Yes a teenage vampire, why wouldnt everyone like that?
Serenity was good because it was libertarians in space. Buffy sucked balls because it wasnt true to the movie. I watched the first buffy episode but kristy swanson wasnt in it so who the hell cares. I mean they didnt even use donald sutherland! it was a big let down and I vowed never to watch it again.
"Two machines got Symantec anti-virus, and the other two got no anti-virus. They were told that since we don't have a copy for that machine, they'll just have to be extra careful"
Wow. An admin who cares more about licensing than actually protecting his network. I cant believe you actually wrote that, and it was modded up. MCSE's I guess...
"The whole company has since gone anti-virus free on the desktop, and problem reports and performance complaints have dropped way down"
In other news, new virus infections have increased elevenfold! Wow just wow. I cant tell if your trolling or not. How the hell are users going to tell if they have a virus without antivirus software? Magic? how the hell are you going to tell? Sure something obvious like a spam relay people are going to notice, but I see viruses being downloaded almost daily. Your experiment seems to imply that people care about their computers. Heck it implies that people are terrified of viruses and fucking up at work! They do not and are not. If a computer breaks, its in no way shape or form their problem or their fault. Just like if a car breaks its not your fault is it? Doesnt matter that you forgot to check the damn oil regularly, its the stupid cars fault! I would question if you have ever even worked in IT professionally with you making that statement.
"slashdot could build comment moderation profiles and then offer a filter of only the type of comments I'm going to want to read"
As if slashdot isnt enough of an echo chamber, you would like people to be more circle jerky? How do you know what you want to read? I think the best slashdot comments are the ones you dont expect.
oh underscore oh aside, how is that different from 2003? Ive had to activate every 2003 server, and Ive had them deactivate when changing raid controllers or motherboards. You either crack it or phone M$, same as always.
And ILL call fucking bullshit on your ass. IT AUTO APPROVED ITSELF. In the middle of the night. IT DID NOT COME IN AS NOT APPROVED OR ELSE IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ROLLED OUT TO 500+ WORKSTATIONS NOW WOULD IT HAVE>?
fucking microsoft apologists. I came in, users complained PC's were slow, I assumed that they had installed it themselves. Then I looked at wsus and hmm thats strange.. SEEMS AS THROUGH WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH IS MARKED AS INSTALL. WHY THE FUCK WOULD I DO THAT???!?!?
My wsus downloaded and marked them as INSTALL tuesday night, they were rolled out at 3am just as any update I would have approved. EXCEPT I DID NOT APPROVE IT. Why the fuck would I 1) approve a patch the same day it was released with NO testing and 2) EVER APPROVE WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH.
People like you piss me the fuck off. I run a tight ship. WSUS has NEVER done this before. EVER. It was 100% their fucking fault. Just because it didnt happen to you doesnt mean it didnt happen.
"It just goes to show that even the smart ones get caught from time to time. If you're going to steal technology it's probably best to get the hell out of dodge after doing so and NOT call tech support or, in this case, plus a stolen NIC into the network."
Or deny you entry to the room, make the police get a warrant and in the interim, destroy the evidence.
"The desire to protect yourself and your loved ones trumps it [sic] all... That's just human nature."
Its no wonder society is the way it is. The rats escape the quarantine to infect others while the honourable sacrifice themselves, honouring their children, humanity and their ancestors. I dont blame you for leaving the quarantine, but you doom society to a dishonourable future full of self obsessed rodents, all carrying the same plague that you perversely call "Human Nature".
"If you run bittorrent, your PC acts as both a client and a server."
Do you understand how networks actually operate? Its very rare to find a program that doesnt "return content when queried" which would be my definition of a server.
And only the gay ISPs block web pop and ftp "servers". Its hardly par the course.
"Not solving the underlying problem that the drugs exist and can be used to feel good and are addictive."
Thats not a problem, our bodies have evolved to be addicted to things. Millions are already addicted to sugar, caffene, etc. Do kids deal alcohol at school with guns? No because alcohol is readily available everywhere. If your kid gets addicted to drugs, its really the same as if they get addicted to television or sugar or lack of physical activity. Thats bad parenting, but we shouldnt stop people from CHOOSING to be bad parents. If it gets really bad, they take your children away. I would imagine drug use would be treated similarly.
People do not currently knock over 7/11s for alcohol or cigarette money. In any case, the crime should be robbery, no matter the motivations behind it.
