I purchased a static IP, it is as unique and identifies me as much as my address and my license plate identify myself or my wife.
But that's the key.
If a cop sees a car with your license plate is used in a crime, then they'll naturally come after you. But if you and your wife have reasonable alibis, then it's reasonable to assume that the car might have been stolen (especially if there's a big gash in the steering column).
Anyway, a static IP address identifies you as the person who's responsible for the bill. Everything after that is conditional.
Do you live alone, and there's no wireless router? Do you use Windows? Maybe your computer was hacked and you're PC is part of a botnet. Do you use Linux? Then it's probably you.
But if you live with 2 or more people, and there a wireless NATting router, and one or more of the people you live with are computer geeks, then there's no way on God's Green Earth that a static IP address can uniquely identify you.
It can only point to your physical address. And tell the cops where to start looking...
They're in Kiev, you jackass, or Moscow, and surely kicking back to the police. And I'm not even sure that those countries have extradition treaties with the US. If they can even be identified and located...
are you implying that dumb users suddenly become intelligent...?
No. It's that a regular (not necessarily dumb, just... regular) non-priv users have less (not zero!) chance of having (actively thru stupid clicking, or passively thru a worm) something unwanted installed on Linux/BSD than they do on Windows or OSX. Especially if they don't have the root password.
IOW, Windows is a slippery pistol with a low trigger pull weight in a fragile holster. BSD & Linux "pistols" have no-slip grips, heavy trigger pull weights and sturdy leather holsters. You can shoot yourself in the foot with either, but Windows makes it a *lot* easier...
Game-shows used to be more popular, and reality shows are usually a type of game-show.
Comparing the $10,000 Pyramid to Survivor???
Certainly college education levels have increased
Sure. There are a lot more lawyers and "business people". It has not made the world a better place...
The fascists or whatever you call the liberal opposition are obviously to blame for not counteracting
Sure they have. But the "liberals" are stronger, because they "care".
the destructive liberalization.
This isn't your great-grandfather's liberalism (expansion of knowledge and discourse), it's your 60's-radical (grand?)-parents political correctness run amok.
For the short term at least, LEO access will remain the purview of chemical rockets.
And that (besides the cosmic rays, loss of bone mass, lack of ability to pull over into a petrol station when you get hungry or something breaks, the Bad Thing that would happen when a rock smashes through your craft, and i-m-m-e-n-s-e distances) is why we are effectively stuck on this nice, green, wet, magnetically-shielded rock for the foreseeable future...
Today, you have zillions of reality shows, nonsensical talkshows and "news", religious nutcases and politicians spewing their garbage in the networks etc. But on the other hand we have *many* more universities, scientists, labs, research facilities, libraries, advancements than in the past.
There are hundreds (if not infinitely) of times as many reality shows now than there were 30 years ago. There are not hundreds of times as many, universities, scientists, etc as there were 30 years ago.
Western society is collapsing, and "liberals" were/are the impetus. (Right-wing fundamentalism only got popular traction as a reaction to the 1960s. Before that, it was restricted to the rural South.)
Mining is a lot more difficult than most people imagine, requiring lots of time and either people or equipment. Heavy equipment that would have to be lifted off earth.
What "we" really need is an energy source better than LOX and H2.
Will people stay in the base the whole time? Of course not.
And a leak in a space suit isn't a death sentence, at least not immediately.
Will moon walkers work in the bulky Shuttle suits, or in something slimmer, easier to work in, and easier to get in and out of (and thus with less redundancy than Shuttle EVA suits?) on a regular basis?
Bingo. The ultimate goal should be a colony that is capable of growing without further input of matter or energy from earth. In the interim a base would be necessary to sort out the bugs and get proof of concept. There are probably many other things that can generate the know-how on earth for a fraction of the price.
The Moon
is a desert with fine, sticky (from static electricity) dust,
has daily temperature swings from 150 degrees Celsius below the freezing point of CO2 to 23 degrees Celsius above the boiling point of water,
has zero atmospheric pressure, so a single tiny tear in your space suit is pretty much a death sentence,
is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays, meaning that space suits need to be lined in enough lead to protect you from unforseen solar storms and coronal mass ejections.
