It depends on what the intended function is. nmap, tcpdump, and various other network scanning and monitoring programs could be used to keep track of what users are doing, but they're considered to be good, friendly programs by techies because their intended funciton is to help the techie get a sense for how the network is peroforming rather than to invade a person's privacy.
It could be sabotage on the part of someone that doesn't want to see lj succeed and by someone that knows people will be stupid and think that the power outtage is somehow related to the takeover simply because the two events ocurred chronologically close...
I work at a medium-to-large wastewater treatment plant in Knasas City, MO.
While it's probably true that you can't/lock away/ the main breaker feeding electricity into the plant, AFAIK, there's no reason or need to put it out in the open in an area where any idiot can just throw it on accident. You can put it somewhere outside in a power cabinet with a whole bunch of warning signs on it. That plus the large humming noise coming from it really ought to deter all but the dumbest of idiots.
And, of course, they also like it when they can get someone to get Congress to make revisions to copyright law to allow them to keep making money off The Mouse.
I think the ring was made from, among other things: gold, cruelty, malice, and will to dominate all life. I believe the ring was also made partially with Elvish forging techniques unknown to us now that we would (perhaps mistakenly) refer to as "magic".
If I was in charge, I would get ride of TV perscription drug commercials tomorrow.
Two ways to answer this
1) That's why you'll never be allowed in charge or
2) Wrong! You'd set out to try and get things changed, but you'd be headed off either through bribery or coercion.
</cynic>
How is that an excuse? It sounds like a valid point to me. If people are comfortable with the system that they use, how can you deduce that they are "suffering?"
(to make a point) <over-the-top-mode>oh well see he knows that they suffer without they themselves knowing that they suffer. "How can men who've never seen light be enlightened?" How do you explain the 3-D world to the people chained in the cave that only ever saw their 2-D shadow on the wall, etc. He's wanting to save them from themselves. "Lord forgive these Windoze sinners, they know not what they do."</over-the-top-mode>
Basically, without realizing it, he's fallen prey to the messiah complex. I should know, I suffer from it on occasion myself.;-)
Should you be allowed to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater with the sole intent of causing a panic? (there's no fire)
Should other people be allowed to publicly tell huge lies about your person that make it awkward for you to live? What about important things like murder cases where it's just your word against theirs? We have perjury laws, are those laws in violoation of free speech laws?
The PC is so full of kludges it's amazing that it still works.
Yeah, but isn't Linux, and more importantly the general *nix family of OSes chock full of backwards (and cross) compatibility kludges as well?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm no windoze fan. I know full-well windoze is an ugly botch of an ugly hack from hell. The people working on the WINE project get to find out about the deeply buried windoze flaws one bug at at time. (Uh, I'm not on the WINE project, I just felt like mentioning them.:) )
I know that, when compared to windows, Unix looks pretty streamlined. It's just, it seems to me that accumulation of cruft is par for any popular platform. Apple only just recently "cleaned house" with the switch to OS X. They support their old crufty system with ugly, slow emulation, but that's actually a good thing because it helps ensure the old crufty will mostly die off.
In time however, no matter how well Apple designed the snazzy OS X and the hardware it runs on (well they didn't exactly design all the hardware, but you know what I mean), I suspect the OS X platform will accumulate cruft.
You are right, there is a huge, gaping contradiction there.
The reason, I think, why people (read: zealous slashdotters) wind up with that postion is sort of obvious though: It's because they hate (at least large) corporations, and they consider them to be evil. So the they (these slashdotters) don't really have any respect for whatever "rights" those corporations might have under the law.
I try not to follow this bad example... but it's difficult because: being I'm on the non-corporate side of things, the incentive for me to illegally download music is high: it's cheaper, *appears* to be victimless (even though it isn't), easier than going to the music store, and no one's gonna tell me what I can or can't do with the song once I've "aquired" it. Meanwhile the incentive for me to break the GPL by incorporating GPL code into a corporate product and not release the source code is... nill, since I'm not writing programs to sell.
Planes often have secondary and sometimes tertiary control systems. Planes are also piloted by pilots that have been trained in how to handle emergencies. Often, the plane you're in will have other people in it, so at least if you're gonna die, you're not gonna die alone.
But the main reason, probably, why people don't want the car all wired and don't mind the plane being all wired is you're usually *driving* the car, whereas you already gave up control of the plane when you stepped inside. (unless, except, of course, if you're the pilot)
And then there's the ever-important "bleeding edge" factor. AFAIK, most of these all-wired car things are still new and "new-fangled". Maybe after they've been around for 30 years and we no longer hear stories about "runaway cars" and they have appropriate levels of redundancy built in, they won't be so bad.
This is very likely true. (I live in the Midwest.)
I'm also pretty sure they've proven Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake. It's actually not that difficult to be flatter than a pancake, you see, because pancakes usually aren't all that flat--they're more sort of slightly curved towards the edges.
Slashdot Mirror
It depends on who you know and what the people you know, know. Ya know?
How about something simpler like dumbass, fucktard, lamer, or smeghead?
Maybe except for that they don't fucking care. Why would they? They're MS and not synonymous with efficiency.
There clearly must be some sort of potential counter-argument to this--else why would the German library have been granted an exception?
So is there some way I can apply for a security clearence that's not too expensive if I don't mind having to wait two years?
It depends on what the intended function is. nmap, tcpdump, and various other network scanning and monitoring programs could be used to keep track of what users are doing, but they're considered to be good, friendly programs by techies because their intended funciton is to help the techie get a sense for how the network is peroforming rather than to invade a person's privacy.
