>The first kind of people contribute nothing to our freedoms. They are crippled by uncertainty and their annoying whining makes people think that, hey, maybe there is something to fear. The second kind of people challenge the norms and make that which was uncertain clearly not illegal.
American vigilantism arose in the Deep South and Old West during the 1700s when, in the absence of a formal criminal justice system, certain volunteer associations (called vigilance committees) got together to blacklist, harass, banish, "tar and feather," flog, mutilate, torture, or kill people who were perceived as threats to their communities, families, or privileges (Karmen 1968). By the late 1700s, these committees became known as lynch mobs because almost all the time, the punishment handed out was a summary execution by hanging. In some states, like South Carolina, these mobs had exotic names like the Regulators. During the 1800's, most American towns with seaports had vigilante groups that worked to identify and punish suspected thieves, alcoholics, and gamblers among recently arrived immigrants. The state of Montana, however, holds the record for the bloodiest vigilante movement from 1863 to 1865 when hundreds of suspected horse thieves were rounded up and killed in massive mob action. Texas, Montana, California, and the Deep South, especially the city of New Orleans, were hotbeds of vigilante activity in American history.
The 'liberal media' line cracks me up. The party that is most corporatist (usually the GOP) gains the most from the corporate media. I find it odd that conservatives would even be opposed to the fairness doctrine. NPR often airs 'rebuttals' from right-wing think tanks all the time in an effort to be fair. Its usually a pre-recorded piece from the Heritage FOundation or somesuch. If these chaps were realy against things like the FD they wouldnt be doing this on principle. I believe the fear of FD is that it will make news stations accountant for their content as opposed to being just a just another for-profit machine.
It is a good thing, but in the eyes of many slashdotters and geeks anything MS does is wrong. Word's restrictions can only mean good things for security. So this boils down to MS being smarter about security and people finding a problem with that.
Im glad someone is drawing the line here. Ive gotten javascript in my email. JS in my friggin email? Designers simply cannot treat email as the 'push web.' Considering there's so much you can do with tables, I'm pretty sure this faux-outrage will not be heard of again once it scrolls of slashdot's front page.
Its not marketing. MS doesnt support 2000 anymore except security patches until 2010. This is a seven+ year old product, so lets not pretend this is absurd. Does apple still support OS9? Its pretty standard for the industry. Theyre choosing not to invest time and money into testing this patch for all their flavors of 2000. Why would a monopolist care for your parents to upgrade? Theyre most likely getting vista with their next PC.
The scope of these missions and the power needed makes RTG a wasted expense. Now that exploring mars is 'hot' and theres more money/congressional interest the next genertion of rovers will have on-board RTGs. No hippies to blame.
>a story centered around a little kid is naturally not as interesting (for most 16+ audiences) as an older character
So? When I saw the originals I was a kid. Granted, the new ones are of slightly lower quality but the real problem has always been that these are kids movies and older and wiser adults cant get into them. Add nostalgia to the mix and you have a problem thats more a perception than a real one. I dont think too many kids complained about 1,2, and 3, but many adults did. I chalk star wars up as a very lucky piece of pop-art that attracted a whole generation of children. Its not great film, lucas isnt a genius (ignoring ILF), and the rest of his work plays on nostalgia like the last rocky movie. The fact that the original actors dont want much to do with these nostalgia pieces hints that even hollywood knows when it can no longer milk a cash cow without producing a stunning embarassment, like say, the holiday special.
How does this work? Is it brute-forcing SSL encryption? Acting like a transparent proxy and making the client think/spoofing its communicating with the host?
>For every "I couldn't get my digital camera working in Ubuntu" anecdote out there, there is a similar "I couldn't get this scanner working in Windows" anecdote. Technical issues are not the problem.
There's a big difference between "i lost my install disc" and "I have no idea how this command line crap works." Technically, those are two different problems. Linux's reliance on the command line to get mostly everything done is just a turn off to joe and jane windows users. On top of it they have no real motivation to switch. The PC works well enough, the OS came with it, they spent years learning how to point a mouse and a reboot, etc.
