Does the law already consider an open, unencrypted network as implicitly giving permission, or is it written to say that if the person who owns that open, unencrypted network has not given permission then it's illegal?
What you say makes sense, but I don't expect the law to make sense.
...they should've been for about the last 30 years. They would have, were it not for a couple of minor accidents. Alright, so one was a minor accident, the other a catastrophe, but you get the idea.
Then why, oh why, did he back down to the will of the Executive Branch, compromise his morals and integrity, and allow for "exceptions" to the definition of what torture is? It's all well and good to say you're against torture, but when you've redefined what the word "torture" means to specifically not include things that actually are torture, your credibility has left the building. I liked McCain until he agreed to compromise on the torture issue instead of holding to his guns and saying, "No, that's wrong, we're the USA for crying out loud and we will NOT do that."
The Wiimote is not an abomination, it just isn't being used as effectively as it should. Mario Kart Wii makes great use of the Wiimote, and I find the game to be massively superior to its standard-controller counterparts.
I agree on its mis-use in Twilight Princess. It's blatantly obvious that it's a Gamecube game that somebody said "you must make this use motion controls!"
Nintendo has spent 20 years establishing brand recognition for a large quite of characters, headlined by Mario. They're never going to drop him as their primary star. They do have lots of games, most of which don't star Mario.
Ah, that's exactly my problem with the show. I can't stand the way most of the contestants act like they're the greatest athlete to ever walk the Earth. I get a perverse pleasure from watching them get smacked down by the Gladiators. Wolf makes me laugh, Crush makes me swoon, so I keep watching. Maybe the 'roidrage will push my nerves too far eventually, but for now I can deal.
You guys are avoiding the biggest issue. Death. All of those questions are basically meaningless if death is the end of existence. If death is really the end, then nothing matters. Justice is a lie, good and evil are illusions, and all of this is for nothing.
"Why is there a god?" To ensure us something more than oblivion.
THANKYOU!!! I just started working with Postgres and this problem has been driving me nuts. I'm writing some testing C++ programs using the psql library to learn my way around it, and it works as long as I pass the same uid/password with the program as the user I'm logged in as. As soon as I try to pass a different one, it fails. I've been chasing roles as a problem, thinking I missed something simple/stupid in that direction, but I think you just provided me with my solution. Off I go to play with it now!
Nothing like that. I know he's lying because a real time-traveler would have gone back far enough to at least get a 4-digit UID. No funky paradoxes involved, no stealing accounts from other people; just go to a time when new UIDs were low and create an account. Then, as a time-traveler, he can go to any time after that point and use his low-UID account.
Now, the funny stuff comes in if he is a time-traveler, but none of this occurred to him until I posted, at which point he goes back and creates a low-UID account. THEN he could respond to this little conversation with that account, and never post from the high-UID account again. From his perspective, anyhow. He might still have posts in our future that are from his past with his high-UID account before he went back to make the low-UID account and *HEAD ASPLODE*
The concept of resurrection is at least as old as writing. Does this automatically mean the account of Jesus being resurrected is copied from those fables?
Few writings from the past contradicting Christianity exist. Does this mean that any surviving writings are automatically true?
There was a mystery cult that existed around the same time as early Christianity that has many similarities to Christianity. Does this mean that Christianity copied Mithraism, or Mithraism copied Christianity?
Christians have, in the past, destroyed information that they found distasteful or contradictory to their beliefs. Does this automatically invalidate their beliefs, or does it just mean there have been assholes in the Christian faith? (Law of the Universal Distribution of Assholes)
Oh, if only that were true. See, we have this brand-spanking-new building with motion-activated paper-towel dispensers, automatic flushers in the toilets, and the fancy-pants climate control system. Things are failing CONSTANTLY. You can't keep a room at a constant temperature no matter what you do. The flushers like to flush _immediately_ after you stand up, and spray you with flush water before you can get your pants up. They also like to stop working altogether, and there's no manual flush outside of a button that engages the automatic device. If the autoflusher is busted, that button does nothing, and you leave behind a nice stinky mess for somebody else to discover.
In contrast, since this building opened, I have had exactly 3 service failures. Each lasted between 5 and 15 minutes. Nobody seems to notice this discrepancy, though, and facilities still gets a blank check for anything they need. I have to beg and plead for just a few thousand dollars.
I used to respect management folks. Then I started actually getting to know them and how they operate. Their decisions have next to nothing to do with what makes sense. Their decisions are about squeezing ever last drop out of the bottom line, all other priorities are rescinded. Need a new app to do task X? Get the cheapest one. It doesn't matter if it sucks, it's cheap and that makes Manager X happy because their year-end bonus, that's about the size of your entire yearly salary, will be bigger.
Truth. Big time. We need a world-wide "IT People On Strike" day. Maybe that'll force everyone to realize that we really do have some value in this world. Unfortunately for those of us that keep our stuff together, they probably wouldn't notice because our services would keep working through the whole day.
Where I work, our Facilities department gets whatever it wants. They take care of the generators, the lights, the A/C, etc. All things this place needs to keep running. We IT people get shafted at every opportunity because we "cost money," yet we take care of the servers and applications that keep this place running. Turn our stuff off, and it's as detrimental to the business as turning off all the lights. I can only dream of what being treated like a utility would be like. It must be nice.
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Does the law already consider an open, unencrypted network as implicitly giving permission, or is it written to say that if the person who owns that open, unencrypted network has not given permission then it's illegal?
What you say makes sense, but I don't expect the law to make sense.
...they should've been for about the last 30 years. They would have, were it not for a couple of minor accidents. Alright, so one was a minor accident, the other a catastrophe, but you get the idea.I'm sorry, I don't get it. Could you perhaps rephrase it in the form of an automobile reference?
