Did anyone else see John Vranesevich on the Today show this morning? He seemed to field all of the questions okay (I was still half asleep at the time), but then you can't really expect hard-ball technical questions from Matt Lauer.
Not entirely accurate. You can't get any such items without a Class III Federal Firearms License. In addition to the federal requirements, many states/counties have further restrictions on who may buy such implements, because IIRC, the federal statute says that the interested party must obtain permission from the sheriff of their resident county. I do know that North Carolina law specifies that (generally) only business owners can obtain a Class III FFL.
It helps to have a book on Federal gun laws, which I don't right now, but I do have one it home and I have read it.
In 20 years, all decent domain names will have been taken.
Domain names will either be owned by people with legitimate reasons, cyber-squatters (i.e. "domain brokers"), and/or porn.
A lot of people will have figured out how meaningless domains are when every new company has to work hard to find a name like "www.thenewcompanycalledfoobar.com". New names will be so long it will be easier to remember IP addresses or to simply go through portal sites to get where you want to go. Television ads will be reduced to those few companies that have short and memorable domain names, while the rest will simply advertise online, where a mouse click, not a impressive memory, is all that's necessary to reach the new site.
Super-intelligent monkeys will conquer most of western Canada. At least, that's what the Magic Eight Ball says.
My personal feelings gravitate towards the "use it or lose it" side of the argument. In my opinion, nothing is worse than going to a arbitrary domain name and seeing some stupid ass resale company's logo saying "Buy this domain name!" This domain is plainly not being used... it was acquired with the sole intent of reselling it at an inflated price, and that rankles me.
The problem is, who exactly decides whether a domain name is being "used"? To what government agency do we want to give that kind of power? Kind of leaves a bad taste in your mouth, doesn't it? Would we see "fake usage" pages that appear to contain content, but are really little more than domain brokering companies attempting to appear legitimate while they continue to sell their registered domain names? Will we see small independent netizens evicted from their properly registered and used domains because BigBadCorp complained to BigBadGov't about that person "squatting" on that domain? We're basically seeing this already, with the eToys vs eToy fiasco. This worries me personally. My group has legitimate non-profit content on a domain name which would probably be of interest to a certain package delivery company.
Do we really want some faceless group to have the power to declare your website content "non-legitimate usage"? I don't.
Some alternatives I can think of:
While it will be legal to offer money for a domain, it will be illegal to attempt to sell it. They creates a lot of gray areas, yeah, but is just a thought.
Transferring ownership of a domain name is not allowed, so buying or selling domain names is illegal. This would probably lead to the "subletting" of domain names... renting them out to some other interested party while keeping the ownership in your own name.
Eliminate domain names entirely. What, you can't remember 12 little numbers?:) I know, not gonna happen. Possibly we can try harder to reduce the dependence on domain names. Search engines have helped do this somewhat.
I get so God damned tired of people putting the ACLU down because it doesn't do the NRA's job for them.
I was not really saying that the ACLU had to do the NRA's "job" (is it really their "job"?), but that it hypocritically denies that the 2nd Ammendment has any meaning at all while claiming to defend all American rights. I am grateful for the existence of the ACLU and the job they have done defending the citizens from government encroachment, but they rely on a simplistic and inaccurate "out" to relieve themselves of any responsibility to support civilian gun ownership no matter what the Bill of Rights says. It's obvious to me that their position is based on a matter of personal bias, not the universal acceptance of rights protected by the Constitution and its ammendments.
Built Lincoln Log houses and launched smaller Lincoln Logs at them with a crude Lincoln Log catapult
Made crossbows out of Tinker-Toys and rubber bands
I think you just had a boring childhood.:)
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It must be hard to rationalize your ludicrous notions with reality. For example, the Libertarian Party, which vehemently defends all of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, not just the popular ones (ACLU, I'm looking at you).
If only you'd get a brain and not confuse "white supremecists" with "gun nuts", you might make a little more sense.
Somebody please moderate down this ignorant troll.
C'mon, people wake up. His wife... Natalie? Portman, perhaps? This is just another troll by our neigborhood petrification nut, funny as it is. I can't believe anyone would actually take this post seriously. Gimme a break, guys! Take the blinders off already.
With all due respect to Id, have you ever seen the source code for the Quake2 gamex86.dll? It's often messy, comments are sparse, and naming conventions are plainly up to each individual coder. Still, it was a learning experience.