"SWAT officers expected to find a victim shot to death, drugs and a belligerent armed suspect when they surrounded the home of an unsuspecting couple"
And if drugs were legal, they would have been dispensed by a licensed shop or market, not sold in a home. There would be no shootings over drugs, no belligerent armed suspects, and no home invaded under false pretenses. The problem here is the illegality and absurdity of the drug war.
I wish I could play the new CnC but unfortunately it doesnt work out of the box on win2k. Westwood wouldn't try so hard to offend people by pulling shit like that. I can only assume its like generals was and steer VERY far clear of it.
"Bethesda can afford to hire Patrick Stewart for voiceovers. I don't think they'll be caving to EA"
NOT a good example. Westwood studios made lands of lore where patrick stewart did voice work as king richard. Guess who bought and killed westwood?
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Hes not arguing that tasers are more deadly than a gun, hes arguing that when tasers were first released they were positioned as an alternative to deadly force - as in used in the same situation a gun would be used. In practice, we see them used as a quick effortless way to subdue someone for whatever reason, be they violent or nonviolent. Its not about the infrequent deaths, its about the perception by law enforcement that taser use is routine.
As long as its not illegal to completely disable these devices I wouldn't have a problem with it in my car, but its a very slippery slope as you alluded to with the seatbelt. The government could simply make it illegal to disable such a system, and next thing you know police are using it to disable cars with offensive bumper stickers (say a darwin fish in the southern USA? chevy loyal cops disabling fords? or just giving a cop an eye he doesnt like).
Police need far less powers not more. It is after all, just a car, and insurance will cover the damages if any. The GPS system and the constant data archiving of your and your routes is a bit more scary than remote disable imho. I would never buy a car that "phoned home" to the manufacturers database with info about where I am at all times.
Actually the search in vista is one of the more annoying features. I cant believe they made a shittier search than XP but here we are. The problem is that vista defaults searching from "indexed places" instead of 1) giving you the option on where to search or 2) searching the local drives. As anyone who has used any version of windows knows, turning on any sort of search indexer completely lags the system to shit. So of course im not going to let vista index my drives.
The first few times i used search I simply thought it was broken as it never returned any results. The fact that you have to go out of your way into some advanced dialogues to even gain the ability to search your local drives is a huge step backwards.
Well it broke most programs that try and write to floppy drives (like rawwrite), so you could say that they have perfected floppy drm... took them 20 years but they did it!
Correct me if im wrong, but isnt american healthcare "for profit"?
For profit enterprise is rarely cheaper than something done when profit isnt a concern. Should people really profit off of basic medical care any more than they should off of fire and police protection?
"An officer that's shown to abuse people can't keep his job unless an elected official/body allows him/her to"
Really? The internal afairs department of most police agencies is made up of elected officials from outside the law enforcement community? That must be why all police abuse is severly punished and not just swept under the rug having docked the officers 2 weeks pay. In fact, if you look at the wikipedia article it states that only "several" police agencies adopted these sorts of civilian panels. To me this indicates that they are the exception, not the rule.
Tasers had a similar justification for their implementation and yet we see them misused on a daily basis. Why do you love the police state so god damned much?
"Why are you more afraid of a fleeting, non-damaging nerve stimulation than you are choking gas, or bruising clubs and water cannons, or agitated K-9 units?"
Quite simply because i can stand more than a second of those kinds of punishment? The guy in the article said even hardened military men could only last a few seconds. That, and technology like say, a wet cotton shirt, or a two by 4 can combat those sorts of attacks.
They are gonna come for you gun one day scenty, and at that time they will bombard your household with devices such as these. Can your 9mm slugs make it a mile and a half? Can you get to your gun and lay down the precise aim needed before you fall to the ground screaming in pain? The worst part is that you are gonna be on your own on that day, because everyone else will have already been rounded up.
"it is being looked at only by the "North American military and its allies" and is not being sold to countries with questionable human rights records."
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"What would happen if they fell into the hands of unscrupulous nations where torture is not unknown?"
Ok now your just trolling.
In other news, us senate strikes down habeas corpus.. again! oh brave new world with these devices in it!
"the creator of the original has not been compensated for his work in creating it"
Putting aside the idea that creation should be its own reward, I think this would lead to a world with less SUV's and more deloreans. In a world without scarcity of resources, there would be nothing for people to do but design better ferraris, and use their nanoforges to hook themselves up with prototypes.
