Correct. A DHL cargo plane was hit a few years back, while leaving Baghdad (link goes to image search, for more on the event, see Google or Wikipedia - the wiki article has a video showing the cargo plane's damage).
Similarly, El Al had a near-miss in central Africa in recent years, and I believe countermeasures + pilot's tactics made the difference. But countermeasures probably wouldn't work if 5 stingers were fired from 5 locations, at one plane... which, I'm certain, is why there's such a market for this technology.
As an aside, it's scary that we just need an idea of a terrorist tactic in order to start spending on massive technology to prevent it. As scary, in fact, as the fear of false positives.
Agreed. And I like how the article spends the first 2/3 discussing the wonderful ideas of stopping phishers, botnets, typosquatting, spammers, etc... and not until near the end mentions that these guys want to be just another version of SiteFinder.
99 years ago, Andrew McNally II had the same kind of idea.
Excerpt:
... in 1907, Andrew McNally II, the grandson of the co-founder of Rand McNally & Company, chose to spend his honeymoon in Milwaukee... Andrew McNally II had a sense that the automobile might enhance the way-finding side of the business, and so, on this honeymoon trip, he strapped a camera onto the front fender of his car and, at every junction--every right or left turn--stopped and snapped a photograph. He and his bride did the same on the return trip. Back in Chicago, McNally compiled the photographs into a booklet, with a little arrow in each photograph indicating the proper direction to take. The booklet was called a Photo-Auto Guide and was essentially a driver's-eye view of the way to Milwaukee, at least as it looked that spring. (Obsolescence loomed; a new barn or a fallen oak could alter the appearance of the road.)...
From Getting There: The science of driving directions, by Nick Paumgarten in an April '06 issue of The New Yorker. Fascinating and insightful article about the history of road maps, with special focus on today's crop of online maps and DVD/Nav systems in cars. Plus, the article is just really well-written. I've read it and reread it... it's not often you find journalists that write this well.
Correct! I've actually been reading his blog for quite some time, and he often discusses how the Long Tail applies to music (how while a few "hits" might make a good bit of money easily, a giant volume of "non-hits" that are liked by small numbers of people will make you a lot more money, if you can effectively market and distribute it).
His blog is at: http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/ and these posts would probably interest you:
And these are just a few recent ones. If you want the economic & statistic nitty-gritty of how to sell things these days, he's a good one to keep an eye on.
... there are lots of folks who are just 1 pay check away from joining them...
Where did this idea come from? I hear it spouted over and over again as a reason to give ohms, yet I've seen no data to back it up. Think of yourself: if you lost a few paychecks, what would happen? Would you truly be alone, addicted, and diseased, living in a box with all of your posessions in a shopping cart?
If so, you've frankly made some mistakes leading to this precarious situation.
I simply cannot believe that "lots of folks who are a paycheck away from joining them" don't have family, friends, neighbors, or similar that can provide assistance and shelter in difficult times. I also cannot believe that most people, if they lost 1 month's pay, would automatically be on the street. What with unemployment benefits, welfare, as well as the ability to take simple, temporary jobs (a tiny paycheck is better than zero), there are plenty of opportunities to dust yourself off and pick yourself back up. Trust me; I've been there myself.
Similarly, if your credit / loan circumstances put you into this situation... who can you blame? If you've got 12 credit cards maxed out, and pay the minimum every month for your brand-new car, you've set yourself up for the fall. But even then, while major changes would be necessary (including, probably, bankruptcy and reposession), you still would not likely end up living under an overpass.
And to be honest, I don't believe homeless people do well when given spare change. If you want to help them out, give them a sandwich, or an apple, or some water to drink. Actually help them out, instead of lazily handing them 37 cents from your pocket.
From personal experience: the homeless people I've seen, when given food, tend to toss it to the ground (funny when their sign says "hungry" on it) since they'd rather have some money they could use to buy cheap booze, or listerine (a.k.a. cheap booze).
