Your argument was made and has been made since humans first started feeling compassion. It doesn't work. The only argument that does work is essentially an economic one. Action A basically never works. Action B doesn't work very often, but works more than Action A, but is difficult for those engaging in the actions to force themselves to commit to, as it requires discipline and, god forbid, humanization of their foes.
The most effective interrogator for the Nazis was a man that never hurt or raised a hand to his prisoners and never threatened them. He talked with them, he not only humanized them, but got them to humanize him as well, which was when they spilled their secrets. He was so effective that after the end of WWII, he went on to train the western powers in his techniques, though apparently we've forgotten those lessons in the subsequent decades and let our passions dictate our actions.
This what happens when you use the wrong personnel for the job. Army and Marines aren't effective Gendarme, we do not have a true Gendarme Corps. We also apparently don't learn that torture is ineffective even against a prisoner that will not respond to positive overtures. If they won't talk, torturing them won't get them to tell you what you want to know, it'll get them to say anything to end the torture, and if they're committed to their cause, that will be lies that hurt you trying to investigate them.
The "ticking time bomb" scenario has never been realised in the United States, to my knowledge. There haven't been situations when someone was caught after the plan was finalized and before it was put into play where we identified them as a player.
On the other hand, as more and more capabilities are added on to this prototype, and subsequent production equipment, the new science that they'll be able to do will grow in scope and cost as well.
What we're seeing here is a potential paradigm shift. Saying that there'll be no budget for expensive projects compared to this one is like saying now that the GM EV1 two-seater is out, there'll be no interest in V8-powered luxury cars. In reality, we're seeing paradigm shifts in that market where companies are figuring out how to give the features and options of old mated to the new technology.
I don't see how it's fraud for a user to choose how to voluntarily use a service that they're not obligated to use, when there's no signed contract or even terribly binding agreement between the user and the entity from whom they're retrieving content. If the entity serving the content doesn't like what the user is doing, they're free to block the user.
Remember, these are the same people that complain when you fast-forward through commercials, and have tried to make legal arguments to prevent one from being able to do that.
While I may disagree with the business of data-mining and collection on a large scale, I don't think that 'profiteer' is the right term.
I always looked at someone that was profiteering as someone putting forth little to no effort in order to make the money that they make, and often it's a result of peddling someone else's work. A war profiteer was someone that stole military materiel and sold it, as an example.
These companies, while engaged in a business that I don't agree with, have had to develop the tools and techniques that they use to practice their craft. Depending on what they're monitoring or how they're doing it that might be a fairly substantial task, so I'm not going to downplay their efforts just because I disagree with them being engaged in to begin with.
If I can take the device (like a laptop) home though, I can't edit the hosts file even if it's not residing on the corporate network. At home that would mean I'd get ads, unless I use a non-hosts method to block them.
I'm aware of that. It's also not easy to modify the hosts file on a company computer that has a group policy set that denies doing that, and most people are not capable of modifying their hosts file anyway. Hence the program and the list.
I didn't care about the ads when they were just text. I didn't care about them when they were small fixed images.
I started to care when they were large fixed images, and then multiple variations of the same image on the screen at once, and then flashing or blinking or animated. They they started using Javascript and Java and Flash to pop-up, pop-under, open new windows, play sounds or videos automatically, and otherwise manipulate the browser itself, and that's when I installed ad-blocking software, and later I installed flash-blocking software and script-blocking software.
So yes, in some ways I still browse the web like it's 1995. On the other hand, back in 1995 most of the web was text, and much of that text was actual useful content, and what few graphics there were contributed to the text as relevant content. Now most of what's retrieved is crap, so I'm happy to ignore the crap to get at the actual content again.
...as someone else will develop a list, and just a list, of hosts serving ads, and someone else will develop a plugin that can read lists of any kind to block content, with claims that the content blocked can be for adult material or any other form of objectionable content. The user will put the location of the list in to the program themselves, and they'll continue to block the content. If the list gets taken down in one place, it'll be propped-up again somewhere else, or even stale, would still be better than no list at all.
