The airlines have a greater interest in ACTUAL security, as opposed to security theater though.
No, the airlines have a greater interest in what will get them the most passengers.
Considering the risk of a terror attack is essentially ZERO, even with no security at all, the airline with the least security will win...at least until there IS an attack (which shitty TSA-style security probably wouldn't have prevented anyway).
It's a sad day indeed when common sense is considered "extreme".
99% of the crap that comes out of Rand Paul's mouth is indeed "extreme" and is most certainly not "common sense" (which is frequently wrong anyway). This is a rare exception.
Ah ha! Who else amongst you has a huge surplus of huge hard drives going unused, now that netflix streaming has displaced 60% of all the crud you had spinning idle in a closet the 3 years before you signed up?
Three reasons to keep all that on a disk: (a) Bandwidth. My kids like to watch movies over and over and over. Download it once and you can watch is multiple times without eating inbound bandwidth.
(b) Permanence. Netflix media contracts come and go (e.g. Starz). Hell, Netflix may disappear one day. I want to keep the movies and shows forever.
Now, they discover that they are being slowly killed, and will die young if they are lucky, or live to an old age of dementia and depression. "Get over it" ain't gonna do it
A few tens of millions of dollars might JUST blunt that hurt a bit. You know, just a tiny bit.
Plenty of old people who have never played football kill themselves and/or have dementia AND don't have a private island. Sucks to be them.
In fact, I think that when the country finally wakes up and realizes that the right thing to do is to abandon violent sports like American football, rugby, and hockey (at least, hockey as it is commonly played today) for good, it will be a huge net positive for America and, indeed, for the world.
I don't know about that.
We humans are fundamentally a pretty violent bunch, and we've now ritualized combat to such an extent that it is pretty benign (yes, brain damage is bad, but how about getting stuck with a short-sword in gladiatorial combat? Or battling the rival clan next door?)
If we outlaw/abandon our violent sports, what will replace them? Where will our violent, tribal instincts find an outlet? I'd rather have millions of humans get their violence rocks off by (a) by proxy and (b) via a *relatively* safe sport played by well-compensated players.
In short, how will we get our violence jollies? In a more safe or less safe manner, and for how many people?
Personally, I'm for getting rid of all lobbyists period but, there should, at least, be a conflict of interest gap, say 10 years, between being a government official or elected representative and being able to work for the organizations you had dealings with while you held that position.
The weird thing is that they DO, at least for us peons. I was a GS-12 Fed employee for a few years (think $65K or so in pay), and when I quit I was forbidden to do business with the agency I worked for for 1 year after my quit date.
So yeah, only 1 year, but still, I was forbidden to do business with my agency in ANY way. And I was a lowly 26-year-old only a couple years out of grad school, making $65K. Why the hell doesn't this apply to big-wigs???
Once you start providing for yourself, you attitude tends to change quite drastically. Students, who receive federal grants are all for federal assistance programs. Once they are no longer students and find that 15% of their paychecks goes to fund federal assistance programs, that view tends to change rather quickly.
Yeah, if you're a sociopath asshole. I would hope these working folks understand that they are paying that 15% so that *others just like them* can go to school on federal grants/assistance programs. What kind of asshole benefits from a program and then slashes it right after he's done with it? Talk about not paying it forward...
In other words, the kids said they were liberal, but when you got down to what they truly believed, it turns out they were actually fairly conservative.
Is that like an inversion of the No True Scotsman fallacy? Shall we coin the Everyone's a True Scotsman fallacy?
Even if you think you're liberal, you're really conservative!
Well, they did port most/all the Source games when Steam became available on the Mac (at release or shortly thereafter), so I don't see why this would be different.
I imagine the engine is 95% of the work in porting.
Seriously dude! How bad do you really really want to believe in the fictional "right wing media" to make you see evidence of it where it does not exist?
Oh, make no mistake, the right wing media does exist....but not here at Slashdot.
Uh huh. So if Apple locked you into THEIR interface and services it would be insanely great and you would be lining up for it.
