As to your last part, I'm tired of that damned argument. These kids willingly joined the army, yes to pay for college, but they were told repeatedly and voluntarily swore an oath (no fucking fine print) that when the U.S. goes to war, they will probably have to ship off and if that is the case, there is nothing they can do about it. I feel little sympathy for these kids, I mean it sucks over there but you did sign up with the military, what did you expect? Why didn't you go for the National Guard, hmm? Your chances of being deployed over seas to hostile combat zone are dramatically reduced in that organization.
This is one heck of a strawman. If you ask most of the dissenters in the military, they'll tell you that they would fight in Afghanistan which they believe is a just war over 9/11 but most consider Iraq an unjust war of aggression that isn't fighting for the benefit of American.
Secondly, there are National Guard units in Iraq so that suggestion is ignorant.
Two of those three "examples" happened on television. During regular news programming.
Because if it wasn't for the web, these videos would have been swept under the rug rather quickley and we wouldn't have been able to posts links on blogs to youtube.
Remember, most kids these days get their news from the Dailyshow or not at all.
IANAL, but how effective can any sort of lawsuit against the government be these days? Isn't it the same government that runs the courts?
In most despotic nations this would be the case, but the founding fathers of the United States had in mind all too well of what happens when the government owns all three branches (legislative, executive, and judicial) and puts them to use (like the Egnlish crown).
So they went about creating a system in which each of the three groups would "check and ballance" each other out... So the President couldn't own the congress and courts at the same time...
Unfortunatley, they overestimated the power of corruptions and now we face something that appears to be the Founding Father's worst nightmare.
That's just fucking retarded. People have trouble driving while "reading" the road and traffic conditions. Why split their concentration any more?
Of course if we get a winner at DARPA Urban Grand Challenge 2007, this might be a moot point by 2015 when most new cars have their own automated driving systems.
Of course this would make the inboard dash device a pointless thing because if you don't need to pay attention to driving then you could just use a regular laptop on the road.
If they games are fun and the PS3 doesn't break easy and doesn't have bugs that causes freezes and lockups or have massive DRM lockouts on things you've purchases legit, then why do we need a public spokes person?
The casual gamer doesn't care and it is only a few hardcore gamers that watch the press conferences.
I've said this before and I'll say it a again... No matter how well you do at E3 nor how many millions you dump into marketing campaigns... If your games are boring and the system has to be sent to repair shop every 6 months, it won't change this fact.
Even then, what Sony needs isn't a real person. They need an icon like Mario, Master Chief, or Sonic.
No is going to buy a PS3 because some friendly happy human face danced around on stage screaming "MASSIVE DAMAGE! RIIIIDDGEEE RAAAACEEER!"
This reminds me of when I took my A+ certs back in the 90's when you still had to memorize the acroynyms and what they stood like PCI, ISA, SCSI, and EISA,that other properietary standard IBM used (that I can't remember even the acronym...I remember what they looked like... those special blue slot cards), and maybe a dozen other legacy technology names and things.
But yet during my job at any place... Anywhere... No one ever questioned about what the actual acronym but rather what the difference was... As in... PCI was the new faster standard on ATX motherboards and ISA was the long black slots for older systems (even though you couldn't buy a new computer at that point without both).
These days I can't remember any of them except International Standards Association and I'm assuming EISA is Enchandced? (I even kept an EISA card around to show off to people).
So I think people don't really need to remember what the acronym really says, but what the technology does, because otherwise its a waste of space in your brain in 5 years when the technology is no longer in use.
If I agree to sell you my house for $20, I can't come back later and claim fraud.
Well if you said the kitchen sink magically dispensed orange soda and I gave you the $20 for the sole purpose of owning a house that dispensed orange soda, and as soon as I hand you the money and rush into the kitchen only to find the sink dispensing rotten yogurt... I'm going to ask my money back.
Same here... You can sell something and claim it has "X" value and does "X" amount of whatever action and I buy it and it does't work, the buyer does have some type of recourse because in the contract you said it claimed to do those things...
I would think Newscorps lawyers reviewed the sale with a fine tooth comb.
