I pointed out that my laptop runs Linux, and that there are no Linux viruses in the wild, but they made it clear that that doesn't matter -- any machine without a virus scanner is a risk to their uber-secure network.
[Enter, Stage Left] Script Kiddie, a 13 year old white kid with glasses, walks through the door... black eye, obviously had the crap kicked out of him.
Mom: What happened, Jimmy?
SK: Well, I did this u1tra-l33t haxoring on the DMV, mom, but it turns out that some of the older kids didn't think it was so l33t when they couldn't get their licenses...
5th amendment issues apply here. There's already law on the books that state you don't have to disclose information if the disclosing of that information would incriminate you.
As such, if the disclosing of an email address provides information that would incriminate you (should you be doing something criminal), you can't be punished for not providing it.
Did my paradigm shift?
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So let me get this straight:
I'm supposed to buy a book that I've never seen nor heard of before, judge it by it's cover and it's self-aggrandizing description, then open it and proceed to upload it into my brain without any virus scan for all the tinfoil-hat type text.
Then, this book will tell me that I shouldn't do on the internet, in email, etc. what they're absolutely counting on me doing in real life? I can't trust those emails and open those attachments and download the contents because it's unsafe?
I think I'm going to go write an antivirus book that everyone must buy before they read any more books, and sell a service where people can't read books unless I've read them first and deemed them safe. And oh, yeah, you'll have to buy the update to my book every few days as I read new books.
Are we sure that's Phil Torrone's wife, or one of the robots he put together by beowulfing sixteen PocketPC's, a Garmin eTrex GPS, three Aibos, a Roomba and a Segway together?
Do you mount the Roomba at head level or waist level? Will the Segway auto-correct for your motions by gyrating against you? Are the Aibo's for doin' it doggy style?
I was referring to an abstract larger group of people. Not everyone in the world has internet access, and surely only a subset of those would see any particular thing at any given time, and only a subset of those would have any interest.
If this weren't the case there would be no need for snopes.com, etc. because everyone would know "at once" that something was, or wasn't valid. Rather, people see things in waves, stages, ect. as they're passed around - and right now, that takes YEARS, because the "immediate viewership" is comparatively smaller than the "available viewership."
Economics of scale
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It's not that the internet makes anything elevate in relative importance, it's that it reaches a larger audience so the numbers of folks interested in any given "thing" is higher.
Before, you might reach 5% of the people in your 10,000 person town - or 500 people.
Now, if 5% of people on the internet are interested in what you have done, you might reach 5 million people, but it's still just 5% of the population.
Look at the Nielsen ratings - the highest rated shows actually garner a LOWER percentage of viewership than past shows, but because they reach more people they have more viewers...
While I enjoyed Contact, the movie, I had read the book many years ago as a teenager and it pretty much drove me into a love for math. The book was so much more precise - something that had they tried to put on screen would have absolutely and completely flopped in today's pop-cinema culture.
Every time I look at a circle I wonder if there's a hidden message in the simple beauty of the shape...
Re:v6 could help solve some net problems
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So make it easy, just remember:
ssh 2031:0:130F::9c0:876A:130B
Mike:)
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I pointed out that my laptop runs Linux, and that there are no Linux viruses in the wild, but they made it clear that that doesn't matter -- any machine without a virus scanner is a risk to their uber-secure network.
Which, if you have a SAMBA share, is true.
"As system administrators move to Linux files servers they have a real problem to deal with since the Linux file server can store Windows-based viruses. Windows-based viruses can write to a Linux/Samba network share as easily as they can on a Microsoft Windows based network. System administrators must protect the Linux server from storing these viruses. The only way is through active antivirus defense on the Linux server itself."
[Enter, Stage Left] Script Kiddie, a 13 year old white kid with glasses, walks through the door... black eye, obviously had the crap kicked out of him.
Mom: What happened, Jimmy?
SK: Well, I did this u1tra-l33t haxoring on the DMV, mom, but it turns out that some of the older kids didn't think it was so l33t when they couldn't get their licenses...
5th amendment issues apply here. There's already law on the books that state you don't have to disclose information if the disclosing of that information would incriminate you. As such, if the disclosing of an email address provides information that would incriminate you (should you be doing something criminal), you can't be punished for not providing it.
Worse yet - in the US, 97% of people should at least be able to RTFM - there's no excuse!
And for the non-internet version, "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin DeBecker.
Real-life security!
So let me get this straight:
I'm supposed to buy a book that I've never seen nor heard of before, judge it by it's cover and it's self-aggrandizing description, then open it and proceed to upload it into my brain without any virus scan for all the tinfoil-hat type text.
Then, this book will tell me that I shouldn't do on the internet, in email, etc. what they're absolutely counting on me doing in real life? I can't trust those emails and open those attachments and download the contents because it's unsafe?
I think I'm going to go write an antivirus book that everyone must buy before they read any more books, and sell a service where people can't read books unless I've read them first and deemed them safe. And oh, yeah, you'll have to buy the update to my book every few days as I read new books.
LiveJournal? Not anymore...
Rub them in circles and you'll get louder, softer, or a range somewhere in between...
also works best when you have a good grip and use your thumb!
When I worked as a paramedic in the Houston area, we had an injury type code in our patient report computers of "spacecraft-related injury."
NOW I know why...
Are we sure that's Phil Torrone's wife, or one of the robots he put together by beowulfing sixteen PocketPC's, a Garmin eTrex GPS, three Aibos, a Roomba and a Segway together?
Do you mount the Roomba at head level or waist level? Will the Segway auto-correct for your motions by gyrating against you? Are the Aibo's for doin' it doggy style?
I was referring to an abstract larger group of people. Not everyone in the world has internet access, and surely only a subset of those would see any particular thing at any given time, and only a subset of those would have any interest.
If this weren't the case there would be no need for snopes.com, etc. because everyone would know "at once" that something was, or wasn't valid. Rather, people see things in waves, stages, ect. as they're passed around - and right now, that takes YEARS, because the "immediate viewership" is comparatively smaller than the "available viewership."
It's not that the internet makes anything elevate in relative importance, it's that it reaches a larger audience so the numbers of folks interested in any given "thing" is higher.
Before, you might reach 5% of the people in your 10,000 person town - or 500 people.
Now, if 5% of people on the internet are interested in what you have done, you might reach 5 million people, but it's still just 5% of the population.
Look at the Nielsen ratings - the highest rated shows actually garner a LOWER percentage of viewership than past shows, but because they reach more people they have more viewers...
Same conecpt applies here.
The scientists all voted correctly, but the pollsters were from Florida.
Anyone wanna see Hawking's "dangling chad?"
While I enjoyed Contact, the movie, I had read the book many years ago as a teenager and it pretty much drove me into a love for math. The book was so much more precise - something that had they tried to put on screen would have absolutely and completely flopped in today's pop-cinema culture.
Every time I look at a circle I wonder if there's a hidden message in the simple beauty of the shape...
So make it easy, just remember: ssh 2031:0:130F::9c0:876A:130B Mike :)