It could be sabotage on the part of someone that doesn't want to see lj succeed and by someone that knows people will be stupid and think that the power outtage is somehow related to the takeover simply because the two events ocurred chronologically close...
:-)
Yeah ok, pretty unlikely.
I work at a medium-to-large wastewater treatment plant in Knasas City, MO.
/lock away/ the main breaker feeding electricity into the plant, AFAIK, there's no reason or need to put it out in the open in an area where any idiot can just throw it on accident. You can put it somewhere outside in a power cabinet with a whole bunch of warning signs on it. That plus the large humming noise coming from it really ought to deter all but the dumbest of idiots.
While it's probably true that you can't
Or are we talking about different things?
And, of course, they also like it when they can get someone to get Congress to make revisions to copyright law to allow them to keep making money off The Mouse.
bingo!
1000 crew changes a day might be crazy or it might not--it depends at least partially on the size of the operation.
"Not even a dragon's fire could harm that Ring." -- Gandalf
I think the ring was made from, among other things: gold, cruelty, malice, and will to dominate all life. I believe the ring was also made partially with Elvish forging techniques unknown to us now that we would (perhaps mistakenly) refer to as "magic".
Two ways to answer this
1) That's why you'll never be allowed in charge or
2) Wrong! You'd set out to try and get things changed, but you'd be headed off either through bribery or coercion. </cynic>
for the people named "Eula".
Ah yes, a take on the Oscar the Grouch song. Good song, it deserves more play.
(to make a point)
<over-the-top-mode>oh well see he knows that they suffer without they themselves knowing that they suffer. "How can men who've never seen light be enlightened?" How do you explain the 3-D world to the people chained in the cave that only ever saw their 2-D shadow on the wall, etc. He's wanting to save them from themselves. "Lord forgive these Windoze sinners, they know not what they do."</over-the-top-mode>
Basically, without realizing it, he's fallen prey to the messiah complex. I should know, I suffer from it on occasion myself. ;-)
I do this as well, plus I have a netflix subscription. It's working out great so far except for *one* *thing*.
:-) )
The Daily Show. I did a couple or three Google searches, found a couple torrent sites, but nothing really current and nothing that updated frequently.
Any thoughts? I mean, can you think of any way I can get daily or at least bi-weekly updates of the Daily Show without a cable subscription?
(I realize you have no reason to help, but any advice you could offer would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I just pronounce it as "pron" and know, in my head, that it's spelled "pr0n".
Kind of like "they're", "their", "there", "you're", "your", "it's", "its", "we", "oui", "know", "no", "knew", "new", "eye", "I", "aye", etc.
Should you be allowed to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater with the sole intent of causing a panic? (there's no fire)
Should other people be allowed to publicly tell huge lies about your person that make it awkward for you to live? What about important things like murder cases where it's just your word against theirs? We have perjury laws, are those laws in violoation of free speech laws?
Yeah, but isn't Linux, and more importantly the general *nix family of OSes chock full of backwards (and cross) compatibility kludges as well?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm no windoze fan. I know full-well windoze is an ugly botch of an ugly hack from hell. The people working on the WINE project get to find out about the deeply buried windoze flaws one bug at at time. (Uh, I'm not on the WINE project, I just felt like mentioning them. :) )
I know that, when compared to windows, Unix looks pretty streamlined. It's just, it seems to me that accumulation of cruft is par for any popular platform. Apple only just recently "cleaned house" with the switch to OS X. They support their old crufty system with ugly, slow emulation, but that's actually a good thing because it helps ensure the old crufty will mostly die off.
In time however, no matter how well Apple designed the snazzy OS X and the hardware it runs on (well they didn't exactly design all the hardware, but you know what I mean), I suspect the OS X platform will accumulate cruft.
Let's please not confuse ethics with legality.
You are right, there is a huge, gaping contradiction there.
The reason, I think, why people (read: zealous slashdotters) wind up with that postion is sort of obvious though: It's because they hate (at least large) corporations, and they consider them to be evil. So the they (these slashdotters) don't really have any respect for whatever "rights" those corporations might have under the law.
I try not to follow this bad example... but it's difficult because: being I'm on the non-corporate side of things, the incentive for me to illegally download music is high: it's cheaper, *appears* to be victimless (even though it isn't), easier than going to the music store, and no one's gonna tell me what I can or can't do with the song once I've "aquired" it. Meanwhile the incentive for me to break the GPL by incorporating GPL code into a corporate product and not release the source code is... nill, since I'm not writing programs to sell.
Very good and enlightening anecdote. (The part about someone walking into an unlocked dorm without invite.) Thank you.
I give you: pseudo-mod: "+2 Insightful"
Planes often have secondary and sometimes tertiary control systems. Planes are also piloted by pilots that have been trained in how to handle emergencies. Often, the plane you're in will have other people in it, so at least if you're gonna die, you're not gonna die alone.
But the main reason, probably, why people don't want the car all wired and don't mind the plane being all wired is you're usually *driving* the car, whereas you already gave up control of the plane when you stepped inside. (unless, except, of course, if you're the pilot)
And then there's the ever-important "bleeding edge" factor. AFAIK, most of these all-wired car things are still new and "new-fangled". Maybe after they've been around for 30 years and we no longer hear stories about "runaway cars" and they have appropriate levels of redundancy built in, they won't be so bad.
This is very likely true. (I live in the Midwest.)
I'm also pretty sure they've proven Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake. It's actually not that difficult to be flatter than a pancake, you see, because pancakes usually aren't all that flat--they're more sort of slightly curved towards the edges.