I suggest you visit this site and relive the tragedy.
From the site (emphasis mine):
Tuesday, Dec. 12--The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore 7-2 to reverse the Florida Supreme Court, which had ordered manual recounts in certain counties. The Court contends that the recount was not treating all ballots equally, and was thus a violation of the Constitution's equal protection and due process guarantees. The Supreme Court of Florida would be required to set up new voting standards and carry them out in a recount. The justices, however, split 5-4 along partisan lines about implementing a remedy. Five justices maintain that this process and the recount must adhere to the official deadline for certifying electoral college votes: midnight, Dec. 12; other justices question the importance of this date. Since the Court makes its ruling just hours before the deadline, it in effect ensures that it is too late for a recount. The decision generates enormous controversy. Those objecting to the ruling assert that the Supreme Court, and not the electorate, has effectively determined the outcome of the presidential election. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writes in a scathing dissent, "the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States.
My bet is, that there are encoded messages amongst that. One of the best ways to hide something is to place it in all the noise rather than trying to encrypt with lots of security.
What the GP is pointing out is that Dubya & Company will cite chapter and verse when it suits their interests, but have absolutely no problem ignoring the same chapter and verse the instant they find it inconvenient.
By the way, Dubya & Company don't need to use the military to 'guard' polling places...they've already got that covered.
No...we elected him once. The first time he took office, he was appointed by the Supreme Court (a national first, not to mention thoroughly unconstitutional and illegal.
Action should have been taken there and then to stop this malignancy from spreading, but we chose to sit on our hands instead.
In the long run, everybody gets the kind of government they deserve. Americans are living proof of that...we've turned into a global cautionary tale.
Hmm...wasn't there another president who got in trouble for spying on other americans? Watershed...waterfall...waterbed...definitely water-something...
And this is just the latest of Dubya and Company's shocking assaults against their own nation...sadly, an offence that would have been considered grounds for immediate impeachment (not to mention additional criminal prosecution) thirty years ago hardly raises an eyebrow today. Apparently, we're used to this sort of thing by now.
I'm pretty sure that this is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they fought and died so that we might have a nation free from tyranny.
Those science geeks over at Harvard need to devote their time to studying a much more debilitating form of RSI...namely, Nintendonitis (also known as Nintendo Thumb) ^_^
Given how Microsoft and Sony have been bitch-slapping Nintendo in the console arena, they had to come up with something special to stay in the game...and it looks like they have.
I can't wait until Microsoft 'innovates' a similar controller. ^_^
These things are expensive to purchase and deploy. Who's gonna foot that bill? Just the users who can't get the hang of responsible computing....or all of us?
Besides, SecureID does have its flaws...no panacea here.
'Brief' is right...'skimpy' is the adjective that comes to my mind.
A much more detailed report on this story can be found at The Korea Times.
Reading through the above referenced story, two things pop out at me:
The investment to build a safe e-banking environment may result in astronomical increases in systems costs given the insecure nature of the electronic commerce infrastructure.
The biggest challenge to the banking sector would be how to make home PCs secure. Hackers are increasingly preying on the home PCs, the most susceptible online link of all. Many bank customers tap in from home, often on a computer with little or no security software.
Given these two paragraphs, this looks like I'm going to be paying higher systems costs because others can't be bothered to practice responsible computing (when this initiative moves out of Korea into the rest of the world, that is...).
Well, at least it's nice to be reassured that stark raving idiocy isn't an exclusively American trait. Apparently, any prospective 'astronaut' who showed even the slightest glimmer of comprehension of the rudimentaries of physics was automatically disqualified. leaving us with the pick of the litter...people who are stupid enough to believe that 'gravity generators' exist, and that exposure to 'near space' will make you shorter and increase your lung capacity.
Now add to the mix a psycho Russian pilot:
Pilot Yevgeny Ivanovich joined the passengers for breakfast, and was asked about the colour painted on his finger. He told them it was a superstition of his. In faltering English he tried to explain his reliance on superstition. "The devil's strokes are sexy. He likes to be somebody sexy, the devil."
