This would be direct taxation, a 25 cent wiretapping tax. They will probably find a better name for it, Patriotic duty or something but it is still a direct tax.
I have no idea how my car works. I have no idea how they make plastic. i have no idea what processes food goes through before it hits my mouth either. Face it, there is a lot, probably most of the things you deal with every day, that you have no idea about how they work, were made and the like. You trust the people that made them that they know what they're doing and its the same with closed drivers. Hell i can't read C worth damn, so even open drivers are a mystery to me.
Funny that since they're just writers. They're not scientists, just writers. Few things irritate me more then someone holding a Sci-Fi writer as some sort of visionary, if they actually did get something right, its because it was the obvious thing, or a fluke. They're not brilliant geniuses.
They're not a concern because they are then the type of people who they use the automated tools to attempt to cause trouble, which makes them an annoyance, and I don't know about you, but I like to remove as many annoyances in a day that I can.
Have you ever heard of people buying those little 'This house protected by...' stickers for their homes when they really have no alarm system. Its called a deterrent, it doesn't protect from the determined, experienced individual, but it makes the casual thief think twice and look for another target. Silently dropping ICMP packets does the same thing, a lot of script kiddies have no idea how things work so if they get no response from an address, they just move on making it one less headache to deal with. Unless your the type of person who loves analyzing logs and your not hosting services through your firewall, there is nothing wrong with it and it is a valid response to dealing with idiots.
you might want to look into creating your own MSI files and distributing them through AD. You don't have to sit there for the install, or visit every system after the install and that configuration screen will never come up. Learn about your options before whining about doing things the hard way.
The later linksys's have statefull packet inspecting so they are a very rudimentary firewall, which is plenty for your average home user. The upside is that no app can kill the firewall process since its not sitting on that system, a firewall should not sit on the machine(s) its protecting. That said I did recently replace my linksys with an older system running OpenBSD/pf but that was more that I wanted better logging and the like, not because the linksys was insecure for home.
Windows is not the only thing that will do this. pf, the firewall thats included in OpenBSD for instance can be set to either return ICMP with rst, or just silently drop the packet. It serves a simple purpose, it dissuades some of the idiots that are just out scanning a subnet for fun.
Are you suggesting that wanting to experience different cultures makes you a racist? It doesn't take much to notice that if you were raised with different cultural ideals since if there weren't differences everyone would be the same. Noticing things about your surroundings is called being observant.
In my experience, people who go out of there way to point out how others are probably racist are among the worst people you'll come across.
Encryption does not hide the fact that a message exists, it just alters what the text appears to be. Also, a principle in cryptology for some time has been, "The general system must not be a secret." Today that can be restated, "The algorithm must not be a secret." So not only is the fact that there is a message, but the way the message was altered is also known. With these knowns, encryption is not 'security through obscurity' since that term relates to hiding the fact that there are problems, something you can not do with encryption.
Exactly what about SP2 makes moving to Linux unrealistic? SP2 is a needed up date to an already good OS but its not some sort of revolution, and not something that I can see that would prevent someone from using Linux if indeed they really wanted to 'move beyond Windows.' Incidentally, when I wanted to try something new, I built a machine out of used parts and ran linux and windows, and I still do, so once again, what about SP2 precludes using Linux?
The Right tool for the Right Job. OS X looks very capable, but only a fool thinks any OS can do everything well, besides when has choice ever been a problem?
Its not so much if they have an expectation to privacy, but do you have a right to record it, just like was already mentioned in some states you can't tape a call you receive. On top of that, never underestimate the litigious nature of the United States and a felon winning a case because his 'rights' to commit a felony were infringed upon.
Then why is Linux selling? Only the kernel is 64-bit capable, userspace is 32bit all the way. On top of that running it on 32bit processors seems to be popular.
How can this fellow's opinion turn on a dime like that? Linux isn't a religion to everyone. Its just a job, and just like I'd work for Sun and if a better opportunity comes a long, leave and go work for a competitor, I'd leave a position selling Linux to go work for someone selling against linux if it was a better opportunity, he didn't sell his soul here, he took a job. If you think working for MS is selling your soul, then you are treating IT as a religion, and that makes you a very sad person.