Ya know what? I can download Linux from RedHat's web site. For free. As in, no money. I pay nothing. Nada. Zilch. No fee at all. So I'd say that this is not what RedHat does.
Maybe you've heard of search and seizure laws? You know, those laws that say that the police can seize your property (money, car, computer) on the mere suspicion that you've committed a criminal act (driving drunk, using/selling/transporting drugs).
Even if you are never convicted of a crime, it is then up to you to PROVE in a court of law that you were innocent in order to have your property returned.
Am I the only one who considers such laws a much greater threat to liberty?
And then I, hiding outside, push the button on the special petrification remote control. Sarah looks down at the dog, smiling, and before she knows what happened, the dog zaps her with the on-board petrification ray and she hardens into a pretty little marble statue.
If she did NOT like being a statue, I would immediately restore her to her animate state, apologize thoroughly, and go look for females with more of a proclivity for being marble.
Oh, I see. You petrify them, feel them up, and then ask them if they like being marble. Of course, being PETRIFIED, it's pretty hard for them to respond, isn't it?
What you said didn't bother me in the least. Thank you, I'll throw all the stones I like. Believe me, I'm not judging you on your trolling.
This is the most disturbing post I've read in a long time. Probably since I received an unsolicited email from the "WhoreCorps", announcing that they had just given me nuclear capabilities in their strange new language that was somewhere in an evolution between C++ and Java. I have to say, I'd never seen a 27k email before that was entirely text (email me if you'd like a copy!). But I digress.
Some aspects of the message were funny. But I found them completely overshadowed by the scary sexual overtones of being able grope unwilling females held in permanent bondage. I don't doubt that the whole thing was a joke. I just find it in very poor taste.
"Congress didn't make a law doing any of those things."
"The FBI in this case would be the executive branch not the legislative branch."
It is the job of the FBI to enforce federal laws. Do you get it? Since that is the case, what federal law were they enforcing in getting this guy to shut down his web site? Law enforcement agencies do not make laws. They do not make policy. What they do is supposed to be limited by the bills written into law by the legislative branch. To say "Congress didn't do it, the FBI did" is the most inane cop out you can say in a case like this. The FBI is also required to follow the law, but history has shown us time and time again that federal law enforcement agencies feel themselves to be above the law that they are supposed to enforce.
Not bad. Personally, I'd like offer some additional suggestions:
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Ruger Mini-14, aftermarket folding stock, 30 round box magazine. Cheaper than an M4, folds up to a smaller package.
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Para-Ordnance P16.40, one of the few things the Canadians got right. Fsck the wondernine, the P16 holds 16+1 in the chamber. And it's not a pea-shooter 9mm.
Gold Gold is as useless as paper money unless your goal is to make pretty jewelry. The only reason it has value is the same reason currency has value: we all agree that it does. Not that society will break down over Y2K, but if it did, your tradable valuables would be ammo, food, weapons, tools, decent clothing.
Frankly, I was puzzled by this reference to petroleum-generating dinosaurs, all previous literature on the subject - at least what I've read - emphasized plant mass as the presumed source for petroleum.
Good, now I don't feel quite as crazy when confronted by the popular "wisdom" that oil comes from dinosaurs. My guess is that someone heard petroleum came from the decomposition of prehistoric life and immediately equated that with "Dinosaur!" A little rational thinking on the subject will quickly reveal how ridiculous that idea is.
It seems plain to me that some day in the near futures, consoles will be indistinguishable from your standard PC. Hasn't everyone else seen the trends? Modern PC's now routinely ship with 3D and sound cards on the mainboard. Conole systems are now being built with PC 3D cards (the GeForce), communication ports, mice, CD-ROMs, and other peripherals that have, until recently, existed only in the realm of the personal computer.
As the console continues to eveolve, eventually Sega, Sony, and Nintendo will stop trying to market their systems as "consoles" and will call them by their rightful names: personal computers. Because that's what they'll be. There will cease to be two separate niches and your Playstation 6 will be just as configurable as your typical desktop.
Who knows? Maybe someday the Playstation 7 will even run Linux and Windows.
How long until Hollywood brings us a movie showing a system administrator using "DoomAdmin" to manage his/her processes? Wow, talk about hacking being glamorous!
