So many more places you can drive to and walk in. So many devices more lethal than a bomb. So many churches, so many schools, so many beaches, so many shopping centers, and ballgames.
Stop defending against the LAST event.
Its time for all these false security measures to end. They have hurt us more than the terrorists ever did.
The days of the hijack and fly into a building are over.
They ended at noon, September 11, 2001. TSA had nothing to do with this end. Passengers refusing to be sheep did.
Since then not one hijacking has been thwarted by TSA, but many have been thwarted by passengers and even small female cabin crew who nowdays all know some basic to intermediate combat techniques.
Look, it has nothing to do with protecting the aircraft (all insured) or things on the ground.
Its all just security theater. And it will continue until people either push back, or just stop flying. No airline will make another dime off of me till sanity returns.
There is no such thing as control over an informant. If they had control over them they would call them "Agents".
Your implied question here is: should the FBI recruit any informants, and by extension, take any information from someone not totally under their control.
I don't think that any of us want to live in a society where the police had enough manpower that input from the common man in the street was totally useless to the police. Therefore the question itself poses a veiled accusation.
Clearly police informants in general usually get something in return for their services, some may be altruistic (a desire to clean up their neighborhood), but there are a lot of small time crooks are simply not worth the time and effort, especially when you can twist their arm a bit and get information in exchange for them being over looked for a while.
Where murders are undertaken by criminal organization, informants deeply entrenched in the organization are hardly in a position to hold up a hand and say, look guys, I don't think we should to this because it would be wrong...
It's not that there is too much data. That's not a problem at all.
Often, (more often then not, I contend), there is indeed just too much data.
Because we have all these marvelous computerized data capture system doesn't mean the data is necessary, useful, or worth keeping. However, someone always comes along in the project design stage and insists the millisecond by millisecond weight of a bag of popcorn weighed in real time as it is being filled is going to provide a wealth of data for the design of future bagging systems and materials handling in general.
The scale was only there to assure that 10 pounds were in the sack and to shut the hopper. Then some fool found out it measured ever few milliseconds and recorded the data.
So the project manager gets brow beaten into recording this trash which invariably never gets used for anyone for any purpose at any time, as those who lobbied for it wander off to sabotage other projects and never revisit the cesspool they created.
This happens way way more than you might imagine in the real world these days.
It used to be projects had to fight for every byte of data collected, there were useful sinks identified for every field. But with falling storage costs the tendency is to simply keep shoveling it in because its easier than dealing with the demands by those "researchers" looking for another horse to ride.
Your typical End users just buy a box and expect it to all work. Less than 1/1000th of one percent ever install an OS of any kind. Ever! If it breaks, they take it somewhere.
If you ever purchased a linux machine (Dell and HP sell them or have sold them in the past) they worked out of the box. 100%.
So lets keep the comparison on a level playing field, and not handicap one OS by requiring it be installed on bare metal by a novice while the other OS goes home from BestBuy pre-installed.
Oh, I don't know, I've never had a wifi based machine that would not work under linux. Occasionally I've had to load ndiswrapper, but in the end every one of them worked.
Lately most distros figure this out by themselves, and load what ever is necessary, fetch the firmware and do the whole nine yards. Still, windows-centric drivers are manufacturer problem, not just a linux problem, and one that even they are starting to realize is not going to cut it going forward.
On the other hand, I've actually been forced to swap out mini-pci cards in windows machines to get to one that would handle WPA2.
I'd have that microwave looked at, because I have no problem streaming video right next to my microwave to a wifi tablet. Maybe you have a leak? Any appliance store has detectors, most will rent them to you.
What is the actual use of Analog Video Senders anyway? Is this what is being advertised for start watching in one room and finish in another from various cable providers?
I note that back in 2009 when a dimilar story was posted it was baby monitors that were taking the blame, even tho video senders were mentioned back then as well.
This is likely to get banned in short order on privacy grounds alone. Even if all processing was done inside the TV (looking for eyeballs), the fact that any data gleaned would have to be sent upstream to be useful should be enough to get this technology blocked.
