I am looking to buy an economical pickup truck. I was going to buy a Toyota, Think I'll get a Nissan instead, send a copy of the invoice and canceled check to Toyota, and tell them why.
As a telecommuter, I, too, am highly dependent on the 'net. However, an ISP outage does not completely shut me down since I can continue to work using machine-local apps. During downtime, I simply produce my work and queue it for later FTP upload. Were my apps 'net dependent, I wold be 100 percent SOL and get so far behind it would be almost impossible to catch up.
Most people are accustomed to internet outages, whether the fault of their ISP, broken backbone, or individual sites. So, they are naturally reticent to use web-based utilities in favor of applications hosted on their local machine.
Until the 'net is bulletproof, on-line apps will never usurp local utilites and apps for critical applications--or even "casual" applications.
What about you? I see little science in your claim that environmentalists "depend" on emotional appeal over science, or that they do it to further "their own agenda" (whatever that means). However, your post does depend on inflammatory comments in order to further your agenda of making yourself feel big (yes, it really is that obvious). I call hypocrite.
My guess is they considered the science, not the Chicken Little hyperbole.
Environmentalists (as opposed to conservationists) depend on emotional appeal rather than science and rational analysis to further their agenda. Ergo, the court rightly dismissed their claims for the bullshit that it is.
Maybe you should have tried applying some of that rationality by reading the actual article instead of, I don't know, making shit up.
In its 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said the navy needed to conduct realistic training exercises to respond to potential threats.
The court did not deal with the merits of the claims put forward by the environmental groups.
It said, rather, that federal courts abused their discretion by ordering the navy to limit sonar use in some cases and to turn it off altogether in others.
They didn't consider the science at all.
Didn't consider it, or didn't spell out their deliberations in the ruling?
Merits, addressed in deliberations and deemed irrelevant do not merit attention in the written ruling.
My guess is they considered the science, not the Chicken Little hyperbole.
Environmentalists (as opposed to conservationists) depend on emotional appeal rather than science and rational analysis to further their agenda. Ergo, the court rightly dismissed their claims for the bullshit that it is.
It went wa-aay south when they made the upgrade to version 8 (I think it was 8) mandatory. This version complains that AVG is broken if you disable resource-hogging Resident Shield, browser URL checking/security, and any of the other bloatware "improvements."
AVG was pretty cool when it allowed the user to select only wanted features (email and on-demand or scheduled system scans). Now it is just another component of the Micromess Windows Suite.
"Why? It's a drive by download against some unnamed browser (probably but not definitely IE). You don't have to visit shady sites to get those - these days they hack poorly protected legitimate sites and embed the exploit code into otherwise harmless pages."
Most IT jocks (formerly nerds and geeks):
1. use less-exploitable browsers, e.g. Firefox 2. use a less-exploitable OS, e.g. Linux, OS10 3. are less likely to visit dodgy websites 4. are less likely to respond to "Cum see Brittny Speers nekkid at our website!" email "invites" 5. have exploit code detection scripts built into their browsers 6. usually have multiple, fine-tuned firewalls (hardware and software) 7. know their software and machine's performance well enough to detect when something odd is going on, even if the other measures fail
I am sure I have missed more than a few somethings that answer the "why."
Anytime I read "it could happen to anybody" in a security article, I am always skeptical. I think "it could happen to any *average* computer user/net surfer" is a better adage.
Most here assembled, though not 100 percent immune, are far less susceptible than an "average" user to any sort of malware infection.
To attribute America's condition to a brief 8 years of so-called "leadership" is a bit naive. The problem is career politicians from BOTH sides of the aisle whose only real interest is getting re-elected.
America has been losing for a long time. I think it became most apparent to me when gasoline was $4 and diesel $5, and congress was busily investigating steroid use by professional baseball players, cheating in the NFL, and what Al Quida was posting on YouTube.
I have always found it curious all the attention to coal-powered generating plants re: CO2, but nobody ever mentions the fact that natural gas processing plants extract--and release directly into the atmosphere--tons of CO2 every year.
I worked (as a consultant) with the engineers who programmed that messsage. In early development, it was originally, "Beam me up, Scotty! She's sucking mud!"
Back in my consulting days, I worked with a couple of whizkid programmers at Tandy Business Systems. They had created a number of interesting/entertaining custom error messages in the Xenix OS they were using. One of my favorites was:
Slashdot Mirror
I thought it was "Toy Yoda."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/09/toy-yoda.htm
I am looking to buy an economical pickup truck. I was going to buy a Toyota, Think I'll get a Nissan instead, send a copy of the invoice and canceled check to Toyota, and tell them why.
As a telecommuter, I, too, am highly dependent on the 'net. However, an ISP outage does not completely shut me down since I can continue to work using machine-local apps. During downtime, I simply produce my work and queue it for later FTP upload. Were my apps 'net dependent, I wold be 100 percent SOL and get so far behind it would be almost impossible to catch up.
In short: Web based apps suck canal water.
