First thing: yes, we actually do have some limited understanding of how memories are stored in the brain. Are you suggesting the reverse as well, that if we somehow developed memory-transfer technology (still far off, though not outside the realm of possibility) that we could bring our deceased Fido back to life?
What about a dead friend, relative, spouse, etc.? Do you think the same owuld be true?
Disclosure: I happen to believe in the existence of a soul, but perhaps not in the way a typical Judaeo-Christian does.
Okay, well, I also happen to find that pouring through BIND's zone files is a pain. It's one of my pet peeves. Manipulating LDAP can be done with any one of several GUI LDAP clients. Of course, if you need scriptability, there's always ldaptools.
Tangle? Ewwww... You can't get ANY little tight loops in it, and hitting the floor is also a bad plan. Otherwise, you can get little tiny microfractures in it that will make it do strange stuff like that. (Learned that one the HARD WAY many, many moons ago.)
Again, I find myself agreeing with you. I think that no matter how you look at it, you can hardly guarantee equality of outcome anyway. Just MHO, though.
Furthermore, that guy is a twit. There's a lot more to 'fair' in any given society than how big your personal pile of resources (money whatever other form they take) happens to be.
Agreed. That decision needs to be made by the organization's administrative staff in collaboration with their IT department. Just like in a real enterprise.
Check out this site, which has Thompson's own words. ALso note that Thompson's book Out of Harms Way is published by Tyndale House, which is publishing house well known for producing Fundamentalist Christian books such as Tim LaHaye's Left Behind.
Trust me, I wouldn't make such a comment without knowing what I'm talking about.
I'd amend that as "as long as there are those who are both greedy and short sighted there will never be utopia." Enlightened self interest usually coincides with everyone else's self interest.
How postively Thelemic of you.:)
But, generally, yes, I agree totally. Unfoprtunately, short-sightedness is one of those things that often goes hand-in-hand with greediness. How many times do we look at stupid mistakes made by tech companies and roll our eyes and just say "Greed and stupidity, again."
Others here suggested that MS give any kind of AV away free, I think that's a good Idea as well, I miss the simplicity of "msav." MS might be able to protect their own files as they know all of them, they know the count, the size, the location, but there's really no way in hell they can know what some programmer releases on a daily basis. To blindly remove such files would be unacceptable.
Well, if applications were forced to use MSI installers, Microsoft could make the setup routines such that all of thati information was logged. Furthermore, the system should, by default, refuse to install applications that aren't signed with a certificate from a reputable root CA.
It is their DUTY to release that kind of thing FREE as they all deal with fixing their own products flaws.
Or, more correctly, their software shouldn't be so exploitable.
If Microsoft really wants to release a great OS product for Windows V8, they need stop worrying about vendor lock-in, "checklist features", DRM, eye candy, and other useless stuff that they focused on for Vista and focus all of their attention on making the OS secure. Start from the ground up if they need to.
In the end, anti-virus protection should be more about system integrity checking and less about pattern matching for known viruses.
Then again, they've never done that before, so why should we expect them to start now?
Where's Drew Berrymore so she can step in and convince Lucas we should take this chance to replace all the scary whips in Indiana Jones with licorice sticks.
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First thing: yes, we actually do have some limited understanding of how memories are stored in the brain. Are you suggesting the reverse as well, that if we somehow developed memory-transfer technology (still far off, though not outside the realm of possibility) that we could bring our deceased Fido back to life?
What about a dead friend, relative, spouse, etc.? Do you think the same owuld be true?
Disclosure: I happen to believe in the existence of a soul, but perhaps not in the way a typical Judaeo-Christian does.
Two words: Johnny Mnemonic.
I once had a boss who really did this and thought it was a good way to protect secret information. No, I am not making this up.
Okay, well, I also happen to find that pouring through BIND's zone files is a pain. It's one of my pet peeves. Manipulating LDAP can be done with any one of several GUI LDAP clients. Of course, if you need scriptability, there's always ldaptools.
Tangle? Ewwww... You can't get ANY little tight loops in it, and hitting the floor is also a bad plan. Otherwise, you can get little tiny microfractures in it that will make it do strange stuff like that. (Learned that one the HARD WAY many, many moons ago.)
Again, I find myself agreeing with you. I think that no matter how you look at it, you can hardly guarantee equality of outcome anyway. Just MHO, though.
Furthermore, that guy is a twit. There's a lot more to 'fair' in any given society than how big your personal pile of resources (money whatever other form they take) happens to be.
Agreed. That decision needs to be made by the organization's administrative staff in collaboration with their IT department. Just like in a real enterprise.
Check out this site, which has Thompson's own words. ALso note that Thompson's book Out of Harms Way is published by Tyndale House, which is publishing house well known for producing Fundamentalist Christian books such as Tim LaHaye's Left Behind.
Trust me, I wouldn't make such a comment without knowing what I'm talking about.
But, generally, yes, I agree totally. Unfoprtunately, short-sightedness is one of those things that often goes hand-in-hand with greediness. How many times do we look at stupid mistakes made by tech companies and roll our eyes and just say "Greed and stupidity, again."
The man is a Fundamentalist Christian who believes he received guidance from God to eliminate video games.
No, seriously.
Utopia doesn't exist, will not exist ... ever. Human nature creates greed. As long as there are those who are greedy, there will never be utopia.
*sigh* Piracy isn't steali....HEY! Who took my BELLY BUTTON! GODDAMMIT!!!
Not that Charlie.
*sigh*
Think, man, think. What movies have Drew Berrymore been in in the last few years?
Don't feed the trolls. Read what he wrote. He's obviously one of those Microsoft astroturfers that's been here the last couple of years.
If Microsoft really wants to release a great OS product for Windows V8, they need stop worrying about vendor lock-in, "checklist features", DRM, eye candy, and other useless stuff that they focused on for Vista and focus all of their attention on making the OS secure. Start from the ground up if they need to.
In the end, anti-virus protection should be more about system integrity checking and less about pattern matching for known viruses.
Then again, they've never done that before, so why should we expect them to start now?
That could take a long time with a very large DNS database.
Harrison Ford is too old, Shia LeBeouf is too young to even remember the original Indiana Jones movies, and the Crystal Skull looked fake.
Next.
In fact, there exists a Python module just for that purpose, and I'm pretty sure it's in the default Python distribution.