Giving you a free PDF is not unethical. Charging you a second time for their information on the subject when you have already paid for their service IS.
Interesting reading. Hardly surprising. Watching a friends 9 year old daughter fail at adding 13 + 0 recently, is the kind of thing that reinforces my decision to home-school.
If there is nothing new in these documents, then WikiLeaks hasn't certainly not created any danger. If that is the case, then the writer of the article is the only one creating a "clear and present danger".
The other side of the question is... Does it expose the actions of other individuals that increase such attacks (or an increase in their effectiveness)? If so, they are helping put a stop to individuals that are a "clear and present danger". And thus, those attacking them are also a "clear and present danger".
I haven't read the documents, but as I understand it, they expose some pretty horrific actions, including innocent people getting killed.
So, this ends up being a question of identifying the lesser of two evils. I'm not convinced that the answer will be the same for everyone.
To be fair, it is not about driving a war against people who have a different religion. That idea comes from them. Not us. Do you really think that the people of the Middle East would be treated any different if they were "God Fearing Christians"? Not likely. The US is in these conflicts because a relatively unstable country is not bowing to our will in regards to the procurement of their natural resources. We don't really care about their religion.
The religious conflict is generated on their side. Primarily because it is the best way for the minority of people who are trying to horde all of the revenue generated by the procurement of their natural resources to convince their impoverished populace that they should fight and die to protect their revenue stream. It is also the best way to keep the destitute population's guns pointed at someone else than their own leaders.
So, while there is plenty of evil doings going on, to blame the US for targeting 'different religions' is a red herring.
Good point. The funny part is that the "It's their network" excuse is the exact same excuse that gets used to rationalize hardware lockdown in games systems today.
I disagree. Programming IS easy. At least way easier than most non-programmers think it is. What is hard is having the temperament to actually do it, and even more so, the temperament to actually learn it. It is like plumbing. Pretty much anyone can learn out to do it. It just isn't that hard. What most people lack is the desire to learn it, and the willingness to climb into the crawl space of some house that only MAY have the clearance to get back out, make their way through the mud that is mud because a toilet has been leaking under the house for the last two years, and repair a sewage line.
Just like plumbing, once you know how to program, years of experience will frequently result in better choices of tools, fast work with less errors, and various tricks to get things done better than just bulldozing through.
Sure, there are people that simply don't have the mind to program, but there are people that don't have the mind to do plumbing either. Heck, there are plenty of people that don't have the mind to wait tables.
You need to look at how protectionist the various countries are also. The US will give you bonus points for not being American when acceptance time rolls around. I can't answer this question for sure, but my impression is that the attitude that foreign students are preferred over local students is a pretty American concept.
I would agree with most of what you said...Except...
Just as there is little the company could do to stop this, they also have to expect to pay for the damage done. That is the price of doing business. Being liable for damages and being bad are not the same thing.
If one of the trees in my yard falls over in a storm and crushes my neighbors car, I am liable for paying for it. I am not a bad man because of it.
This woman called Dell. She did not look up this perticular tech person and seek his help. She called Dell. Dell answered the phone. They used this tech as their agent, but the company responded. The woman did not have a business arrangement with the tech. She had one with Dell. Is Dell evil for hiring this guy? Not likely. Are they responsible for the actions of their agent. Yes.
HOV lanes were not to reduce congestion. They were to INCREASE congestion. Well, really to make sure that adding new lanes would not reduce congestion by not allowing the majority of people to use them during the times that they actually needed them.
You could just target apt and then you have targeted both aptitude AND synaptic. High profile Windows boxes are not generally going to have someone sitting around surfing for porn from the server. Thus, pretty much all of the attacks on high profile sites are going to use the network as the entry vector, and are going to be very different than the kinds of attacks that happen to a desktop system. This is the same whether it is Windows or Linux. On the server side, a lot of tools are shared between the different distros. That means that you just pick one with a flaw. The same as you would with Windows.
From a desktop perspective, Ubuntu rules the roost, and targeting it will get you most users. Sure there are people running Suse on the desktop, but besides the huge amount of shared code between it and Ubuntu, you are still talking about the same kind of user that wouldn't be as likely to get hit by a Windows virus. The vast majority of users would be no safer due to Linux diversity than they are from Windows diversity.
I think the diversity of Linux vs. the weakness of the MS mono-culture is pretty much a myth. Not %100, but enough that it isn't a valid argument. The vast majority of users are running either Ubuntu or Fedora. XP and Windows 7 have have as much of a difference as Ubuntu and Fedora. Sure there are other distros out there, but pointing them out is a little like pointing out that some people still run win98. Then, you have to consider that the people who would run a Linux distro that is not Ubuntu or Fedora are the kind of people that would specifically go out and search for different options. Those people would be the ones already running Linux and Non-Ubuntu/Fedora OSes. If you brought all of the Windows users over to Linux, 98% of them would end up on Ubuntu.
