From the reaction shots in the audience, particularly that of Will Smith and his family, I did not get the impression that the majority were in the "You go girl!" camp. Most seemed shocked, a few started to fully comprehend what they were seeing and they were not pleased. Cyrus may have gained some "cred" with her intended audience, but somehow I think there are a few Hollywood parties that she won't be invited to.
Nobody was going out of their way to be offended. A couple of fucking morons (likely of the same ilk as you) got up on stage and were deliberately offensive, and are now being defended because, um, being a fucking pig in public is okay as long as it's a, y'know, joke.
So whenever you manage to get yourself a girlfriend, I'll be sure to come up and make fun of her tits and her ass, but it'll be okay and you and her can't be offended because, well, y'know, it's all in fun.
I naturally assume when I go to any conference that it's going to be a "mixed" audience. Thus, if I'm giving a presentation, I behave in a fashion that should bring as little offense as possible. That means no sexual innuendo, no bathroom humor or any other boorish behavior. Like I said, it's part of being an adult. What you can get away with when you're with your buddies working on your fifth beer and what you should expect is normal behavior in front of a large audience of professionals are two different things. If you have not learned that by the time you're an adult, then you've got some heavy social ostracism coming your way.
The problem here is that either because their Aspies, or just immature pricks, some people don't comprehend that everything has a time and a place. That was not the time or the place
To fully secure our VPN, I've now built a CA on a non-Internet connected machine which sits behind lock and key. I use it to create SSL certificates for our VPN routers. I'm not building these Certs for Joe Average to connect to my servers, I'm building them so I can be sure that communications between my VPN endpoints is secure, and by securing the CA I can be certain that the likelihood of anyone, including the NSA, can break into my VPN tunnels with any kind of non-local exploit is low to nil.
So, don't use them. It's trivially easy to build your own secure CA. Whatever technical prowess the NSA may have (and I'm sure they probably have more than any other single organization on the planet), the likelihood that they're going to be able to crack encrypted communications using keys you've signed with your own private CA are pretty bloody low.
Yes, it goes without saying that the supreme weakness of key-based encryption is that you're only as secure as the security of the signing keys themselves.
The proper way to do it is to have your CAs sitting on a non-network connected computer sitting in a secure location, with as few individuals having access as possible. Obviously that's not 100%, as the NSA could still show up with a warrant, but you're going to know when you've been compromised, which is, really, the whole point behind proper key management.
Hey, I have an idea. Let's all firmly lodge our heads up our asses and make believe that not studying potential health threats means there won't be any health threats.
Not me. I wouldn't host anything I didn't care about on any server he had any control over, let alone something important. The guy is a crook, pure and simple.
I agree in general. Buying Nokia is like buying a dying horse. Sure, maybe it will get you a few more miles, but at the end of the day the horse is still dying. Unless MS plans on using Nokia's patents to try to smack down competition, I fail to see how this will suddenly make them THE smart device manufacturer. And frankly, if Nokia's patents were that valuable, Nokia would have done it by now themselves.
If Microsoft can't get anyone to buy Nokia devices with RT on them right now, how will buying Nokia better place Microsoft to take on Google and Apple?
I'm quite myopic due to astigmatism (I have misshapen eyeballs, which also have me at a much higher risk of detached retinas). There is no using my eyes another way. Before the invention of corrective lenses, I would have been functionally blind beyond perhaps 36 to 48 inches. There's no fix, no magic eyeball situps. I have no idea what you've read, but it ain't reality.
The thing is that we have evidence that even Neandertals looked after their sick. Sure there were some societies like the Spartans who used eugenics of some kind to strengthen the master race, but even in the Classical world they were viewed with a measure of fear and loathing (and ultimately it didn't help them when the Romans came rolling into town).
I can't believe I'm defending ST:TNG, but the whole point of that episode is that LaForge, despite his birth defect, was still one of the most, if not the most competent non-android on The Enterprise. Sure, his visor allowed him to see, so technology bridged the gap (and then some, frankly I couldn't figure out why everyone in the Federation wasn't using them), but LaForge was a highly intelligent man. His blindness didn't make him less intelligent.
My great-grandmother was totally blind from about the age of nine. She lived to be in her early 90s, lead a pretty amazing life, not to mention being one of my sires (which I'm very grateful for). She didn't super-duper technobabble glasses, but she had ropes strung around her yard to guide her along along with other ingenious aids that allowed her to function, and lived on her own for six or seven years after her second husband died until about six months before she died. She cooked, she cleaned and raised two children. She was also an incredible musician who could play just about any damned instrument; violin, concertina, guitar, piano, recorder. I feel very lucky that I got to know her.
The one thing I learned from all of this is that you cannot tell what a person, even with some fairly substantial disability will be capable of. I don't want to live in the kind of society that would have viewed that woman as a burden.
The Canadian Shield is an extension of the Appalachians. The region I'm talking about is the north of the prairie provinces and the Northwest Territories, which are an extension of the Great Plains. There's a helluva lot of territory between the Rockies and the Canadian shield.
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From the reaction shots in the audience, particularly that of Will Smith and his family, I did not get the impression that the majority were in the "You go girl!" camp. Most seemed shocked, a few started to fully comprehend what they were seeing and they were not pleased. Cyrus may have gained some "cred" with her intended audience, but somehow I think there are a few Hollywood parties that she won't be invited to.