FF's popularity has a lot to do with people seeing their browser as a problem. Too much spyware, no pop-up blocking, etc. Ist not branding, its not marketing, etc. There's no scratch to itch for linux right now, if ever. If it only remains a niche OS then what the hell is wrong with that? This demand to make it the new windows is baffling.
Not to mention just the idea of joe and jane going to a forum to get flamed is laughable. They wont even stop by. They dont go to forums. They have a CD with autorun which runs a brain-dead wizard. If that fails they have the manufacturers website. If that fails they have a toll-free number to call. Compare that to the typical response on a linux newsgroup, especially about drivers and packages. These people can barely use a TV remote!
Linux is for a certain demographic. Period. Thinking elsewhere leads to more laughable "this is the year of the linux desktop" articles. The OSS evangelists should really focus on getting more OSS stuff on windows instead of this horrible misguided badvista campaign going on with my donated money.
COnsidering how sketchy the details are in the article, and if this isnt a hoax, it sounds like theyre hinting at an rfid, which you know can be very small. I hear theres even one in my new passport!
Exactly. The spyware people are scared and are coming out with their own FUD. OSX doesnt run admin/root by default also and the few games it has play just fine. These guys are trying to get you to lower your security so they can put their crap adware on your system. If they dont like it they can just use opengl and be done with it.
An eight year old conspiracy theory. Even Bruce Schneier doesnt buy it
Suddenly there's a flurry of press activity because someone notices that the second key in Microsoft's Crypto API in Windows NT Service Pack 5 is called "NSAKEY" in the code. Ah ha! The NSA can sign crypto suites. They can use this ability to drop a Trojaned crypto suite into your computers. Or so the conspiracy theory goes.
I don't buy it.
First, if the NSA wanted to compromise Microsoft's Crypto API, it would be much easier to either 1) convince MS to tell them the secret key for MS's signature key, 2) get MS to sign an NSA-compromised module, or 3) install a module other than Crypto API to break the encryption (no other modules need signatures). It's always easier to break good encryption by attacking the random number generator than it is to brute-force the key.
Second, NSA doesn't need a key to compromise security in Windows. Programs like Back Orifice can do it without any keys. Attacking the Crypto API still requires that the victim run an executable (even a Word macro) on his computer. If you can convince a victim to run an untrusted macro, there are a zillion smarter ways to compromise security.
Third, why in the world would anyone call a secret NSA key "NSAKEY"? Lots of people have access to source code within Microsoft; a conspiracy like this would only be known by a few people. Anyone with a debugger could have found this "NSAKEY." If this is a covert mechanism, it's not very covert.
I see two possibilities. One, that the backup key is just as Microsoft says, a backup key. It's called "NSAKEY" for some dumb reason, and that's that.
Two, that it is actually an NSA key. If the NSA is going to use Microsoft products for classified traffic, they're going to install their own cryptography. They're not going to want to show it to anyone, not even Microsoft. They are going to want to sign their own modules. So the backup key could also be an NSA internal key, so that they could install strong cryptography on Microsoft products for their own internal use.
But it's not an NSA key so they can secretly inflict weak cryptography on the unsuspecting masses. There are just too many smarter things they can do to the unsuspecting masses.
The fact that 'some security scans' consider something a threat doesnt mean it really is. This is real tin-foil stuff, especially considering if the NSA wanted to muscle MS then youd never know about it.
A few hyperlinks on a notoriously amateur website trump the world's most respected academic press (and n.b., most of academia is not devout Christian)?
And since when is "accurance" a word?
Appeal to authority fallacy. No specific criticism of the material presented. Ad hominem (spelling). Thanks for playing.
I mean, racism, advocating torture, describing how they want to get rid of folks they do not like etc.
And doesn't Christianity say something about loving one another?
I dont know you assume torture and murder cant exist within Christianity, be advocated by the church and scriptures, and cant be done by Christians. Its historically false to even assume such a thing. Christianity is no pacifist religion . I really wish people would just accept the scripture and history of their own religions instead of making these little perfectionist strawmen. This has been going on since Jesus walked the earth, except now you can thank secular thinkers for giving you the right to free speech to even question your chosen religion.
>You now have good reason to believe these people aren't actual Christians.
