>Guns don't insure freedom by any stretch of the imagination.
I'm coming to your house to stab you with a big ass knife. I am 6'4" and work out daily.
Wait, what do you mean you are calling the cops who will bring guns to protect you. Violence by proxy is still violence. Intimidation by threat of calling the cops is approval of violence.
We already live in a society where the price of free speech is the threat of violence. Go around and randomly tell people 'your mother is a cock sucking whore and she serviced me well last night' and by the end of the day you'll probably find one person to beat your face in. The first amendment requires discretion of use, just like the second.
>They got the list from the government, which compiled it through fairly straightforward violations of the 4th, 5th, and 14th amendments.
This, here.
It seems people want to create registration lists of just about everything. Who has guns, who has fertilizer, who has metal widgets, etc, etc. Then 10 years later the list gets out and used in an unexpected (but most of the time predicted) way, many times negating the 'safety' reasons for having said list in the first place.
>No it doesn't. Viruses take advantage of a vulnerability to infect a system. Once it is on the system it doesn't use the vulnerability anymore.
That is almost always true, but not 100%. A very few use methods that do not persist over a reboot to avoid off-line detection. Fixing the vulnerability does remove the virus in these cases.
So when a 'crime' happens around you, you just kill mankind and start over again?
Or, like a reasonable person do you investigate?
What is the nature of the exploit? Virus? Malware? Data file infector? Anti-virus disabler? How did it get there? Will you reintroduce the risk by re-installing? How long was it there? How does it spread, did it infect any other computers on the network? Did it capture and send off any data on the system? Do your backups contain the virus? Was the infection caused by you? Did it come over the network? Over a site you commonly visit? A friend or co-worker?
It may seem quicker just to nuke and redo, until you're nuke and redoing more then once for the same problem.
Any interpreter can be used to run an exploit if the interpreter has a flaw. The seemingly huge number of flaws in interpreters shows that it is either hard or people that write software make a lot of mistakes.
..most people and corporations would stick with XP, if it had not been artificially been eliminated. Win7, VISTA and 8 bring no value. Rather, they all destroy value by arbitrarily changing the UI without any serious benefit.
M$ would have made their customers much happier by continuing to sell XP and have a "maintenance fee" slapped onto it. I bet people would have paid 10 dollars per year to continue to use XP instead of the random crap they have changed. And yes, Windows 7 is mostly window-dressing.
Vista was a total pig, mostly due to bad hardware support by Microsoft's missteps. Windows 7 is just fine, especially better support for new hardware and much better security. There are all kinds of issues with XPs age and integration of features that just didn't exist when it first came out.
Windows 2000: rocks Windows XP: sucks >Windows XP SP2: ???
Vanilla and SP1 XP had some issues, by the time SP2 showed up it integrated more security, manufactures drivers were stable, and there was much more technical knowledge available on what to shut off and optimize.
The idea of banning knives is silly really. It may reduce incidents of people carrying them, maybe. A knife is a simple machine. Any object that is wedgelike and sharp on one side is a knife. I mean, people stuck in prisons have never made knives.
>Fundamentally, the article is right because thieves don't steal for shits and giggles
The depends on the thief. I would suggest your premise is mostly correct, the majority of theft is for profit, but large amount is done just so the thief can have the item independent of the items value. Many times thieves are caught and their reasons fall along the lines of 'we thought it would be fun'.
Unfortunately your information is anecdotal. If you live in a mostly white area, it should be no surprise that the crimes are caused by mostly white people. The base murder rate is much higher for blacks then it is whites. It is mostly thought that the reasons for that are socioeconomic, but there is some debate on that
>The story is self-congratulatory and implies that the authorities only did their job because of the publicity on the issue
The court of public opinion is an amazing thing, and it definitely affects who our elected officials choose to investigate and prosecute. With 'scandals' like the warrantless wiretaps and retroactive forgiveness for large corporations it's not surprising that some people would automatically assume the worst in a situation. Given the lax prosecution on past environmental disasters and deaths that have resulted, some people expect it.
>Food is a much more essential good than fiber optic internet service, and yet I never hear anyone calling for the municipalities to nationalize (city-ize?) all the food stores in town.
You've not been reading much lately, ISP's have consolidated and are not profit taking at record levels after years of fights cities laying their own fiber, luckly in this case the city finally won and is laying their own fiber at much higher speeds. I worked for one of the ISPs that fought the city at the time. We offered them shitty low speed service and would not spend the capital to upgrade their system. Instead the company spend millions in lobbying and advertizing to keep the city from building its own network.
