I've cleaned out some pretty nasty rootkits and virii that only took me a few minutes with a Linux boot CD and then fixmbr. It doesn't take long if you've done it a million times.
Installing windows or logging into a new account should automatically install some viruses (like it used to be, when installing windows) to force you to learn how to do this and get you used to fixing the system a million times.
If it is proven that these scanners are dangerous and must be removed, what will fill the 'fear theater' void?
They should strip everyone down, bind them in chains (like prisoner transport), blindfold, gag, and taser them, and randomly execute people. That will definitely get those terrists thinking twice about flying anywhere!
I first imagined, "Body Cavity Checks For All!", but that != profit for Chertoff, et al. Maybe they'll do it for shits & giggles, anyway...
They're working on an expensive body cavity check machine right now. They're laughing about how all the expensive radiation machines will have to be replaced. They've already planned for the body cavity machines needing replacement (causes rectal distension). Someone else is working on the next thing: "groping/slicing machines", which will also need to be replaced (due to the slicing).
Law Enforcement has NEVER lied to make themselves look better.
What?! Are you serious??? How on earth can you say this has never happened? Law enforcement has been around for a long, long time (decades, if not centuries). Do you really think that in all that time no one has ever lied to make themselves look better? Personally, I suspect that it has happened a few times... including probably fairly recently.
"Can't say I'll miss porn written for schoolgirls..."
But that's just where it starts.*
Exactly. It would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from listening to boards of canada may be back next year to complain about a book or even a tv program. If you could be told what you can see or read then it follows that you could be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights; no one else will do it for you. Thank you.
What's the point of any technology that can't rain down Hellfire missiles?
That's right! None!
Anyone who is developing any technology, from baby food to high-powered anti-personnel ordnance, should ask themselves: "How can we monetize this, and how can we weaponize this?"
Hey! Don't you put down us womprats! We're people too! But we're treated like scum. I know a guy who used to bullseye womprats in his T-16 back home, even the poor baby ones that are not much bigger than two meters.
They didn't even say that a key was pressed. Perhaps someone accidentally brushed a hand against the keyboard. Perhaps the "very bad design" of the data center involves the electrical wiring.
Seriously, this does indicate bad design, and it does NOT inspire confidence. If cloud services go down and the official explanation that is given is "Someone accidentally touched some equipment, and everything go boom," then I don't want to rely on this cloud service. That's not good enough.
They could try explaining what particular nasty touches actually caused this. By trivializing the cause, they hide the problem, but they also suggest that really really simple problems can make go boom.
Maybe if someone was poking their finger into the cloud's positronic brain, I could see "Unfortunately, someone touched it" as an acceptable answer. But a keyboard is equipment specifically made for touching. Are cloud data centers so fragile that things meant for fingers can't be touched?
The real challenge will be dealing with the alien race of machines who interface with it and set out on a destructive journey toward Earth in order to contact its creator.
Does every conversation on slashdot have to turn into a tirade about how stupid and frustrating and awful and shoddy and worthless and disappointing and shitty and aggravating and horrible windows is? We know already! It's also despicable and unreliable and saddening and ugly and untrustworthy and pernicious and inadequate and etc etc etc...
If I were an advanced alien civilization, I'd probably need a lot of energy, and I'd probably be doing "star engineering" on a much larger scale than what's suggested here.
I'd modify a star to project its energy in focused beams, like the jets of a quasar. I'd make a Project Orion powered by supernovae.
If I were a human looking for ETs, I'd look for signs of them in the highest energy interactions that we can see. Patterns? Events that don't appear completely random? etc
I wouldn't look for human-like ideas of life or technology. If I was exploring the seabed I wouldn't think "well, life would have to develop large solar-collecting surfaces to survive in the very dim conditions"... I'd look to where the energy is, like sea vents, where lo and behold!, there is life that is unlike anything that exists on the surface.
Your patent would infringe on my patent for "methods of storing and retrieving information encoded using one or more symbols and arranged in a sequential order, as well as methods for enabling the access of that information out of order."
Don't even think about filing your patent, because I also have a patent for "1) methods and apparatus for generating potential courses of action based on evaluation of potential conceptual possibilities, 2) methods and algorithms for evaluating said conceptual possibilities, and 3) apparatus for creating said conceptual possibilities".
So "Joe's Pizza" can now be changed to "Joe's Awful Pizza"?
That's possible but highly unlikely.
More likely, "Joe's Pizza" will now be changed to "PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS". I didn't RTFA but will google be able to handle vandalization and misinformation? Will it be similar to wikipedia?
I think you must've missed the whole thing about the U.S. going from over 30,000 nukes just a few decades back to under 10,000 today (of which under 2,000 are active). Kinda a big deal, but hey, why keep track of annoying facts like that?
Not as big of a deal as when the department store here had a half-off sale on socks for $100! Still kind of expensive, but where else are you gonna save $100 on a pair of socks?!
The US should have made 30,000,000 nukes. Then, they could look like Mother Teresa when they go down to just 10,000,000.
So the US has under 10000 nukes, how cute. Iran has 0. But hey, facts are annoying if they don't come in the form of misleading ratios.
Besides, what harm could any group do with only 10000 nukes?
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What is "Intellectual Property", anyways? I'm pretty sure that was term that was made up
Uhm, you're kinda treading on my opinion security right now, and it's starting to infringe on my emotional ownership rights.
I say we stop supporting Microsoft and start bashing them in our comments.
That should get them to smarten up.
What a disgusting despicable company.
It also, cannot grill burgers while ensuring food stays moist, with up to 43% less fat.
I've cleaned out some pretty nasty rootkits and virii that only took me a few minutes with a Linux boot CD and then fixmbr. It doesn't take long if you've done it a million times.
