Finally a suit that understands piracy HELPS more than it hurts, especially when the legal means of consuming the content is limited to few regions of the world.
Or perhaps he realizes that anyone watching Game of Thrones likely already has an HBO subscription and it's not representing lost revenue. I suspect the vast majority of people downloading Game of Thrones are doing it to watch at another time, catch up on a missed episode or two, or perhaps they just got hooked on the show and want to see all the old episodes. Does HBO have ads in this series? (I don't know) If so, then perhaps people are downloading to avoid ads which might be a concern to the advertisers.
It's been demonstrated that this bug can be elicited from Windows as well. And Windows expects to be able to write even more info than Linux was. Linux was just the first to expose the problem by trying to use UEFI variables to hold kernel panic info (Apple does something similar). IT didn't help that the UEFI driver itself caused the kernel panic, after which the kernel writes some debug log info to the UEFI to support later postmortem analysis.
It would be more accurate to say that VM support for Slackware is not nearly as good as other mainstream Linux distros. VMWare and VirtualPC for example don't have packages for slackware guests as they do for Redhat and Windows which can introduce performance issues. A quick Googling shows the reverse to be true, that getting VM programs to run with Slackware as the host is not as well supported either and requires more hands on effort to get them running.
If I were planning to run Linux in a VM (or the reverse as the host), slackware would not be my first choice unless I was attempting to migrate and existing system from physical to virtual.
I would agree with you in principle, were in not for the fact that the only bomb-detection equipment I could find on the web which did not require some form of direct contact with the bomb was a dog.
So yes, this was the agencies who purchased the detectors believing in "magick" [SIC].
They may have had some minor effect though. Not by actually detecting anything, but when dogs or anything that the searchee believes might find something is present the searchee tends to give themselves away. There are always minor 'tells' when someone is searched or questioned. They tend to glance at the location of a bomb or act fidgety or nervous. Of course it would have been far cheaper for the Iragi military to buy the golf ball detectors (which didn't work for that either) and rebadge the devices themselves.
And the sad part is that the military bought some and never tested them. Seems unusual given all the rules about explosives and such, that they would not have at least tested them.
Nevermind, just read that it was the Iraqi military that bought them, not a real military.
The man was selling dousing rods which were labeled as golfball finders as bombdetectors.
They were equally successful at either task. They weren't golfball detectors any more than they were bomb detectors. The con was the dousing rod aspect of it, not the 'golf ball finder' stuff. The problem is people believing in magic, not a mislabeled golfbal detector.
And the sad part is that the military bought some and never tested them. Seems unusual given all the rules about explosives and such, that they would not have at least tested them.
It would be beneficial to force these politicians to actually use the technology, of which so many of them are so proudly ignorant..
I'm sure most of them already understand how a VTC works in practice. You don't really expect them to setup the calls, deal with the implementation, or even understand what a codec is do you? They have aides to handle the details like setting up meetings and writing legislation.
On the other hand those offices and corporations wouldn't have a single spot to send all their lobbyists too any more.
Yes, that does reduce access to lobbyists, but also to other congress staff, voters, executive staff etc. Most congressional influence doesn't happen with face-face lobbyist time anyway. It's done with discreet campaign contributions after filtered and laundered through.other indirect channels.
I do encourage more use of VTCs and teleconferencing because congressional travel expenses are excessive. If we're being told to VTC instead of travel at the working level (even for technical stuff that requires hands-on) then it's appropriate that the higher ups honor that mandate as well.
Wow such venomous defense of the bible - you must be Christian right? No I don't have a script. What makes you assume I'm atheist instead of agnostic? Perhaps I am Islamic and share their believe that the Bible has become corrupted? Or perhaps Jewish and don't simply discount the events of the New Testament. (Yes I'm generalizing a bit here, but no worse that automatically labeling me an atheist because I legitimately question the integrity of the bible)
I once was Christian and after much introspection decided that the storyline just wasn't believable anymore. One of the things that I realized was the indisputable fact that the bible has been altered both deliberately (ala King James) and unintentionally colored through translation between the languages.