Not sure why this is marked flamebait other then he named Apple, who is pretty good at patent trolling. Stick the name of any of the 100's of patent trolling companies that are out there these days and it is true. Computers are getting faster and cheaper and the biggest issue with making one of your own is fighting established trivial patents.
Gaining a little bit if typing speed is easy, it's the ever increasing difficultly of getting faster and faster that can stretch training out for years.
Seamount style landmasses do not tend to get built up, unlike continental land masses (which still erode way more then they gain from the sea, just more slowly). The steep sides tend to deeply deposit any eroded materials. Once the island is below sea level the most of the most active erosion ends and the island slowly sinks back in to the lithosphere until the time it is finally drug back in to the earth in a subduction zone.
The Hawaiian islands do get a lot of rainfall in most places each year, the nature of its porus volcanic soils is especially dissolvable to fresh water.
Wat? Do you download your software over UDP without any error checking or means of correction? Do your dll's and exe's not verify their size and signature? I tend to verify my packets, files, and packages.
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>Guns don't insure freedom by any stretch of the imagination.
I'm coming to your house to stab you with a big ass knife. I am 6'4" and work out daily.
Wait, what do you mean you are calling the cops who will bring guns to protect you. Violence by proxy is still violence. Intimidation by threat of calling the cops is approval of violence.
We already live in a society where the price of free speech is the threat of violence. Go around and randomly tell people 'your mother is a cock sucking whore and she serviced me well last night' and by the end of the day you'll probably find one person to beat your face in. The first amendment requires discretion of use, just like the second.
>You have the right to own weapons with the ability to kill dozens(tens of dozens) of people in a matter of seconds
You're forgetting that the founding fathers had the right to own a weapon that had the ability to kill dozens of people in a matter of a second.
Black Powder.
If your house was full of gold watches, diamonds, cash, or other valuables, would you be pleased to find it listed on facebook?
>They got the list from the government, which compiled it through fairly straightforward violations of the 4th, 5th, and 14th amendments.
This, here.
It seems people want to create registration lists of just about everything. Who has guns, who has fertilizer, who has metal widgets, etc, etc. Then 10 years later the list gets out and used in an unexpected (but most of the time predicted) way, many times negating the 'safety' reasons for having said list in the first place.
I was in that paper, now I am going to shoot you..
Some people would take that as a threat from a gun owner against you, but wait..
Was I really in the paper? Am I really a gun owner?
See anybody can make threats and using some anonymity they can make it look like any side they want.
>No it doesn't. Viruses take advantage of a vulnerability to infect a system. Once it is on the system it doesn't use the vulnerability anymore.
That is almost always true, but not 100%. A very few use methods that do not persist over a reboot to avoid off-line detection. Fixing the vulnerability does remove the virus in these cases.
So when a 'crime' happens around you, you just kill mankind and start over again?
Or, like a reasonable person do you investigate?
What is the nature of the exploit? Virus? Malware? Data file infector? Anti-virus disabler?
How did it get there? Will you reintroduce the risk by re-installing?
How long was it there?
How does it spread, did it infect any other computers on the network?
Did it capture and send off any data on the system?
Do your backups contain the virus?
Was the infection caused by you? Did it come over the network? Over a site you commonly visit? A friend or co-worker?
It may seem quicker just to nuke and redo, until you're nuke and redoing more then once for the same problem.
Bzzt, wrong. MP3s have been the vectors for exploits too.
>Your MP3s are safe from viruses
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14309/
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/backdooring-mp3-files/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/29/winamps_malicious_mp3_vuln/
Any interpreter can be used to run an exploit if the interpreter has a flaw. The seemingly huge number of flaws in interpreters shows that it is either hard or people that write software make a lot of mistakes.
..most people and corporations would stick with XP, if it had not been artificially been eliminated. Win7, VISTA and 8 bring no value. Rather, they all destroy value by arbitrarily changing the UI without any serious benefit.
M$ would have made their customers much happier by continuing to sell XP and have a "maintenance fee" slapped onto it. I bet people would have paid 10 dollars per year to continue to use XP instead of the random crap they have changed. And yes, Windows 7 is mostly window-dressing.
Vista was a total pig, mostly due to bad hardware support by Microsoft's missteps. Windows 7 is just fine, especially better support for new hardware and much better security. There are all kinds of issues with XPs age and integration of features that just didn't exist when it first came out.
Windows 2000: rocks
Windows XP: sucks
>Windows XP SP2: ???