Colonizing such a region is about THE STUPIDEST IDEA I could ever imagine. It's why we've never colonized Antarctica or Death Valley.
Science fiction is great, and some of it inspires the creation of real technology, but some ideas are destined to remain fiction.
Unless there's some huge breakthrough in power generation. Which might happen, but I'm not holding my breath...
I don't think this guy was necessarily stupid or foolish - I think he was careless after being so used to the routine of publish or perish that he forgot who his collaborators were, and that was his mistake.
When I warn my children over and over and over not to do X, and then they do X, with the sorry-ass excuse, "oh, I forgot, sorry", I don't send them on their way with a mild slap on the wrist...
unpleasantness (sometimes physical, sometimes emotional) occurs, and it definitely hurts them more than it hurts me!
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That's not a kid. He's in his late 20's or maybe even 30's.
The only things that ever remotely worked were my sister growing up
That's disturbingly weird.
I purchased a static IP, it is as unique and identifies me as much as my address and my license plate identify myself or my wife.
But that's the key.
If a cop sees a car with your license plate is used in a crime, then they'll naturally come after you. But if you and your wife have reasonable alibis, then it's reasonable to assume that the car might have been stolen (especially if there's a big gash in the steering column).
Anyway, a static IP address identifies you as the person who's responsible for the bill. Everything after that is conditional.
Do you live alone, and there's no wireless router? Do you use Windows? Maybe your computer was hacked and you're PC is part of a botnet. Do you use Linux? Then it's probably you.
But if you live with 2 or more people, and there a wireless NATting router, and one or more of the people you live with are computer geeks, then there's no way on God's Green Earth that a static IP address can uniquely identify you.
It can only point to your physical address. And tell the cops where to start looking...
Addresses aren't personal information! They point to a house or an apartment, not a person!
Correct. But (just as with IP addresses, iff ISPs store dates and times in their MAC/IP logs) it point investigators in the right direction.
Let's just say that the age distribution of those let go was not even.
Is that ageism or high-salaryism?
They also tend to get locked in and sometimes tend toward superstitious.
Just about every tech I know has some pet superstition.
and then if you want to go further, you go into management. Technical positions don't scale.
Instead of staying "in the front line" as a programmer, or going into "labor management", I went sideways into database management.
Keeps me in direct contact with the hardware, I still do some programming, and lets me semi-mentor intelligent young programmers.
Some fat law enforcement officer should lift from a chair, buy an air ticket for 500 bucks and go to Kiev.
You really think it's that easy to get a foreign national into your court system????
Especially if they are clever enough to hide their digital tracks.
There is Interpol office in Kiev.
There are also lots of easily-bribed cops in Kiev.
Ukraine is a member of UN.
It is easy to say "Kiev" and do nothing.
Like it's easy to invoke the holy name "UN", and believe that Ban Ki-moon will swoop down and smite the enemy.
Do you also believe in Santa Clause???
we need to get tough on the criminals.
They're in Kiev, you jackass, or Moscow, and surely kicking back to the police. And I'm not even sure that those countries have extradition treaties with the US. If they can even be identified and located...
User Stupidity is not limited to what operating system a person uses and hence is not a MS specific TCO.
But some OSs (and browsers) are more amenable to stupidity than others.
Nobody remembers Steve McQueen anymore...
are you implying that dumb users suddenly become intelligent...?
No. It's that a regular (not necessarily dumb, just... regular) non-priv users have less (not zero!) chance of having (actively thru stupid clicking, or passively thru a worm) something unwanted installed on Linux/BSD than they do on Windows or OSX. Especially if they don't have the root password.
IOW, Windows is a slippery pistol with a low trigger pull weight in a fragile holster. BSD & Linux "pistols" have no-slip grips, heavy trigger pull weights and sturdy leather holsters. You can shoot yourself in the foot with either, but Windows makes it a *lot* easier...
Palestinians to do inhuman test on, it goes with the inhuman concentration camps they're in.
These "camps" you speak of look a hell of a lot like cities.
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Who could forget Raquel Welch???
Both of them.