So forgive me if I'm jaded. But please, stop the "we're all stupid and could be homeless in a month so let's help them" tripe. It just doesn't pass muster.
I'll grant that it's an idiotic shortcut to say "Beijing = Evil, therefore new Beijing laws = evil"... it's convenient, but stupid, all the same.
In RL even the most horrible dictator may really think they're only doing just what's good for their country (even if for everyone else it doesn't really count as good), and not just acting out of some Sith-like determination to extinguish all goodness.
Umm... generally the most horrible dictators don't give a damn about anything but themselves, and their own power and amusements; their country, aside from keeping them in power, can eat shit and die for all they care (and sadly, often this's what happens). After all, we're talking about horrible dictators. If that's who we're talking about, we can safely assume their motives are questionable... if they weren't they wouldn't be horrible, would they?
It's quite funny how one can throw a phrase like "horrible dictator" around and then ignore what it means.
I know this sounds like oversimplifying things, but I'm calling for consistency. There are good dictators, and there are bad dictators. Those are plain, simple facts, and just because their simplicity all but insults your intelligence, they cannot be ignored or refuted by the offhand assumption that really all dictators are good, and your own morality is at fault for not seeing it.
In RL... moral equivalence has no place.
This seems like a stunningly clear example of the problematic behaviour of unregulated monopoly. (Okay, duopoly, between your local telco and your local cable co.) It certainly does nothing to change my opinion that completely free-reign capitalism is as problematic as total socialism, and that they right mix is about five parts laissez faire to one part regulation.
Before you make the jump to saying this helps proove socialism & capitalism are equally decroded, reread that there bold bit.
If we were experiencing completely-free capitalism, there would not (in theory) be any unregulated monopoly. Right?
Wow. I'm utterly amazed at the irony. What started off as insightfully describing how without focusing on money a great service, while rare, may exist... degrades into class-warfareism by acting like rich people don't deserve free service. After all, they're rich. They can afford to pay so they should be made to pay more than the average person.
It's ironic to talk of fairness, and then proclaim that rich people should be given discriminating treatment, smacking of socialism.
No sir, I don't buy it.
What I couldn't figure out, until reading one of the steps in their "Active Deterrence" info page, was how the complaints work. After all, spam sites don't keep a "complaint board" open for us to use.
Basically, any spam site is going to have some kind of form for you to fill out to get more info, or initiate a purchase, or something. For each spam that your honeypot address receives from a company, assuming they ignored the warning, BlueFrog goes to that website, fills out crap in the form, and hits Submit.
So what? So, instead of most of their submissions being interested buyers, they have to go through all of them to see which are buyers and which were entered by the BlueFrog bot. This wastes their time, costing them money. Also, their bandwidth is wasted. So if they happen to send 5000 emails to honeypot addresses, that's 5000x their website was loaded, without any financial gain for them.
So, their costs go up, and their revenues don't. It's much less profitable to be a spammer, period.
I like the map & satellite imagery Google has given for the Earth. My question: why stop there?
Okay, so you see the "Map" and "Satellite" links in the upper right... why not include... "Moon" as well? In fact, we have the imagery for other celestial orbs... why not Mars? Mercury?
That's funny, I heard this conversation between two NASA financial administrators the other day:
NASA Accountant: It looks like our accounts receivable supplies are wearing thin. We need to do some fundraising.
NASA P.R. dude: Hey! Let's announce again that we'll return to the moon within 10 years! That'll get us some quick cash, and nobody will figure out the ruse until it's too late!
Yeah, yeah, I know/. is affiliated with Yahoo TechJobs... but I'm thinking all these job-related posts, and more, would fit perfectly in an "Employment" topic./. could then be a forum for techies looking for work, as opposed to the usual job site.
Unless you know of any forums already, for techies talking about looking for work...