As someone here else noted, the vast majority of Christians have not read the bible cover to cover. They rely on hearing the bible through preaching which adds it's own twists, interpretations, and coloring. Or like the Catholics, they pull religious beliefs from other sacred texts as well. I'll even bet real money that the average Christian on the street can't name more than 1/3 of the books the version of the Bible their particular religion uses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible
Christianity is the youngest religion on the block and certainly not the largest.
I'll give you that it's not the largest, but where did you get this notion that it's the youngest religion? Christianity began in the mid first-century AD (or CE, if you prefer). Meanwhile, the largest religon (Islam) didn't get started until Muhammed in 610. So your "youngest religion on the block" argument is off by over half a millenia. And that's just talking about the "mainstream" religions, to say nothing of some of the more modern belief systems.
In the grand scheme of things, both Christianity and Islam are both relatively new religions. I'll repeat my question - What makes the Christian, Islamic, American Indian, Hindu, etc set of beliefs any more correct than the other? Particularly Christianity when it is based on faith in an unprovable god and a history book claiming unprovable supernatural events?
That 33% total for Christianity is achieved by lumping several disparate religions together. It's a stretch to group Christians, Catholics, Mormon, Jehovahs Witness, Quakers, etc and call them the same religion. It's also relevant to note that they all use slightly different versions and interpretations of the Bible, which was my original point that the Bible has been changed and altered through the years.
Yes you are correct that scholars believe most of the new testament was written 45-90 AD, and that is part of the point that I think you missed. Writing first person accounts about events and people that occurred prior to your birth is generally not considered to be highly accurate unless you have a blind faith that God was guiding their hands. Which leads to the next question, was God guiding the hands of all those who've altered or written the bible since then? You can't call it the true word of god if it's been altered since it was written.
Personally, I consider the bible to be a fictionalized version of history of the time. Most religions or believes have something similar. I don't have reason to doubt that a man named Jesus was a notable figure in history. I just don't believe he was the son of god anymore than Indian or Chinese folklore ascribes supernatural powers to some of its ancient leaders.
Christianity is the youngest religion on the block and certainly not the largest. What makes their version of the unexplainable the correct one?
Yep, the bible is interpreted exactly the same as it was 2000 years ago.
Sure except for the fact that significant portions have been altered, re-translated, or just plain re-written. A perfect example would be the King James version that the purists consider a standard. Or maybe the fact that many of the books of the bible appear to have been written by the same person, well after the dates implied in the writings.
Our military is very much aware of the new theater and have a heck of a lot more information about it than the average citizen. Attribution in conventional or unconventional non-nation state warfare as we see in the Middle East is not as simple as you make it out to be. A good example would be roadside bombs, where it's not immediately obvious which group was responsible. Someone of Arabic descent bombed the train, but which terror group did it?
Despite what you think, malware does contain indicators of the country of origin and can be traced albeit not with 100% certainty. Just look at Stuxnet which was designed by experts and had plenty of clues and hints as to its authors. You can reverse engineer a piece of software and figure out hints like what compiler was used, the native language, other hints like date conventions, etc.
If some jackass in BFE Wherever, USA gets bored and decides to DDOS a hospital up in Canada, does that put the USA as a whole in violation of this treaty?
We've conducted cyber attacks against Iran, so by this convention we've declared war on the nation state of Iran right?
My thoughts exactly. Plus, use of a proxy could create the equivalent of digital Al Qaeda cells, and if the Geneva Convention analogy is extended then there's no nation state to target. (GC is only for 2 or more nations in hostilities, not independent terror groups or internal conflicts) The entire concept sounds like a knee jerk reaction by people who don't understand how Big Al's innerweb works.
Our adversaries are already using proxies and launching attacks from inside the US from compromised US companies and civilians. I think you underestimate the DOD's ability or desire to attribute attacks to the appropriate party before responding. We know damn well who, how, and where from the majority of the intrusions and attacks are coming from.
If there is a significant cyber attack that causes extensive physical damage or casualties, then by all rights it's an act of war and an appropriate response is warranted.
Oddly enough the company that wrote the report, the ICF, was the same company hired by the Department of Agricultural (Federal) to evaluate the broadband stimulus applications and track the progress of the companies receiving loans and grant. If West Virginia is ignoring the foia request, perhaps a request to the feds will break things loose.
