Yes, if you MUST have 300Gbps streaming data to your home, we'll be glad to rent to you and your family the following items:
3 obnoxious people who will not watch the movie, but will interrupt your view of it 1 usher who is totally clueless as to what he should be doing as well as what movie is playing 2 rude 16 year olds who will get your order for popcorn wrong twice, then over charge you 50 cents on the medium soft drink 1 ticket taker who should have been replaced by a bar code reader years ago, and who roughly knows the direction to the toilets should you need them. 1 manager to sit in your den, pretending he knows what is going on, but has to ask the 18yr old up in the projection booth to be sure.
Finally, thanks to my business services, you can finally have a realistic movie theater experience in your own home. Congratulations and welcome to the 21st century.
It took me 5 minutes to stop laughing and clean the beer that sprayed on the screen when I read that... Ok, I sit corrected, there is a LinuxGenuineAdvantage... woot!
Microsoft themselves have given me the strongest argument I need: "you will never see a pop up window telling you that your software needs to be registered to work"... there is no Ubuntu Genuine Advantage, and unless someone writes a malicious piece of code, it will never call home. In other words, it's safe to use.
I use FireFox in a corporate environment. IETab helps, but there are several sites that simply will not work without IE. Guess which ones? Yes, those sites that belong to software or companies hired by the one I work for to provide some HR or payroll services. Even better than their idiocy in blocking all but IE, these are links to servers outside the company, and I've seen them when they were not even forcing https for the connection.
The departmental website that I manage is (perhaps not that great) fully usable by FireFox, or any browser but I can't stop them from using outside companies or creating IE only sites.
The real reason for this? I suspect that it is because no one in any position of responsibility understands web services, so if their point and click web page software works with IE, then that is how the rest of us have to view it.
drum roll.... so the real reason that FireFox is having trouble in corporate offices is purely due to ignorance on the part of the corporation.
To set the dual-boot issue straight: Microsoft has not been working on an actual, side-by-side dual-boot system. We're jointly making it possible to install XP on an arbitrary XO -- subject to the constraints of the Bitfrost theft deterrence system -- and then convert the machine back to Linux easily. I have made it clear that the XP port will not receive my security signoff without this Linux rollback feature, and have no reason to believe it won't be implemented.
Did he really say "....and have no reason to believe it won't be implemented." ????
I thought he was supposed to be an intelligent and informed kind of person? Call me a troll if you must, but that just sounds so naive that it must be a trap being set for Microsoft to have proven reason to never let MS near another child in the developing world ever again?
said sarcastically of course, but the next time someone asks me why I think they should just go with the F/OSS alternative to Windows, I'm going to hand them this list..... It basically offsets the cost of learning new programs UIs.
Say what you want about Linux fanbois, but they do have this one point going for them.
This is probably good news to Bruce Perens, who thinks that the recent report of Microsoft's dual-boot XO project (with Windows as well as the Linux-based Sugar OS) is a feint driven by Microsoft's fear of the entire third world learning Linux [CC] as children. I thought we were worried about them learning to fish?
Let me get this straight. Dubya wants us to trust him and his 'boys' to listen in on our private lives, and promises that the information will not be misused. Then they go and show us how responsible they are by 'forgetting' to pay the phone bills? Actually stealing money, and other violations of public trust.
Is it just me, or do we need to start fixing the elections ourselves to ensure that there is a clean sweep through all of the US Government?
Diebold has given us a way to do it, and the powers that be keep insisting that it is not possible... Maybe we should just organize it ourselves?
Time to grab the fire extinguisher and go see where this smoke is coming from.
In the words of Patriot Act protagonists: "if there is nothing to hide, there is no harm in looking"
If for no other reason than to help settle the country down, for fuck's sake, go do a recount and get it over with, then we can all go back to our regularly scheduled updates on Britany and those others.
And please, Quickly do the recount before these people start asking about where the money for the war was spent.
Not only might you want to give away unused bandwidth, but look at the reasons people are telling us we should not give it away:
- You might be blamed for illegal file sharing or spamming - You might be held legally responsible for what other do - You might be the victim of malicious users - You might.... nevermind, all the reasons are to protect you from people who would sue you. What does that say about the world?
