Also, I love how I go from +5 informative to 0 Flamebait in 10 minutes flat. Looks like I ruffles a few feathers amongst the Leftys with mod points.
Hey leftists, in case you forgot: -1 Flamebait does NOT equal "I disagree".
For those who are REALLY afraid of that link, you can go to: http://ace.mu.nu/ and just scroll about 1/2 way down to the "Blogola!" post. The link I gave is the comment enabled direct post link. No, I don't know why Ace uses minx.cc as his comments domain, but it is a reputable blog site.
It leads to the "Ace of Spades" blog, wherein there is an article that deconstructs this stupid Daily Caller story and also crosslinks to Dan Reihl's blog where he also responds to the Daily Caller story.
You don't want to click it, fine. Your loss and your choice to remain in ignorance.
Obviously you have been being intentionally sarcastic/ironic/whatever for the entire article here, and that's fine. I've gotten a good laugh at it, thank you.
However, you have unintentionally swerved into the truth here; Most people really DO know only enough about technology to work the remote. Some not even that much. Which is why this isn't really a threat. Nobody is going to use this to play online, as the only people with enough skill/intelligence to figure out how to do it also know enough not to try.
Actually, if you RTFA, the attackers used a vulnerability in the website hosting the code to break in and BYPASS the journalist login feature. So technically, no reporters are gonna get sued since none of them did anything wrong.
Let's be honest, the real problem here was that MS was using the "Security by Obscurity" model to hide the test code site. It even says ITA that it was a "secret" website. (As if a website could EVER be secret for long, especially one connected to Microsoft.) The fact that anyone at MS still thinks that security by obscurity is wise reveals that despite all of the improvements in Win7, There is an ingrained culture in MS that still doesn't get it.
That's not how it works. When someone makes a claim, they have to back it up, not the doubters. The audiophiles are making the claim that the more expensive cables create better sound. It's up to them to demonstrate this.
Don't you know? In today's scientific world all you need to do is get enough people to agree with you and ANY skeptic is instantly labeled a "denier" and must be required to prove their case.
Of course, no rigorous proof is required of the claimant, only a panel of his like-minded peers to affirm that he is right, and that there is a "consensus".
Now stop being a Super SATA cable denier, fork over your money like a good little sheeple and sit quietly.
huzzah composition words. A mental combination of queue (to line up) and cue (as in, "to trigger an action") I suppose. Interestingly either of those could have worked well enough.
Or, you know, AntP COULD have been just using the Spanish word for "what".
Frankly, Ethanol blended fuels wreck your efficiency anyway. I don't know what the overall ratio of % ethanol to % efficiency loss is, but I've heard that it's bad. Not to mention the acidity in Ethanol will pretty much ruin your average gas engine if you use enough of it often enough.
There is a chain of stations around my area that advertise 100% gasoline, no Ethanol. I did a little test, driving my car almost all the way down to 0 and filling up with regular 87 octane 10% Ethanol and drove my normal amount. Then I did the same thing again with the 100% gasoline, and checked my results.
I got an extra day of normal driving out of the regular gasoline. That's about an extra 50 miles for my regular commute + evening errands. The cost difference? 1 cent per gallon more for the normal gasoline. As my tank + filltube holds almost exactly 18 gallons, that's 18 cents more to drive that extra day. I'd say it's worth it.
100% gasoline for me any day. I'll keep the Scotch in my glass, thank you very much.
And this is why, at least in relation to tax law, that the U.S. federal government was initially NOT ALLOWED to levy taxes on U.S. Citizens. It could tariff imports, and regulate interstate commerce, but that was it.
You want to fix the corruption in Washington? Take away the power. Power corrupts. How do you take away the power? Take away the MONEY. Money begets power. How do you take away the money?
REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT.
If the federal government can't levy taxes, it can't be large enough to become an aggregate of massive power. No massive central state power, significantly less corruption, and what corruption is there can't cause as much harm.
THERE is your simple answer to a complex problem. Yes, it will create other issues, but it will solve more problems than it causes, and all Americans will be more free than they have been in the last 100 years. I don't know about you, but I'd rather live in a society where I DON'T have to spend 1/2 the year just working to pay my taxes. We used to be that society. It's high time we became that again.
If I remember correctly, several conservative websites actually removed their Digg buttons because even if a story got "Dugg" the lefty bury brigades would bury it inside 5 minutes. They knew there wasn't any point.