Perhaps if AOL, one of the biggest ISP's, spent less effort on their usual "useful" burger-and-fries services, and more effort on a campaign to educate their users about the internet, we wouldn't have this situation.
Waitaminute... better-educated users... probably wouldn't be interested in AOL.
Perhaps if AOL, one of the biggest ISP's, spent less effort on their usual "useful" burger-and-fries services, and more effort on a campaign to educate their users about the internet, we wouldn't have this situation.
Waitaminute... better-educated users... probably wouldn't be interested in AOL.
Now if they wanted to prove that hydrogen fill stations could use large Solar Power arrays to power their electrolyzer, then I'm with them all the way.:-)Or, how about an electrolyzer connected to solar panels on your house, and have a good hydrogen fill station in your garage? Sure, it'd have to be quite safe, but once those concerns are taken care of, whoop!
I'd think this's going a bit far. What's the legal voting age? 18? I'm 25, and I haven't really watched MTV in years. Isn't the channel mainly for the 12-16 age bracket anyway, now? Or am I just "old"?
As an aside, now that the bill to reinstate the Draft (Democrat-sponsored) has been killed, has MTV stopped its fearmongering to get the kids to vote (you know, "vote or else they'll draft you and send you off to die!")?
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Correct. A DHL cargo plane was hit a few years back, while leaving Baghdad (link goes to image search, for more on the event, see Google or Wikipedia - the wiki article has a video showing the cargo plane's damage). Similarly, El Al had a near-miss in central Africa in recent years, and I believe countermeasures + pilot's tactics made the difference. But countermeasures probably wouldn't work if 5 stingers were fired from 5 locations, at one plane ... which, I'm certain, is why there's such a market for this technology.
As an aside, it's scary that we just need an idea of a terrorist tactic in order to start spending on massive technology to prevent it. As scary, in fact, as the fear of false positives.
Agreed. And I like how the article spends the first 2/3 discussing the wonderful ideas of stopping phishers, botnets, typosquatting, spammers, etc ... and not until near the end mentions that these guys want to be just another version of SiteFinder.
No. Not only no, but hell no.
ergo, do it.
Excerpt: From Getting There: The science of driving directions, by Nick Paumgarten in an April '06 issue of The New Yorker. Fascinating and insightful article about the history of road maps, with special focus on today's crop of online maps and DVD/Nav systems in cars. Plus, the article is just really well-written. I've read it and reread it
I still fail to see why discrimination is tolerable, as long as it's against rich people.
- Rhapsody Data (Long Tail of Music)
- Tim O'Reilly (Long Tail of Books)
- Blockbuster v. Netflix, Record Stores v. Online Music (long tail is very flat!)
- The Long Tail of Beer
And these are just a few recent ones. If you want the economic & statistic nitty-gritty of how to sell things these days, he's a good one to keep an eye on.If so, you've frankly made some mistakes leading to this precarious situation.
I simply cannot believe that "lots of folks who are a paycheck away from joining them" don't have family, friends, neighbors, or similar that can provide assistance and shelter in difficult times. I also cannot believe that most people, if they lost 1 month's pay, would automatically be on the street. What with unemployment benefits, welfare, as well as the ability to take simple, temporary jobs (a tiny paycheck is better than zero), there are plenty of opportunities to dust yourself off and pick yourself back up. Trust me; I've been there myself.
Similarly, if your credit / loan circumstances put you into this situation
And to be honest, I don't believe homeless people do well when given spare change. If you want to help them out, give them a sandwich, or an apple, or some water to drink. Actually help them out, instead of lazily handing them 37 cents from your pocket.
From personal experience: the homeless people I've seen, when given food, tend to toss it to the ground (funny when their sign says "hungry" on it) since they'd rather have some money they could use to buy cheap booze, or listerine (a.k.a. cheap booze).
So forgive me if I'm jaded. But please, stop the "we're all stupid and could be homeless in a month so let's help them" tripe. It just doesn't pass muster.