Lets throw some other analogies out there:
You shouldn't stop to help a stranded motorist because they might attack you or kill you You shouldn't give people advice because they might sue you for using it badly (lawyers & doctors) You shouldn't leave objects in your lawn in case someone trips and sues you you.... getting the picture?
You are NO LONGER free to do as you wish with what is yours because other people control what you do, either directly, or indirectly as a consequence of fear of what they MIGHT do. If gun makers are not responsible for what people do with the products they make, you should NOT be responsible for what people do with the bandwidth you gave them to use.
If we can be held responsible for what happens across our open APs, then the ISP can be held responsible for what goes across its network.
In the end, common sense and reasonable thought dictate that the person who does the spamming or file sharing is responsible. If you leave a gardening tool in your lawn, and a person trips on it and hurts themselves, who is at fault? If you put a bench in your yard where people can sit and rest and some kid pushes another who then falls and cuts his head on the bench, who is at fault?
I know those don't fit perfectly, but the point is that just because you helped to create something, you are NOT responsible for the use of it. Leaving your car unlocked is a good analogy: if someone takes it, they are stealing, and just because you did not do all that you could do to prevent them from taking it does not change the fact that they stole it.
In another thought, holding the AP owner responsible is like trying to treat them as network security experts under the law. Insurance companies, police departments, all sorts of people work to inform you how to stop someone from stealing your property but does anyone do public service announcements to tell you how to stop people from stealing your bandwidth? Can you get insurance to protect you from bandwidth theft? or to compensate you when the **AA are suing you?
Is a bus driver culpable if he drives the bus that a bank robber used to get to the bank he robbed?
This goes on and on, but the point of holding you responsible for what others do with something you gave them (without the intent of doing so for malicious or nefarious reasons) has been proven in court already. Gun makers are not responsible for any deaths that happen from use of their products. Game over.
The submitter obviously understands Google... first link if you search Google for "map 'traveling salesman'" gives you http://gebweb.net/optimap/... is that what you mean?
I think there are a lot of people in the world that would not agree with you, but I think your idea has merit. I'd like to see 4 guys who hardly speak good English trying to tell 83 angry people with guns to sit down while they hijack anything, never mind a plane they can't jump out of.
Sure, the decompression thing is kind of mythically scary, but a.38 round doesn't have too much velocity after penetrating, and mushrooming inside of a human skull.
Still, I can't see many people going for that kind of thing, but I'm certain that airport security checks would be wildly different:-)
Even if all but 4 passengers were made to check their weapons with their luggage, it would stop anyone from thinking everyone on-board was unarmed, and the would-be hijackers would not know who has the guns. It would make the odds a bit less than 50/50 for successful hijacking.
To hijack successfully, they would HAVE to use guns, and screening for guns is rather less complex than looking for exploding peanut butter. After exposing themselves as hijackers, they only become targets for the secret gun-toting passengers. Without the weapon of surprise, they just become targets.
Sure, that kind of shoot-out scenario is scary to think about, but thinking about it might deter anyone with exploding peanut butter too.
I'm going to reply to your post, because you made some salient points. It would do us well to remember that the US Navy has a lot of floating data centers. If anyone here thinks that those Naval war vessels are not brimming with electronics, I urge you to think again. In a barge type setup, you can create climate controlled spaces with little difficulty.
As for redundancy, I think you are unsure of how vulnerable land based data centers are currently. Even if you bring in large circuits from competing companies, the chances that the local municipality has organized that they both run main fibers along the same railway is high. Power redundancy? Are you serious? Battery backup and generator backed UPS is all you have anyway.
With a barge setup, your redundancy plan can be to move the whole data center to another area with fiber connections waiting to fire up. In fact, in case of a hurricane, I'd assume that would be the plan anyway. Sure, that means a 24hr downtime, unless you have redundant barges in your plan, in which case it's all a mute argument. If you think 24hr downtime is a long time, try figuring out what Californians just suffered when so many parts of a normally dry network infrastructure were sitting under 3+ feet of water. My company just suffered from that storm last weekend, so don't tell me that land based data centers are less vulnerable.
Yes, there are some downsides... I dont' worry about spammers, I worry about NSA operatives going to work for google or facebook. Worse than that is either of those companies going to work for the NSA.
Yes, of course I can just kill my gmail account and not play nicely with the friendly policeman but I'd rather that I don't have to worry about it. More pointedly, I would rather that the control of that 'universal data' be in my hands, and not available for the terminally curious in our government.
Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but given the news lately I don't think the replacement for the current emperor want2be will be any less likely to use the tools of the office to play with my data in ways it was not meant to be played with. Even if the replacements are do-no-evil, there is nothing to stop the less than public soldiers of the government from continuing to mess with my/our data.
Anonymity on the net is not quite what it used to be.
There is nothing that this process will find except for stupid people. That is hardly what they need laws to find. Stupid people are, by definition... well, stupid.
Lets think about this for a second: Hmmm, they might inspect my hard drive? Okay, I'll put everything on thumb drives and put it in my checked baggage. What? You think they might check that? Okay, I'll encrypt it as part of a MP3 audio file that plays fine on 'my' mp3 player. This argument goes back and forth till you finally understand that if I WANT to bring electronic documents across the border without you inspecting them, I damn well will do it. In fact, I can get so ingenious about how to do this that it will cost the US government a huge chuck of their budget to search inbound travelers and cause such inconvenience that the tourist industry will be bankrupt in less than a year.
Wow, is that a portable game-boy-girl-thingy? Yes, want to play donkey kong? Oh, this? it's just an FM radio officer. oh that? That's just my portable personal air ionizer officer. Ahhh, yes, these 57 thumb drives are just my MP3 collection... honest Yes, this is a new camera I got for christmas. yes, that is just a spare battery pack Oh, this, just a lighter case.. very kewl, you can program it to display your favorite team name Yes, I'm in school... that's just a calculator Oh, yes, I'll take off this bolo tie to get through the metal detector, sure That is my phone charger, yes. oh, that is just a travel alarm clock. oh, this, this is one of those personal breathalyzers... so I don't drive drunk. Yes, silly, I know, but my 3 yr old really thought I should take the tv remote control... kids, shrug
No officer, this laptop does not have a hard drive. company policy requires that it be shipped separately by insured courier to protect proprietary IP kept on it.
No, I don't know the password.
And so it goes until they have to nearly give EVERY passenger a body cavity search to ensure that no 'bad' electronic documents get through the border, and the TSA has become the largest employer of IT staff for checking anything that might be a thumbdrive, and of course the contents of all that possible data storage.
What's next? Searching your GMail account at the border crossing to ensure that6 you did not use it to store encrypted graphics files cleverly named something.xls ?
This is a game that they CANNOT afford to play. It is too easy and to cheap to thwart their efforts. They need to stick to the tried and true 'probable cause' methodology.
Guess what!!! some people don't mind paying for software. Especially if it is good software. WARNING: Automobile analogy imminent!
Uhmmm, Guess what? some people don't mind paying for automobiles, especially if they are good automobiles. The trouble, my friend, is that not everyone can afford a new high end Hummer, BMW, Lexus, or [your favorite expensive car here]. There is a huge number of cheaper automobiles on the road for a reason. MOST people don't need Photoshop, they need a photo organizer and written instructions on how to connect their camera to the computer.
In the LARGEST portion of home computer use requirements, the Mac does nothing better than a Linux system can, nor does a Windows system for that matter. When users can make an informed decision, Linux is the best option for a huge number of people. Don't tell me that Linux is difficult to use or learn. I know better than to fall for that stupid argument. There is a huge number of home computer users that don't know how to use Windows or OSX, so they will struggle along with whatever OS is on their computer despite your arguments.
The sales issue stem from brand recognition (or lack of) and the sales person's quota target or incentive scheme. Instead of getting Ubuntu for their current hardware, people want to enjoy the feeling of an 'upgrade' since we (MS) have been telling them this is the best way to get better performance for years if not decades. With that buried in the general public's social subconscious, the trip to the store results in a Wintel purchase or a Mac purchase, depending on which guru in a sales uniform they talk to.
"We can't say for certain that insects are the smoking gun, but we believe they were an extremely significant force in the decline of the dinosaurs," Poinar said. "Our research with amber shows that there were evolving, disease-carrying vectors in the Cretaceous, and that at least some of the pathogens they carried infected reptiles. This clearly fills in some gaps regarding dinosaur extinctions." I think that in view of the asteroid disaster and limited sustenance material in its aftermath the diseased insects could do damage to already suffering species. In the short term this would be no major issue, but descriptions of the asteroid's damage show that it would have been decades of knock-on effects to climate and biology. If smaller (low on the food chain) animals suffered first, it would lead to shortages and starvation up the chain. Is that enough to cause mass extinction? Who knows, but it seems plausible enough to be worth counting in the list of causes.