As for targeting the applications, Gnome or KDE... Exactly the same issue as with the rest of the OS. You write two simple front ends. One for KDE and one for Gnome, or you just hope the user doesn't notice that you are using the wrong widgets. It is the exact same issue as malware on various versions of windows. Media players? Target VLC or MPlayer. Even better target any of the libraries that get heavily reused like the ogg decoder.
If you target any application that is installed by default by both Fedora and Ubuntu, you have targeted most users, and the percentage would only rise with more users switching from Windows.
It is a shame that Google isn't going to put out an Nexus 2. Contrary to what most people think, I believe the Nexus One was a great success. Just look at home much press Android 2.2 is getting. Yet, the Nexus One is still the only phone that has it. How long would it take for other phones to get the new OS if there wasn't an existing phone on the market that was running it? The Nexus One may not have taken over the hardware market, but it was an astounding success in advertising, and a huge factor in pushing carriers to offer phones with newer versions of the OS.
Or, you can't go back and kill your grandfather, because since you were there and didn't kill him, obviously you didn't kill him. No paradox. The idea that the future would go back and change the past makes no sense once you accept the premise of time as a dimension, and travel along it as possible. The grandfather paradox is the result of thinking of time as a direction, and then forgetting that it is a direction half way through.
The 'grandmother paradox' is exactly the same. What if you grandmother had killed your grandfather before your father was born? The answer is that the question is irrelevant because she didn't, and no amount of thought experiment will change that.
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For me it was SCSI was a big factor in killing the Amiga. As games got bigger, Commodores choice of SCSI for Amiga hard drives meant that to put a hard drive on my 500, I would have to spend as much as the price of a whole IBM with a hard drive. Stagnation didn't help, but the cost of a hard drive was the final straw. By the time the 600 came out with IDE, and it's huge compatibility problems, it was just too late for the Amiga in my house.
I do still have a couple of Amigas, as well as Amiga Forever and a MiniMig though.
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Giving you a free PDF is not unethical. Charging you a second time for their information on the subject when you have already paid for their service IS.
Interesting reading. Hardly surprising. Watching a friends 9 year old daughter fail at adding 13 + 0 recently, is the kind of thing that reinforces my decision to home-school.
The problem with that fallacy is that NAMCO can just give the students a license. So, no, NAMCO did NOT have to shut down the project.
you need to perhaps think more about creating something truly original in order to avoid this issue.
So, where does Pacman come into this then?
If there is nothing new in these documents, then WikiLeaks hasn't certainly not created any danger. If that is the case, then the writer of the article is the only one creating a "clear and present danger".
The other side of the question is... Does it expose the actions of other individuals that increase such attacks (or an increase in their effectiveness)? If so, they are helping put a stop to individuals that are a "clear and present danger". And thus, those attacking them are also a "clear and present danger".
I haven't read the documents, but as I understand it, they expose some pretty horrific actions, including innocent people getting killed.
So, this ends up being a question of identifying the lesser of two evils. I'm not convinced that the answer will be the same for everyone.
And given his affiliations, his Op Ed is as bad as yelling "FIRE!!!" in a crowded building. The Washington Post is just as bad.
That kind of logic leads to spending 100% of your paycheck on lottery tickets every week.
To be fair, it is not about driving a war against people who have a different religion. That idea comes from them. Not us. Do you really think that the people of the Middle East would be treated any different if they were "God Fearing Christians"? Not likely. The US is in these conflicts because a relatively unstable country is not bowing to our will in regards to the procurement of their natural resources. We don't really care about their religion.
The religious conflict is generated on their side. Primarily because it is the best way for the minority of people who are trying to horde all of the revenue generated by the procurement of their natural resources to convince their impoverished populace that they should fight and die to protect their revenue stream. It is also the best way to keep the destitute population's guns pointed at someone else than their own leaders.
So, while there is plenty of evil doings going on, to blame the US for targeting 'different religions' is a red herring.
And what the hell is "detained"?
"Detained" is what they call an arrest where your right are being violated.
Good point. The funny part is that the "It's their network" excuse is the exact same excuse that gets used to rationalize hardware lockdown in games systems today.
I disagree. Programming IS easy. At least way easier than most non-programmers think it is. What is hard is having the temperament to actually do it, and even more so, the temperament to actually learn it. It is like plumbing. Pretty much anyone can learn out to do it. It just isn't that hard. What most people lack is the desire to learn it, and the willingness to climb into the crawl space of some house that only MAY have the clearance to get back out, make their way through the mud that is mud because a toilet has been leaking under the house for the last two years, and repair a sewage line.
Just like plumbing, once you know how to program, years of experience will frequently result in better choices of tools, fast work with less errors, and various tricks to get things done better than just bulldozing through.
Sure, there are people that simply don't have the mind to program, but there are people that don't have the mind to do plumbing either. Heck, there are plenty of people that don't have the mind to wait tables.