So what likely happened was the Federal Funding came with a hidden caveat that they had to use the same contractor that the Feds used, and the corruption and kickback scan runs all the way up to the federal level.
Sure I have credit card debt, but the house is half paid for
Get rid of the higher interest debt first - that would be the credit card. Also note that the mortgage interest is probably at a much lower effective APR and is tax deductible, whereas that cc interest is not. Too many people focus on paying off the house while they should be paying off the cars, credit cards and other more expensive debts first.
In effect they are. Try running Windows 2000 on modern hardware (and XP isn't far off).
If there's even a generic driver for the hardware, then Windows 2000 generally screams along very nicely. Up until a few months ago, I had W2K Server running nicely on 2 year old rack mount systems very nicely.
Reminds me of a Star Trek episode or two where they mistakenly take about some glowing air or sand or some such and it turns out to be sentient. Or could be some bizarre bacteria that flourishes in that environment. Heck we've found silicon based flora in our own deep oceans.
Perhaps as a hobby. But generally they aren't cost effective if you're paying the labor for someone to implement it with 5-year old hardware in a cluster-fuck (pun intended) , jam it in a rack haphazard arrangement and there isn't even a clear need or requirement for it.
Ditto. The labor alone will kill any perceived saving.
Sell those old boxes for $100 a pop to students and buy something nice. In my experience if you have a Dell Optiplex of that era with the original power supply and motherboard, it's just waiting to die. Check the MB caps. Dell had to replace 2/3rd of the power supplies and 1/2 of the motherboards in the 100 that we owned within the first 2 years.
Except the law recognizes plenty of places where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Like the bathroom (oops he glanced sideways at the kid at the urinal next to him - child porn!) or someone on the street glances through a window of your home. What about all the activities where the wearer might be expecting privacy, such as doing his taxes or banking online - do you really want google knowing your soc number and bank accounts too?
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Finally a suit that understands piracy HELPS more than it hurts, especially when the legal means of consuming the content is limited to few regions of the world.
Or perhaps he realizes that anyone watching Game of Thrones likely already has an HBO subscription and it's not representing lost revenue. I suspect the vast majority of people downloading Game of Thrones are doing it to watch at another time, catch up on a missed episode or two, or perhaps they just got hooked on the show and want to see all the old episodes. Does HBO have ads in this series? (I don't know) If so, then perhaps people are downloading to avoid ads which might be a concern to the advertisers.
It could actually increase access to constituents since they'll be in their district more.
I'm skeptical of that. Constituents have virtually zero direct access when they are back home, and I don't think this would change anything.
It's been demonstrated that this bug can be elicited from Windows as well. And Windows expects to be able to write even more info than Linux was. Linux was just the first to expose the problem by trying to use UEFI variables to hold kernel panic info (Apple does something similar). IT didn't help that the UEFI driver itself caused the kernel panic, after which the kernel writes some debug log info to the UEFI to support later postmortem analysis.
It would be more accurate to say that VM support for Slackware is not nearly as good as other mainstream Linux distros. VMWare and VirtualPC for example don't have packages for slackware guests as they do for Redhat and Windows which can introduce performance issues. A quick Googling shows the reverse to be true, that getting VM programs to run with Slackware as the host is not as well supported either and requires more hands on effort to get them running.
If I were planning to run Linux in a VM (or the reverse as the host), slackware would not be my first choice unless I was attempting to migrate and existing system from physical to virtual.
I would agree with you in principle, were in not for the fact that the only bomb-detection equipment I could find on the web which did not require some form of direct contact with the bomb was a dog.
So yes, this was the agencies who purchased the detectors believing in "magick" [SIC].
They may have had some minor effect though. Not by actually detecting anything, but when dogs or anything that the searchee believes might find something is present the searchee tends to give themselves away. There are always minor 'tells' when someone is searched or questioned. They tend to glance at the location of a bomb or act fidgety or nervous. Of course it would have been far cheaper for the Iragi military to buy the golf ball detectors (which didn't work for that either) and rebadge the devices themselves.
And the sad part is that the military bought some and never tested them. Seems unusual given all the rules about explosives and such, that they would not have at least tested them.