Installing windows or logging into a new account should automatically install some viruses (like it used to be, when installing windows) to force you to learn how to do this and get you used to fixing the system a million times.
If it is proven that these scanners are dangerous and must be removed, what will fill the 'fear theater' void?
They should strip everyone down, bind them in chains (like prisoner transport), blindfold, gag, and taser them, and randomly execute people. That will definitely get those terrists thinking twice about flying anywhere!
I first imagined, "Body Cavity Checks For All!", but that != profit for Chertoff, et al. Maybe they'll do it for shits & giggles, anyway...
They're working on an expensive body cavity check machine right now.
They're laughing about how all the expensive radiation machines will have to be replaced.
They've already planned for the body cavity machines needing replacement (causes rectal distension).
Someone else is working on the next thing: "groping/slicing machines", which will also need to be replaced (due to the slicing).
Law Enforcement has NEVER lied to make themselves look better.
What?! Are you serious??? How on earth can you say this has never happened? Law enforcement has been around for a long, long time (decades, if not centuries). Do you really think that in all that time no one has ever lied to make themselves look better? Personally, I suspect that it has happened a few times... including probably fairly recently.
Why would apple want nokia? Do they want a piece of the "phones no one buys" market?
Seriously though, would it be to improve tech aspects that nokia does better than apple?
Or buy out a competitor only to destroy it?
I think you're getting your definitions from a pre- Bush-era dictionary. Us can't be terrorists, only Them can.
"Can't say I'll miss porn written for schoolgirls..."
But that's just where it starts.*
Exactly. It would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from listening to boards of canada may be back next year to complain about a book or even a tv program. If you could be told what you can see or read then it follows that you could be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights; no one else will do it for you. Thank you.
What's the point of any technology that can't rain down Hellfire missiles?
That's right! None!
Anyone who is developing any technology, from baby food to high-powered anti-personnel ordnance, should ask themselves: "How can we monetize this, and how can we weaponize this?"
Hey! Don't you put down us womprats! We're people too! But we're treated like scum. I know a guy who used to bullseye womprats in his T-16 back home, even the poor baby ones that are not much bigger than two meters.
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Maybe the data center was too dry and when they touched the keyboard, a lightning bolt from the cloud struck.
Anyway I think keeping clouds in a data center sounds dangerous for several reasons.
They didn't even say that a key was pressed. Perhaps someone accidentally brushed a hand against the keyboard. Perhaps the "very bad design" of the data center involves the electrical wiring.
Seriously, this does indicate bad design, and it does NOT inspire confidence. If cloud services go down and the official explanation that is given is "Someone accidentally touched some equipment, and everything go boom," then I don't want to rely on this cloud service. That's not good enough.
They could try explaining what particular nasty touches actually caused this. By trivializing the cause, they hide the problem, but they also suggest that really really simple problems can make go boom.
Maybe if someone was poking their finger into the cloud's positronic brain, I could see "Unfortunately, someone touched it" as an acceptable answer. But a keyboard is equipment specifically made for touching. Are cloud data centers so fragile that things meant for fingers can't be touched?
but can it manipulate a rod with just the right tactile pressure?
But the modern version would automatically update its Twitter account from space!
The real challenge will be dealing with the alien race of machines who interface with it and set out on a destructive journey toward Earth in order to contact its creator.
Does every conversation on slashdot have to turn into a tirade about how stupid and frustrating and awful and shoddy and worthless and disappointing and shitty and aggravating and horrible windows is? We know already! It's also despicable and unreliable and saddening and ugly and untrustworthy and pernicious and inadequate and etc etc etc...
If I were an advanced alien civilization, I'd probably need a lot of energy, and I'd probably be doing "star engineering" on a much larger scale than what's suggested here.
I'd modify a star to project its energy in focused beams, like the jets of a quasar.
I'd make a Project Orion powered by supernovae.
If I were a human looking for ETs, I'd look for signs of them in the highest energy interactions that we can see. Patterns? Events that don't appear completely random? etc
I wouldn't look for human-like ideas of life or technology. If I was exploring the seabed I wouldn't think "well, life would have to develop large solar-collecting surfaces to survive in the very dim conditions"... I'd look to where the energy is, like sea vents, where lo and behold!, there is life that is unlike anything that exists on the surface.
Can't they get by on 42? That ought to be enough to answer any questions about life, the universe, and uh, you know... whatever else...
Your patent would infringe on my patent for "methods of storing and retrieving information encoded using one or more symbols and arranged in a sequential order, as well as methods for enabling the access of that information out of order."
Don't even think about filing your patent, because I also have a patent for "1) methods and apparatus for generating potential courses of action based on evaluation of potential conceptual possibilities, 2) methods and algorithms for evaluating said conceptual possibilities, and 3) apparatus for creating said conceptual possibilities".
So "Joe's Pizza" can now be changed to "Joe's Awful Pizza"?
That's possible but highly unlikely.
More likely, "Joe's Pizza" will now be changed to "PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS PENUS".
I didn't RTFA but will google be able to handle vandalization and misinformation? Will it be similar to wikipedia?
I think you must've missed the whole thing about the U.S. going from over 30,000 nukes just a few decades back to under 10,000 today (of which under 2,000 are active). Kinda a big deal, but hey, why keep track of annoying facts like that?
Not as big of a deal as when the department store here had a half-off sale on socks for $100! Still kind of expensive, but where else are you gonna save $100 on a pair of socks?!
The US should have made 30,000,000 nukes. Then, they could look like Mother Teresa when they go down to just 10,000,000.
So the US has under 10000 nukes, how cute.
Iran has 0.
But hey, facts are annoying if they don't come in the form of misleading ratios.
Besides, what harm could any group do with only 10000 nukes?
Key word is "should". But do you think game companies make choices like this in order to get LESS money from you???