IANA Virus Writer, but if my program had access to the Internet as well as another AP, I'd just download the required image for the next infection on the fly?
I take it then that you volunteer to be a test dummy for big pharma?
Yes there is a reason to scare them away. What you think takes only a day to get over is still affecting me after 4 months of NOT taking Chantix. The man who died in Dallas, can't just stop taking it.
I'm also guessing that you are thankful to your god that your mom did not take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide thalidomide to calm her morning sickness.
And that doesn't even cover the tip of the iceburg of bad medicines and food additives that we have 'trusted' our governments or big chemical companies to give us as an alternative to some 'more evil' thing. What kind of sweetener is in your (soft)drinks?
There is NO benign noble ideals behind big pharma. They are in business to make money, NOT well patients.
Remember not that long ago, CHANTIX was the brave new way to kick the smoking habit... until about 30% of the users of this wonder drug started reporting psychotic episodes, and other vaguely torturous symptoms.
That someone found a way to attack the high from cocaine is interesting in the same way that it was interesting when they found they could subdue uncontrollable patients with EST or frontal lobotomy surgery. When it is proven safer than taking aspirin or perhaps eating ice cream, then we can start thinking about it's future uses.
The fact that CHANTIX causes psychotic episodes in so many people means literally that we do not yet understand how the chemical soup in our brains really works. Given a chance, I'd veto the use of this method until it is shown to be safer than eating at McDonald's.
Trust me when I say the pains of withdraw symptoms of nicotine are FAR better than psychotic episodes and not knowing if you are dreaming or awake. The ONLY reason for inventing a vaccine against cocaine is social control or making billions off of the government for their use of it on convicted cocaine users. The latter is the better option as it will provide a continuing revenue stream for the company that successfully patents the vaccine.
Yes, that is what I said. There is no noble intent here. This is yet another big pharma plan to make billions off of the government and people who can ill afford it. Like others have said, what else will it affect? There are tons of related chemicals in life that we really want to keep around that look a lot like cocaine inside the brain. You know that guy on the street corner still wearing his anti-agent orange shirt? Do you want to be him in 30 years?
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these robotic suits are used to record all the data necessary to train robots to do the same work?
Yes, if you MUST have 300Gbps streaming data to your home, we'll be glad to rent to you and your family the following items:
3 obnoxious people who will not watch the movie, but will interrupt your view of it
1 usher who is totally clueless as to what he should be doing as well as what movie is playing
2 rude 16 year olds who will get your order for popcorn wrong twice, then over charge you 50 cents on the medium soft drink
1 ticket taker who should have been replaced by a bar code reader years ago, and who roughly knows the direction to the toilets should you need them.
1 manager to sit in your den, pretending he knows what is going on, but has to ask the 18yr old up in the projection booth to be sure.
Finally, thanks to my business services, you can finally have a realistic movie theater experience in your own home. Congratulations and welcome to the 21st century.
It took me 5 minutes to stop laughing and clean the beer that sprayed on the screen when I read that... Ok, I sit corrected, there is a LinuxGenuineAdvantage... woot!
Microsoft themselves have given me the strongest argument I need: "you will never see a pop up window telling you that your software needs to be registered to work" ... there is no Ubuntu Genuine Advantage, and unless someone writes a malicious piece of code, it will never call home. In other words, it's safe to use.
I use FireFox in a corporate environment. IETab helps, but there are several sites that simply will not work without IE. Guess which ones? Yes, those sites that belong to software or companies hired by the one I work for to provide some HR or payroll services. Even better than their idiocy in blocking all but IE, these are links to servers outside the company, and I've seen them when they were not even forcing https for the connection.
The departmental website that I manage is (perhaps not that great) fully usable by FireFox, or any browser but I can't stop them from using outside companies or creating IE only sites.
The real reason for this? I suspect that it is because no one in any position of responsibility understands web services, so if their point and click web page software works with IE, then that is how the rest of us have to view it.
drum roll.... so the real reason that FireFox is having trouble in corporate offices is purely due to ignorance on the part of the corporation.
