Yea, I consider myself the ultimate Rush fan, and I also assume (perhaps incorrectly, this being/.) that most people would know all that, Rush being a somewhat geeky rock band.
I'll give you points for a clever rationalization, comrade...
But this scenario falls under the "give em and inch and they'll take a mile" category.
Apparently you don't realize that once government gains a certain "right" or ability via legislation, it's almost impossible to get government to let go of that right or ability.
If anything, government will then add to it's rights and abilities, and build on previous laws, rather than relinquishing said abilities...
The U.S. congress passes laws every year based on knee-jerk reactions, laws that later turn out to be very bad, against common sense and in hindsight a mistake.
I'm actually astonished that the citizens of the U.K. would decry joining the EU and using the Euro, all the while putting up with this...
In a republic such as the U.S., the government is an object for the people.
Your post intimates that the government or "authority" as you call it, some kind of monolithic, authoritarian structure, not beholden to the wishes of the constituency.
But then again, this is Britain we are discussing...
Then let us ponder on the database paradigm, shall we Herr Hogger.
Once data is entered into a database, financial data, vehicle movements, etc, it is impossible to really protect that data.
A perfect example of this is all of the credit data firms in the U.S. that have been hacked, with said data spread all over the internet, most likely in the hands of organized crime.
To assume that since the data residing on servers ran by police or government is more secure than that ran by private enterprise is an exercise in futility...
Who will have access to the data? Who will secure it? Who will audit that it is secured?
We are to trust the government that they are doing what is in our best interest?
Personally, after five years of a Bush white house and Republican controlled congress, I'm in no mood to trust them in decisions such as this.
But good luck in your new found police state.
Don't fret though, the U.S., in it's new ultra-fear footing and box-cutter-phobia mentality, will soon be the next contestant in
"Bend over and take it like a man, you limey sod!"
There is no reason, let me repeat, no reason for this.
This is the most Orwellian, absolutely fascist krap I've ever seen.
Whats worse is that in Oregon and Washington, they are getting federal money to test a similar program.
The night is black
Without a moon
The air is thick and still
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torch lit hill
Features distorted in the flickering light
The faces are twisted and grotesque
Silent and stern in the sweltering night
The mob moves like demons possessed
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right
Confident their ways are best
The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill
They say there are strangers who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves
Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand...
Good Troll?
Completely Stable?
I think you need to read up on Indian politics, the caste system, their infrastructure, etc;
I'm not bashing India, simply pointing out the obvious, what even the pro-India business community points out...
You need to pull your head out of your ass, and quick, unless of course you've survived, lo all these years, on your own form of methane.
If our most imperious and grandiose asshat, Herr Seigenthaler Sr had half a fucking brain, he would have either had Wiki remove/correct the offending and incorrect information, or joined Wiki and removed it himself.
"Forrester Research projects that U.S. companies will move about 3.4 million white-collar service jobs offshore by 2015."
Manufacturing is going away...
Hmmm...
Well, there is IT and software development.
Wait, it's going offshore also.
Welcome to the Service Based Economy.
Ready to get your degree in Massage Therapy?!?
To insinuate that France is some kind of tech backwater is straight out of the warped and slowly dying rednekkk bullshit freedom fry loving ass hats that now inhabit the White House, et al.
Yes, the old school D&D'ers are coming out of the woodwork.
I still have every module TSR put out between like 79' to 87'.
Some great stuff. I know WotC is trying to live up to that rep, and Eberron looks like fun, but I still can't shake my GreyHawk memories.
I DM'd the Drow series modules (Giants to QOTDWP) probably 4 or 5 times...
The campaigns I used to DM, we used the first edition rules as a loose framework and then integrated loads of our own rules. Especially pertaining to combat, critical hits, spells, psionics, etc;
By the time WotC had taken over D&D, we essentially had our own game system...
What would be the best of both worlds would be a marriage of Hybrid and BioDiesel. The Hybrid side of things would keep the mileage high, and the BioDiesel would keep the emissions much lower and much more of the fuel supply internal to the U.S.
We can cry all we want about MS's Office formats ruling "the office", but personally, I feel the real tyrant in office file formats is.PDF. IMHO Adobe PDF is the Josef Stalin of formats.
And let me preface, this is on Windows, so you Mac and Linux desktop admins need not respond with tales of wonder about PDF.