If not, I predict a bump in sales of black electrical tape as soon as these hit the market.
Continuing to see things as simply a police matter, like robbery of a Bodega, leaves you looking very foolish when airplanes fly into your buildings.
The Chinese have finally admitted what was suspected all along, and yet you arrive hand waiving it away as the act of misbehaving children.
Bank robberies usually net some cash, which is easily spendable, locally, and quickly. You can rest assured there will be money in any given bank.
Hackers breaking into NASA, the Army, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Northrup, Raytheon, and Boeing can never be sure they will get anything at all, or that what they do get will be marketable. Its fairly difficult for your average college hacker to market the plans for an F22 or the communications system of a Predator drone.
It is simply not believable that your average hacker in a locked down country like China would spend that much effort with continued and concerted attacks, focused on military assets and defense contractors just for the fun of it.
Why would they, when they could get paid to do it working for their government?
The contested part, as best I've been able to determine, is to what degree any of the antibiotic resistant strains is retained in beef flesh
That's not really contested. Scientist know you can cook food to kill organisms.
Well, had you read past the part you quoted, you would see that I addressed these issues. Its important to read the whole post. And please remember, these are the opinions posted elsewhere that I am reporting, not my own.
The contested part, as best I've been able to determine, is to what degree any of the antibiotic resistant strains is retained in beef flesh, survives cooking, and consumption, to affect humans. Those contesting this don't necessarily look at all possible vectors, such as runoff from pastures and feed lots, and they tend to point out that there is little evidence of any resistant bugs developing in cattle herds to date.
Its largely an economic argument based on cattle losses, but its not at all clear just how rigorous the studies have been.
Your assumption is correct as far as I know. Other Distros that have converted to a 1000 base in the past, and it was not a problem to create a user using the old numbers, and usually just a minor setting somewhere to continue using the 500 base if you wanted to.
(I believe this is stored in/etc/login.defs in opensuse, might be somewhere else in Fedora.).
That being said, I'm guessing about just how Fedora may implement this. I assume they will follow the industry.
Even THAT GUY trivializes the problem when you have a ton of users and or NFS shares that have to be coordinated.
And god help you if things get out of hand and people start adding users to the new system before you move all the old users over and you end up with a patchwork of numbers.
For Joe Random User's laptop, its just not a problem.
I've been thru this years ago with Suse. For a large shop it can be a bitch, best left to when moving to a new server with the luxury of time. It was easily configurable in SLES, and still is. In fact I still have some servers running the old uid ranges. No actual use of uids above 500 by system accounts yet appears in most distros.
But for most systems, we just ran a script to chown the file system.
For a larger shop, I can see where this would be a problem. The network file systems seem to be the biggest problem here, because the coordination is a bitch. Then there all all the little uid/gid assignments that might be hard coded if your fstab that lurk to haunt you.
If you're talking about an upgrade, then no. Change the UIDs and all of the files that were owned by the previous UIDs are now orphans.
Nonetheless, this still seems utterly unimportant.
Well, actually, that's not exactly true.
I've been thru this with other distros in the past, and in-place upgrades are never really a problem as you mention, because the same users/groups are retained. Therefore no files become orphans.
New users just start higher when they are added. You can also make a simple setting to continue using 500 as the first user if you want, you are not forced to start at 1000.
Moving data to a new server is where it gets messy, to say nothing about NFS coordination.
In our case, being a small size installations we opted to simply build a "find and chown" script to be run once, rather than continuing with the legacy numbering.
As you say, she can actually sing, unlike so much else of what passes for pop culture these days. She is a distraction to her own music, which stands by itself. You might say her music does not need HER.
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Where do you find people that dumb these days?
Why would Azad go anywhere near an airport?
So many more places you can drive to and walk in. So many devices more lethal than a bomb.
So many churches, so many schools, so many beaches, so many shopping centers, and ballgames.
Stop defending against the LAST event.
Its time for all these false security measures to end. They have hurt us more than the terrorists ever did.
The days of the hijack and fly into a building are over.
They ended at noon, September 11, 2001. TSA had nothing to do with this end. Passengers refusing to be sheep did.