And yet NOW it's a big story when a conservative group decides to fight fire with fire and pull a little quid pro quo? Bah.
No, he published the names and identifying information of Afghan civilians who were helping the US effort in Afghanistan, thus exposing non-combatants to torture and death from the Taliban.
But hey, who cares right? It serves those people right for helping out the "American War Machine". I mean, it's not as though the Taliban were brutally oppressing that country for DECADES before the US got there, it's not as though Afghanistan is where AlQuaeda got it's start, it's not as though women and girls were being murdered and mutilated for the crime of wanting more than an elementary education. It's not as though America stopped all of that and is on it's way towards building a country where the Afghan people can live free of oppression and the brutality of the Taliban...
Or if car manufacturers convinced the government to dismantle public transportation because it was hurting their industry. (woo! Car analogy that actually happened!)
Yes, because we all know that Public transportation is so popular and that ONLY interference by the EEEEVIL Auto Lobby is what prevents public transportation from being everywhere.
I mean, it could NEVER be the incredible popularity of the automobile, the personal mobility freedom that owning your own transportation brings, the lower per-capita costs of people owning their own cars and paying for their own costs vs public roads + tracks + fleets of vehicles + trained employees + insurance, or the simple fact that people don't like riding in a dirty public vehicles with stinky strangers and dealing with the associated risks (muggings, rapes, beatings, fear, etc.) when they could be driving their own car.
Nah, it could NEVER be those things. It must be those evil greedy car companies buying off the government and getting them to dismantle the public transportation infrastructure. That's it.
That's what's so ironic about Jones and his defenders (I'm not discussing climate science, just the attitude to openness): the reaction is very similar to hardcore religious types than scientists.
Imho finding them / being aware of them would be an advantage
That's assuming that the FSB (for example) chooses to inform Microsoft of any holes they find. Why would they do that?
That's also assuming that the FSB is capable of finding any holes and I think that's assuming alot. If the recent "sexy spy" debacle is any indication, the FSB has become the keystone kops of the espionage industry.
Most of the farmers in the US are employees of large agribusiness companies and are pulling down mid-range six figure salaries. They aren't poor, they are upper middle class to rich.
The "small, poor family farm" died a long time ago, and hasn't existed for years.
For criminy's sake freaking use Google before you post.
I realize that this is a tad OT, but your post has made me come to a fundamental change in thought.
In the past, I had always thought that should I gain the ability to travel through time, that I would go back and murder Adolf Hitler, or Stalin or Marx, before they had a chance to do so much damage. After reading your post I now realize a new truth:
I need to add Marcel Duchamp to that list.
I fucking HATE "modern art" in all it's stupid paint splashy, cans of soup, random objects in a room Bullshittyness. It's why I quit being an artist back in college and got into IT. I just couldn't stand the fact that easy to make crap was lauded as "high art" if you could just say enough high-sounding BS about it in front of the right people.
Frankly, Duchamp succeeded. Art as our great grandfathers knew it is DEAD, and he and his ilk killed it. We are all the poorer because of it.
Doesn't the EVO have a 1Ghz processor on it and runs Android, a flavor of Linux? Sounds to me like we could render CG on a phone NOW. (Albeit slowly)
Heck, my Palm Pre with a 500Mhz Processor can play 3D games, I'd bet good money it could render CG given enough time and the properly optimized software.
Roman Candles and metal garbage can lid "shields" are MUCH more fun for that. Not only is the roman candle cool enough to hold in a bare hand, but the projectile makes a fantastic shower of sparks when it strikes the opponents shield.
any proponent of libertarianism who wishes to whittle away government regulations until the power vacuum is filled by corporations, who are not interested in our freedom or democracy at all
Yes, the politicians have purist interests in our freedoms and democracy. You're SOOOOO right.
Here's the facts:
1. When there's power or money involved, there's corruption
2. Corporations have money and power
3. Politicians have money and power
4. Both are equally corruptable
Additionally, who do you think controls the politicians now? Never heard of a lobbyist?
Lastly...AND MOST IMPORTANTLY the corporations can't make up stupid laws or arrest you for making dry ice bombs.
> Once you show a law can be used to convict even one innocent person, the law becomes unenforceable in court. Once they are convicted they are not innocent. That is why they made a law.
What???
Um.. No. If a person is Innocent of a crime, then they are innocent. Whether they were convicted of the crime or not does not change their innocence, only whether they were wrongly convicted or not.