For those who can't click the link: Did he really say "....and have no reason to believe it won't be implemented." ????
I thought he was supposed to be an intelligent and informed kind of person? Call me a troll if you must, but that just sounds so naive that it must be a trap being set for Microsoft to have proven reason to never let MS near another child in the developing world ever again?
Hmmmm you just don't get it, do you?
Lets see: you can drive this Chevrolet if you pay a licensing fee - OR - you can drive this Ford for free (donations welcome).
If you get caught driving the Chevy without the license, it will cost you way more than the license fee.
OR - you can simply choose to not worry about the fees and fines by driving the Ford?
Then again, never mind, you probably are not going to get the point anyway.
said sarcastically of course, but the next time someone asks me why I think they should just go with the F/OSS alternative to Windows, I'm going to hand them this list..... It basically offsets the cost of learning new programs UIs.
Say what you want about Linux fanbois, but they do have this one point going for them.
Let me get this straight. Dubya wants us to trust him and his 'boys' to listen in on our private lives, and promises that the information will not be misused. Then they go and show us how responsible they are by 'forgetting' to pay the phone bills? Actually stealing money, and other violations of public trust.
Is it just me, or do we need to start fixing the elections ourselves to ensure that there is a clean sweep through all of the US Government?
Diebold has given us a way to do it, and the powers that be keep insisting that it is not possible... Maybe we should just organize it ourselves?
There is no smoke without fire...
Time to grab the fire extinguisher and go see where this smoke is coming from.
In the words of Patriot Act protagonists: "if there is nothing to hide, there is no harm in looking"
If for no other reason than to help settle the country down, for fuck's sake, go do a recount and get it over with, then we can all go back to our regularly scheduled updates on Britany and those others.
And please, Quickly do the recount before these people start asking about where the money for the war was spent.
Bunch of freaking radicals... geesh
Not only might you want to give away unused bandwidth, but look at the reasons people are telling us we should not give it away:
- You might be blamed for illegal file sharing or spamming
- You might be held legally responsible for what other do
- You might be the victim of malicious users
- You might.... nevermind, all the reasons are to protect you from people who would sue you. What does that say about the world?
Lets throw some other analogies out there:
You shouldn't stop to help a stranded motorist because they might attack you or kill you
You shouldn't give people advice because they might sue you for using it badly (lawyers & doctors)
You shouldn't leave objects in your lawn in case someone trips and sues you
you.... getting the picture?
You are NO LONGER free to do as you wish with what is yours because other people control what you do, either directly, or indirectly as a consequence of fear of what they MIGHT do. If gun makers are not responsible for what people do with the products they make, you should NOT be responsible for what people do with the bandwidth you gave them to use.
If we can be held responsible for what happens across our open APs, then the ISP can be held responsible for what goes across its network.
In the end, common sense and reasonable thought dictate that the person who does the spamming or file sharing is responsible. If you leave a gardening tool in your lawn, and a person trips on it and hurts themselves, who is at fault? If you put a bench in your yard where people can sit and rest and some kid pushes another who then falls and cuts his head on the bench, who is at fault?
I know those don't fit perfectly, but the point is that just because you helped to create something, you are NOT responsible for the use of it. Leaving your car unlocked is a good analogy: if someone takes it, they are stealing, and just because you did not do all that you could do to prevent them from taking it does not change the fact that they stole it.
In another thought, holding the AP owner responsible is like trying to treat them as network security experts under the law. Insurance companies, police departments, all sorts of people work to inform you how to stop someone from stealing your property but does anyone do public service announcements to tell you how to stop people from stealing your bandwidth? Can you get insurance to protect you from bandwidth theft? or to compensate you when the **AA are suing you?
Is a bus driver culpable if he drives the bus that a bank robber used to get to the bank he robbed?
This goes on and on, but the point of holding you responsible for what others do with something you gave them (without the intent of doing so for malicious or nefarious reasons) has been proven in court already. Gun makers are not responsible for any deaths that happen from use of their products. Game over.
The submitter obviously understands Google... first link if you search Google for "map 'traveling salesman'" gives you http://gebweb.net/optimap/ ... is that what you mean?