Since then not one hijacking has been thwarted by TSA, but many have been thwarted by passengers and even small female cabin
crew who nowdays all know some basic to intermediate combat techniques.
Look, it has nothing to do with protecting the aircraft (all insured) or things on the ground.
Its all just security theater. And it will continue until people either push back, or just stop flying.
No airline will make another dime off of me till sanity returns.
There is no such thing as control over an informant. If they had control over them they would call them "Agents".
Your implied question here is: should the FBI recruit any informants, and by extension, take any information from someone not totally under their control.
I don't think that any of us want to live in a society where the police had enough manpower that input from the common man in the street was totally useless to the police. Therefore the question itself poses a veiled accusation.
Clearly police informants in general usually get something in return for their services, some may be altruistic (a desire to clean up their neighborhood), but there are a lot of small time crooks are simply not worth the time and effort, especially when you can twist their arm a bit and get information in exchange for them being over looked for a while.
Where murders are undertaken by criminal organization, informants deeply entrenched in the organization are hardly in a position to hold up a hand and say, look guys, I don't think we should to this because it would be wrong...
It's not that there is too much data. That's not a problem at all.
Often, (more often then not, I contend), there is indeed just too much data.
Because we have all these marvelous computerized data capture system doesn't mean the data is necessary, useful, or worth keeping. However, someone always comes along in the project design stage and insists the millisecond by millisecond weight of a bag of popcorn weighed in real time as it is being filled is going to provide a wealth of data for the design of future bagging systems and materials handling in general.
The scale was only there to assure that 10 pounds were in the sack and to shut the hopper. Then some fool found out it measured ever few milliseconds and recorded the data.
So the project manager gets brow beaten into recording this trash which invariably never gets used for anyone for any purpose at any time, as those who lobbied for it wander off to sabotage other projects and never revisit the cesspool they created.
This happens way way more than you might imagine in the real world these days.
It used to be projects had to fight for every byte of data collected, there were useful sinks identified for every field. But with falling storage costs the tendency is to simply keep shoveling it in because its easier than dealing with the demands by those "researchers" looking for another horse to ride.
Apples and Oranges.
Your typical End users just buy a box and expect it to all work. Less than 1/1000th of one percent ever install an OS of any kind. Ever! If it breaks, they take it somewhere.
If you ever purchased a linux machine (Dell and HP sell them or have sold them in the past) they worked out of the box. 100%.
So lets keep the comparison on a level playing field, and not handicap one OS by requiring it be installed on bare metal by a novice while the other OS goes home from BestBuy pre-installed.
One swallow does not a summer make.
I've had similar odd driver related problems problems with windows machines.
Does that "complete demolish" the argument that windows is ready for the desktop?
Oh, I don't know, I've never had a wifi based machine that would not work under linux.
Occasionally I've had to load ndiswrapper, but in the end every one of them worked.
Lately most distros figure this out by themselves, and load what ever is necessary, fetch the firmware and do the whole
nine yards.
Still, windows-centric drivers are manufacturer problem, not just a linux problem, and one that even they are starting to realize
is not going to cut it going forward.
On the other hand, I've actually been forced to swap out mini-pci cards in windows machines to
get to one that would handle WPA2.
Why don't people talk more about using a wire to an access point to get the wireless where you want it ?
Because of the difficulty of stringing wires thru finished construction, especially when you rent.
Nothing in this story talks about Linux.
I'd have that microwave looked at, because I have no problem streaming video right next to my microwave to a wifi tablet.
Maybe you have a leak? Any appliance store has detectors, most will rent them to you.
What is the actual use of Analog Video Senders anyway?
Is this what is being advertised for start watching in one room and finish in another from various cable providers?
I note that back in 2009 when a dimilar story was posted it was baby monitors that were taking the blame, even tho video senders were mentioned back then as well.
I don't know if you've seen it already or not.
Let me check my photo archive....
This is likely to get banned in short order on privacy grounds alone. Even if all processing was done inside the TV (looking for eyeballs),
the fact that any data gleaned would have to be sent upstream to be useful should be enough to get this technology blocked.