That passage you linked to actually helps graphically illustrate the point, in that when authors choose to write that sort of thing, they are judged for it.
I'd tried to read the first book of his Bio of a Space Tyrant series, but the juxtaposition of the value of virginity immediately followed by the brutal gang-rape in front of her family as a display of power was enough that I put that book down, and I've never really read much of Anthony's work since. Xanth was amusing, Mode was sad, and Apprentice Adept was an interesting mix of science fiction and fantasy with more than a little humor thrown in that I hadn't encountered before, but trying to get into his serious stuff I didn't care for it. I guess the world's already a hard, gritty place, no need to intentionally make it so much worse.
The authors I've listed are ones that I've read several works from that I could remember off of the top of my head. I've read some Foster and some Farmer, but not much, and I'm pretty sure they were short stories, and in the case of Farmer, was compelled to read as part of an English literature curriculum. I have a Searoad anthology from Le Guin that I have yet to read, and I've read some Virginia Demarce and some Margaret Atwood as well. When I first got into reading science fiction I started with Star Trek novels, and Judith Reeves-Stevens and her husband Garfield wrote many of them; they were good but they were also someone else's universe rather than one of their own.
I read when I have time. As that's not as often as I'd like it's sometimes hard to find time to take a chance on something instead of reading something that I expect to be good based on the author's previous works.
I tried to read it, but fairly early in the book when the silly man lost what he had bought for his daughter (if my memory serves) in being robbed because of the deal with his hat, I put the book down and haven't picked it back up for over a decade.
I'm not a fan of cringe-moments like that. I stopped reading Anansi Boys for the same reason.
I kind of get why, in certain circumstances, wildcard masking is used instead of subnet masking, but I agree, it's a pain in the ass and they really should have found ways of making it less annoying.
Right now I'm ACL hell, and different types of ACLs have just enough differences in formatting to enter them that I keep having to go back to the literature. Given that I'm working on teaching myself routing so I'm running lots of vlans on trunk interfaces this is becoming a headache with so many lists to maintain.
Haven't read Anathem yet. Knowing this about how it's written I'll have to wait to be in the correct frame of mind to pick it up.
I didn't care for the odd use of stream-of-consciousness in the first part of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and I suspect I just don't go in for that style of writing. I didn't mind how Salinger did it in The Catcher in the Rye though.
David Weber's Safehold series annoys me with the character names. I like the story, but attempting to read through the variant spellings of relatively common names breaks my reading pace frequently. In my mind I end up substituting unpronounced placeholders for the characters as I see their names.
With that statement I meant that typically things that are looked down upon or are abhorrent when the work was written are looked down upon or are abhorrent within the story of the book, and are used as a means to identify the antagonists or possibly the anti-heros. It' rare to find something considered morally repugnant represented as positive, good, or normal-as-accepted in such fiction without it being attributed at least as a vice.
Cisco has a lot of legacy garbage that haunts new entrants into their gear though. There are things kept around for historical reasons that were built on other things for historical reasons that in turn were built on different things yet that are no longer there. As an example, on a brand new 3650CG switch one has to "switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q" before "switchport mode trunk" even though no one uses ISL anymore, and even many new Cisco products don't support anything other than 802.1q trunking.
Hell, that one has to type "configure terminal" when you're SSHed in to a switch and obviously trying to configure it from the terminal is silly.
I would be glad for a clean-sheet design that still plays well with console access, or to deconstruct the existing commands to remove things that don't work or are silly and to fix those which need fixed.
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Your argument was made and has been made since humans first started feeling compassion. It doesn't work. The only argument that does work is essentially an economic one. Action A basically never works. Action B doesn't work very often, but works more than Action A, but is difficult for those engaging in the actions to force themselves to commit to, as it requires discipline and, god forbid, humanization of their foes.