Nevermind, just read that it was the Iraqi military that bought them, not a real military.
The man was selling dousing rods which were labeled as golfball finders as bombdetectors.
They were equally successful at either task. They weren't golfball detectors any more than they were bomb detectors. The con was the dousing rod aspect of it, not the 'golf ball finder' stuff. The problem is people believing in magic, not a mislabeled golfbal detector.
And the sad part is that the military bought some and never tested them. Seems unusual given all the rules about explosives and such, that they would not have at least tested them.
It would be beneficial to force these politicians to actually use the technology, of which so many of them are so proudly ignorant. .
I'm sure most of them already understand how a VTC works in practice. You don't really expect them to setup the calls, deal with the implementation, or even understand what a codec is do you? They have aides to handle the details like setting up meetings and writing legislation.
On the other hand those offices and corporations wouldn't have a single spot to send all their lobbyists too any more.
Yes, that does reduce access to lobbyists, but also to other congress staff, voters, executive staff etc. Most congressional influence doesn't happen with face-face lobbyist time anyway. It's done with discreet campaign contributions after filtered and laundered through.other indirect channels.
I do encourage more use of VTCs and teleconferencing because congressional travel expenses are excessive. If we're being told to VTC instead of travel at the working level (even for technical stuff that requires hands-on) then it's appropriate that the higher ups honor that mandate as well.
Wow such venomous defense of the bible - you must be Christian right? No I don't have a script. What makes you assume I'm atheist instead of agnostic? Perhaps I am Islamic and share their believe that the Bible has become corrupted? Or perhaps Jewish and don't simply discount the events of the New Testament. (Yes I'm generalizing a bit here, but no worse that automatically labeling me an atheist because I legitimately question the integrity of the bible)
I once was Christian and after much introspection decided that the storyline just wasn't believable anymore. One of the things that I realized was the indisputable fact that the bible has been altered both deliberately (ala King James) and unintentionally colored through translation between the languages.
As someone here else noted, the vast majority of Christians have not read the bible cover to cover. They rely on hearing the bible through preaching which adds it's own twists, interpretations, and coloring. Or like the Catholics, they pull religious beliefs from other sacred texts as well. I'll even bet real money that the average Christian on the street can't name more than 1/3 of the books the version of the Bible their particular religion uses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible
Christianity is the youngest religion on the block and certainly not the largest.
I'll give you that it's not the largest, but where did you get this notion that it's the youngest religion? Christianity began in the mid first-century AD (or CE, if you prefer). Meanwhile, the largest religon (Islam) didn't get started until Muhammed in 610. So your "youngest religion on the block" argument is off by over half a millenia. And that's just talking about the "mainstream" religions, to say nothing of some of the more modern belief systems.
In the grand scheme of things, both Christianity and Islam are both relatively new religions. I'll repeat my question - What makes the Christian, Islamic, American Indian, Hindu, etc set of beliefs any more correct than the other? Particularly Christianity when it is based on faith in an unprovable god and a history book claiming unprovable supernatural events?
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That 33% total for Christianity is achieved by lumping several disparate religions together. It's a stretch to group Christians, Catholics, Mormon, Jehovahs Witness, Quakers, etc and call them the same religion. It's also relevant to note that they all use slightly different versions and interpretations of the Bible, which was my original point that the Bible has been changed and altered through the years.
Yes you are correct that scholars believe most of the new testament was written 45-90 AD, and that is part of the point that I think you missed. Writing first person accounts about events and people that occurred prior to your birth is generally not considered to be highly accurate unless you have a blind faith that God was guiding their hands. Which leads to the next question, was God guiding the hands of all those who've altered or written the bible since then? You can't call it the true word of god if it's been altered since it was written.
Personally, I consider the bible to be a fictionalized version of history of the time. Most religions or believes have something similar. I don't have reason to doubt that a man named Jesus was a notable figure in history. I just don't believe he was the son of god anymore than Indian or Chinese folklore ascribes supernatural powers to some of its ancient leaders.
Christianity is the youngest religion on the block and certainly not the largest. What makes their version of the unexplainable the correct one?