I think there are a lot of people in the world that would not agree with you, but I think your idea has merit. I'd like to see 4 guys who hardly speak good English trying to tell 83 angry people with guns to sit down while they hijack anything, never mind a plane they can't jump out of.
.38 round doesn't have too much velocity after penetrating, and mushrooming inside of a human skull.
:-)
Sure, the decompression thing is kind of mythically scary, but a
Still, I can't see many people going for that kind of thing, but I'm certain that airport security checks would be wildly different
Even if all but 4 passengers were made to check their weapons with their luggage, it would stop anyone from thinking everyone on-board was unarmed, and the would-be hijackers would not know who has the guns. It would make the odds a bit less than 50/50 for successful hijacking.
To hijack successfully, they would HAVE to use guns, and screening for guns is rather less complex than looking for exploding peanut butter. After exposing themselves as hijackers, they only become targets for the secret gun-toting passengers. Without the weapon of surprise, they just become targets.
Sure, that kind of shoot-out scenario is scary to think about, but thinking about it might deter anyone with exploding peanut butter too.
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I'm going to reply to your post, because you made some salient points. It would do us well to remember that the US Navy has a lot of floating data centers. If anyone here thinks that those Naval war vessels are not brimming with electronics, I urge you to think again. In a barge type setup, you can create climate controlled spaces with little difficulty.
As for redundancy, I think you are unsure of how vulnerable land based data centers are currently. Even if you bring in large circuits from competing companies, the chances that the local municipality has organized that they both run main fibers along the same railway is high. Power redundancy? Are you serious? Battery backup and generator backed UPS is all you have anyway.
With a barge setup, your redundancy plan can be to move the whole data center to another area with fiber connections waiting to fire up. In fact, in case of a hurricane, I'd assume that would be the plan anyway. Sure, that means a 24hr downtime, unless you have redundant barges in your plan, in which case it's all a mute argument. If you think 24hr downtime is a long time, try figuring out what Californians just suffered when so many parts of a normally dry network infrastructure were sitting under 3+ feet of water. My company just suffered from that storm last weekend, so don't tell me that land based data centers are less vulnerable.
I think it could well work out wonderfully.
Yes, there are some downsides... I dont' worry about spammers, I worry about NSA operatives going to work for google or facebook. Worse than that is either of those companies going to work for the NSA.
Yes, of course I can just kill my gmail account and not play nicely with the friendly policeman but I'd rather that I don't have to worry about it. More pointedly, I would rather that the control of that 'universal data' be in my hands, and not available for the terminally curious in our government.
Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but given the news lately I don't think the replacement for the current emperor want2be will be any less likely to use the tools of the office to play with my data in ways it was not meant to be played with. Even if the replacements are do-no-evil, there is nothing to stop the less than public soldiers of the government from continuing to mess with my/our data.
Anonymity on the net is not quite what it used to be.
No, of course not. SETI will not stand for any of this metric crap, they are holding out for the square MILE version!
There is nothing that this process will find except for stupid people. That is hardly what they need laws to find. Stupid people are, by definition... well, stupid.
.. very kewl, you can program it to display your favorite team name ... that's just a calculator
Lets think about this for a second: Hmmm, they might inspect my hard drive? Okay, I'll put everything on thumb drives and put it in my checked baggage. What? You think they might check that? Okay, I'll encrypt it as part of a MP3 audio file that plays fine on 'my' mp3 player. This argument goes back and forth till you finally understand that if I WANT to bring electronic documents across the border without you inspecting them, I damn well will do it. In fact, I can get so ingenious about how to do this that it will cost the US government a huge chuck of their budget to search inbound travelers and cause such inconvenience that the tourist industry will be bankrupt in less than a year.
Wow, is that a portable game-boy-girl-thingy? Yes, want to play donkey kong?
Oh, this? it's just an FM radio officer.
oh that? That's just my portable personal air ionizer officer.
Ahhh, yes, these 57 thumb drives are just my MP3 collection... honest
Yes, this is a new camera I got for christmas. yes, that is just a spare battery pack
Oh, this, just a lighter case
Yes, I'm in school
Oh, yes, I'll take off this bolo tie to get through the metal detector, sure
That is my phone charger, yes.
oh, that is just a travel alarm clock.
oh, this, this is one of those personal breathalyzers... so I don't drive drunk.