Nobody was going out of their way to be offended. A couple of fucking morons (likely of the same ilk as you) got up on stage and were deliberately offensive, and are now being defended because, um, being a fucking pig in public is okay as long as it's a, y'know, joke.
So whenever you manage to get yourself a girlfriend, I'll be sure to come up and make fun of her tits and her ass, but it'll be okay and you and her can't be offended because, well, y'know, it's all in fun.
I naturally assume when I go to any conference that it's going to be a "mixed" audience. Thus, if I'm giving a presentation, I behave in a fashion that should bring as little offense as possible. That means no sexual innuendo, no bathroom humor or any other boorish behavior. Like I said, it's part of being an adult. What you can get away with when you're with your buddies working on your fifth beer and what you should expect is normal behavior in front of a large audience of professionals are two different things. If you have not learned that by the time you're an adult, then you've got some heavy social ostracism coming your way.
The problem here is that either because their Aspies, or just immature pricks, some people don't comprehend that everything has a time and a place. That was not the time or the place
Part of being a functional adult is being able to navigate the society you live in. Telling tit jokes to a mixed audience is not adult behavior.
I use OpenVPN and OpenSSH for building tunnels.
To fully secure our VPN, I've now built a CA on a non-Internet connected machine which sits behind lock and key. I use it to create SSL certificates for our VPN routers. I'm not building these Certs for Joe Average to connect to my servers, I'm building them so I can be sure that communications between my VPN endpoints is secure, and by securing the CA I can be certain that the likelihood of anyone, including the NSA, can break into my VPN tunnels with any kind of non-local exploit is low to nil.
So, don't use them. It's trivially easy to build your own secure CA. Whatever technical prowess the NSA may have (and I'm sure they probably have more than any other single organization on the planet), the likelihood that they're going to be able to crack encrypted communications using keys you've signed with your own private CA are pretty bloody low.
Yes, it goes without saying that the supreme weakness of key-based encryption is that you're only as secure as the security of the signing keys themselves.
The proper way to do it is to have your CAs sitting on a non-network connected computer sitting in a secure location, with as few individuals having access as possible. Obviously that's not 100%, as the NSA could still show up with a warrant, but you're going to know when you've been compromised, which is, really, the whole point behind proper key management.
And yet it doesn't sell...
At what point does a company admit the jig is up?
Yes, we must stop the Larrying of language.
Hey, I have an idea. Let's all firmly lodge our heads up our asses and make believe that not studying potential health threats means there won't be any health threats.
Not me. I wouldn't host anything I didn't care about on any server he had any control over, let alone something important. The guy is a crook, pure and simple.
I agree in general. Buying Nokia is like buying a dying horse. Sure, maybe it will get you a few more miles, but at the end of the day the horse is still dying. Unless MS plans on using Nokia's patents to try to smack down competition, I fail to see how this will suddenly make them THE smart device manufacturer. And frankly, if Nokia's patents were that valuable, Nokia would have done it by now themselves.
If Microsoft can't get anyone to buy Nokia devices with RT on them right now, how will buying Nokia better place Microsoft to take on Google and Apple?
And what if Canada and Russia don't want a bunch of foreigners living on their territory?
Ah yes, the solipsists come out to play. How do you know I exist, or anyone else?
Never was a more pointless philosophy put forward.
I'm quite myopic due to astigmatism (I have misshapen eyeballs, which also have me at a much higher risk of detached retinas). There is no using my eyes another way. Before the invention of corrective lenses, I would have been functionally blind beyond perhaps 36 to 48 inches. There's no fix, no magic eyeball situps. I have no idea what you've read, but it ain't reality.
Um, because they want to study climate? Oddly enough, people enter scientific fields to do science.
The thing is that we have evidence that even Neandertals looked after their sick. Sure there were some societies like the Spartans who used eugenics of some kind to strengthen the master race, but even in the Classical world they were viewed with a measure of fear and loathing (and ultimately it didn't help them when the Romans came rolling into town).
I can't believe I'm defending ST:TNG, but the whole point of that episode is that LaForge, despite his birth defect, was still one of the most, if not the most competent non-android on The Enterprise. Sure, his visor allowed him to see, so technology bridged the gap (and then some, frankly I couldn't figure out why everyone in the Federation wasn't using them), but LaForge was a highly intelligent man. His blindness didn't make him less intelligent.
My great-grandmother was totally blind from about the age of nine. She lived to be in her early 90s, lead a pretty amazing life, not to mention being one of my sires (which I'm very grateful for). She didn't super-duper technobabble glasses, but she had ropes strung around her yard to guide her along along with other ingenious aids that allowed her to function, and lived on her own for six or seven years after her second husband died until about six months before she died. She cooked, she cleaned and raised two children. She was also an incredible musician who could play just about any damned instrument; violin, concertina, guitar, piano, recorder. I feel very lucky that I got to know her.
The one thing I learned from all of this is that you cannot tell what a person, even with some fairly substantial disability will be capable of. I don't want to live in the kind of society that would have viewed that woman as a burden.
They probably aren't closet Nazis masturbating to Stormfront literature.
Have some pity on your mother.
So because international cooperation is really hard, climatologists aren't worried? That's just about the most tortured logic I've ever seen.
The Canadian Shield is an extension of the Appalachians. The region I'm talking about is the north of the prairie provinces and the Northwest Territories, which are an extension of the Great Plains. There's a helluva lot of territory between the Rockies and the Canadian shield.
Fallacy of the False Equivalence
It figures on top of everything else, you can't even make a cogent argument.