You did not manage to tie the two dependant items together and show that Pajitnov is in some way responsible for a copyright violation against DEC or their heirs.
Seriously? Sources of revenue that became either vanished before most posters here were born or turned up so recently that they did not shape the Cuban economy. Such a deliberate pretence of stupidity is very insulting to anyone that reads it.
This again? The Berlin Wall fell how long ago? Venezuela got enough oil money to be able to afford giving away aid how recently? You previously came across as someone who would not be childish enough to push that idiotic line.
And it gets picked up by/. because their editorial department is some guy from Dice
when there is ridiculous clueless hype like the itworld article it's worth having a slashdot article about it just so that people here can discuss how it is clueless hype giving a featured platform a bad name for no reason.
While it's tempting to assume you have a reading comprehension problem
Since I quoted the infantile heart of your argument back to you it does not appear to be the case does it? Personally responsible? What was he supposed to do - fly in with super speed and drag Bin Laden off to prison? What's wrong with putting the experts on the case, as he did, and as every other successful President has done? Of course there's better people than him in every area. Many of them work for him. A good leader lets good subordinates do good work instead of giving it a go himself and fucking it up. Did I dumb that down enough or do you still want superman to save you?
Just as it makes no sense with your comparison above. They've done a lot with what they have despite the childish blockade, so they have some success. Others have access to vast resources and come short, such as the Californian State government.
You are dismissing Obama for being the head of a team instead of a stupid fucking superhero fantasy of a President - of course it's infantile. He owns the successes of his administration as much and as little as any other President, and the "but it was the Navy" attitude is pointless - it's always the Navy doing what a Navy does while an administration just asks what they need and delivers or not.
You keep going on about how it's all the team and Obama is just the guy that happens to be in charge, as if that's not always the case, and that somehow he's not good enough because he's not doing everything himself.
Personally I think any President that bothered to turn up for work would look like a success compared with AWOL Baby Bush.
There's so many things wrong with your attack on him, and I'll ask three questions to highlight it. Should I be responsible for what IBM did in the 1940s if I use an IBM product? If not, why is Pajitnov in some way responsible for cloning the PDP-11 just by using a knockoff? Should Pajitnov be personally responsible for what the lawyers of the people he sold his rights to are doing?
Getting the idea of how utterly ridiculous your moralising is yet? Or was that the entire idea and you are playing some idiotic character to bait people?
That malware then corrupts files in whatever network shares you can attach to from your VM - so congrats, your operating system is safe but your co-workers still get their files stuffed up. Hopefully it's scaring people into having REAL backups that can't be corrupted without loading/attaching external media or deleting snapshots.
It makes some old idiots look like old idiots. Seriously guys, there was no valid reason for this to continue after the Berlin wall fell apart from not losing face.
Maybe even more successful than California where there's a government that blames a small number of prison officers for the inability of the government to scrape together enough money to run. It looks like the wrong country has been blockaded since there's no cocaine to come from Cuba to the noses of those in politics in California.
Not at all. Please list some things for which he is actually responsible.
Wow. See my comment about superheroes above. Some Americans are so stunningly naive about politics and leadership in general, I suppose that's why you have so many VPs to a company instead of just one and so many "professors" to a University department instead of just one or two considered worthy of the title. While it's amusing it's worryingly widespread and worryingly infantile.
Please specifically explain his role, and how the intelligence and special forces people who actually did the work
Funny how a President from team A is superman who is imagined to have done everything himself while a President from team B is just the boss who says OK to what the team gives him to work with.
I suppose you are half grown up, ditch the superman fantasy and understand that both teams run like team B where the leader is just the boss and you'll be all the way there.
Mark Rubio of course is pissed but he seems the only one loud enough to be heard
It means losing the ability to pretend to be the seeds of some sort of post-invasion Cuban government and becoming a nobody. The entire thing has been ridiculous considering trade with Russia, Libya etc etc - also WTF do you people think the Navy in GITMO have been getting stuff for the last 50 years. There has been trade with Cuba, just very restricted trade.
Speaking of trade, dropping the sugar trading restrictions would expand the current choice between expensive corn syrup and even more expensive protected sugar from Florida to cheap imported sugar. Cane sugar is a far more effective sweetener than corn syrup so less is required for the same taste, which is an important thing to consider with so much obesity in the population. There has been the experiment of protecting sugar farmers but it didn't work, there's not many US sugar farmers left but there's an increasing number of fat kids - maybe it's time to give up on the market protection and give capitalism a chance? After all, that's supposed to be why we are better than Cuba isn't it?
Dumb because of the idea of setting boundary conditions or some other reason?
The "most people aren't economists" comment is interesting - are you one and looking at it from the perspective of hard amoral economics as used as an excuse by some in Enron for the California electricity pricing scandal or is it just some comment on general understanding of supply and demand?
Sorry to double post but this has been frustrating - do you REALLY think that draconian measures taken by those with full control of the links in and out of a country are going to be painless to the internet users in that country even if it doesn't get 100% of traffic they want to stop? I don't think you do so please stop acting that way.