Clear and Present Danger used a lot of computer and spy tech that pushed the envelope without being unbelievable or unlikely, but I'd sort of expect that in a Tom Clancy movie. After all, if there's one thing that guy does well, it's research. The part where the computer dweeb guessed the guy's ATM PIN was funny, since I know how stupid users are with their passwords (while thinking they're being clever).
I'm a big Clancy fan, but I also remember when that same computer dweeb had to guess Ritter's password. He said to himself something along the lines of "I'm going to have to create a special program to handle this" just before he sat at this terminal and began to type several lines of gobblygook consisting of really long numbers and various symbols. Still, at least it was text, as opposed to some stupid "cyberspace" visual interface.
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Did anyone else see John Vranesevich on the Today show this morning? He seemed to field all of the questions okay (I was still half asleep at the time), but then you can't really expect hard-ball technical questions from Matt Lauer.
It helps to have a book on Federal gun laws, which I don't right now, but I do have one it home and I have read it.
Domain names will either be owned by people with legitimate reasons, cyber-squatters (i.e. "domain brokers"), and/or porn.
A lot of people will have figured out how meaningless domains are when every new company has to work hard to find a name like "www.thenewcompanycalledfoobar.com". New names will be so long it will be easier to remember IP addresses or to simply go through portal sites to get where you want to go. Television ads will be reduced to those few companies that have short and memorable domain names, while the rest will simply advertise online, where a mouse click, not a impressive memory, is all that's necessary to reach the new site.
Super-intelligent monkeys will conquer most of western Canada. At least, that's what the Magic Eight Ball says.
The problem is, who exactly decides whether a domain name is being "used"? To what government agency do we want to give that kind of power? Kind of leaves a bad taste in your mouth, doesn't it? Would we see "fake usage" pages that appear to contain content, but are really little more than domain brokering companies attempting to appear legitimate while they continue to sell their registered domain names? Will we see small independent netizens evicted from their properly registered and used domains because BigBadCorp complained to BigBadGov't about that person "squatting" on that domain? We're basically seeing this already, with the eToys vs eToy fiasco. This worries me personally. My group has legitimate non-profit content on a domain name which would probably be of interest to a certain package delivery company.
Do we really want some faceless group to have the power to declare your website content "non-legitimate usage"? I don't.
Some alternatives I can think of:
- While it will be legal to offer money for a domain, it will be illegal to attempt to sell it. They creates a lot of gray areas, yeah, but is just a thought.
- Transferring ownership of a domain name is not allowed, so buying or selling domain names is illegal. This would probably lead to the "subletting" of domain names... renting them out to some other interested party while keeping the ownership in your own name.
- Eliminate domain names entirely. What, you can't remember 12 little numbers?
:) I know, not gonna happen. Possibly we can try harder to reduce the dependence on domain names. Search engines have helped do this somewhat.
As with all things, there's no easy answer!- I get so God damned tired of people putting the ACLU down because it doesn't do the NRA's job for them.
I was not really saying that the ACLU had to do the NRA's "job" (is it really their "job"?), but that it hypocritically denies that the 2nd Ammendment has any meaning at all while claiming to defend all American rights. I am grateful for the existence of the ACLU and the job they have done defending the citizens from government encroachment, but they rely on a simplistic and inaccurate "out" to relieve themselves of any responsibility to support civilian gun ownership no matter what the Bill of Rights says. It's obvious to me that their position is based on a matter of personal bias, not the universal acceptance of rights protected by the Constitution and its ammendments.- Had massive Lego castle wars with my brothers
- Had Lego car ramming competitions
- Built Lincoln Log houses and launched smaller Lincoln Logs at them with a crude Lincoln Log catapult
- Made crossbows out of Tinker-Toys and rubber bands
I think you just had a boring childhood.If only you'd get a brain and not confuse "white supremecists" with "gun nuts", you might make a little more sense.
Somebody please moderate down this ignorant troll.
C'mon, people wake up. His wife... Natalie? Portman, perhaps? This is just another troll by our neigborhood petrification nut, funny as it is. I can't believe anyone would actually take this post seriously. Gimme a break, guys! Take the blinders off already.
To quote: "Today is the first day since Dec. 28, 888 (12-28-888) to have only even digits in its numerical format (02-02-2000)."
It was indeed a Walther P99, though it often gets dropped in favor of the FN P90 submachinegun.