I spend more time troubleshooting, upgrading, downgrading, converting, tweaking settings, etc; for Acrobat than anything else our Data Specialists use. What a friggin headache this program is. And whats worse, everyone not only requires PDF, they demand it.
I think OpenOffice has the ability to convert to PDF, but I haven't tried it. I assume that on Windows I would run into the same problems. Back before Acrobat 6, it was a fairly stable and reliable program, but since 6 it falls into the POS category.
Comaparing the dot com bubble of the late 90's to a simultaneous increasing need for energy and decrease in it's availability, and the solutions to that problem is like comparing the invasion of Iraq to WWII.
The placement of turbines is critical. Studies have been done in Europe and the Middle East. If turbines are placed outside of migratory routes, there is usually little bird kill.
However, I read something somewhere a while back indicating that using large numbers of conventional propeller type turbines in a "farm" type configuration dries out the surrounding landscape. Apparently the action of propellers creates updraft.
The worst is when the company you work for uses a vital revenue generating application on Windows and it will only work if the user is a member of the local admins group...
When you discuss this with the support from the software company, they will tell you to upgrade.
When you discuss this with management and elaborate on how unsecure this situation is, they say they have the upgrade budgeted for next year and hopefully the validation docs will be written by then...
You see, thats what is so cool about Windows. So much software won't run unless the user is root.
Isn't that just great.
Just incorporate the data into the bar code and be done with it?
This is more secure and wouldn't bring the host of problems associated with RFID security. Isn't that kind of like military intelligence?
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Yea, I consider myself the ultimate Rush fan, and I also assume (perhaps incorrectly, this being /.) that most people would know all that, Rush being a somewhat geeky rock band.
I'll give you points for a clever rationalization, comrade...
But this scenario falls under the "give em and inch and they'll take a mile" category.
Apparently you don't realize that once government gains a certain "right" or ability via legislation, it's almost impossible to get government to let go of that right or ability.
If anything, government will then add to it's rights and abilities, and build on previous laws, rather than relinquishing said abilities...
The U.S. congress passes laws every year based on knee-jerk reactions, laws that later turn out to be very bad, against common sense and in hindsight a mistake.
I'm actually astonished that the citizens of the U.K. would decry joining the EU and using the Euro, all the while putting up with this...
In a republic such as the U.S., the government is an object for the people.
Your post intimates that the government or "authority" as you call it, some kind of monolithic, authoritarian structure, not beholden to the wishes of the constituency.
But then again, this is Britain we are discussing...
Then let us ponder on the database paradigm, shall we Herr Hogger.
Once data is entered into a database, financial data, vehicle movements, etc, it is impossible to really protect that data.
A perfect example of this is all of the credit data firms in the U.S. that have been hacked, with said data spread all over the internet, most likely in the hands of organized crime.
To assume that since the data residing on servers ran by police or government is more secure than that ran by private enterprise is an exercise in futility...
Who will have access to the data? Who will secure it? Who will audit that it is secured? We are to trust the government that they are doing what is in our best interest?
Personally, after five years of a Bush white house and Republican controlled congress, I'm in no mood to trust them in decisions such as this.
But good luck in your new found police state.
Don't fret though, the U.S., in it's new ultra-fear footing and box-cutter-phobia mentality, will soon be the next contestant in
"Bend over and take it like a man, you limey sod!"
There is no reason, let me repeat, no reason for this.
This is the most Orwellian, absolutely fascist krap I've ever seen.
Whats worse is that in Oregon and Washington, they are getting federal money to test a similar program.
The night is black
Without a moon
The air is thick and still
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torch lit hill
Features distorted in the flickering light
The faces are twisted and grotesque
Silent and stern in the sweltering night
The mob moves like demons possessed
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right
Confident their ways are best
The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill
They say there are strangers who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves
Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand...
Whoever Trolled this down should be awarded the Joseph Goebbels GroupThink certificate.
Good Troll?
Completely Stable?
I think you need to read up on Indian politics, the caste system, their infrastructure, etc;
I'm not bashing India, simply pointing out the obvious, what even the pro-India business community points out...
You need to pull your head out of your ass, and quick, unless of course you've survived, lo all these years, on your own form of methane.
If I had the points you'd get em!!!
Our most imperious and grandiose asshat, Herr Seigenthaler Sr., seeks to discredit Wiki and other "open" and "user supported" knowledge portals.