He told them that every day he's in space he paints another finger.
...and the hilarity practically writes itself. In fact, perhaps the only way this show could get any more entertaining is if the viewing public were allowed to vote on which indignity the 'astronauts' would have to suffer next.
And you get an F for reading comprehension. Thanks for playing, though.
My original post read,
Only creatures that possess souls possess the capacity to be worried about them.
I wasn't referring to their capacity to worry in general, I was referring to their capacity to worry about their souls...to worry about why they are here, to worry whether or not a part of themselves goes on after death....basically, to fully apprehend and worry about any of the four ultimate concerns of life, which are expressed as paradoxes: Freedom/ responsibility, death/striving for life, meaning/meaninglessness, isolation/desire for connection.
All the Gnome users I've ever known fall into one of three distinct classifictions:
They don't know about KDE as an alternative.
They hold up their Gnome use as a macho Linux status symbol (when asked why they don't use KDE, they shrug and say, "Bah....I do all my work from the shell anyway...).
They suffer from a deep-seated need to punish themselvs for some reason.
The screenie of the actual eBay auction, again courtesy of OSVDB.
From the auction text:
The lot: One 0-day Microsoft Excel Vulnerability
Up for sale is one (1) brand new vulnerability in the Microsoft Excel application. The vulnerability was discovered on December 6th 2005, all the details were submitted to Microsoft, and the reply was received indicating that they may start working on it. It can be assumed that no patch addressing this vulnerability will be available within the next few months. So, since I was unable to find any use for this by-product of Microsoft developers, it is now available for you at the low starting price of $0.01 (a fair value estimation for any Microsoft product).
A percentage of this sale will be contributed to various open-source projects.
Second, two questions:
As the seller did in fact report this vulerability to Microsoft first, would his subsequent attempt to call attention to the vulnerability by posting it for auction on eBay be considered 'irresponsible'?
So....finally in production...it's too bad HVDs are in the process of eating their lunch. Perhaps next time Sony/Phillips and Toshiba will see the benefit in cooperating to get a product out to the consumer quickly enough to avoid having a superior technology render their product irrelevant.
I was impressed with this, until I read the following:
This is the unmodified hard drive, a Western Digital 3 GB drive (Caviar 33100) made in 1997.
I hate to be a buzzkill, but BFD. I regularly disassembled these drives for data recovery purposes back in the salad days, when I was a carefree computer repair technician. We had an excellent level of success with any drive smaller than 4 GB, and one 2 GB drive, on which I replaced the head assembly for data recovery purposes, happily ran for over two years after the surgery.
I thought this mod was going to be performed on a contemporary drive, which would have been duly impressive. Heck...perform this mod successfully on a drive as big as 30 GB, and I'll tip my hat. But 3 GB? Sorry, but no.
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You make a declaration to Christians that you challenge them to be parents then follow up with the statement that you're targeting the responsible people, then expect people not to make the correlation that you are accusing NIMF of being a Christian group or at worst that only Christians are responsible for this surge in refusing to take parental responsibility? Wow.
I expect others to read through my entire post and rationally discuss the contents. You, however, seem more comfortable cherry-picking individual statements, taking them wildly out of context, and making wild suppositions based upon wholly indefensible 'correlations'. Yes, I did say that "All I'm doing is targeting the people responsible for the problem." This is because Christians comprise approximately 80% of the population, and it is Christian groups that are responsible for the push to legislate morality here in the U.S.. Note that I didn't accuse NIMF specifically of being a Christian group. If you'd actually take the trouble to read my posts, you'd see that, but then your 'argument' would fall apart, wouldn't it?
I also expect others to debate me without distorting my position, but I see you aren't up to that, either. In my last post, I pointed out two of your distortions, and invited you to support them with fact. Since you didn't bother to address either, I'll repeat them:
You claimed that I said the NIMF was 100% Christian.