Umm, who are you to judge who is "real christian" or not (where's that part in the bible about judging others). Not to mention this fits in with the history of xtianity (or any religion really) although I believe xtianity may be the bloodiest because of historical reasons. Early histories, crusades, inquisition, witch burning, reformation, recent child molestations, etc etc. Lets not be purposely naive.
>Jesus, do Slashdot editors actually *do* anything?
Yes, they tow the slashdot line "OSS good, commercial software bad." Facts don't matter. Repeat that to yourself: facts dont matter here. If any other news outlet or corporation would make these kinds of slanderous claims against OSS then the cries of oppression and people being paid shills would be deafening, but when slashdot does it we just swallow our own hyposcrisy. No wonder so few people take OSS and especially its promoters seriously. Slashdot is still seen as a 'kiddie' site, and this is more justification of that view.
Hell, even the summary is wrong. Anyone who has even installed IE7 knows it wasnt exactly forced on them. Even if you have auto updates on, there;s a big splash screen asking you if you want to install the damn thing. You can see it here.
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Youre advocating vigilantism. The history of vigilantism proves your narrow assumption about 'badasses' very wrong.
>We have a First Amendment for a reason
The supreme court disagrees with you. the fairness doctrine has been ruled not to violate the 1st amendment.
>nd call the Democratic Party and the Republican party and ask them what to say.
Right, because the current system of 9+ hours of conservative talking heads all in a row on radio and tv is a perfect system.
The 'liberal media' line cracks me up. The party that is most corporatist (usually the GOP) gains the most from the corporate media. I find it odd that conservatives would even be opposed to the fairness doctrine. NPR often airs 'rebuttals' from right-wing think tanks all the time in an effort to be fair. Its usually a pre-recorded piece from the Heritage FOundation or somesuch. If these chaps were realy against things like the FD they wouldnt be doing this on principle. I believe the fear of FD is that it will make news stations accountant for their content as opposed to being just a just another for-profit machine.
The same advice could be given to those who complain about the MS monopoly. Funny how the double standard works here.
It is a good thing, but in the eyes of many slashdotters and geeks anything MS does is wrong. Word's restrictions can only mean good things for security. So this boils down to MS being smarter about security and people finding a problem with that.
Im glad someone is drawing the line here. Ive gotten javascript in my email. JS in my friggin email? Designers simply cannot treat email as the 'push web.' Considering there's so much you can do with tables, I'm pretty sure this faux-outrage will not be heard of again once it scrolls of slashdot's front page.
Its not marketing. MS doesnt support 2000 anymore except security patches until 2010. This is a seven+ year old product, so lets not pretend this is absurd. Does apple still support OS9? Its pretty standard for the industry. Theyre choosing not to invest time and money into testing this patch for all their flavors of 2000. Why would a monopolist care for your parents to upgrade? Theyre most likely getting vista with their next PC.
The scope of these missions and the power needed makes RTG a wasted expense. Now that exploring mars is 'hot' and theres more money/congressional interest the next genertion of rovers will have on-board RTGs. No hippies to blame.
>a story centered around a little kid is naturally not as interesting (for most 16+ audiences) as an older character
So? When I saw the originals I was a kid. Granted, the new ones are of slightly lower quality but the real problem has always been that these are kids movies and older and wiser adults cant get into them. Add nostalgia to the mix and you have a problem thats more a perception than a real one. I dont think too many kids complained about 1,2, and 3, but many adults did. I chalk star wars up as a very lucky piece of pop-art that attracted a whole generation of children. Its not great film, lucas isnt a genius (ignoring ILF), and the rest of his work plays on nostalgia like the last rocky movie. The fact that the original actors dont want much to do with these nostalgia pieces hints that even hollywood knows when it can no longer milk a cash cow without producing a stunning embarassment, like say, the holiday special.
>. I don't need my rights "managed", especially by a corporation.
Then dont buy music from the itunes store. Its not hard to not do something.
Running tzedit.exe isnt that difficult.
How does this work? Is it brute-forcing SSL encryption? Acting like a transparent proxy and making the client think/spoofing its communicating with the host?
>and their console had difficulty penetrating the adult market.
Really? I thought "Thank god you two plumbers just arrived!" was a big hit in America.