With all due respect to Id, have you ever seen the source code for the Quake2 gamex86.dll? It's often messy, comments are sparse, and naming conventions are plainly up to each individual coder. Still, it was a learning experience.
Ya know what? I can download Linux from RedHat's web site. For free. As in, no money. I pay nothing. Nada. Zilch. No fee at all. So I'd say that this is not what RedHat does.
Even if you are never convicted of a crime, it is then up to you to PROVE in a court of law that you were innocent in order to have your property returned.
Am I the only one who considers such laws a much greater threat to liberty?
- If she did NOT like being a statue, I would immediately restore her to her animate state, apologize thoroughly, and go look for females with more of a proclivity for being marble.
Oh, I see. You petrify them, feel them up, and then ask them if they like being marble. Of course, being PETRIFIED, it's pretty hard for them to respond, isn't it?What you said didn't bother me in the least. Thank you, I'll throw all the stones I like. Believe me, I'm not judging you on your trolling.
Some aspects of the message were funny. But I found them completely overshadowed by the scary sexual overtones of being able grope unwilling females held in permanent bondage. I don't doubt that the whole thing was a joke. I just find it in very poor taste.
"The FBI in this case would be the executive branch not the legislative branch."
It is the job of the FBI to enforce federal laws. Do you get it? Since that is the case, what federal law were they enforcing in getting this guy to shut down his web site? Law enforcement agencies do not make laws. They do not make policy. What they do is supposed to be limited by the bills written into law by the legislative branch. To say "Congress didn't do it, the FBI did" is the most inane cop out you can say in a case like this. The FBI is also required to follow the law, but history has shown us time and time again that federal law enforcement agencies feel themselves to be above the law that they are supposed to enforce.
5.56mm
- Para-Ordnance P16.40, one of the few things the Canadians got right. Fsck the wondernine, the P16 holds 16+1 in the chamber. And it's not a pea-shooter 9mm.
GoldGold is as useless as paper money unless your goal is to make pretty jewelry. The only reason it has value is the same reason currency has value: we all agree that it does. Not that society will break down over Y2K, but if it did, your tradable valuables would be ammo, food, weapons, tools, decent clothing.
Even if Y2K is a non-event, we can use the arms to storm the U.S. Patent Office. C'mon, you know you're just dying to do it.
When did this happen? Last night while I was in one of my trademarked drunken stupors?
- Frankly, I was puzzled by this reference to petroleum-generating dinosaurs, all previous literature on the subject - at least what I've read - emphasized plant mass as the presumed source for petroleum.
Good, now I don't feel quite as crazy when confronted by the popular "wisdom" that oil comes from dinosaurs. My guess is that someone heard petroleum came from the decomposition of prehistoric life and immediately equated that with "Dinosaur!" A little rational thinking on the subject will quickly reveal how ridiculous that idea is.As the console continues to eveolve, eventually Sega, Sony, and Nintendo will stop trying to market their systems as "consoles" and will call them by their rightful names: personal computers. Because that's what they'll be. There will cease to be two separate niches and your Playstation 6 will be just as configurable as your typical desktop.
Who knows? Maybe someday the Playstation 7 will even run Linux and Windows.
How long until Hollywood brings us a movie showing a system administrator using "DoomAdmin" to manage his/her processes? Wow, talk about hacking being glamorous!
- The NRA is opposed to most of the liberties that the ACLU fights for (freedom of speech, religion, assembly, the rights of the accused, etc.)
Go easy on the crack, son. Or better yet, actually try reading NRA publications and writings. You might be surprised.- Clear and Present Danger used a lot of computer and spy tech that pushed the envelope without being unbelievable or unlikely, but I'd sort of expect that in a Tom Clancy movie. After all, if there's one thing that guy does well, it's research. The part where the computer dweeb guessed the guy's ATM PIN was funny, since I know how stupid users are with their passwords (while thinking they're being clever).
I'm a big Clancy fan, but I also remember when that same computer dweeb had to guess Ritter's password. He said to himself something along the lines of "I'm going to have to create a special program to handle this" just before he sat at this terminal and began to type several lines of gobblygook consisting of really long numbers and various symbols. Still, at least it was text, as opposed to some stupid "cyberspace" visual interface.The quote said "did relating to some under-17-year-old supposedly being able to pick up Half-Life: Opposing Force, an M-rated game (17+)"