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The universe is a finely balanced thing. When they released those protons the universe was unbalenced and is now on an unstoppable decline and will tip over and fall off the table.
Yeah I agree that its not right to punish everyone for the lunacy of a few but unfortunately it's hard to distinguish between the lunatic with a high power laser and the person who knows about lasers and how to avoid accidents and is determined to never cause harm.
If there were a program where I could take a test, and apply for a license to have one I'd get one, but unlike cars I don't think there is enough money in it to do it.
This is how freedom is lost by the actions of a few.
We can't just go into certain places in the wilderness, we all have a lot of restrictions because there are always a few fools.
Oh well I expect that some day I will be told to yield up my laser and I'll do it, b/c it's not worth fines and imprisonment to keep it, but till then I'll do the best thing I can and that is by being sure it isn't used to frighten or endanger others and never letting anyone else operate it even in my presence unless all nearby have one of the laser goggles that I got for that purpose.
NBullies in cyberspace or in school are still bullies.
As for the law making it illegal to call someone mean or stupid all I will say is the real problem stems from their attitude. The behavior is only the symptoms.
We all knew the names of bullies at school. It didn't stop them.
Take one look at Uselessnet and you see bullying from folks who give out their names, emails and all kind of stuff.
Stupid people (bullies) stand by their stupidity.
So that's what was going on with Luke Skywalker!.. "Luke... use the farce!"
So maybe they can adopt it as a new type of hearing aid if I believed it worked.
If this breaks privacy laws than so do licence plates.
How would you feel if you started finding threatening notes on your car and around your home and the perp could not be caught because of privacy laws and you suffered great harm?
How would you feel if they caught the perp when that first note showed up?
Freedom is fine, but not when it becomes freedom to harm others with impunity. I would rather not sacrifice my safety on the altar of privacy.
If this is a violation of the right to privacy, than guess what. I guess so are license plates.
Privacy is fine, but when it comes to the point where it allows folks to do crimes against your person or property in the name of an overdeveloped idea of privacy, it is taking it a bit too far.
How would you feel if someone stated leaving threatening notes on your car, on your door and there was no way to catch them before they followed through?
Now how would you feel if you got those threatening notes but they authorities were able to put a stop to them before you could come to harm?
Would you really be concerned about codes if you weren't doing anything wrong? I wouldn't. I'd rather be safe.
I happen to be a 53 year old guy playing female toons because I think girls are cute and if I'm going to stare at a toon for hours on end I might as well enjoy what I am looking at. I have always been straight forward about my identity, When I join a guild I fill in my profile who I am, I also give a truthful answer when people as me who I am. There are antics that I get to enjoy because stuck-up, men are too puffed up stiff with pride that they won't allow themselves to find fun, where a male toon would look stupid.
Any game that starts out bossing me around about my personal preferences when I'm not harming anyone, because I'm HONEST, is a game I'm NOT going to play any more or even stop playing!
Yep, Just another narrow minded excuse to tread those who have had a bit of bad luck such as job loss from hostile takeovers, Sickness all kinds of unexpected things that leave a person barely being able to put food on the table, so that they don't have to face the reality it might happend to them too.
So, by judging folks, they get to feel distanced and immune to tragedy.
They won't bother to try to find out why the person got into difficulty, no they don't care that the person has paid the debt but still has a bad rating because the debt was sold to 10 collection agencies, and the other nine want their share too. It would be too much trouble.
It makes me sick! Let the first potential employer who has NEVER suffered terror, shame and demoralization from wanting to pay up and having been taken down by some loss, throw the first stone!
I got one debt, When I was working for 10 years, I sought out the companies that I owed, I used my credit report, and this one company that went bankrupt 20 years ago and that I could not locate sells the debt to some other agency and they I get a mail from them the day we are suddenly kicked out of work!
If I pay them, I'm out on the street!, if I don't I can't get another job!! I'm sick of living like this, someone run me over with a truck, shoot my head off take me out quick puleeze!!!