>For every "I couldn't get my digital camera working in Ubuntu" anecdote out there, there is a similar "I couldn't get this scanner working in Windows" anecdote. Technical issues are not the problem.
There's a big difference between "i lost my install disc" and "I have no idea how this command line crap works." Technically, those are two different problems. Linux's reliance on the command line to get mostly everything done is just a turn off to joe and jane windows users. On top of it they have no real motivation to switch. The PC works well enough, the OS came with it, they spent years learning how to point a mouse and a reboot, etc.
FF's popularity has a lot to do with people seeing their browser as a problem. Too much spyware, no pop-up blocking, etc. Ist not branding, its not marketing, etc. There's no scratch to itch for linux right now, if ever. If it only remains a niche OS then what the hell is wrong with that? This demand to make it the new windows is baffling.
Not to mention just the idea of joe and jane going to a forum to get flamed is laughable. They wont even stop by. They dont go to forums. They have a CD with autorun which runs a brain-dead wizard. If that fails they have the manufacturers website. If that fails they have a toll-free number to call. Compare that to the typical response on a linux newsgroup, especially about drivers and packages. These people can barely use a TV remote!
Linux is for a certain demographic. Period. Thinking elsewhere leads to more laughable "this is the year of the linux desktop" articles. The OSS evangelists should really focus on getting more OSS stuff on windows instead of this horrible misguided badvista campaign going on with my donated money.
COnsidering how sketchy the details are in the article, and if this isnt a hoax, it sounds like theyre hinting at an rfid, which you know can be very small. I hear theres even one in my new passport!
In Socialist Canada, coins collect you!
Exactly. The spyware people are scared and are coming out with their own FUD. OSX doesnt run admin/root by default also and the few games it has play just fine. These guys are trying to get you to lower your security so they can put their crap adware on your system. If they dont like it they can just use opengl and be done with it.
I slashread your textcast about jargon and nodnodnod with your cyber-sentiment.
A few hyperlinks on a notoriously amateur website trump the world's most respected academic press (and n.b., most of academia is not devout Christian)?
And since when is "accurance" a word?
Appeal to authority fallacy. No specific criticism of the material presented. Ad hominem (spelling). Thanks for playing.
Ah, fuck it. Why do I even bother? People will hate the West and everything it stands for
Who hates the west? Criticising Xtianity =! embracing Islam. Where do I even mention Islam or 'the west?'
I mean, racism, advocating torture, describing how they want to get rid of folks they do not like etc.
And doesn't Christianity say something about loving one another?
I dont know you assume torture and murder cant exist within Christianity, be advocated by the church and scriptures, and cant be done by Christians. Its historically false to even assume such a thing. Christianity is no pacifist religion . I really wish people would just accept the scripture and history of their own religions instead of making these little perfectionist strawmen. This has been going on since Jesus walked the earth, except now you can thank secular thinkers for giving you the right to free speech to even question your chosen religion.
Christian torture. Christian racism. Christian Slavery. Christian Warfare. Inquisitions (more torture). etc
If you want historical accurance please check out the atheism section at about.com. Follow the links at the bottom. Thanks.
>You now have good reason to believe these people aren't actual Christians.
Umm, who are you to judge who is "real christian" or not (where's that part in the bible about judging others). Not to mention this fits in with the history of xtianity (or any religion really) although I believe xtianity may be the bloodiest because of historical reasons. Early histories, crusades, inquisition, witch burning, reformation, recent child molestations, etc etc. Lets not be purposely naive.
>Jesus, do Slashdot editors actually *do* anything?
Yes, they tow the slashdot line "OSS good, commercial software bad." Facts don't matter. Repeat that to yourself: facts dont matter here. If any other news outlet or corporation would make these kinds of slanderous claims against OSS then the cries of oppression and people being paid shills would be deafening, but when slashdot does it we just swallow our own hyposcrisy. No wonder so few people take OSS and especially its promoters seriously. Slashdot is still seen as a 'kiddie' site, and this is more justification of that view.
Hell, even the summary is wrong. Anyone who has even installed IE7 knows it wasnt exactly forced on them. Even if you have auto updates on, there;s a big splash screen asking you if you want to install the damn thing. You can see it here.