"Don't put anything on the internet that you wouldn't be comfortable shouting across a crowded room."
The problem with this is that companies are taking my information without consent and shouting it all day long over the PA system and bullhorns at a croweded Football stadium.
Most of this information I never put up on the internet myself... It wouldn't bother me other than the fact someone can take it and run my credit score into the ground and/or possibly get me arrested for things I didn't do.
Most of the hardware costs would be there anyway as part of a normal IT refresh cycle. So I call BS.
Actually the hardware costs are minimal to what it will cost to retrain employees on the new software.
Do you know how many people were thrown off in vista by missing the "settings" under the start button? Not to mention the hundreds of people we had to retrain on how to do mail merges when they changed it between Word 2000 and Word 2002/2003.
The average office worker isn't inclined to change the way he does things and won't go out and learn on his own without the company helping him. Often times the people at the Help Desk will constantly have to answer and retrain these people and aren't able to do the things they should be doing like hardware repairs and network problems.
Arent you essentially killing the person and reassembling their likeness in a remote location?
Well if you believe in Quantum Immortality then if the teloporation does kill your concioussness the teleporter will fail to work and if it doesn't then you are teleported along with your concioussness.
Of course I don't know what happens if you are teleported into a brick wall...
I ask that you use the proper capitalization of American when slamming my nation's environmental record, sir.
When we are sitting on beach front property in Airzona, wearing oxygen tanks to breathe, wearing bio-suits covered in lead to keep the solar radiation and acid rain out... Not to mention that it is 250 degrees out... I will remind you where all the proper use of capitalization got us.
Many people know what MAD means. However they can't quite graps WHAT it means. Defcon can kind of show you that. When it announces a"winner" it almost feel sarcastic to me. Then you look at your casualties.
I'm addicted to Defcon and realized I have started to think like the guys at Norad. I consider having more than 50 million people left a victory.
My goal is to simply find and destroy all silos first through conventional weaponry and save my silos for the very last moment... Which means I sacrifice a few cities in the process by not defending them.
Often times this is sucessful and I can use subs and bombers to hit the silos before they can launch more than 5 nukes in which my missle defense units can handle.
However, if they get 6 nukes in the air at any given target, my systems are hard pressed to get them all.
That said, I know that 6+ nukes at any target will get through if I time it so they all fire within 10 seconds of each other. That and if the sub is close enough to the city, I don't even have to shoot more than one nuke.
It makes me wonder if the strategists sitting in bunkers in the Rocky Mountains or in Siberia had pondered on these same issues... How many millions of people are we willing to let die in order to win? Or how many do we need to kill?
Defcon has a neat system of genocide vs survival mode in which one game you try to kill as many wheras the other you try to take as less casualties as possible. I've been doing a few Diplomacy games, but those never work out because someone drops and everyone just hits the AI...
I really hate this popular Slashdot myth that viruses only exist because OSes are designed improperly.
However, I think it would more correct to say that viruses only exist in the wild at their current magnitude due to OSes being designed improperly.
Most modern viruses would not have been as bad as they were had everyone not been running as root and processes were allowed to execute automatically and invisibly.
To give an example... Before WinXP service pack 1, there was an exploit where you would get infected by having a direct connection to the internet. (Albeit microsoft did release patches a few months before the virus hit) Otherwise known as the Blaster Worm.
How can you fault any user for being infected by connecting to the internet? That was 100% non-social engineering exploit.
If those kind of problems are dealt with, then the social engineering ones will be watered down or at least minimized in their impact.
you have to also assume that the specification itself provides significant insight into some "whiz-bang" hardware implementation that Intel doesn't want to be common knowledge
Of course many people say... "But NAT adds extra security for my home network."
And we have to repeat our mantra NAT is not a firewall!
Its just security through obscurity and most NAT routers come with firewalls built in. I'm sure the day when you can go to CompUSA and buy an Linksys IPv6 router, it will come built in with a firewall.
We can argue whether Apple should or should not play with Greenpeace, but I don't think that it's proper to say that "Apple is not as environmentally friendly as Dell."