Your thinking is very limited (I am tempted to invoke your sig but I wont). You dont have to give people incentives to be creative. For every paid musician, theres a guy in his bedroom mixing tracks, for free. The end result is that passion and professionalism wins, not for profit revenue maximization.
I will now repost one of my favourite slashdot posts ever on this subject (author is sadly unknown)
"Seriously though, I'm sure that a lot of people think the way this guy thinks. It's an easy mistake to make, especially if you look at software as being analogous to physical property. The analogy breaks down pretty quickly if you look at it. I like to use the example of the "magic hammer".
If I attach a rock to the end of a stick to make a real-life hammer, and I give it to you, now I don't have a hammer anymore. With software, I can sell the hammer to you, and I still somehow have an identical hammer (that's how Microsoft makes the big bucks). With open source software, I give you the hammer with instructions on how to make it. I haven't really lost anything by giving you the hammer - I still have my copy, and copying it took about 3 seconds. You are encouraged to share the hammer with your friends (and you don't loose anything by doing so either). You can also make improvements to the hammer. Only an enterprising few will do this, but the effect is cumulative. When someone forges a brass head for the hammer, poof! Everyone's hammers are now better. Steel head? Poof! Claw on the back for pulling nails? Poof! It doesn't take long before everybody has a really good hammer."
In this worldview, society benefits, not just the privileged few who are able to pay a license fee for ferrari or hammer blueprints.
"[the eve game universe] has very little barriers to trading across loyalities or "factions"."
I assume you are just ignorant to the fact that much of space is off limits to most would be traders specifically because of different "factions" and there Kill On Site or NBSI (not blue shoot it), policies. There is plenty of money to be made getting into an alliance and doing supply runs from empire. People will gladly, or (begrudgingly depending on markup), pay for these services. There are also social barriers to trade such as pirates, which can quite quickly turn a routine supply run into a costly disaster. Things like pirate activity, current wars, etc all manifest themselves in the prices of things. This doesnt even count the huge barrier to entry which is the t2 BPO bullshit, basically entitling early adopters of eve to a license to perpetually print money in the form of tech2 equipment.
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Yes a teenage vampire, why wouldnt everyone like that?
Serenity was good because it was libertarians in space. Buffy sucked balls because it wasnt true to the movie. I watched the first buffy episode but kristy swanson wasnt in it so who the hell cares. I mean they didnt even use donald sutherland! it was a big let down and I vowed never to watch it again.
users have no remorse.
As if slashdot isnt enough of an echo chamber, you would like people to be more circle jerky?
How do you know what you want to read? I think the best slashdot comments are the ones you dont expect.
Clearly your not into the bar scene.
oh underscore oh aside, how is that different from 2003? Ive had to activate every 2003 server, and Ive had them deactivate when changing raid controllers or motherboards. You either crack it or phone M$, same as always.
And ILL call fucking bullshit on your ass. IT AUTO APPROVED ITSELF. In the middle of the night. IT DID NOT COME IN AS NOT APPROVED OR ELSE IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ROLLED OUT TO 500+ WORKSTATIONS NOW WOULD IT HAVE>?
fucking microsoft apologists. I came in, users complained PC's were slow, I assumed that they had installed it themselves. Then I looked at wsus and hmm thats strange.. SEEMS AS THROUGH WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH IS MARKED AS INSTALL. WHY THE FUCK WOULD I DO THAT???!?!?
WRONG. mod parent down.
My wsus downloaded and marked them as INSTALL tuesday night, they were rolled out at 3am just as any update I would have approved. EXCEPT I DID NOT APPROVE IT. Why the fuck would I 1) approve a patch the same day it was released with NO testing and 2) EVER APPROVE WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH.
People like you piss me the fuck off. I run a tight ship. WSUS has NEVER done this before. EVER. It was 100% their fucking fault. Just because it didnt happen to you doesnt mean it didnt happen.
Or deny you entry to the room, make the police get a warrant and in the interim, destroy the evidence.
Its no wonder society is the way it is. The rats escape the quarantine to infect others while the honourable sacrifice themselves, honouring their children, humanity and their ancestors. I dont blame you for leaving the quarantine, but you doom society to a dishonourable future full of self obsessed rodents, all carrying the same plague that you perversely call "Human Nature".