Yep, the bible is interpreted exactly the same as it was 2000 years ago.
Sure except for the fact that significant portions have been altered, re-translated, or just plain re-written. A perfect example would be the King James version that the purists consider a standard. Or maybe the fact that many of the books of the bible appear to have been written by the same person, well after the dates implied in the writings.
Our military is very much aware of the new theater and have a heck of a lot more information about it than the average citizen. Attribution in conventional or unconventional non-nation state warfare as we see in the Middle East is not as simple as you make it out to be. A good example would be roadside bombs, where it's not immediately obvious which group was responsible. Someone of Arabic descent bombed the train, but which terror group did it?
Despite what you think, malware does contain indicators of the country of origin and can be traced albeit not with 100% certainty. Just look at Stuxnet which was designed by experts and had plenty of clues and hints as to its authors. You can reverse engineer a piece of software and figure out hints like what compiler was used, the native language, other hints like date conventions, etc.
Well there wouldn't be a US if we hadn't fought dirty against the Brits.
If some jackass in BFE Wherever, USA gets bored and decides to DDOS a hospital up in Canada, does that put the USA as a whole in violation of this treaty?
We've conducted cyber attacks against Iran, so by this convention we've declared war on the nation state of Iran right?
My thoughts exactly. Plus, use of a proxy could create the equivalent of digital Al Qaeda cells, and if the Geneva Convention analogy is extended then there's no nation state to target. (GC is only for 2 or more nations in hostilities, not independent terror groups or internal conflicts) The entire concept sounds like a knee jerk reaction by people who don't understand how Big Al's innerweb works.
Our adversaries are already using proxies and launching attacks from inside the US from compromised US companies and civilians. I think you underestimate the DOD's ability or desire to attribute attacks to the appropriate party before responding. We know damn well who, how, and where from the majority of the intrusions and attacks are coming from.
If there is a significant cyber attack that causes extensive physical damage or casualties, then by all rights it's an act of war and an appropriate response is warranted.
Oddly enough the company that wrote the report, the ICF, was the same company hired by the Department of Agricultural (Federal) to evaluate the broadband stimulus applications and track the progress of the companies receiving loans and grant. If West Virginia is ignoring the foia request, perhaps a request to the feds will break things loose.
So what likely happened was the Federal Funding came with a hidden caveat that they had to use the same contractor that the Feds used, and the corruption and kickback scan runs all the way up to the federal level.
Sure I have credit card debt, but the house is half paid for
Get rid of the higher interest debt first - that would be the credit card. Also note that the mortgage interest is probably at a much lower effective APR and is tax deductible, whereas that cc interest is not. Too many people focus on paying off the house while they should be paying off the cars, credit cards and other more expensive debts first.
In effect they are. Try running Windows 2000 on modern hardware (and XP isn't far off).
If there's even a generic driver for the hardware, then Windows 2000 generally screams along very nicely. Up until a few months ago, I had W2K Server running nicely on 2 year old rack mount systems very nicely.
Reminds me of a Star Trek episode or two where they mistakenly take about some glowing air or sand or some such and it turns out to be sentient. Or could be some bizarre bacteria that flourishes in that environment. Heck we've found silicon based flora in our own deep oceans.
Nonsense!
Home-built cluster can be cheap and very educational.
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Perhaps as a hobby. But generally they aren't cost effective if you're paying the labor for someone to implement it with 5-year old hardware in a cluster-fuck (pun intended) , jam it in a rack haphazard arrangement and there isn't even a clear need or requirement for it.
Ditto. The labor alone will kill any perceived saving.
Sell those old boxes for $100 a pop to students and buy something nice. In my experience if you have a Dell Optiplex of that era with the original power supply and motherboard, it's just waiting to die. Check the MB caps. Dell had to replace 2/3rd of the power supplies and 1/2 of the motherboards in the 100 that we owned within the first 2 years.
Except the law recognizes plenty of places where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Like the bathroom (oops he glanced sideways at the kid at the urinal next to him - child porn!) or someone on the street glances through a window of your home. What about all the activities where the wearer might be expecting privacy, such as doing his taxes or banking online - do you really want google knowing your soc number and bank accounts too?