Why?
Because some asshat posted some obvious bullshit about him on Wiki.
Hmmm... Haven't we (those of us that use the internet) figured out by now that the internet is a place that will never be locked down and 100% verifiable, like the way (ahem... let me clear my throat first...) Our Shining Light of Truth and Beauty, our oh so un-biased and abso-motherfucking-lutley truthful Broadcast Media are?
If our most imperious and grandiose asshat, Herr Seigenthaler Sr had half a fucking brain, he would have either had Wiki remove/correct the offending and incorrect information, or joined Wiki and removed it himself.
"Forrester Research projects that U.S. companies will move about 3.4 million white-collar service jobs offshore by 2015."
Manufacturing is going away...
Hmmm...
Well, there is IT and software development.
Wait, it's going offshore also.
Welcome to the Service Based Economy.
Ready to get your degree in Massage Therapy?!?
To insinuate that France is some kind of tech backwater is straight out of the warped and slowly dying rednekkk bullshit freedom fry loving ass hats that now inhabit the White House, et al.
Even though I could mention AirBus, I won't...
A simple acronym will suffice to put this Franco-Bashing to bed:
ITER
Yes, the old school D&D'ers are coming out of the woodwork.
I still have every module TSR put out between like 79' to 87'.
Some great stuff. I know WotC is trying to live up to that rep, and Eberron looks like fun, but I still can't shake my GreyHawk memories.
I DM'd the Drow series modules (Giants to QOTDWP) probably 4 or 5 times...
Anybody remember the fantastically easy 2D6 system that Traveller used.
Man, I miss that game.
The campaigns I used to DM, we used the first edition rules as a loose framework and then integrated loads of our own rules. Especially pertaining to combat, critical hits, spells, psionics, etc;
By the time WotC had taken over D&D, we essentially had our own game system...
What would be the best of both worlds would be a marriage of Hybrid and BioDiesel. The Hybrid side of things would keep the mileage high, and the BioDiesel would keep the emissions much lower and much more of the fuel supply internal to the U.S.
When posters correct they're own gramar, thats' ok.
When gramar nazi doinks correct it, their nuts.
We can cry all we want about MS's Office formats ruling "the office", but personally, I feel the real tyrant in office file formats is .PDF. IMHO Adobe PDF is the Josef Stalin of formats.
And let me preface, this is on Windows, so you Mac and Linux desktop admins need not respond with tales of wonder about PDF.
I spend more time troubleshooting, upgrading, downgrading, converting, tweaking settings, etc; for Acrobat than anything else our Data Specialists use. What a friggin headache this program is. And whats worse, everyone not only requires PDF, they demand it.
I think OpenOffice has the ability to convert to PDF, but I haven't tried it. I assume that on Windows I would run into the same problems. Back before Acrobat 6, it was a fairly stable and reliable program, but since 6 it falls into the POS category.
Comaparing the dot com bubble of the late 90's to a simultaneous increasing need for energy and decrease in it's availability, and the solutions to that problem is like comparing the invasion of Iraq to WWII.
The placement of turbines is critical. Studies have been done in Europe and the Middle East. If turbines are placed outside of migratory routes, there is usually little bird kill.
However, I read something somewhere a while back indicating that using large numbers of conventional propeller type turbines in a "farm" type configuration dries out the surrounding landscape. Apparently the action of propellers creates updraft.
No, since it's vaporware, the bird, or human hand for that matter, are not harmed in any way.
1. Lame dick grammar/spelling nazis on /.
2. The "this is all FUD" crowd.
For starters, spelling and grammar are important, but not that important, especially here...
And another thing, get over it, because it's ALL FUD
More like: Piracy Nightmare
Causing Kernel Panic!!!
The worst is when the company you work for uses a vital revenue generating application on Windows and it will only work if the user is a member of the local admins group...
When you discuss this with the support from the software company, they will tell you to upgrade.
When you discuss this with management and elaborate on how unsecure this situation is, they say they have the upgrade budgeted for next year and hopefully the validation docs will be written by then...
You see, thats what is so cool about Windows. So much software won't run unless the user is root.
Isn't that just great.
Just incorporate the data into the bar code and be done with it?
This is more secure and wouldn't bring the host of problems associated with RFID security.
Isn't that kind of like military intelligence?
They'll know you microwaved it from the popcorn smell on the card...