It always made me think of the novel and Clint Eastwood movie.
Then why, oh why, did he back down to the will of the Executive Branch, compromise his morals and integrity, and allow for "exceptions" to the definition of what torture is? It's all well and good to say you're against torture, but when you've redefined what the word "torture" means to specifically not include things that actually are torture, your credibility has left the building. I liked McCain until he agreed to compromise on the torture issue instead of holding to his guns and saying, "No, that's wrong, we're the USA for crying out loud and we will NOT do that."
The Wiimote is not an abomination, it just isn't being used as effectively as it should. Mario Kart Wii makes great use of the Wiimote, and I find the game to be massively superior to its standard-controller counterparts.
I agree on its mis-use in Twilight Princess. It's blatantly obvious that it's a Gamecube game that somebody said "you must make this use motion controls!"
Nintendo has spent 20 years establishing brand recognition for a large quite of characters, headlined by Mario. They're never going to drop him as their primary star. They do have lots of games, most of which don't star Mario.
Uh... that's a little out of spec for Ethernet. Would need a repeater. Or two. Or five.
Ah, that's exactly my problem with the show. I can't stand the way most of the contestants act like they're the greatest athlete to ever walk the Earth. I get a perverse pleasure from watching them get smacked down by the Gladiators. Wolf makes me laugh, Crush makes me swoon, so I keep watching. Maybe the 'roidrage will push my nerves too far eventually, but for now I can deal.
You guys are avoiding the biggest issue. Death. All of those questions are basically meaningless if death is the end of existence. If death is really the end, then nothing matters. Justice is a lie, good and evil are illusions, and all of this is for nothing.
"Why is there a god?" To ensure us something more than oblivion.
THANKYOU!!! I just started working with Postgres and this problem has been driving me nuts. I'm writing some testing C++ programs using the psql library to learn my way around it, and it works as long as I pass the same uid/password with the program as the user I'm logged in as. As soon as I try to pass a different one, it fails. I've been chasing roles as a problem, thinking I missed something simple/stupid in that direction, but I think you just provided me with my solution. Off I go to play with it now!
Nothing like that. I know he's lying because a real time-traveler would have gone back far enough to at least get a 4-digit UID. No funky paradoxes involved, no stealing accounts from other people; just go to a time when new UIDs were low and create an account. Then, as a time-traveler, he can go to any time after that point and use his low-UID account.
Now, the funny stuff comes in if he is a time-traveler, but none of this occurred to him until I posted, at which point he goes back and creates a low-UID account. THEN he could respond to this little conversation with that account, and never post from the high-UID account again. From his perspective, anyhow. He might still have posts in our future that are from his past with his high-UID account before he went back to make the low-UID account and *HEAD ASPLODE*
Your UID is a little high for me to believe that you're a time traveller.
But this is beer. In Australia. The country will collapse.
Some things for you to consider:
The concept of resurrection is at least as old as writing. Does this automatically mean the account of Jesus being resurrected is copied from those fables?
Few writings from the past contradicting Christianity exist. Does this mean that any surviving writings are automatically true?
There was a mystery cult that existed around the same time as early Christianity that has many similarities to Christianity. Does this mean that Christianity copied Mithraism, or Mithraism copied Christianity?
Christians have, in the past, destroyed information that they found distasteful or contradictory to their beliefs. Does this automatically invalidate their beliefs, or does it just mean there have been assholes in the Christian faith? (Law of the Universal Distribution of Assholes)
I thought I had managed to forget that. I hate yooouuuu...
Seriously, did the guy just play too much Starcon2? He's one sentence away from saying "Time cube are not *many fingers*!"
You forgot about the boom. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later. BOOM!
Oh, if only that were true. See, we have this brand-spanking-new building with motion-activated paper-towel dispensers, automatic flushers in the toilets, and the fancy-pants climate control system. Things are failing CONSTANTLY. You can't keep a room at a constant temperature no matter what you do. The flushers like to flush _immediately_ after you stand up, and spray you with flush water before you can get your pants up. They also like to stop working altogether, and there's no manual flush outside of a button that engages the automatic device. If the autoflusher is busted, that button does nothing, and you leave behind a nice stinky mess for somebody else to discover.
In contrast, since this building opened, I have had exactly 3 service failures. Each lasted between 5 and 15 minutes. Nobody seems to notice this discrepancy, though, and facilities still gets a blank check for anything they need. I have to beg and plead for just a few thousand dollars.
Alright, you sold me. Viva la revolution!
I think that moves beyond "strike" and into "sabotage" territory, but if I were ticked off enough, I'd probably do that.
You maybe are being sarcastic, but the average salary of our maintenance staff is the same as the average salary of our IT staff.
I used to respect management folks. Then I started actually getting to know them and how they operate. Their decisions have next to nothing to do with what makes sense. Their decisions are about squeezing ever last drop out of the bottom line, all other priorities are rescinded. Need a new app to do task X? Get the cheapest one. It doesn't matter if it sucks, it's cheap and that makes Manager X happy because their year-end bonus, that's about the size of your entire yearly salary, will be bigger.
Truth. Big time. We need a world-wide "IT People On Strike" day. Maybe that'll force everyone to realize that we really do have some value in this world. Unfortunately for those of us that keep our stuff together, they probably wouldn't notice because our services would keep working through the whole day.
Where I work, our Facilities department gets whatever it wants. They take care of the generators, the lights, the A/C, etc. All things this place needs to keep running. We IT people get shafted at every opportunity because we "cost money," yet we take care of the servers and applications that keep this place running. Turn our stuff off, and it's as detrimental to the business as turning off all the lights. I can only dream of what being treated like a utility would be like. It must be nice.
Yep. It's a hell of a place.