The most effective interrogator for the Nazis was a man that never hurt or raised a hand to his prisoners and never threatened them. He talked with them, he not only humanized them, but got them to humanize him as well, which was when they spilled their secrets. He was so effective that after the end of WWII, he went on to train the western powers in his techniques, though apparently we've forgotten those lessons in the subsequent decades and let our passions dictate our actions.
This what happens when you use the wrong personnel for the job. Army and Marines aren't effective Gendarme, we do not have a true Gendarme Corps. We also apparently don't learn that torture is ineffective even against a prisoner that will not respond to positive overtures. If they won't talk, torturing them won't get them to tell you what you want to know, it'll get them to say anything to end the torture, and if they're committed to their cause, that will be lies that hurt you trying to investigate them.
The "ticking time bomb" scenario has never been realised in the United States, to my knowledge. There haven't been situations when someone was caught after the plan was finalized and before it was put into play where we identified them as a player.
I guess these superconductors won't be used in any cycling applications then...
If popularity drove movie awards, Michael Bay would be a multi-time Oscar winner.
So if they start using luxury cars for livery vehicles, would one expect the comfy chair?
The device is small, but the power source is the size of a building.
On the other hand, as more and more capabilities are added on to this prototype, and subsequent production equipment, the new science that they'll be able to do will grow in scope and cost as well.
What we're seeing here is a potential paradigm shift. Saying that there'll be no budget for expensive projects compared to this one is like saying now that the GM EV1 two-seater is out, there'll be no interest in V8-powered luxury cars. In reality, we're seeing paradigm shifts in that market where companies are figuring out how to give the features and options of old mated to the new technology.
I don't see how it's fraud for a user to choose how to voluntarily use a service that they're not obligated to use, when there's no signed contract or even terribly binding agreement between the user and the entity from whom they're retrieving content. If the entity serving the content doesn't like what the user is doing, they're free to block the user.
Remember, these are the same people that complain when you fast-forward through commercials, and have tried to make legal arguments to prevent one from being able to do that.
Does the real chance of being targeted for airstrikes by both sides count for anything?
While I may disagree with the business of data-mining and collection on a large scale, I don't think that 'profiteer' is the right term.
I always looked at someone that was profiteering as someone putting forth little to no effort in order to make the money that they make, and often it's a result of peddling someone else's work. A war profiteer was someone that stole military materiel and sold it, as an example.
These companies, while engaged in a business that I don't agree with, have had to develop the tools and techniques that they use to practice their craft. Depending on what they're monitoring or how they're doing it that might be a fairly substantial task, so I'm not going to downplay their efforts just because I disagree with them being engaged in to begin with.
If I can take the device (like a laptop) home though, I can't edit the hosts file even if it's not residing on the corporate network. At home that would mean I'd get ads, unless I use a non-hosts method to block them.
And apparently you're not familiar with Heathers.
I'm aware of that. It's also not easy to modify the hosts file on a company computer that has a group policy set that denies doing that, and most people are not capable of modifying their hosts file anyway. Hence the program and the list.
I didn't care about the ads when they were just text. I didn't care about them when they were small fixed images.
I started to care when they were large fixed images, and then multiple variations of the same image on the screen at once, and then flashing or blinking or animated. They they started using Javascript and Java and Flash to pop-up, pop-under, open new windows, play sounds or videos automatically, and otherwise manipulate the browser itself, and that's when I installed ad-blocking software, and later I installed flash-blocking software and script-blocking software.
So yes, in some ways I still browse the web like it's 1995. On the other hand, back in 1995 most of the web was text, and much of that text was actual useful content, and what few graphics there were contributed to the text as relevant content. Now most of what's retrieved is crap, so I'm happy to ignore the crap to get at the actual content again.