Most people are accustomed to internet outages, whether the fault of their ISP, broken backbone, or individual sites. So, they are naturally reticent to use web-based utilities in favor of applications hosted on their local machine.
Until the 'net is bulletproof, on-line apps will never usurp local utilites and apps for critical applications--or even "casual" applications.
What about you? I see little science in your claim that environmentalists "depend" on emotional appeal over science, or that they do it to further "their own agenda" (whatever that means). However, your post does depend on inflammatory comments in order to further your agenda of making yourself feel big (yes, it really is that obvious). I call hypocrite.
This is not about me. Lighten up.
My guess is they considered the science, not the Chicken Little hyperbole.
Environmentalists (as opposed to conservationists) depend on emotional appeal rather than science and rational analysis to further their agenda. Ergo, the court rightly dismissed their claims for the bullshit that it is.
Maybe you should have tried applying some of that rationality by reading the actual article instead of, I don't know, making shit up.
In its 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said the navy needed to conduct realistic training exercises to respond to potential threats.
The court did not deal with the merits of the claims put forward by the environmental groups.
It said, rather, that federal courts abused their discretion by ordering the navy to limit sonar use in some cases and to turn it off altogether in others.
They didn't consider the science at all.
Didn't consider it, or didn't spell out their deliberations in the ruling?
Merits, addressed in deliberations and deemed irrelevant do not merit attention in the written ruling.
My guess is they considered the science, not the Chicken Little hyperbole.
Environmentalists (as opposed to conservationists) depend on emotional appeal rather than science and rational analysis to further their agenda. Ergo, the court rightly dismissed their claims for the bullshit that it is.
It went wa-aay south when they made the upgrade to version 8 (I think it was 8) mandatory. This version complains that AVG is broken if you disable resource-hogging Resident Shield, browser URL checking/security, and any of the other bloatware "improvements."
AVG was pretty cool when it allowed the user to select only wanted features (email and on-demand or scheduled system scans). Now it is just another component of the Micromess Windows Suite.
Funny: I got tired of AVG's growing bloat and switched to Avast a few days ago. Good timing, even if serendipitous.
"Why? It's a drive by download against some unnamed browser (probably but not definitely IE). You don't have to visit shady sites to get those - these days they hack poorly protected legitimate sites and embed the exploit code into otherwise harmless pages."
Most IT jocks (formerly nerds and geeks):
1. use less-exploitable browsers, e.g. Firefox
2. use a less-exploitable OS, e.g. Linux, OS10
3. are less likely to visit dodgy websites
4. are less likely to respond to "Cum see Brittny Speers nekkid at our website!" email "invites"
5. have exploit code detection scripts built into their browsers
6. usually have multiple, fine-tuned firewalls (hardware and software)
7. know their software and machine's performance well enough to detect when something odd is going on, even if the other measures fail
I am sure I have missed more than a few somethings that answer the "why."
Anytime I read "it could happen to anybody" in a security article, I am always skeptical. I think "it could happen to any *average* computer user/net surfer" is a better adage.
Most here assembled, though not 100 percent immune, are far less susceptible than an "average" user to any sort of malware infection.
Publicly heal an amputee and I will believe.
Added google-analytics.com to Zone Alarm zone control, router URL block, and Hosts file. Problem solved.
Overkill, you think?
Shouldn't that be "verboten"?
To attribute America's condition to a brief 8 years of so-called "leadership" is a bit naive. The problem is career politicians from BOTH sides of the aisle whose only real interest is getting re-elected.
"The problem is that all of America loses."
America has been losing for a long time. I think it became most apparent to me when gasoline was $4 and diesel $5, and congress was busily investigating steroid use by professional baseball players, cheating in the NFL, and what Al Quida was posting on YouTube.
Dirty political tricks. Like modding down a comment simply because the mods do not agree with it. So much for "political debate."
I have always found it curious all the attention to coal-powered generating plants re: CO2, but nobody ever mentions the fact that natural gas processing plants extract--and release directly into the atmosphere--tons of CO2 every year.
"All that needs to be done now is build a system able to decode the light signatures."
Don't astrophysicists already do that to determine the composition of stars, planets, comets, and such?
I worked (as a consultant) with the engineers who programmed that messsage. In early development, it was originally, "Beam me up, Scotty! She's sucking mud!"
Back in my consulting days, I worked with a couple of whizkid programmers at Tandy Business Systems. They had created a number of interesting/entertaining custom error messages in the Xenix OS they were using. One of my favorites was:
"Beam me up, Scotty! She's sucking mud!"
"Yeah, you might want to mention that part when you advocate suppressing alternative beliefs in the classroom..."
"Beliefs," alternative or otherwise, have no place in the classroom. Theories based on the best available *evidence*, yes; beliefs, no.
For reasons I do not understand, Xenu and clan seem immune to reaping the consequences of their actions.
Scientology: The Teflon Religion
...where the .44 Magnum comes in real handy...
True, but dead men tell no tales.