Yes. That is exactly what I mean. Thank you.
Their homeowner insurance company will then contact YOUR homeowner insurance company to collect. Same as if it hit their house.
Agreed.
Ever met a misogamist that had a black girlfriend? Me too. Dating a girl doesn't mean that you don't think she is genetically inferior.
That being said, being a member of the Tea Party certainly is no indication that you are a racist.
You need to look at how protectionist the various countries are also. The US will give you bonus points for not being American when acceptance time rolls around. I can't answer this question for sure, but my impression is that the attitude that foreign students are preferred over local students is a pretty American concept.
I would agree with most of what you said...Except...
Just as there is little the company could do to stop this, they also have to expect to pay for the damage done. That is the price of doing business. Being liable for damages and being bad are not the same thing.
If one of the trees in my yard falls over in a storm and crushes my neighbors car, I am liable for paying for it. I am not a bad man because of it.
This woman called Dell. She did not look up this perticular tech person and seek his help. She called Dell. Dell answered the phone. They used this tech as their agent, but the company responded. The woman did not have a business arrangement with the tech. She had one with Dell. Is Dell evil for hiring this guy? Not likely. Are they responsible for the actions of their agent. Yes.
HOV lanes were not to reduce congestion. They were to INCREASE congestion. Well, really to make sure that adding new lanes would not reduce congestion by not allowing the majority of people to use them during the times that they actually needed them.
You could just target apt and then you have targeted both aptitude AND synaptic. High profile Windows boxes are not generally going to have someone sitting around surfing for porn from the server. Thus, pretty much all of the attacks on high profile sites are going to use the network as the entry vector, and are going to be very different than the kinds of attacks that happen to a desktop system. This is the same whether it is Windows or Linux. On the server side, a lot of tools are shared between the different distros. That means that you just pick one with a flaw. The same as you would with Windows.
From a desktop perspective, Ubuntu rules the roost, and targeting it will get you most users. Sure there are people running Suse on the desktop, but besides the huge amount of shared code between it and Ubuntu, you are still talking about the same kind of user that wouldn't be as likely to get hit by a Windows virus. The vast majority of users would be no safer due to Linux diversity than they are from Windows diversity.
I think the diversity of Linux vs. the weakness of the MS mono-culture is pretty much a myth. Not %100, but enough that it isn't a valid argument. The vast majority of users are running either Ubuntu or Fedora. XP and Windows 7 have have as much of a difference as Ubuntu and Fedora. Sure there are other distros out there, but pointing them out is a little like pointing out that some people still run win98. Then, you have to consider that the people who would run a Linux distro that is not Ubuntu or Fedora are the kind of people that would specifically go out and search for different options. Those people would be the ones already running Linux and Non-Ubuntu/Fedora OSes. If you brought all of the Windows users over to Linux, 98% of them would end up on Ubuntu.
As for targeting the applications, Gnome or KDE... Exactly the same issue as with the rest of the OS. You write two simple front ends. One for KDE and one for Gnome, or you just hope the user doesn't notice that you are using the wrong widgets. It is the exact same issue as malware on various versions of windows. Media players? Target VLC or MPlayer. Even better target any of the libraries that get heavily reused like the ogg decoder.
If you target any application that is installed by default by both Fedora and Ubuntu, you have targeted most users, and the percentage would only rise with more users switching from Windows.
Shipping hasn't been much of a problem for the last ~5 years. They just have it shipped to a vacant house.
It is a shame that Google isn't going to put out an Nexus 2. Contrary to what most people think, I believe the Nexus One was a great success. Just look at home much press Android 2.2 is getting. Yet, the Nexus One is still the only phone that has it. How long would it take for other phones to get the new OS if there wasn't an existing phone on the market that was running it? The Nexus One may not have taken over the hardware market, but it was an astounding success in advertising, and a huge factor in pushing carriers to offer phones with newer versions of the OS.
Or, you can't go back and kill your grandfather, because since you were there and didn't kill him, obviously you didn't kill him. No paradox. The idea that the future would go back and change the past makes no sense once you accept the premise of time as a dimension, and travel along it as possible. The grandfather paradox is the result of thinking of time as a direction, and then forgetting that it is a direction half way through.
The 'grandmother paradox' is exactly the same. What if you grandmother had killed your grandfather before your father was born? The answer is that the question is irrelevant because she didn't, and no amount of thought experiment will change that.
For me it was SCSI was a big factor in killing the Amiga. As games got bigger, Commodores choice of SCSI for Amiga hard drives meant that to put a hard drive on my 500, I would have to spend as much as the price of a whole IBM with a hard drive. Stagnation didn't help, but the cost of a hard drive was the final straw. By the time the 600 came out with IDE, and it's huge compatibility problems, it was just too late for the Amiga in my house.
I do still have a couple of Amigas, as well as Amiga Forever and a MiniMig though.