People are innocent until proven guilty. Even then, sometimes they are still innocent, as the evidence is sometimes interpreted incorrectly, inadequate, or falsified.
And yet, back in 2005 when I was dealing with this issue, the FIRST thing the Gold Support reps told me to check was the Capacitors. The reps (I spoke to several) were quite candid about there having been supply issues related to the capacitors and motherboards, and always overnighted new ones out.
Should Dell have been more careful about testing it's supplies? Yes.
Should Dell have been more proactive in replacing known faulty systems? Maybe.
Was Dell negligent or unresponsive towards it's customers? No.
This lawsuit is yet another waste of time. The Market has already punished Dell for it's failures by stripping them of a large portion of their market share. No need for the legal system to get involved. That's just kicking Dell when they are down.
The problem is, how did the market become "uncompetitive" in the first place?
Oh yeah, Government interference. First by creating and enforcing local monopolies rather than simply selling right of way space to anyone that wanted it, and second by scooping up several billion in taxpayer money and just GIVING it to the big telcos to create and infrastructure.
If the government had just stayed the hell out, we wouldn't be having this discussion today as the Internet would likely already be far more built-out and with way more players in the market, each of them significantly smaller than the giant megacorps we have involved right now.
The BEST thing the government can do is to eliminate local monopoly legislation,(along with any other regulation making the barrier to entry so damned high) and demand a full refund of the money we wasted on the megacorps. Then give that money back to the taxpayers.
And before some "hair on fire" leftist comes along and tries to beat me with the "You don't want ANY regulation!" straw man argument; OF COURSE I want SOME regulation. I want the absolute MINIMUM amount of regulation possible, and ONLY those regulations put in place by elected officials. Unelected bureaucrats should not be allowed to create regulation and any regulation created by them should be summarily deleted from the record. PERIOD.
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Also, I love how I go from +5 informative to 0 Flamebait in 10 minutes flat. Looks like I ruffles a few feathers amongst the Leftys with mod points.
Hey leftists, in case you forgot: -1 Flamebait does NOT equal "I disagree".
For those who are REALLY afraid of that link, you can go to: http://ace.mu.nu/ and just scroll about 1/2 way down to the "Blogola!" post. The link I gave is the comment enabled direct post link. No, I don't know why Ace uses minx.cc as his comments domain, but it is a reputable blog site.
So don't click it.
It leads to the "Ace of Spades" blog, wherein there is an article that deconstructs this stupid Daily Caller story and also crosslinks to Dan Reihl's blog where he also responds to the Daily Caller story.
You don't want to click it, fine. Your loss and your choice to remain in ignorance.
Wow. Amazing what wanting something to be true so badly makes you willing to believe the flimsiest unsupported lies.
Here's the TRUTH.
Now stop being so gullible.
Cheeky,
Obviously you have been being intentionally sarcastic/ironic/whatever for the entire article here, and that's fine. I've gotten a good laugh at it, thank you.
However, you have unintentionally swerved into the truth here; Most people really DO know only enough about technology to work the remote. Some not even that much. Which is why this isn't really a threat. Nobody is going to use this to play online, as the only people with enough skill/intelligence to figure out how to do it also know enough not to try.
Actually, if you RTFA, the attackers used a vulnerability in the website hosting the code to break in and BYPASS the journalist login feature. So technically, no reporters are gonna get sued since none of them did anything wrong.
Let's be honest, the real problem here was that MS was using the "Security by Obscurity" model to hide the test code site. It even says ITA that it was a "secret" website. (As if a website could EVER be secret for long, especially one connected to Microsoft.) The fact that anyone at MS still thinks that security by obscurity is wise reveals that despite all of the improvements in Win7, There is an ingrained culture in MS that still doesn't get it.
That's not how it works. When someone makes a claim, they have to back it up, not the doubters. The audiophiles are making the claim that the more expensive cables create better sound. It's up to them to demonstrate this.
Don't you know? In today's scientific world all you need to do is get enough people to agree with you and ANY skeptic is instantly labeled a "denier" and must be required to prove their case.
Of course, no rigorous proof is required of the claimant, only a panel of his like-minded peers to affirm that he is right, and that there is a "consensus".
Now stop being a Super SATA cable denier, fork over your money like a good little sheeple and sit quietly.
huzzah composition words. A mental combination of queue (to line up) and cue (as in, "to trigger an action") I suppose. Interestingly either of those could have worked well enough.
Or, you know, AntP COULD have been just using the Spanish word for "what".