Do you understand how networks actually operate? Its very rare to find a program that doesnt "return content when queried" which would be my definition of a server.
And only the gay ISPs block web pop and ftp "servers". Its hardly par the course.
Thats not a problem, our bodies have evolved to be addicted to things. Millions are already addicted to sugar, caffene, etc. Do kids deal alcohol at school with guns? No because alcohol is readily available everywhere. If your kid gets addicted to drugs, its really the same as if they get addicted to television or sugar or lack of physical activity. Thats bad parenting, but we shouldnt stop people from CHOOSING to be bad parents. If it gets really bad, they take your children away. I would imagine drug use would be treated similarly.
People do not currently knock over 7/11s for alcohol or cigarette money. In any case, the crime should be robbery, no matter the motivations behind it.
And if drugs were legal, they would have been dispensed by a licensed shop or market, not sold in a home. There would be no shootings over drugs, no belligerent armed suspects, and no home invaded under false pretenses. The problem here is the illegality and absurdity of the drug war.
I wish I could play the new CnC but unfortunately it doesnt work out of the box on win2k. Westwood wouldn't try so hard to offend people by pulling shit like that. I can only assume its like generals was and steer VERY far clear of it.
NOT a good example. Westwood studios made lands of lore where patrick stewart did voice work as king richard. Guess who bought and killed westwood?
Hes not arguing that tasers are more deadly than a gun, hes arguing that when tasers were first released they were positioned as an alternative to deadly force - as in used in the same situation a gun would be used. In practice, we see them used as a quick effortless way to subdue someone for whatever reason, be they violent or nonviolent. Its not about the infrequent deaths, its about the perception by law enforcement that taser use is routine.
As long as its not illegal to completely disable these devices I wouldn't have a problem with it in my car, but its a very slippery slope as you alluded to with the seatbelt. The government could simply make it illegal to disable such a system, and next thing you know police are using it to disable cars with offensive bumper stickers (say a darwin fish in the southern USA? chevy loyal cops disabling fords? or just giving a cop an eye he doesnt like).
Police need far less powers not more. It is after all, just a car, and insurance will cover the damages if any. The GPS system and the constant data archiving of your and your routes is a bit more scary than remote disable imho. I would never buy a car that "phoned home" to the manufacturers database with info about where I am at all times.
The first few times i used search I simply thought it was broken as it never returned any results. The fact that you have to go out of your way into some advanced dialogues to even gain the ability to search your local drives is a huge step backwards.
Well it broke most programs that try and write to floppy drives (like rawwrite), so you could say that they have perfected floppy drm... took them 20 years but they did it!
Correct me if im wrong, but isnt american healthcare "for profit"?
For profit enterprise is rarely cheaper than something done when profit isnt a concern. Should people really profit off of basic medical care any more than they should off of fire and police protection?
Exactly. Just think of the horror, they could circumcise your e-peen!
Tasers had a similar justification for their implementation and yet we see them misused on a daily basis.
Why do you love the police state so god damned much?Quite simply because i can stand more than a second of those kinds of punishment? The guy in the article said even hardened military men could only last a few seconds. That, and technology like say, a wet cotton shirt, or a two by 4 can combat those sorts of attacks.
They are gonna come for you gun one day scenty, and at that time they will bombard your household with devices such as these. Can your 9mm slugs make it a mile and a half? Can you get to your gun and lay down the precise aim needed before you fall to the ground screaming in pain? The worst part is that you are gonna be on your own on that day, because everyone else will have already been rounded up.
Ok now your just trolling.
In other news, us senate strikes down habeas corpus.. again!
oh brave new world with these devices in it!
Putting aside the idea that creation should be its own reward, I think this would lead to a world with less SUV's and more deloreans. In a world without scarcity of resources, there would be nothing for people to do but design better ferraris, and use their nanoforges to hook themselves up with prototypes.
Your thinking is very limited (I am tempted to invoke your sig but I wont). You dont have to give people incentives to be creative. For every paid musician, theres a guy in his bedroom mixing tracks, for free. The end result is that passion and professionalism wins, not for profit revenue maximization.
I will now repost one of my favourite slashdot posts ever on this subject (author is sadly unknown)
In this worldview, society benefits, not just the privileged few who are able to pay a license fee for ferrari or hammer blueprints.
Might want to break out a map there homeboy. You'd have to try pretty hard to be more east than halifax.