Yes, silly, I know, but my 3 yr old really thought I should take the tv remote control... kids, shrug
No officer, this laptop does not have a hard drive. company policy requires that it be shipped separately by insured courier to protect proprietary IP kept on it.
No, I don't know the password.
And so it goes until they have to nearly give EVERY passenger a body cavity search to ensure that no 'bad' electronic documents get through the border, and the TSA has become the largest employer of IT staff for checking anything that might be a thumbdrive, and of course the contents of all that possible data storage.
What's next? Searching your GMail account at the border crossing to ensure that6 you did not use it to store encrypted graphics files cleverly named something.xls ?
This is a game that they CANNOT afford to play. It is too easy and to cheap to thwart their efforts. They need to stick to the tried and true 'probable cause' methodology.
Uhmmm, Guess what? some people don't mind paying for automobiles, especially if they are good automobiles. The trouble, my friend, is that not everyone can afford a new high end Hummer, BMW, Lexus, or [your favorite expensive car here]. There is a huge number of cheaper automobiles on the road for a reason. MOST people don't need Photoshop, they need a photo organizer and written instructions on how to connect their camera to the computer.
In the LARGEST portion of home computer use requirements, the Mac does nothing better than a Linux system can, nor does a Windows system for that matter. When users can make an informed decision, Linux is the best option for a huge number of people. Don't tell me that Linux is difficult to use or learn. I know better than to fall for that stupid argument. There is a huge number of home computer users that don't know how to use Windows or OSX, so they will struggle along with whatever OS is on their computer despite your arguments.
The sales issue stem from brand recognition (or lack of) and the sales person's quota target or incentive scheme. Instead of getting Ubuntu for their current hardware, people want to enjoy the feeling of an 'upgrade' since we (MS) have been telling them this is the best way to get better performance for years if not decades. With that buried in the general public's social subconscious, the trip to the store results in a Wintel purchase or a Mac purchase, depending on which guru in a sales uniform they talk to.
You might ask what happened Mayan empire? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_collapse This insect thing might not be so far fetched as you think?
IANA Virus Writer, but if my program had access to the Internet as well as another AP, I'd just download the required image for the next infection on the fly?
http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/11/chantix-and-suicidal-behavior-the-numbers-please/
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/early_comm/varenicline.htm
I take it then that you volunteer to be a test dummy for big pharma?
Yes there is a reason to scare them away. What you think takes only a day to get over is still affecting me after 4 months of NOT taking Chantix. The man who died in Dallas, can't just stop taking it.
I'm also guessing that you are thankful to your god that your mom did not take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide thalidomide to calm her morning sickness.
Perhaps you can help straighten out this 'misguided' blog http://www.vaccinetruth.org/
And that doesn't even cover the tip of the iceburg of bad medicines and food additives that we have 'trusted' our governments or big chemical companies to give us as an alternative to some 'more evil' thing. What kind of sweetener is in your (soft)drinks?
There is NO benign noble ideals behind big pharma. They are in business to make money, NOT well patients.
but are you high?
Remember not that long ago, CHANTIX was the brave new way to kick the smoking habit... until about 30% of the users of this wonder drug started reporting psychotic episodes, and other vaguely torturous symptoms.
That someone found a way to attack the high from cocaine is interesting in the same way that it was interesting when they found they could subdue uncontrollable patients with EST or frontal lobotomy surgery. When it is proven safer than taking aspirin or perhaps eating ice cream, then we can start thinking about it's future uses.
The fact that CHANTIX causes psychotic episodes in so many people means literally that we do not yet understand how the chemical soup in our brains really works. Given a chance, I'd veto the use of this method until it is shown to be safer than eating at McDonald's.
Trust me when I say the pains of withdraw symptoms of nicotine are FAR better than psychotic episodes and not knowing if you are dreaming or awake. The ONLY reason for inventing a vaccine against cocaine is social control or making billions off of the government for their use of it on convicted cocaine users. The latter is the better option as it will provide a continuing revenue stream for the company that successfully patents the vaccine.
Yes, that is what I said. There is no noble intent here. This is yet another big pharma plan to make billions off of the government and people who can ill afford it. Like others have said, what else will it affect? There are tons of related chemicals in life that we really want to keep around that look a lot like cocaine inside the brain. You know that guy on the street corner still wearing his anti-agent orange shirt? Do you want to be him in 30 years?