Unfortunatley Greepeace, like PETA, is borderline "terrorist" group in its tactics and unilaterialism. I'm for all being nice to animals, drinking clean water, and breathing clean air and forcing corporations to comply, but some of their hostile actions really turn off moderates and centrists.
It's the same thing with these black-hat hackers. I wouldn't trust them in top positions in security related IT jobs or in less-sensitive general business jobs.
The problem with this is we are not taking into consideration those who either the person commited a crime and never was caught and those who can lie well and have really good lawyers that can get them out of said crimes even though they were guilty as hell.
At the same time, just because you commited a crime shouldn't make you automatically rejected from the job.
As if you were convicted of a DUI, I could see why they wouldn't hire you as a bus driver, but at the same time there is no reason that should be taken into account for a desk job writing code.
Also... I always give people the benefit of the doubt. If someone commited a crime 10 years ago when they were a teenager or a twenty something... And haven't had a record since, then chances are they have overcome their difficulties in the past.
No. Space travel is a temporary situation. It will cost too much and become unfeasible in the next 50 - 100 years.
Really, what happens when the sun dies out? Or the earth's core cools off resulting in no magnetic field which will lead to the atmosphere evaporating into space?
Won't be anyone around if we haven't traveled into space...
But I suppose it would be a moot point if no one was around to care that all the humans died off.
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As to your last part, I'm tired of that damned argument. These kids willingly joined the army, yes to pay for college, but they were told repeatedly and voluntarily swore an oath (no fucking fine print) that when the U.S. goes to war, they will probably have to ship off and if that is the case, there is nothing they can do about it. I feel little sympathy for these kids, I mean it sucks over there but you did sign up with the military, what did you expect? Why didn't you go for the National Guard, hmm? Your chances of being deployed over seas to hostile combat zone are dramatically reduced in that organization.
This is one heck of a strawman. If you ask most of the dissenters in the military, they'll tell you that they would fight in Afghanistan which they believe is a just war over 9/11 but most consider Iraq an unjust war of aggression that isn't fighting for the benefit of American.
Secondly, there are National Guard units in Iraq so that suggestion is ignorant.
Two of those three "examples" happened on television. During regular news programming.
Because if it wasn't for the web, these videos would have been swept under the rug rather quickley and we wouldn't have been able to posts links on blogs to youtube.
Remember, most kids these days get their news from the Dailyshow or not at all.
IANAL, but how effective can any sort of lawsuit against the government be these days? Isn't it the same government that runs the courts?
In most despotic nations this would be the case, but the founding fathers of the United States had in mind all too well of what happens when the government owns all three branches (legislative, executive, and judicial) and puts them to use (like the Egnlish crown).
So they went about creating a system in which each of the three groups would "check and ballance" each other out... So the President couldn't own the congress and courts at the same time...
Unfortunatley, they overestimated the power of corruptions and now we face something that appears to be the Founding Father's worst nightmare.
If your voice calls are transcribed by a machine, but nobody submits a query to the database that retrieves your transcript, were you wiretapped?
;)
Does a machine have Buddha-nature or not?
Is YouTube really worth that much to them though?
Maybe their "Don't be evil" clause also means keeping YouTube out of the hands of Newscorp.
That's just fucking retarded. People have trouble driving while "reading" the road and traffic conditions. Why split their concentration any more?
Of course if we get a winner at DARPA Urban Grand Challenge 2007, this might be a moot point by 2015 when most new cars have their own automated driving systems.
Of course this would make the inboard dash device a pointless thing because if you don't need to pay attention to driving then you could just use a regular laptop on the road.
Sony does need a human face.
I have to ask this... Why?
If they games are fun and the PS3 doesn't break easy and doesn't have bugs that causes freezes and lockups or have massive DRM lockouts on things you've purchases legit, then why do we need a public spokes person?
The casual gamer doesn't care and it is only a few hardcore gamers that watch the press conferences.
I've said this before and I'll say it a again... No matter how well you do at E3 nor how many millions you dump into marketing campaigns... If your games are boring and the system has to be sent to repair shop every 6 months, it won't change this fact.