If our ONLY two choices are (1) being locked into a shitty interface provided by Ford/Honda/etc, or (2) being locked into an awesome (or at least better) interface provided be Apple....well, I pick the later.
In Palestine, HP is deeply involved with the Israeli occupation. HP develops and profits from population-control systems that assist the Israeli government in the restriction of Palestinian movement, ethnic-based discrimination and segregation, and human rights violations.
"Through its subsidiary EDS Israel, HP is the prime contractor of the Basel system, an automated biometric access control system installed and maintained by HP in checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt).
Another control mechanism HP is involved in is Israel's ID card system, which reflects and reinforces its political and economic asymmetries and tiered citizenship structure. HP will manufacture biometric ID cards for the citizens and residents of Israel (Jewish and Palestinians) for the Israeli Ministry of Interior. In addition, HP also provides services and technologies to the Israeli army.
Furthermore, two of HP's technological services providers in Israel are Matrix and its subsidiary, Tact Testware, which are located in the illegal West Bank settlement of Modi'in Illit. HP is also taking part in the "Smart city" project in the illegal West Bank settlement of Ariel, providing a storage system for the settlement's municipality."
I'm just going to go with the idea that the people involved didn't come to be some of the most successful people on Earth through being crazy or stupid.
Have you ever done data forensics? The first thing you learn is that it's not the same data if it's not on the original storage medium.
As a matter of fact, yes I have. The the first thing you do is clone the drive to as close to an identical drive as you have and then work on THAT, using a write-blocker.
What, do you sit around combing through the ORIGINAL drive with EnCase using a write-blocker all day? What happens when the original drive goes tits up due to you banging on it all day? It should be sitting in an evidence locker.
This discussion excluded SSDs, which do all kinds of wonky shit in the background that not even a write-blocker can protect you from...
Not-stamp-collecting could indeed be a hobby if nearly everybody in the world agreed that the distinction between stamp collecting and not stamp collecting was important
Ah, now I see what you're getting at. It's not necessarily the distinction itself (belief in X vs a lack of belief in X), but whether that distinction is important to sufficiently large number of people that you essentially have to "pick a side". Fair enough. I didn't see your reasoning in this light, and it does make more sense now.
If it's not part of your identity, why do you feel identified by that label?
Ah, for the very reason you state: Because it's such a critically important distinction to most people, and is commonly discussed in social circles.
virtually all people have beliefs about God, one way or the other, simply because everybody on Earth has been exposed to an Abrahamic religion.
Well yes, because belief important to a lot of people. I grew up in an a-religious family (not atheist, just never ever talked about religion). I didn't even know that religion was a "thing" until I started encountering kids in grade school who talked about it. So for me it's very hard to integrate anything regarding religion into my life, active belief, active disbelief, etc etc. It's just...null, I guess?
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The airlines have a greater interest in ACTUAL security, as opposed to security theater though.
No, the airlines have a greater interest in what will get them the most passengers.
Considering the risk of a terror attack is essentially ZERO, even with no security at all, the airline with the least security will win...at least until there IS an attack (which shitty TSA-style security probably wouldn't have prevented anyway).
It's a sad day indeed when common sense is considered "extreme".
99% of the crap that comes out of Rand Paul's mouth is indeed "extreme" and is most certainly not "common sense" (which is frequently wrong anyway). This is a rare exception.
Even a broken clock is right twice per day.
And Boba Fett != Jango Fett
No, you loan your car to someone. Therefore you are responsible. If someone steals your car and crashes into a bus full of nuns, you aren't.
So if I willingly lend my car to a friend, and he crashes into a bus full of nuns, *I* am responsible, not the driver of the car?
You're full of shit.
Ah ha! Who else amongst you has a huge surplus of huge hard drives going unused, now that netflix streaming has displaced 60% of all the crud you had spinning idle in a closet the 3 years before you signed up?
Three reasons to keep all that on a disk:
(a) Bandwidth. My kids like to watch movies over and over and over. Download it once and you can watch is multiple times without eating inbound bandwidth.