Vanilla and SP1 XP had some issues, by the time SP2 showed up it integrated more security, manufactures drivers were stable, and there was much more technical knowledge available on what to shut off and optimize.
Wait. So if they just left it just like Win7 you would have upgraded? Why?
Most people don't 'upgrade' to windows 8. The OEMs and Microsoft stop selling Windows 7 and you really have no choice in most situations.
Validate your fucking inputs, you moron.
That's the short version, the full version is
Validate all possible valid combinations of inputs are valid in all subroutines.
http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/31/technology-tools-knife_cx_de_0831knife.html
The idea of banning knives is silly really. It may reduce incidents of people carrying them, maybe. A knife is a simple machine. Any object that is wedgelike and sharp on one side is a knife. I mean, people stuck in prisons have never made knives.
>Fundamentally, the article is right because thieves don't steal for shits and giggles
The depends on the thief. I would suggest your premise is mostly correct, the majority of theft is for profit, but large amount is done just so the thief can have the item independent of the items value. Many times thieves are caught and their reasons fall along the lines of 'we thought it would be fun'.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/tech/innovation/jobs-excerpt-customer-service/index.html
From everything I've read about Jobs is he was not just a figurehead.
That does raise a question... "Do countries with available and affordable prostitution have lower incidents of rape?".
Research suggests it would lower some incidences of rape http://www.independent.org/publications/working_papers/article.asp?id=1300 , but I don't see any other information about it.
So in theory, your statement would be correct.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20203888/ns/us_news-life/t/study-murder-victims-disproportionately-black/
Unfortunately your information is anecdotal. If you live in a mostly white area, it should be no surprise that the crimes are caused by mostly white people. The base murder rate is much higher for blacks then it is whites. It is mostly thought that the reasons for that are socioeconomic, but there is some debate on that
http://www.tnr.com/article/80316/relationship-poverty-crime-rates-economic-conditions
>The story is self-congratulatory and implies that the authorities only did their job because of the publicity on the issue
The court of public opinion is an amazing thing, and it definitely affects who our elected officials choose to investigate and prosecute. With 'scandals' like the warrantless wiretaps and retroactive forgiveness for large corporations it's not surprising that some people would automatically assume the worst in a situation. Given the lax prosecution on past environmental disasters and deaths that have resulted, some people expect it.
I think cars ought to be operated like utilities. You know, flat screen TVs too. Everyone needs food, too. Food ought to be a utility.
All of this should be regulated and provided by government.
And if one day in the future everything is made by robots, it will be.
>Food is a much more essential good than fiber optic internet service, and yet I never hear anyone calling for the municipalities to nationalize (city-ize?) all the food stores in town.
I see you know little about America and what is 'nationalized'.
You've not been reading much lately, ISP's have consolidated and are not profit taking at record levels after years of fights cities laying their own fiber, luckly in this case the city finally won and is laying their own fiber at much higher speeds. I worked for one of the ISPs that fought the city at the time. We offered them shitty low speed service and would not spend the capital to upgrade their system. Instead the company spend millions in lobbying and advertizing to keep the city from building its own network.
Not sure why this is marked flamebait other then he named Apple, who is pretty good at patent trolling. Stick the name of any of the 100's of patent trolling companies that are out there these days and it is true. Computers are getting faster and cheaper and the biggest issue with making one of your own is fighting established trivial patents.
1. Neural Networks, they have been getting better and faster at an almost scary rate lately.
2. The formula and training methods have been developing quickly which is leading more to 1.
3. Companies deploy servers that run on GPU based neural networks to do tasks like voice recognition.
4. Jobs that required people to be paid to do now require racks of servers at a lower cost. Profit!
Maybe they should pay the kid in china more instead?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
Gaining a little bit if typing speed is easy, it's the ever increasing difficultly of getting faster and faster that can stretch training out for years.
Seamount style landmasses do not tend to get built up, unlike continental land masses (which still erode way more then they gain from the sea, just more slowly). The steep sides tend to deeply deposit any eroded materials. Once the island is below sea level the most of the most active erosion ends and the island slowly sinks back in to the lithosphere until the time it is finally drug back in to the earth in a subduction zone.
The Hawaiian islands do get a lot of rainfall in most places each year, the nature of its porus volcanic soils is especially dissolvable to fresh water.
Wat? Do you download your software over UDP without any error checking or means of correction? Do your dll's and exe's not verify their size and signature? I tend to verify my packets, files, and packages.