Frankly, Ethanol blended fuels wreck your efficiency anyway. I don't know what the overall ratio of % ethanol to % efficiency loss is, but I've heard that it's bad. Not to mention the acidity in Ethanol will pretty much ruin your average gas engine if you use enough of it often enough.
There is a chain of stations around my area that advertise 100% gasoline, no Ethanol. I did a little test, driving my car almost all the way down to 0 and filling up with regular 87 octane 10% Ethanol and drove my normal amount. Then I did the same thing again with the 100% gasoline, and checked my results.
I got an extra day of normal driving out of the regular gasoline. That's about an extra 50 miles for my regular commute + evening errands. The cost difference? 1 cent per gallon more for the normal gasoline. As my tank + filltube holds almost exactly 18 gallons, that's 18 cents more to drive that extra day. I'd say it's worth it.
100% gasoline for me any day. I'll keep the Scotch in my glass, thank you very much.
Or, you know, you could just buy a phone WITH A KEYBOARD.
Seriously, typing on the screen sucks, screen smudges and attacks based on them notwithstanding.
A blanket, an empty field far the the city lights, and a couple of friends, and I'm all set.
Shouldn't that be, one special friend? I mean, as long as you brought the blanket...
And this is why, at least in relation to tax law, that the U.S. federal government was initially NOT ALLOWED to levy taxes on U.S. Citizens. It could tariff imports, and regulate interstate commerce, but that was it.
You want to fix the corruption in Washington? Take away the power. Power corrupts. How do you take away the power? Take away the MONEY. Money begets power. How do you take away the money?
REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT.
If the federal government can't levy taxes, it can't be large enough to become an aggregate of massive power. No massive central state power, significantly less corruption, and what corruption is there can't cause as much harm.
THERE is your simple answer to a complex problem. Yes, it will create other issues, but it will solve more problems than it causes, and all Americans will be more free than they have been in the last 100 years. I don't know about you, but I'd rather live in a society where I DON'T have to spend 1/2 the year just working to pay my taxes. We used to be that society. It's high time we became that again.
Indeed.
If I remember correctly, several conservative websites actually removed their Digg buttons because even if a story got "Dugg" the lefty bury brigades would bury it inside 5 minutes. They knew there wasn't any point.
And yet NOW it's a big story when a conservative group decides to fight fire with fire and pull a little quid pro quo? Bah.
Leftists: Hypocrites all.
No, he published the names and identifying information of Afghan civilians who were helping the US effort in Afghanistan, thus exposing non-combatants to torture and death from the Taliban.
But hey, who cares right? It serves those people right for helping out the "American War Machine". I mean, it's not as though the Taliban were brutally oppressing that country for DECADES before the US got there, it's not as though Afghanistan is where AlQuaeda got it's start, it's not as though women and girls were being murdered and mutilated for the crime of wanting more than an elementary education. It's not as though America stopped all of that and is on it's way towards building a country where the Afghan people can live free of oppression and the brutality of the Taliban...
Oh wait...
Or if car manufacturers convinced the government to dismantle public transportation because it was hurting their industry. (woo! Car analogy that actually happened!)
Yes, because we all know that Public transportation is so popular and that ONLY interference by the EEEEVIL Auto Lobby is what prevents public transportation from being everywhere.
I mean, it could NEVER be the incredible popularity of the automobile, the personal mobility freedom that owning your own transportation brings, the lower per-capita costs of people owning their own cars and paying for their own costs vs public roads + tracks + fleets of vehicles + trained employees + insurance, or the simple fact that people don't like riding in a dirty public vehicles with stinky strangers and dealing with the associated risks (muggings, rapes, beatings, fear, etc.) when they could be driving their own car.
Nah, it could NEVER be those things. It must be those evil greedy car companies buying off the government and getting them to dismantle the public transportation infrastructure. That's it.
*eyeroll*
(Woo! Reality pwns your bad Car analogy!)
Think about it: Do you really need a quad-core processor with 8GB of RAM and a 1.5 TB hard drive to ... fap to porn?
Actually, you don't even need a computer to do that. A Playboy subscription should be sufficient.
That's what's so ironic about Jones and his defenders (I'm not discussing climate science, just the attitude to openness): the reaction is very similar to hardcore religious types than scientists.
You are quite correct. Hence my sig.
Imho finding them / being aware of them would be an advantage
That's assuming that the FSB (for example) chooses to inform Microsoft of any holes they find. Why would they do that?
