endless lines of C code
Maybe a montage would help....
Like I said, the sense of entitlement you fools have is simply amazing. No, it doesn't belong to you -- quit pretending like it does.
If I buy it if fucking does belong to me! No post-facto piece of paper changes that.
WRONG! The only truly cross-platform solution is Emusic. Non-DRM .mp3 files that actually _can_ be played anywhere.
So it is OK because two of the worst mass murders in the history of the human race are wose than the U.S.?
a pianist isn't someone who owns a piano, it is someone who uses it.
Well, the difference between this and MS is that admins are supposedly being paid to take care of these systems. End users are a bit of a different story.
The authors have not shown that their system is resistant to attacks. Maybe it seems plausible to them and to you that it is, but plausibility is not the same as actually demonstrating that property.
You can prove things in math, logic and by extension computer science without having to physically demonstrate them.
There actually already is a pr0n flick in 3-d that was done back in the seventies. I went and saw it with some friends at the Egyptian in Seattle. Very funny stuff.
The only problem was that apparently 3-d film from that timeframe (possibly still?) degrades over time so it had less depth than it used to have.
This may make hand sets more expensive, as a small computer in both the headset and the transmitter/receiver unit would be required, but it should eliminate this problem.
You're kidding right? Crypto can be done in hardware as well....(snip)..an embedded ARM could do crypto too, an embedded GCM core could
You realize that both of your counter-examples actually are small computers right?
Torrrents...need I say more?
Yes!
They're grrrrrrreat!
Offtopic I know, but did you realize the link in your sig is broken? I wanted to bookmark it for the next time someone pulled out the old "both parties are euqally bad" line.
Some of the choice quotes from the timeframe. Make your own opinion...
President Bush:
We know that Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade.
Oct. 14, 2002: "After September the 11th, we've entered into a new era and a new war. This is a man [Hussein] that we know has had connections with Al Qaeda. This is a man who, in my judgment, would like to use Al Qaeda as a forward army."
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
Sept. 26, 2002: "Yes, there is a linkage between Al Qaeda and Iraq."
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
Sept. 25, 2002: There "have been contacts between senior Iraqi officials and members of Al Qaeda going back for actually quite a long time."
Dick Cheney
"If we're successful in Iraq then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11,"
Colin Powell
We know that there had been connections and there had been exchanges between al Qaeda and the Saddam Hussein regime. And those have been pursued and looked at
But to say information wants to be free is like saying my computer monitor wants to be plugged into a high-end video card: it may be better for all parties, but in the end, the monitor is just a monitor. Likewise, information is just information.
Perhaps we should say:
"Information tends to be duplicated"
I used to vote democrat on occasion. I might again if they would stop trying to put me out of work. I used to have a good job in mining.
To be fair, the repubs. haven't been all that good for the steel industry either (*cough* section 201 tarifs).
Weren't we supposed to have a fancy new energy bill creating large demand for power lines by now? Wasn't that one of Bush's big ticket items on the campaign? (the only reason to vote for him for economic reasons)
Some geeks have attempted to hijack "There's no encryption on this node" or "My SSID is public and is..." to mean this, but given most WAPs are configured by default to have no encryption and to publically broadcast a SSID, and given both can be explained by many other reasons, this is simply legally non-sustainable as an argument.
Doesn't that say it all??
All they are doing is making themselves the middleman in the trade of services. This has been done throughout the entire history of business in one form or the other. All they did was add "over the internet".
If an OS can crash because of software then it has a basic design flaw. If an OS can get a virus then it has a basic design flaw. The only thing that should cause an OS to crash is severely corrupted memory and or CPU.
I guess if you consider being able to run your own programs a design flaw. How is a computer really supposed to know the difference between a program I write specifically to wipe my hdd (for example) from a nearly identical program written maliciously by someone else.
Why would you shop at a grocery store that sells food you don't like? Would you buy a peach if you were also required to buy a sack of dried beans, a muffin and a tin of Ovaltine?
When you pick up a Portishead CD at the record store they don't make you buy a Garth Brooks CD with it.
Consider this grocery related analogy though:
Say you want to go pick up some beer from the store. You get to choose between two 12 packs. One of the packs though only has 1 beer in it, the other bottles are filled with water. You make a huge stink at the counter and the checker finally agrees to allow you to just purchase the single beer. The question is this: knowing they are total scammers do you still want to reward them with your hard earned, finite, beer money?