RatBastard, you are the only other guy I know who 'gets it' about the tactical nature of domestic hijackings. 9-11 was a one-shot. All these security checks at airports are pointless because it can't work again. Morons! I knew how it had gone down the instant I heard about the second plane.
All the governemnt had to do is *tell the people the truth* and the hijack threat was taken care of. You cannot do a 9/11 hijack now, because the passengers will fight like wolverines. Tactically, it was a one-shot deal. Why does nobody see this????? You could still lose planes, but the cooperation the hijackers needed to let them reach the buildings depended on ignorance. Now every passenger knows they must fight.
Why, oh why, does nobody see this obvious fact?
Returning irrelevant results is a dagger aimed at the heart of a search engine. Google rules because it gives *relevant* results. If it fails to do this, some other engine will be the new google. I gave up on 'ask jeeves' and altavista years ago for that very reason.
Actually, I think a good way to avoid malware is to have your OS be a Linux distro like Knoppix which runs from a CD or DVD, ensconced in a glued-shut optical drive. Let the hard drive accept no installs except those you put there yourself. The hard drive would be reserved for data files only (sound, text, video and so on) and all executables would be flushed out at shutdown. Let's face it, it's Windows' registry and its manifold trees of nested directories that make malware so welcome, by giving it hundreds or thousands of places to hide and by allowing it to install itself. A hard drive that is forbidden to hold any executable would seem to solve that problem.
Gretings, I am Govermet Minster of Nigeria, and if you send me your PIN you wil share 20% of 1.3 milion American US dolars that I must retrive. THis wil only take a moment since you are already at your ATM.
My daughter is in college and she's going to be getting $10 an hour for tutoring high school kids in a method called AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination). It includes 'Cornell note taking' and other techniques. She, and the other tutors, indignantly wanted to know why they had not been exposed to this when THEY were in high school. "I'd have probably gone to Harvard," she told me.
That's just one obvious example of how our schools do things much the way they did a century ago, even though we've learned a lot about neuroscience since then. Math, especially, is badly taught here in most schools (rote rule-learning instead of letting kids beat their head against a problem and then giving them the shortcut, a superior approach used in many a foreign classroom).
And then there's the funding mess, what with local property taxes and all. Do you seriously think wealthy elites all want the inner-city ragamuffins to get an equally good education and compete for jobs against their own offspring? Why do you suppose those punitive, distracting high-stakes tests are applied to public schools, but not to private/parochial schools nor homeschoolers?
Jeepers, the schools here are a headache.
This ID theft fiasco is but the tip of the iceberg. ChoicePoint helped throw Florida voters off the registration lists in the infamous 2000 election, and made a pretty penny off 9-11. God knows what else they're up to. See http://www.gregpalast.com/
Quote: "For ChoicePoint, with its 15-billion-plus records on every living and dying being in the United States, Ground Zero would become a profit center lined with gold. Contracts would gush forth from War on Terror fever not hurt by the fact that ChoicePoint did something for George W. Bush that the voters would not: select him as our president." Full article at
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=356&row =0
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RatBastard, you are the only other guy I know who 'gets it' about the tactical nature of domestic hijackings. 9-11 was a one-shot. All these security checks at airports are pointless because it can't work again. Morons! I knew how it had gone down the instant I heard about the second plane.
All the governemnt had to do is *tell the people the truth* and the hijack threat was taken care of. You cannot do a 9/11 hijack now, because the passengers will fight like wolverines. Tactically, it was a one-shot deal. Why does nobody see this????? You could still lose planes, but the cooperation the hijackers needed to let them reach the buildings depended on ignorance. Now every passenger knows they must fight. Why, oh why, does nobody see this obvious fact?
Returning irrelevant results is a dagger aimed at the heart of a search engine. Google rules because it gives *relevant* results. If it fails to do this, some other engine will be the new google. I gave up on 'ask jeeves' and altavista years ago for that very reason.
Actually, I think a good way to avoid malware is to have your OS be a Linux distro like Knoppix which runs from a CD or DVD, ensconced in a glued-shut optical drive. Let the hard drive accept no installs except those you put there yourself. The hard drive would be reserved for data files only (sound, text, video and so on) and all executables would be flushed out at shutdown. Let's face it, it's Windows' registry and its manifold trees of nested directories that make malware so welcome, by giving it hundreds or thousands of places to hide and by allowing it to install itself. A hard drive that is forbidden to hold any executable would seem to solve that problem.
Gretings, I am Govermet Minster of Nigeria, and if you send me your PIN you wil share 20% of 1.3 milion American US dolars that I must retrive. THis wil only take a moment since you are already at your ATM.
I think now of Bleak House, by Dickens. It's about a lawsuit that outlives all its litigants.
My daughter is in college and she's going to be getting $10 an hour for tutoring high school kids in a method called AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination). It includes 'Cornell note taking' and other techniques. She, and the other tutors, indignantly wanted to know why they had not been exposed to this when THEY were in high school. "I'd have probably gone to Harvard," she told me. That's just one obvious example of how our schools do things much the way they did a century ago, even though we've learned a lot about neuroscience since then. Math, especially, is badly taught here in most schools (rote rule-learning instead of letting kids beat their head against a problem and then giving them the shortcut, a superior approach used in many a foreign classroom). And then there's the funding mess, what with local property taxes and all. Do you seriously think wealthy elites all want the inner-city ragamuffins to get an equally good education and compete for jobs against their own offspring? Why do you suppose those punitive, distracting high-stakes tests are applied to public schools, but not to private/parochial schools nor homeschoolers? Jeepers, the schools here are a headache.
This ID theft fiasco is but the tip of the iceberg. ChoicePoint helped throw Florida voters off the registration lists in the infamous 2000 election, and made a pretty penny off 9-11. God knows what else they're up to. See http://www.gregpalast.com/ Quote: "For ChoicePoint, with its 15-billion-plus records on every living and dying being in the United States, Ground Zero would become a profit center lined with gold. Contracts would gush forth from War on Terror fever not hurt by the fact that ChoicePoint did something for George W. Bush that the voters would not: select him as our president." Full article at http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=356&row =0