Even then, what Sony needs isn't a real person. They need an icon like Mario, Master Chief, or Sonic.
No is going to buy a PS3 because some friendly happy human face danced around on stage screaming "MASSIVE DAMAGE! RIIIIDDGEEE RAAAACEEER!"
Hey thanks for the links!
So um... What exactly do we need to protect with all that security at the United States Forest Service?
This reminds me of when I took my A+ certs back in the 90's when you still had to memorize the acroynyms and what they stood like PCI, ISA, SCSI, and EISA,that other properietary standard IBM used (that I can't remember even the acronym...I remember what they looked like... those special blue slot cards), and maybe a dozen other legacy technology names and things.
But yet during my job at any place... Anywhere... No one ever questioned about what the actual acronym but rather what the difference was... As in... PCI was the new faster standard on ATX motherboards and ISA was the long black slots for older systems (even though you couldn't buy a new computer at that point without both).
These days I can't remember any of them except International Standards Association and I'm assuming EISA is Enchandced? (I even kept an EISA card around to show off to people).
So I think people don't really need to remember what the acronym really says, but what the technology does, because otherwise its a waste of space in your brain in 5 years when the technology is no longer in use.
If I agree to sell you my house for $20, I can't come back later and claim fraud.
Well if you said the kitchen sink magically dispensed orange soda and I gave you the $20 for the sole purpose of owning a house that dispensed orange soda, and as soon as I hand you the money and rush into the kitchen only to find the sink dispensing rotten yogurt... I'm going to ask my money back.
Same here... You can sell something and claim it has "X" value and does "X" amount of whatever action and I buy it and it does't work, the buyer does have some type of recourse because in the contract you said it claimed to do those things...
I would think Newscorps lawyers reviewed the sale with a fine tooth comb.
"Don't put anything on the internet that you wouldn't be comfortable shouting across a crowded room."
The problem with this is that companies are taking my information without consent and shouting it all day long over the PA system and bullhorns at a croweded Football stadium.
Most of this information I never put up on the internet myself... It wouldn't bother me other than the fact someone can take it and run my credit score into the ground and/or possibly get me arrested for things I didn't do.
Most of the hardware costs would be there anyway as part of a normal IT refresh cycle. So I call BS.
Actually the hardware costs are minimal to what it will cost to retrain employees on the new software.
Do you know how many people were thrown off in vista by missing the "settings" under the start button? Not to mention the hundreds of people we had to retrain on how to do mail merges when they changed it between Word 2000 and Word 2002/2003.
The average office worker isn't inclined to change the way he does things and won't go out and learn on his own without the company helping him. Often times the people at the Help Desk will constantly have to answer and retrain these people and aren't able to do the things they should be doing like hardware repairs and network problems.
I can't believe why so many Slashdotters are complaining about the decision to limit internet access for a product that isn't activated/paid.
The beef that we have is given MS's track record, this will most likley happen when we have actually paid for the product.
Not to mention the fact that pirates would have simply used a crack to bypass this limitation leaving legit customers out to dry.
I'll suffer with OS X (which I also despise as a desktop OS), Linux, and my current interation of XP (heavily firewalled).
You don't like computers very much, do you?
Arent you essentially killing the person and reassembling their likeness in a remote location?
Well if you believe in Quantum Immortality then if the teloporation does kill your concioussness the teleporter will fail to work and if it doesn't then you are teleported along with your concioussness.
Of course I don't know what happens if you are teleported into a brick wall...
I ask that you use the proper capitalization of American when slamming my nation's environmental record, sir.
When we are sitting on beach front property in Airzona, wearing oxygen tanks to breathe, wearing bio-suits covered in lead to keep the solar radiation and acid rain out... Not to mention that it is 250 degrees out... I will remind you where all the proper use of capitalization got us.
Many people know what MAD means. However they can't quite graps WHAT it means. Defcon can kind of show you that. When it announces a"winner" it almost feel sarcastic to me. Then you look at your casualties.
I'm addicted to Defcon and realized I have started to think like the guys at Norad. I consider having more than 50 million people left a victory.