Also think about what you know about VPNs and how you would go about finding one yourself and if you can't think of a few ways to identify them with wireshark or similar you really are in no position to lecture me on the topic. If you need a clue then an unusual amount of traffic between two addresses is a very obvious point to start. Doing some tricky endpoint changing thing on port 80 or similar and hiding it for years is well beyond the reach of most computer users.
packet inspection is hideously processor expensive
Yes, but they are on record about not caring about the likely slowdown.
it would cost billions to effectively do this
Come down off whatever you are on, consider something more realistic and then remember that it's the ISPs and ultimately the consumers that have to bear the cost so it's no skin off the government's nose. The people they would upset probably didn't vote for them anyway.
even then it would be easy to get past
Only in a situation where the majority of traffic is allowed and exceptions are blocked - it's being looked at from the opposite direction here (blocked if you don't have a good reason) and driven by intelligence agencies, media companies who think copyright is worth a destroyed internet and cable tv interests that wish to halt competition. It may be utterly stupid and draconian but it's being pushed by people that so not care about performance, cost or even the demographic that would be pissed off by crippling the internet.
You just do not seem to get that they do not care if things are rolled back to 1995. They are actively wrecking an internet infrastructure provided by the former government just to remove a legacy and pretend it was never going to work. It's about pleasing donors and following some of the advice of intelligence agencies who really do want VPNs that they cannot backdoor into halted.
Mechanical pumps instead of electrical pumps for the specific (and very frequent) case where intermittant water pumping is needed. Like the farm windmills that used to be all over the place only the new ones give you far more mechanical work per $ than the older multi-blade ones. Going from wind to electricity to mechanical work seems to be a very lossy step backwards when you could run a pump instead of spinning a generator rotor.
There's probably a political angle keeping farmers from using windmills like graddad used to have only much better for the price. We may have to wait until the Chinese work out there's a potential market and they start selling them to us.
With "Quiverfull" types rampant in the "conservative"* side of politics you are just going to be ignored or compared to Chairman Mao. They want a lot of the "right sort" of Americans to outbreed the others and don't care if the total size of the population becomes unsustainable. Their plan if that happens is just to take resources from the "wrong sort" of Americans. However, since they think success is their birthright we won't be seeing many doctors, engineers, lawyers etc from their large number of children compared with the "wrong sort" who push their kids to succeed, so their political influence may be fleeting.
* Quotes are to denote terms they use to describe themselves and others that I do not agree with. For instance I consider them knee-jerk reactionaries with little understanding of the past and what should be conserved instead of conservatives.
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You did not manage to tie the two dependant items together and show that Pajitnov is in some way responsible for a copyright violation against DEC or their heirs.
Seriously? Sources of revenue that became either vanished before most posters here were born or turned up so recently that they did not shape the Cuban economy.
Such a deliberate pretence of stupidity is very insulting to anyone that reads it.
This again? The Berlin Wall fell how long ago? Venezuela got enough oil money to be able to afford giving away aid how recently?
You previously came across as someone who would not be childish enough to push that idiotic line.
when there is ridiculous clueless hype like the itworld article it's worth having a slashdot article about it just so that people here can discuss how it is clueless hype giving a featured platform a bad name for no reason.
They are authoritarian, so yes, they would grab whatever advantage they could get because pure ideology was told to go fuck itself years ago.
Since I quoted the infantile heart of your argument back to you it does not appear to be the case does it?
Personally responsible? What was he supposed to do - fly in with super speed and drag Bin Laden off to prison? What's wrong with putting the experts on the case, as he did, and as every other successful President has done?
Of course there's better people than him in every area. Many of them work for him. A good leader lets good subordinates do good work instead of giving it a go himself and fucking it up. Did I dumb that down enough or do you still want superman to save you?
Just as it makes no sense with your comparison above. They've done a lot with what they have despite the childish blockade, so they have some success. Others have access to vast resources and come short, such as the Californian State government.
You are dismissing Obama for being the head of a team instead of a stupid fucking superhero fantasy of a President - of course it's infantile.
He owns the successes of his administration as much and as little as any other President, and the "but it was the Navy" attitude is pointless - it's always the Navy doing what a Navy does while an administration just asks what they need and delivers or not.
You keep going on about how it's all the team and Obama is just the guy that happens to be in charge, as if that's not always the case, and that somehow he's not good enough because he's not doing everything himself.
Personally I think any President that bothered to turn up for work would look like a success compared with AWOL Baby Bush.
There's so many things wrong with your attack on him, and I'll ask three questions to highlight it.
Should I be responsible for what IBM did in the 1940s if I use an IBM product?
If not, why is Pajitnov in some way responsible for cloning the PDP-11 just by using a knockoff?
Should Pajitnov be personally responsible for what the lawyers of the people he sold his rights to are doing?
Getting the idea of how utterly ridiculous your moralising is yet? Or was that the entire idea and you are playing some idiotic character to bait people?
That malware then corrupts files in whatever network shares you can attach to from your VM - so congrats, your operating system is safe but your co-workers still get their files stuffed up.