They were both very beautiful.
many times more people graduating from schools with skills more advanced than "the 4 Rs"
And what are they graduating in? Law, Finance and Business, all three of which have done major destruction to our country.
if an acceleration in society's decay exactly correlates with the rise of rightwing "conservatism"
If conservatism was so successful, then we wouldn't be living in an entitlement nanny state, and neither California nor the US would be bankrupt.
But you go ahead believing whatever you heard from Rush Limbo or on Fox News.
It's been years since I listened/watched either of them.
as the last decade's "golden age" of total "conservative" power has proven beyond doubt.
Do you honestly believe that the last 8 years have been a "golden age" of total "conservative" power????
Hahahahahahahahaha ROFLMAO.
Game-shows used to be more popular, and reality shows are usually a type of game-show.
Comparing the $10,000 Pyramid to Survivor???
Certainly college education levels have increased
Sure. There are a lot more lawyers and "business people". It has not made the world a better place...
The fascists or whatever you call the liberal opposition are obviously to blame for not counteracting
Sure they have. But the "liberals" are stronger, because they "care".
the destructive liberalization.
This isn't your great-grandfather's liberalism (expansion of knowledge and discourse), it's your 60's-radical (grand?)-parents political correctness run amok.
For the short term at least, LEO access will remain the purview of chemical rockets.
And that (besides the cosmic rays, loss of bone mass, lack of ability to pull over into a petrol station when you get hungry or something breaks, the Bad Thing that would happen when a rock smashes through your craft, and i-m-m-e-n-s-e distances) is why we are effectively stuck on this nice, green, wet, magnetically-shielded rock for the foreseeable future...
Today, you have zillions of reality shows, nonsensical talkshows and "news", religious nutcases and politicians spewing their garbage in the networks etc. But on the other hand we have *many* more universities, scientists, labs, research facilities, libraries, advancements than in the past.
There are hundreds (if not infinitely) of times as many reality shows now than there were 30 years ago. There are not hundreds of times as many, universities, scientists, etc as there were 30 years ago.
Western society is collapsing, and "liberals" were/are the impetus. (Right-wing fundamentalism only got popular traction as a reaction to the 1960s. Before that, it was restricted to the rural South.)
people colonized Luna by going underground
Dust won't be a problem underground???
avoid the issues you've mentioned.
But create a jillion more issues.
Mining is a lot more difficult than most people imagine, requiring lots of time and either people or equipment. Heavy equipment that would have to be lifted off earth.
What "we" really need is an energy source better than LOX and H2.
What's that "base" part for, then?
Will people stay in the base the whole time? Of course not.
And a leak in a space suit isn't a death sentence, at least not immediately.
Will moon walkers work in the bulky Shuttle suits, or in something slimmer, easier to work in, and easier to get in and out of (and thus with less redundancy than Shuttle EVA suits?) on a regular basis?
Bingo. The ultimate goal should be a colony that is capable of growing without further input of matter or energy from earth. In the interim a base would be necessary to sort out the bugs and get proof of concept. There are probably many other things that can generate the know-how on earth for a fraction of the price.
The Moon
Colonizing such a region is about THE STUPIDEST IDEA I could ever imagine. It's why we've never colonized Antarctica or Death Valley.
Science fiction is great, and some of it inspires the creation of real technology, but some ideas are destined to remain fiction.
Unless there's some huge breakthrough in power generation. Which might happen, but I'm not holding my breath...
I don't think this guy was necessarily stupid or foolish - I think he was careless after being so used to the routine of publish or perish that he forgot who his collaborators were, and that was his mistake.
When I warn my children over and over and over not to do X, and then they do X, with the sorry-ass excuse, "oh, I forgot, sorry", I don't send them on their way with a mild slap on the wrist...
unpleasantness (sometimes physical, sometimes emotional) occurs, and it definitely hurts them more than it hurts me!
Why was this perfectly valid counter-example modded Troll?
leave ... one in the car
And if you leave an e-reader in the car (especially a dark-colored car, in the sun), Bad Things will happen to your really expensive gadget...
maybe they blew their budget on a really, really good basket?
Mark Twain: Put all your eggs in one basket, and then guard that basket!!