(b) Permanence. Netflix media contracts come and go (e.g. Starz). Hell, Netflix may disappear one day. I want to keep the movies and shows forever.
(c) That extra 40% that Netflix doesn't have.
I asked them to compare they're playbooks to ours (end of discussion).
And it's the players who write those playbooks, right? Oh, wait, it's the non-playing coaches...
And, you have to know all of this COLD. As in, you have to know your playbook so well it's instinctive.
Sounds like any kind of rigorous training. How many dumb soldiers out there know their training COLD? Lots.
Improvisation = intelligence, not memorization.
Now, they discover that they are being slowly killed, and will die young if they are lucky, or live to an old age of dementia and depression. "Get over it" ain't gonna do it
A few tens of millions of dollars might JUST blunt that hurt a bit. You know, just a tiny bit.
Plenty of old people who have never played football kill themselves and/or have dementia AND don't have a private island. Sucks to be them.
In fact, I think that when the country finally wakes up and realizes that the right thing to do is to abandon violent sports like American football, rugby, and hockey (at least, hockey as it is commonly played today) for good, it will be a huge net positive for America and, indeed, for the world.
I don't know about that.
We humans are fundamentally a pretty violent bunch, and we've now ritualized combat to such an extent that it is pretty benign (yes, brain damage is bad, but how about getting stuck with a short-sword in gladiatorial combat? Or battling the rival clan next door?)
If we outlaw/abandon our violent sports, what will replace them? Where will our violent, tribal instincts find an outlet? I'd rather have millions of humans get their violence rocks off by (a) by proxy and (b) via a *relatively* safe sport played by well-compensated players.
In short, how will we get our violence jollies? In a more safe or less safe manner, and for how many people?
Personally, I'm for getting rid of all lobbyists period but, there should, at least, be a conflict of interest gap, say 10 years, between being a government official or elected representative and being able to work for the organizations you had dealings with while you held that position.
The weird thing is that they DO, at least for us peons. I was a GS-12 Fed employee for a few years (think $65K or so in pay), and when I quit I was forbidden to do business with the agency I worked for for 1 year after my quit date.
So yeah, only 1 year, but still, I was forbidden to do business with my agency in ANY way. And I was a lowly 26-year-old only a couple years out of grad school, making $65K. Why the hell doesn't this apply to big-wigs???
So when will Comcast not count traffic between Comcast customers against the cap?
I have a few TB video I'd like to transfer to a friend of mine, also on Comcast. Good for the goose....
Once you start providing for yourself, you attitude tends to change quite drastically. Students, who receive federal grants are all for federal assistance programs. Once they are no longer students and find that 15% of their paychecks goes to fund federal assistance programs, that view tends to change rather quickly.
Yeah, if you're a sociopath asshole. I would hope these working folks understand that they are paying that 15% so that *others just like them* can go to school on federal grants/assistance programs. What kind of asshole benefits from a program and then slashes it right after he's done with it? Talk about not paying it forward...
In other words, the kids said they were liberal, but when you got down to what they truly believed, it turns out they were actually fairly conservative.
Is that like an inversion of the No True Scotsman fallacy? Shall we coin the Everyone's a True Scotsman fallacy?
Even if you think you're liberal, you're really conservative!
I hate Comcast as much as anyone, but I get 20mb/s down and 4mb/s up on my line.
Then again, I have old neighbors, so I may have most of the node to myself.
Well, they did port most/all the Source games when Steam became available on the Mac (at release or shortly thereafter), so I don't see why this would be different.
I imagine the engine is 95% of the work in porting.
Seriously dude! How bad do you really really want to believe in the fictional "right wing media" to make you see evidence of it where it does not exist?
Oh, make no mistake, the right wing media does exist....but not here at Slashdot.
Uh huh. So if Apple locked you into THEIR interface and services it would be insanely great and you would be lining up for it.