Hopefully it's scaring people into having REAL backups that can't be corrupted without loading/attaching external media or deleting snapshots.
Just clicking on a link should never be enough not matter what you think the "weakness in wetware" is.
If you are playing that card then how are things in Myanmar? Algeria? Even Saudi Arabia?
It makes some old idiots look like old idiots.
Seriously guys, there was no valid reason for this to continue after the Berlin wall fell apart from not losing face.
Maybe even more successful than California where there's a government that blames a small number of prison officers for the inability of the government to scrape together enough money to run. It looks like the wrong country has been blockaded since there's no cocaine to come from Cuba to the noses of those in politics in California.
It "worked" in that it kept a special interest group on side. Pathetic really and no way to run a country IMHO.
Wow. See my comment about superheroes above.
Some Americans are so stunningly naive about politics and leadership in general, I suppose that's why you have so many VPs to a company instead of just one and so many "professors" to a University department instead of just one or two considered worthy of the title. While it's amusing it's worryingly widespread and worryingly infantile.
Funny how a President from team A is superman who is imagined to have done everything himself while a President from team B is just the boss who says OK to what the team gives him to work with.
I suppose you are half grown up, ditch the superman fantasy and understand that both teams run like team B where the leader is just the boss and you'll be all the way there.
It means losing the ability to pretend to be the seeds of some sort of post-invasion Cuban government and becoming a nobody.
The entire thing has been ridiculous considering trade with Russia, Libya etc etc - also WTF do you people think the Navy in GITMO have been getting stuff for the last 50 years. There has been trade with Cuba, just very restricted trade.
Speaking of trade, dropping the sugar trading restrictions would expand the current choice between expensive corn syrup and even more expensive protected sugar from Florida to cheap imported sugar. Cane sugar is a far more effective sweetener than corn syrup so less is required for the same taste, which is an important thing to consider with so much obesity in the population.
There has been the experiment of protecting sugar farmers but it didn't work, there's not many US sugar farmers left but there's an increasing number of fat kids - maybe it's time to give up on the market protection and give capitalism a chance?
After all, that's supposed to be why we are better than Cuba isn't it?
That is interesting.
Dumb because of the idea of setting boundary conditions or some other reason?
The "most people aren't economists" comment is interesting - are you one and looking at it from the perspective of hard amoral economics as used as an excuse by some in Enron for the California electricity pricing scandal or is it just some comment on general understanding of supply and demand?
Sorry to double post but this has been frustrating - do you REALLY think that draconian measures taken by those with full control of the links in and out of a country are going to be painless to the internet users in that country even if it doesn't get 100% of traffic they want to stop?
I don't think you do so please stop acting that way.
Also think about what you know about VPNs and how you would go about finding one yourself and if you can't think of a few ways to identify them with wireshark or similar you really are in no position to lecture me on the topic. If you need a clue then an unusual amount of traffic between two addresses is a very obvious point to start. Doing some tricky endpoint changing thing on port 80 or similar and hiding it for years is well beyond the reach of most computer users.
Yes, but they are on record about not caring about the likely slowdown.
Come down off whatever you are on, consider something more realistic and then remember that it's the ISPs and ultimately the consumers that have to bear the cost so it's no skin off the government's nose. The people they would upset probably didn't vote for them anyway.
Only in a situation where the majority of traffic is allowed and exceptions are blocked - it's being looked at from the opposite direction here (blocked if you don't have a good reason) and driven by intelligence agencies, media companies who think copyright is worth a destroyed internet and cable tv interests that wish to halt competition. It may be utterly stupid and draconian but it's being pushed by people that so not care about performance, cost or even the demographic that would be pissed off by crippling the internet.
You just do not seem to get that they do not care if things are rolled back to 1995. They are actively wrecking an internet infrastructure provided by the former government just to remove a legacy and pretend it was never going to work. It's about pleasing donors and following some of the advice of intelligence agencies who really do want VPNs that they cannot backdoor into halted.
Mechanical pumps instead of electrical pumps for the specific (and very frequent) case where intermittant water pumping is needed. Like the farm windmills that used to be all over the place only the new ones give you far more mechanical work per $ than the older multi-blade ones.
Going from wind to electricity to mechanical work seems to be a very lossy step backwards when you could run a pump instead of spinning a generator rotor.
There's probably a political angle keeping farmers from using windmills like graddad used to have only much better for the price. We may have to wait until the Chinese work out there's a potential market and they start selling them to us.
With "Quiverfull" types rampant in the "conservative"* side of politics you are just going to be ignored or compared to Chairman Mao. They want a lot of the "right sort" of Americans to outbreed the others and don't care if the total size of the population becomes unsustainable. Their plan if that happens is just to take resources from the "wrong sort" of Americans.
However, since they think success is their birthright we won't be seeing many doctors, engineers, lawyers etc from their large number of children compared with the "wrong sort" who push their kids to succeed, so their political influence may be fleeting.
* Quotes are to denote terms they use to describe themselves and others that I do not agree with. For instance I consider them knee-jerk reactionaries with little understanding of the past and what should be conserved instead of conservatives.