Wow. I'm utterly amazed at the irony. What started off as insightfully describing how without focusing on money a great service, while rare, may exist ... degrades into class-warfareism by acting like rich people don't deserve free service. After all, they're rich. They can afford to pay so they should be made to pay more than the average person.
It's ironic to talk of fairness, and then proclaim that rich people should be given discriminating treatment, smacking of socialism.
No sir, I don't buy it.
They've been sacked. And, those responsible for doing the sacking have been sacked, too.
Thanks mods. This gets "4, Funny", whereas this gets "-1, Troll". Way to have a consistent sense of humor.
(PS- the counterstrike joke is funny, too)
What I couldn't figure out, until reading one of the steps in their "Active Deterrence" info page, was how the complaints work. After all, spam sites don't keep a "complaint board" open for us to use.
Basically, any spam site is going to have some kind of form for you to fill out to get more info, or initiate a purchase, or something. For each spam that your honeypot address receives from a company, assuming they ignored the warning, BlueFrog goes to that website, fills out crap in the form, and hits Submit.
So what? So, instead of most of their submissions being interested buyers, they have to go through all of them to see which are buyers and which were entered by the BlueFrog bot. This wastes their time, costing them money. Also, their bandwidth is wasted. So if they happen to send 5000 emails to honeypot addresses, that's 5000x their website was loaded, without any financial gain for them.
So, their costs go up, and their revenues don't. It's much less profitable to be a spammer, period.
I like the map & satellite imagery Google has given for the Earth. My question: why stop there?
... why not include ... "Moon" as well? In fact, we have the imagery for other celestial orbs ... why not Mars? Mercury?
Okay, so you see the "Map" and "Satellite" links in the upper right
In short, why stop at Google Earth?
That's funny, I heard this conversation between two NASA financial administrators the other day:
NASA Accountant: It looks like our accounts receivable supplies are wearing thin. We need to do some fundraising.
NASA P.R. dude: Hey! Let's announce again that we'll return to the moon within 10 years! That'll get us some quick cash, and nobody will figure out the ruse until it's too late!
Yeah, yeah, I know /. is affiliated with Yahoo TechJobs ... but I'm thinking all these job-related posts, and more, would fit perfectly in an "Employment" topic. /. could then be a forum for techies looking for work, as opposed to the usual job site.
...
Unless you know of any forums already, for techies talking about looking for work
Perhaps if AOL, one of the biggest ISP's, spent less effort on their usual "useful" burger-and-fries services, and more effort on a campaign to educate their users about the internet, we wouldn't have this situation.
... better-educated users ... probably wouldn't be interested in AOL.
Waitaminute
IRONY.
Perhaps if AOL, one of the biggest ISP's, spent less effort on their usual "useful" burger-and-fries services, and more effort on a campaign to educate their users about the internet, we wouldn't have this situation.
... better-educated users ... probably wouldn't be interested in AOL.
Waitaminute
IRONY.
Now if they wanted to prove that hydrogen fill stations could use large Solar Power arrays to power their electrolyzer, then I'm with them all the way. :-)Or, how about an electrolyzer connected to solar panels on your house, and have a good hydrogen fill station in your garage? Sure, it'd have to be quite safe, but once those concerns are taken care of, whoop!
Does it count as being disenfranchised if you don't see anyone worth voting for?
If you have thorough knowledge on every issue, please make a website with that information to inform others.
... guess I'll go take a break now.
Done. That was hard
I'd think this's going a bit far. What's the legal voting age? 18? I'm 25, and I haven't really watched MTV in years. Isn't the channel mainly for the 12-16 age bracket anyway, now? Or am I just "old"?
As an aside, now that the bill to reinstate the Draft (Democrat-sponsored) has been killed, has MTV stopped its fearmongering to get the kids to vote (you know, "vote or else they'll draft you and send you off to die!")?
MTV sure as hell fell for it: proof