...as someone else will develop a list, and just a list, of hosts serving ads, and someone else will develop a plugin that can read lists of any kind to block content, with claims that the content blocked can be for adult material or any other form of objectionable content. The user will put the location of the list in to the program themselves, and they'll continue to block the content. If the list gets taken down in one place, it'll be propped-up again somewhere else, or even stale, would still be better than no list at all.
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Did you have a brain-tumor for breakfast?
They'll probably install a load-controller, so the 20A or so needed for the device is all that you can draw.
That passage you linked to actually helps graphically illustrate the point, in that when authors choose to write that sort of thing, they are judged for it.
I'd tried to read the first book of his Bio of a Space Tyrant series, but the juxtaposition of the value of virginity immediately followed by the brutal gang-rape in front of her family as a display of power was enough that I put that book down, and I've never really read much of Anthony's work since. Xanth was amusing, Mode was sad, and Apprentice Adept was an interesting mix of science fiction and fantasy with more than a little humor thrown in that I hadn't encountered before, but trying to get into his serious stuff I didn't care for it. I guess the world's already a hard, gritty place, no need to intentionally make it so much worse.
The authors I've listed are ones that I've read several works from that I could remember off of the top of my head. I've read some Foster and some Farmer, but not much, and I'm pretty sure they were short stories, and in the case of Farmer, was compelled to read as part of an English literature curriculum. I have a Searoad anthology from Le Guin that I have yet to read, and I've read some Virginia Demarce and some Margaret Atwood as well. When I first got into reading science fiction I started with Star Trek novels, and Judith Reeves-Stevens and her husband Garfield wrote many of them; they were good but they were also someone else's universe rather than one of their own.
I read when I have time. As that's not as often as I'd like it's sometimes hard to find time to take a chance on something instead of reading something that I expect to be good based on the author's previous works.
How very.
I tried to read it, but fairly early in the book when the silly man lost what he had bought for his daughter (if my memory serves) in being robbed because of the deal with his hat, I put the book down and haven't picked it back up for over a decade.
I'm not a fan of cringe-moments like that. I stopped reading Anansi Boys for the same reason.
I kind of get why, in certain circumstances, wildcard masking is used instead of subnet masking, but I agree, it's a pain in the ass and they really should have found ways of making it less annoying.
Right now I'm ACL hell, and different types of ACLs have just enough differences in formatting to enter them that I keep having to go back to the literature. Given that I'm working on teaching myself routing so I'm running lots of vlans on trunk interfaces this is becoming a headache with so many lists to maintain.
Haven't read Anathem yet. Knowing this about how it's written I'll have to wait to be in the correct frame of mind to pick it up.
I didn't care for the odd use of stream-of-consciousness in the first part of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and I suspect I just don't go in for that style of writing. I didn't mind how Salinger did it in The Catcher in the Rye though.
David Weber's Safehold series annoys me with the character names. I like the story, but attempting to read through the variant spellings of relatively common names breaks my reading pace frequently. In my mind I end up substituting unpronounced placeholders for the characters as I see their names.
With that statement I meant that typically things that are looked down upon or are abhorrent when the work was written are looked down upon or are abhorrent within the story of the book, and are used as a means to identify the antagonists or possibly the anti-heros. It' rare to find something considered morally repugnant represented as positive, good, or normal-as-accepted in such fiction without it being attributed at least as a vice.
Cisco has a lot of legacy garbage that haunts new entrants into their gear though. There are things kept around for historical reasons that were built on other things for historical reasons that in turn were built on different things yet that are no longer there. As an example, on a brand new 3650CG switch one has to "switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q" before "switchport mode trunk" even though no one uses ISL anymore, and even many new Cisco products don't support anything other than 802.1q trunking.
Hell, that one has to type "configure terminal" when you're SSHed in to a switch and obviously trying to configure it from the terminal is silly.
I would be glad for a clean-sheet design that still plays well with console access, or to deconstruct the existing commands to remove things that don't work or are silly and to fix those which need fixed.