If our ONLY two choices are (1) being locked into a shitty interface provided by Ford/Honda/etc, or (2) being locked into an awesome (or at least better) interface provided be Apple....well, I pick the later.
I can't believe I had to scroll down this far before someone pointed this out. "Apple to set up an employee cafeteria" is some kind of news item?
And what's worse is they already HAVE one...I've eaten there (2003), and it's called Cafe Macs:
http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/apple%E2%80%99s_corporate_food_court_o%E2%80%99_plenty_reviewed
http://g.co/maps/aqgpy
And yes, it's full of silly hippie food. Macrobiotic this and vegan that, although I will say they make awesome burritos (spinach tortilla).
When I (American) went to visit an Irish friend of mine in the mid 90s, they called minivans "Spacewagons" there.
Just FYI, in case that helps
Heh, I'm 32 and even I know Outland is a fucking awesome movie.
Can we start with HP?
In Palestine, HP is deeply involved with the Israeli occupation. HP develops and profits from population-control systems that assist the Israeli government in the restriction of Palestinian movement, ethnic-based discrimination and segregation, and human rights violations.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/703/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1232244
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"Through its subsidiary EDS Israel, HP is the prime contractor of the Basel system, an automated biometric access control system installed and maintained by HP in checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt).
Another control mechanism HP is involved in is Israel's ID card system, which reflects and reinforces its political and economic asymmetries and tiered citizenship structure. HP will manufacture biometric ID cards for the citizens and residents of Israel (Jewish and Palestinians) for the Israeli Ministry of Interior. In addition, HP also provides services and technologies to the Israeli army.
Furthermore, two of HP's technological services providers in Israel are Matrix and its subsidiary, Tact Testware, which are located in the illegal West Bank settlement of Modi'in Illit. HP is also taking part in the "Smart city" project in the illegal West Bank settlement of Ariel, providing a storage system for the settlement's municipality."
I'm just going to go with the idea that the people involved didn't come to be some of the most successful people on Earth through being crazy or stupid.
Then how do you explain George W Bush?
*rimshot*
**wait, maybe rimshot isn't appropriate here...**
Have you ever done data forensics? The first thing you learn is that it's not the same data if it's not on the original storage medium.
As a matter of fact, yes I have. The the first thing you do is clone the drive to as close to an identical drive as you have and then work on THAT, using a write-blocker.
What, do you sit around combing through the ORIGINAL drive with EnCase using a write-blocker all day? What happens when the original drive goes tits up due to you banging on it all day? It should be sitting in an evidence locker.
This discussion excluded SSDs, which do all kinds of wonky shit in the background that not even a write-blocker can protect you from...
The University of Pittsburgh (which is down the street from where I work) has gotten multiple bomb threats per day every day for weeks now.
So just fucking ignore them.
How many false positives do you need before you realize this is a scam/prank/whatever?
Not-stamp-collecting could indeed be a hobby if nearly everybody in the world agreed that the distinction between stamp collecting and not stamp collecting was important
Ah, now I see what you're getting at. It's not necessarily the distinction itself (belief in X vs a lack of belief in X), but whether that distinction is important to sufficiently large number of people that you essentially have to "pick a side". Fair enough. I didn't see your reasoning in this light, and it does make more sense now.
If it's not part of your identity, why do you feel identified by that label?
Ah, for the very reason you state: Because it's such a critically important distinction to most people, and is commonly discussed in social circles.
virtually all people have beliefs about God, one way or the other, simply because everybody on Earth has been exposed to an Abrahamic religion.
Well yes, because belief important to a lot of people. I grew up in an a-religious family (not atheist, just never ever talked about religion). I didn't even know that religion was a "thing" until I started encountering kids in grade school who talked about it. So for me it's very hard to integrate anything regarding religion into my life, active belief, active disbelief, etc etc. It's just...null, I guess?
lso, with the help of a calculator, I got 98 messages per day per teen. That's like what I send in a busy year.
If you're using it in a back-and-forth, "Instant Message" way, it's pretty easy to rack up that many messages.