My goal is to simply find and destroy all silos first through conventional weaponry and save my silos for the very last moment... Which means I sacrifice a few cities in the process by not defending them.
Often times this is sucessful and I can use subs and bombers to hit the silos before they can launch more than 5 nukes in which my missle defense units can handle.
However, if they get 6 nukes in the air at any given target, my systems are hard pressed to get them all.
That said, I know that 6+ nukes at any target will get through if I time it so they all fire within 10 seconds of each other. That and if the sub is close enough to the city, I don't even have to shoot more than one nuke.
It makes me wonder if the strategists sitting in bunkers in the Rocky Mountains or in Siberia had pondered on these same issues... How many millions of people are we willing to let die in order to win? Or how many do we need to kill?
Defcon has a neat system of genocide vs survival mode in which one game you try to kill as many wheras the other you try to take as less casualties as possible. I've been doing a few Diplomacy games, but those never work out because someone drops and everyone just hits the AI...
I really hate this popular Slashdot myth that viruses only exist because OSes are designed improperly.
However, I think it would more correct to say that viruses only exist in the wild at their current magnitude due to OSes being designed improperly.
Most modern viruses would not have been as bad as they were had everyone not been running as root and processes were allowed to execute automatically and invisibly.
To give an example... Before WinXP service pack 1, there was an exploit where you would get infected by having a direct connection to the internet. (Albeit microsoft did release patches a few months before the virus hit) Otherwise known as the Blaster Worm.
How can you fault any user for being infected by connecting to the internet? That was 100% non-social engineering exploit.
If those kind of problems are dealt with, then the social engineering ones will be watered down or at least minimized in their impact.
you have to also assume that the specification itself provides significant insight into some "whiz-bang" hardware implementation that Intel doesn't want to be common knowledge
Shouldn't a patent be enough to cover this?
what are the most obvious benefits of ipv6?
No more NAT.
Of course many people say... "But NAT adds extra security for my home network."
And we have to repeat our mantra NAT is not a firewall!
Its just security through obscurity and most NAT routers come with firewalls built in. I'm sure the day when you can go to CompUSA and buy an Linksys IPv6 router, it will come built in with a firewall.
People change their minds, sometimes it's for the best, others it's not... it's not a bad thing
So if I decide to change my mind on the practice of "eating of small children" it isn't a bad thing?
But I think the point of the matter was that these people said they would not change their minds. Which is still lying.
If they had said... Right now we aren't going to use ads, but later we may do so then they broke no promise.
And yes... When you break a promise, it is a bad thing.
Unless of course that promise was to eat as many small children you could get your hands on.
We can argue whether Apple should or should not play with Greenpeace, but I don't think that it's proper to say that "Apple is not as environmentally friendly as Dell."
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Unfortunatley Greepeace, like PETA, is borderline "terrorist" group in its tactics and unilaterialism. I'm for all being nice to animals, drinking clean water, and breathing clean air and forcing corporations to comply, but some of their hostile actions really turn off moderates and centrists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace#Criticism
It's the same thing with these black-hat hackers. I wouldn't trust them in top positions in security related IT jobs or in less-sensitive general business jobs.
The problem with this is we are not taking into consideration those who either the person commited a crime and never was caught and those who can lie well and have really good lawyers that can get them out of said crimes even though they were guilty as hell.
At the same time, just because you commited a crime shouldn't make you automatically rejected from the job.
As if you were convicted of a DUI, I could see why they wouldn't hire you as a bus driver, but at the same time there is no reason that should be taken into account for a desk job writing code.
Also... I always give people the benefit of the doubt. If someone commited a crime 10 years ago when they were a teenager or a twenty something... And haven't had a record since, then chances are they have overcome their difficulties in the past.
No. Space travel is a temporary situation. It will cost too much and become unfeasible in the next 50 - 100 years.
Really, what happens when the sun dies out? Or the earth's core cools off resulting in no magnetic field which will lead to the atmosphere evaporating into space?
Won't be anyone around if we haven't traveled into space...
But I suppose it would be a moot point if no one was around to care that all the humans died off.