Except those 5% keep shifting from one browser to another, whereas IE's numbers have held steady. This 'threat' to IE exists in the mind of those on Slashdot.
No one is preventing the distribution of these disks, only the governments sanction of them, as such you could make the case that the government shouldn't be distributing music of any kind anyway. On the other hand, there is more then a slight difference between 'back home country roads' and 'I killed my ho, blew her brains out over the road.' The former might be a veiled reference to something, but the latter wasn't veiled at all.
Kentucky isn't preventing the sale of these disks, or forcing you to listen to something else. 'Slippery Slope' is an over used buzzword, especially on slashdot where everything is automatically a conspiracy.
Well it says cautions against deleting legitimate email so I doubt that those viagra e-mails count as legitimate. Yes the government had these requirements before, several industries, for instance Financial Institutions, are required to hold on to every piece of correspondence to document what was going on, this is more of a reminder that just because its an electronic message doesn't change anything. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Its not censorship since they're not stopping anyone from listening to it, what they are doing is preventing a government sanction of ideas that the general public does not hold. If you want to get a CD of someone going on for 70 minutes about how he shot every ho hes been with, go to HMV, it has no place in a library or any government run institution.
Replace the RIAA with Microsoft. No imagine MS was ordered to freely distribute Windows to states. Now imagine one of those states refused because Windows wasn't what the majority of people wanted. Is he censoring software? Ignoring the large group of people here who are going to say he's a hero or something, he's not censoring anything, but faithfully representing his state. Not everything is a big conspiracy and there are limits to everything, most of the content of these CD's has no place in a government run institution.
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This would be direct taxation, a 25 cent wiretapping tax. They will probably find a better name for it, Patriotic duty or something but it is still a direct tax.
Patriotism sucks.
Its called a Rook man. 'The Castle,' what are you, like 10?
I have no idea how my car works. I have no idea how they make plastic. i have no idea what processes food goes through before it hits my mouth either. Face it, there is a lot, probably most of the things you deal with every day, that you have no idea about how they work, were made and the like. You trust the people that made them that they know what they're doing and its the same with closed drivers. Hell i can't read C worth damn, so even open drivers are a mystery to me.
Funny that since they're just writers. They're not scientists, just writers. Few things irritate me more then someone holding a Sci-Fi writer as some sort of visionary, if they actually did get something right, its because it was the obvious thing, or a fluke. They're not brilliant geniuses.
They're not a concern because they are then the type of people who they use the automated tools to attempt to cause trouble, which makes them an annoyance, and I don't know about you, but I like to remove as many annoyances in a day that I can.
Have you ever heard of people buying those little 'This house protected by...' stickers for their homes when they really have no alarm system. Its called a deterrent, it doesn't protect from the determined, experienced individual, but it makes the casual thief think twice and look for another target. Silently dropping ICMP packets does the same thing, a lot of script kiddies have no idea how things work so if they get no response from an address, they just move on making it one less headache to deal with. Unless your the type of person who loves analyzing logs and your not hosting services through your firewall, there is nothing wrong with it and it is a valid response to dealing with idiots.
Must be hosted on an AMD system then.
you might want to look into creating your own MSI files and distributing them through AD. You don't have to sit there for the install, or visit every system after the install and that configuration screen will never come up. Learn about your options before whining about doing things the hard way.
The later linksys's have statefull packet inspecting so they are a very rudimentary firewall, which is plenty for your average home user. The upside is that no app can kill the firewall process since its not sitting on that system, a firewall should not sit on the machine(s) its protecting. That said I did recently replace my linksys with an older system running OpenBSD/pf but that was more that I wanted better logging and the like, not because the linksys was insecure for home.
Windows is not the only thing that will do this. pf, the firewall thats included in OpenBSD for instance can be set to either return ICMP with rst, or just silently drop the packet. It serves a simple purpose, it dissuades some of the idiots that are just out scanning a subnet for fun.