You claimed that I said the NIMF was Christian by design.
Either provide quotes from me substantiating these claims, or admit that they are baseless and retract them (preferably with an apology).
Actually, what's painfully clear here is that you're so used to people agreeing with you that when someone challenges you you completely lose all sense of rationalization.
I'm not the one distorting my opponent's position to further my own personal agenda.
Your completely immature statement about "logging off before you hurt yourself" is just proof of this. I expect a better repose from children, not from a supposedly articulate adult. The last paragraph was what is referred to as a "joke" or "levity". (It also works, by the way.)
I see...when you do it, it's 'levity'...but when it's done to you, suddenly it's 'immature'. Somebody call a whaaaaaaaaaaaambulance.
People disagree. It's the real world. Get over it.
Adults expect you to discuss things rationally. Get over it.
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I suggest you visit this site and relive the tragedy.
From the site (emphasis mine):
My bet is, that there are encoded messages amongst that. One of the best ways to hide something is to place it in all the noise rather than trying to encrypt with lots of security.
You wouldn't be far off... ^_^
What the GP is pointing out is that Dubya & Company will cite chapter and verse when it suits their interests, but have absolutely no problem ignoring the same chapter and verse the instant they find it inconvenient.
By the way, Dubya & Company don't need to use the military to 'guard' polling places...they've already got that covered.
No...we elected him once. The first time he took office, he was appointed by the Supreme Court (a national first, not to mention thoroughly unconstitutional and illegal.
Action should have been taken there and then to stop this malignancy from spreading, but we chose to sit on our hands instead.
In the long run, everybody gets the kind of government they deserve. Americans are living proof of that...we've turned into a global cautionary tale.
You seem to be mistaken...Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
Eastasia is our staunchest ally.
Please report to the nearest reeducation center. Thank You.
Hmm...wasn't there another president who got in trouble for spying on other americans? Watershed...waterfall...waterbed...definitely water-something...
Oh yeah! Here it is!
And this is just the latest of Dubya and Company's shocking assaults against their own nation...sadly, an offence that would have been considered grounds for immediate impeachment (not to mention additional criminal prosecution) thirty years ago hardly raises an eyebrow today. Apparently, we're used to this sort of thing by now.
I'm pretty sure that this is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they fought and died so that we might have a nation free from tyranny.
Those science geeks over at Harvard need to devote their time to studying a much more debilitating form of RSI...namely, Nintendonitis (also known as Nintendo Thumb) ^_^
Given how Microsoft and Sony have been bitch-slapping Nintendo in the console arena, they had to come up with something special to stay in the game...and it looks like they have.
I can't wait until Microsoft 'innovates' a similar controller. ^_^
So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls?
Sounds like you're talking about RSA's SecurID products.
These things are expensive to purchase and deploy. Who's gonna foot that bill? Just the users who can't get the hang of responsible computing....or all of us?
Besides, SecureID does have its flaws...no panacea here.
From TFS:'Brief' is right...'skimpy' is the adjective that comes to my mind.
A much more detailed report on this story can be found at The Korea Times.
Reading through the above referenced story, two things pop out at me:
Given these two paragraphs, this looks like I'm going to be paying higher systems costs because others can't be bothered to practice responsible computing (when this initiative moves out of Korea into the rest of the world, that is...).
Well, at least it's nice to be reassured that stark raving idiocy isn't an exclusively American trait. Apparently, any prospective 'astronaut' who showed even the slightest glimmer of comprehension of the rudimentaries of physics was automatically disqualified. leaving us with the pick of the litter...people who are stupid enough to believe that 'gravity generators' exist, and that exposure to 'near space' will make you shorter and increase your lung capacity.
Now add to the mix a psycho Russian pilot:
And you get an F for reading comprehension. Thanks for playing, though.
My original post read,
Only creatures that possess souls possess the capacity to be worried about them.