If not, I predict a bump in sales of black electrical tape as soon as these hit the market.
Oh do climb down from there before you hurt yourself.
Brainwashed?. By McDonalds and Starbucks.
Really?. Is that the best you can spew?
Continuing to see things as simply a police matter, like robbery of a Bodega, leaves you looking very foolish when airplanes fly into your buildings.
The Chinese have finally admitted what was suspected all along, and yet you arrive hand waiving it away as the act of misbehaving children.
Bank robberies usually net some cash, which is easily spendable, locally, and quickly. You can rest assured there will be money in any given bank.
Hackers breaking into NASA, the Army, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Northrup, Raytheon, and Boeing can never be sure they will get anything at all, or that what they do get will be marketable. Its fairly difficult for your average college hacker to market the plans for an F22 or the communications system of a Predator drone.
It is simply not believable that your average hacker in a locked down country like China would spend that much effort with continued and concerted attacks, focused on military assets and defense contractors just for the fun of it.
Why would they, when they could get paid to do it working for their government?
The contested part, as best I've been able to determine, is to what degree any of the antibiotic resistant strains is retained in beef flesh
That's not really contested. Scientist know you can cook food to kill organisms.
Well, had you read past the part you quoted, you would see that I addressed these issues. Its important to read the whole post.
And please remember, these are the opinions posted elsewhere that I am reporting, not my own.
The contested part, as best I've been able to determine, is to what degree any of the antibiotic resistant strains is retained in beef flesh, survives cooking, and consumption, to affect humans. Those contesting this don't necessarily look at all possible vectors, such as runoff from pastures and feed lots, and they tend to point out that there is little evidence of any resistant bugs developing in cattle herds to date.
Its largely an economic argument based on cattle losses, but its not at all clear just how rigorous the studies have been.
Your assumption is correct as far as I know.
Other Distros that have converted to a 1000 base in the past, and it was not a problem to create a user using the old numbers, and usually just a minor setting somewhere to continue using the 500 base if you wanted to.
(I believe this is stored in /etc/login.defs in opensuse, might be somewhere else in Fedora.).
That being said, I'm guessing about just how Fedora may implement this. I assume they will follow the industry.
Even THAT GUY trivializes the problem when you have a ton of users and or NFS shares that have to be
coordinated.
And god help you if things get out of hand and people start adding users to the new system before
you move all the old users over and you end up with a patchwork of numbers.
For Joe Random User's laptop, its just not a problem.
I've been thru this years ago with Suse. For a large shop it can be a bitch, best left to
when moving to a new server with the luxury of time. It was easily configurable
in SLES, and still is. In fact I still have some servers running the old uid ranges.
No actual use of uids above 500 by system accounts yet appears in most distros.
But for most systems, we just ran a script to chown the file system.
For a larger shop, I can see where this would be a problem.
The network file systems seem to be the biggest problem here, because the coordination
is a bitch. Then there all all the little uid/gid assignments that might be hard coded if your fstab
that lurk to haunt you.
If you're talking about an upgrade, then no. Change the UIDs and all of the files that were owned by the previous UIDs are now orphans.
Nonetheless, this still seems utterly unimportant.
Well, actually, that's not exactly true.
I've been thru this with other distros in the past, and in-place upgrades are never really a problem as you mention,
because the same users/groups are retained. Therefore no files become orphans.
New users just start higher when they are added. You can also make a simple setting to continue using 500 as the first user
if you want, you are not forced to start at 1000.
Moving data to a new server is where it gets messy, to say nothing about NFS coordination.
In our case, being a small size installations we opted to simply build a "find and chown" script to be run once, rather than
continuing with the legacy numbering.
Wrong radio.
Stream it off the net.
I tend to agree.
But Gaga on MP3 is better than Gaga on Youtube.
As you say, she can actually sing, unlike so much else of what passes for pop culture these days.
She is a distraction to her own music, which stands by itself. You might say her music does not need HER.
I prefer without the visuals.
Amazing the amount of effort that went into that considering the potential audience.
Very well done.