Because they're the ones whose parents buy every damn thing for them if they whine loud enough.
Are you suggesting that wanting to experience different cultures makes you a racist? It doesn't take much to notice that if you were raised with different cultural ideals since if there weren't differences everyone would be the same. Noticing things about your surroundings is called being observant.
In my experience, people who go out of there way to point out how others are probably racist are among the worst people you'll come across.
Encryption does not hide the fact that a message exists, it just alters what the text appears to be. Also, a principle in cryptology for some time has been, "The general system must not be a secret." Today that can be restated, "The algorithm must not be a secret." So not only is the fact that there is a message, but the way the message was altered is also known. With these knowns, encryption is not 'security through obscurity' since that term relates to hiding the fact that there are problems, something you can not do with encryption.
Square-Enix. I bet we'll see a Final Fantasy Action horror game in the next year.
Something about a guy calling himself 'RatBastard' talking about professionalism makes it loose all meaning.
Exactly what about SP2 makes moving to Linux unrealistic? SP2 is a needed up date to an already good OS but its not some sort of revolution, and not something that I can see that would prevent someone from using Linux if indeed they really wanted to 'move beyond Windows.' Incidentally, when I wanted to try something new, I built a machine out of used parts and ran linux and windows, and I still do, so once again, what about SP2 precludes using Linux?
It has a nice ring to it.
The Right tool for the Right Job. OS X looks very capable, but only a fool thinks any OS can do everything well, besides when has choice ever been a problem?
Its not so much if they have an expectation to privacy, but do you have a right to record it, just like was already mentioned in some states you can't tape a call you receive. On top of that, never underestimate the litigious nature of the United States and a felon winning a case because his 'rights' to commit a felony were infringed upon.
Then why is Linux selling? Only the kernel is 64-bit capable, userspace is 32bit all the way. On top of that running it on 32bit processors seems to be popular.
How can this fellow's opinion turn on a dime like that?
Linux isn't a religion to everyone. Its just a job, and just like I'd work for Sun and if a better opportunity comes a long, leave and go work for a competitor, I'd leave a position selling Linux to go work for someone selling against linux if it was a better opportunity, he didn't sell his soul here, he took a job. If you think working for MS is selling your soul, then you are treating IT as a religion, and that makes you a very sad person.
Wouldn't a simple pair of wirecutters do the trick to begin with? I don't think you have to be McGuyver to get through those locks.
Except those 5% keep shifting from one browser to another, whereas IE's numbers have held steady. This 'threat' to IE exists in the mind of those on Slashdot.
No one is preventing the distribution of these disks, only the governments sanction of them, as such you could make the case that the government shouldn't be distributing music of any kind anyway. On the other hand, there is more then a slight difference between 'back home country roads' and 'I killed my ho, blew her brains out over the road.' The former might be a veiled reference to something, but the latter wasn't veiled at all.
Kentucky isn't preventing the sale of these disks, or forcing you to listen to something else. 'Slippery Slope' is an over used buzzword, especially on slashdot where everything is automatically a conspiracy.
Well it says cautions against deleting legitimate email so I doubt that those viagra e-mails count as legitimate. Yes the government had these requirements before, several industries, for instance Financial Institutions, are required to hold on to every piece of correspondence to document what was going on, this is more of a reminder that just because its an electronic message doesn't change anything. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Its not censorship since they're not stopping anyone from listening to it, what they are doing is preventing a government sanction of ideas that the general public does not hold. If you want to get a CD of someone going on for 70 minutes about how he shot every ho hes been with, go to HMV, it has no place in a library or any government run institution.
Replace the RIAA with Microsoft. No imagine MS was ordered to freely distribute Windows to states. Now imagine one of those states refused because Windows wasn't what the majority of people wanted. Is he censoring software? Ignoring the large group of people here who are going to say he's a hero or something, he's not censoring anything, but faithfully representing his state. Not everything is a big conspiracy and there are limits to everything, most of the content of these CD's has no place in a government run institution.