I wasn't referring to their capacity to worry in general, I was referring to their capacity to worry about their souls...to worry about why they are here, to worry whether or not a part of themselves goes on after death....basically, to fully apprehend and worry about any of the four ultimate concerns of life, which are expressed as paradoxes: Freedom/ responsibility, death/striving for life, meaning/meaninglessness, isolation/desire for connection.
In short, the capacity for true existential anxiety.
Let me get the ball rolling here...
All the Gnome users I've ever known fall into one of three distinct classifictions:
Discuss.
Only creatures that possess souls possess the capacity to be worried about them.
I'm ocelotbob, and am very much male.
So you suffer from XYY syndrome?
^_^
Researchers are nevertheless beginning to bump up against what bioethicists call the "yuck factor."
The Itokawans clearly won't stand for your hostile incursion. Better leave them be before they decide to take the battle to us.
^_^
No, criminal profiteering. The only type of person who could make use of the information apart from Microsoft is a criminal.
So you're asserting that a security professional could not use the information to create a patch or fix for this vulnerability?
EBay has a right and a duty to stop trade in vulnerabilities same as they have a right and duty to stop trade in any other illegal material.
I'm having a hard time finding the exact violation on eBay's prohibited and restricted items page. Think you could point it out for me?
First, in the interest of stimulating more informed discusion, here is some more information concerning the auction:
From the auction text: Second, two questions:
Discuss.
So....finally in production...it's too bad HVDs are in the process of eating their lunch. Perhaps next time Sony/Phillips and Toshiba will see the benefit in cooperating to get a product out to the consumer quickly enough to avoid having a superior technology render their product irrelevant.
I was impressed with this, until I read the following: I hate to be a buzzkill, but BFD. I regularly disassembled these drives for data recovery purposes back in the salad days, when I was a carefree computer repair technician. We had an excellent level of success with any drive smaller than 4 GB, and one 2 GB drive, on which I replaced the head assembly for data recovery purposes, happily ran for over two years after the surgery.
I thought this mod was going to be performed on a contemporary drive, which would have been duly impressive. Heck...perform this mod successfully on a drive as big as 30 GB, and I'll tip my hat. But 3 GB? Sorry, but no.
Sony considers Nintendo irrelevant.
You make a declaration to Christians that you challenge them to be parents then follow up with the statement that you're targeting the responsible people, then expect people not to make the correlation that you are accusing NIMF of being a Christian group or at worst that only Christians are responsible for this surge in refusing to take parental responsibility? Wow.
I expect others to read through my entire post and rationally discuss the contents. You, however, seem more comfortable cherry-picking individual statements, taking them wildly out of context, and making wild suppositions based upon wholly indefensible 'correlations'. Yes, I did say that "All I'm doing is targeting the people responsible for the problem." This is because Christians comprise approximately 80% of the population, and it is Christian groups that are responsible for the push to legislate morality here in the U.S.. Note that I didn't accuse NIMF specifically of being a Christian group. If you'd actually take the trouble to read my posts, you'd see that, but then your 'argument' would fall apart, wouldn't it?
I also expect others to debate me without distorting my position, but I see you aren't up to that, either. In my last post, I pointed out two of your distortions, and invited you to support them with fact. Since you didn't bother to address either, I'll repeat them:
Either provide quotes from me substantiating these claims, or admit that they are baseless and retract them (preferably with an apology).
Actually, what's painfully clear here is that you're so used to people agreeing with you that when someone challenges you you completely lose all sense of rationalization.
I'm not the one distorting my opponent's position to further my own personal agenda.
Your completely immature statement about "logging off before you hurt yourself" is just proof of this. I expect a better repose from children, not from a supposedly articulate adult. The last paragraph was what is referred to as a "joke" or "levity". (It also works, by the way.)
I see...when you do it, it's 'levity'...but when it's done to you, suddenly it's 'immature'. Somebody call a whaaaaaaaaaaaambulance.
People disagree. It's the real world. Get over it.
Adults expect you to discuss things rationally. Get over it.