That's also assuming that the FSB is capable of finding any holes and I think that's assuming alot. If the recent "sexy spy" debacle is any indication, the FSB has become the keystone kops of the espionage industry.
Are you serious?
Most of the farmers in the US are employees of large agribusiness companies and are pulling down mid-range six figure salaries. They aren't poor, they are upper middle class to rich.
The "small, poor family farm" died a long time ago, and hasn't existed for years.
For criminy's sake freaking use Google before you post.
I realize that this is a tad OT, but your post has made me come to a fundamental change in thought.
In the past, I had always thought that should I gain the ability to travel through time, that I would go back and murder Adolf Hitler, or Stalin or Marx, before they had a chance to do so much damage. After reading your post I now realize a new truth:
I need to add Marcel Duchamp to that list.
I fucking HATE "modern art" in all it's stupid paint splashy, cans of soup, random objects in a room Bullshittyness. It's why I quit being an artist back in college and got into IT. I just couldn't stand the fact that easy to make crap was lauded as "high art" if you could just say enough high-sounding BS about it in front of the right people.
Frankly, Duchamp succeeded. Art as our great grandfathers knew it is DEAD, and he and his ilk killed it. We are all the poorer because of it.
20 years?
Doesn't the EVO have a 1Ghz processor on it and runs Android, a flavor of Linux? Sounds to me like we could render CG on a phone NOW. (Albeit slowly)
Heck, my Palm Pre with a 500Mhz Processor can play 3D games, I'd bet good money it could render CG given enough time and the properly optimized software.
Roman Candles and metal garbage can lid "shields" are MUCH more fun for that. Not only is the roman candle cool enough to hold in a bare hand, but the projectile makes a fantastic shower of sparks when it strikes the opponents shield.
any proponent of libertarianism who wishes to whittle away government regulations until the power vacuum is filled by corporations, who are not interested in our freedom or democracy at all
Yes, the politicians have purist interests in our freedoms and democracy. You're SOOOOO right.
Here's the facts:
1. When there's power or money involved, there's corruption
2. Corporations have money and power
3. Politicians have money and power
4. Both are equally corruptable
Additionally, who do you think controls the politicians now? Never heard of a lobbyist?
Lastly...AND MOST IMPORTANTLY the corporations can't make up stupid laws or arrest you for making dry ice bombs.
FIFY
> Once you show a law can be used to convict even one innocent person, the law becomes unenforceable in court.
Once they are convicted they are not innocent. That is why they made a law.
What???
Um.. No. If a person is Innocent of a crime, then they are innocent. Whether they were convicted of the crime or not does not change their innocence, only whether they were wrongly convicted or not.
People are innocent until proven guilty. Even then, sometimes they are still innocent, as the evidence is sometimes interpreted incorrectly, inadequate, or falsified.
And yet, back in 2005 when I was dealing with this issue, the FIRST thing the Gold Support reps told me to check was the Capacitors. The reps (I spoke to several) were quite candid about there having been supply issues related to the capacitors and motherboards, and always overnighted new ones out.
Should Dell have been more careful about testing it's supplies? Yes.
Should Dell have been more proactive in replacing known faulty systems? Maybe.
Was Dell negligent or unresponsive towards it's customers? No.
This lawsuit is yet another waste of time. The Market has already punished Dell for it's failures by stripping them of a large portion of their market share. No need for the legal system to get involved. That's just kicking Dell when they are down.
The problem is, how did the market become "uncompetitive" in the first place?
Oh yeah, Government interference. First by creating and enforcing local monopolies rather than simply selling right of way space to anyone that wanted it, and second by scooping up several billion in taxpayer money and just GIVING it to the big telcos to create and infrastructure.
If the government had just stayed the hell out, we wouldn't be having this discussion today as the Internet would likely already be far more built-out and with way more players in the market, each of them significantly smaller than the giant megacorps we have involved right now.
The BEST thing the government can do is to eliminate local monopoly legislation,(along with any other regulation making the barrier to entry so damned high) and demand a full refund of the money we wasted on the megacorps. Then give that money back to the taxpayers.
And before some "hair on fire" leftist comes along and tries to beat me with the "You don't want ANY regulation!" straw man argument; OF COURSE I want SOME regulation. I want the absolute MINIMUM amount of regulation possible, and ONLY those regulations put in place by elected officials. Unelected bureaucrats should not be allowed to create regulation and any regulation created by them should be summarily deleted from the record. PERIOD.