Seems this is the trend, when a sequal is created, go kill the original series I wonder if the big descision makers might be stuck thinking in the box that says "When the golden goose lays two golden eggs, we gotta throw the first one away.
* "Oh we can't have two shows about the same thing, it will compete and confuse the viewers." I credit viewers with more wit than that and these shows don't seem to compete, they complement each other.
Sure, the Ori make great villains. Some folks who are villains are simply that because they themselves are trapped and don't realize the sheer malice of who they think are their benefactors.
I agree, with the idea that the good guys win more, but its just a fact that people don't like to lose, and I don't like to lose the chance to watch BOTH series!
I would urge the producers to rethink why they are dropping SG1. Is it for valid reasons such as the actors and other sg1 folk want to move on, or because they are running out of ideas or is it just because they have come to believe that two golden eggs can't exist at one time?
Yep, I totally agree. Common sense and the ability to determine who would truly become a friend, and who will end up being a paid vandel is important. At the college where I worked, I caught a person hacking into the system, and I turned him in. My boss hired him on the spot to be in charge of security.
I told my boss that I did not get the feeling that this person could be "Converted" by hiring him. At the time I was not a particulary good judge of character, and I still have more to learn. My boss did not take my advice, and chaos resulted.
The hacker stole hardware, He got the main security key and let himself in during christmas break and opened the macintosh servers and attached the high voltage line to the screen, to the motherboard and so smoke arose when we returned.
The IBM server's hard drive was missing and replaced by a damaged hard drive.
The hacker, having admin rights, lifted the security options on the network, allowing users to get copies of all software running on the system including the Office Suites.
His final act, was to steal two state of the art PC's from the computer lab building in front of all teachers and load it into his car.
His mistake was trying to sell them to a friend of the adminstrator of that computer lab and having stolen the only computers of that particular brand sold in the entire state of California so it wasn't hard to narrow it down.
I only wish I was there when they caught him and dragged him to jail. It is said he looked like a hurt puppy. He's now out of jail and lives down the road, and he sends viruses to me and another friend in a futile attempt to infect our systems, but all his efforts come to nothing in the end.
Yes, sometimes, a hacker can make a good guard, but they got to have integrity, otherwise, its just plain courting desaster.
There are a number of bullets that destroy data and the credibility of anti-malware sofware. They are * Human error, * The price of backwards compatibility, * Cooincidental matching of signatures, * Virus mutation, * Being famous enough to attract scrutiny that reveals weaknesses or just plain arrogant claims that attract challengers, * The bad habit of implicitly applying fame instead of shame to virus writers.
No software is immune to being hit by one of these bullets sooner or later unless you are running an etch-a-sketch laptop.
Human error we all know, but with the hundreds of thousands of virus signatures to search, it is bound to happen that some legit software would have a sequence of bytes that match a signature at times. Its sheer probability. I won't fault Nav for that.
Major AV softwares are big targets for those seeking fame that don't care if its infamy if they can write a virus that rides on the weaknesses of a major piece of software or Windows itself.
Arrogant claims also attract unwanted attention. On my work machine, I had an AV software that claimed to scan all incoming traffic and claimed to block the incoming threats before they got onto my machine, failed to protect my machine when I got a message from someeone who appeared to be a friend, who knew the answer to my question, but the link they sent ended up downloading 400 viruses, all of which this AV corporate edition detected AFTER they were installed on my machine! These weren't new viruses, but had been in the AV signature file for ages. Obviously, some low life took it as a challenge to find a weakness in this software, to prove that their software did not provide the bulletproof security they claimed.
I avoid the big four major brands of antivirus software in favor of one less known that uses the signatures from one of the major four.
The best protection against viruses is the brain of the user who is computer saavy. I used HijackThis to remove those 400 viruses. I installed it, I googled the UID of every process I did not recognize until I had eradicated every virus on the system.
Up to a few weeks ago, I had and used NAV 2005, but it kept starting disabled because it did not play nice with my audology sound card software or vice versa. Eventually, a virus got through, even though I hadn't opened any email and again, HijackThis was a quick rescue.
Now when I get email where I feel I must check out the link I suspect I'll boot into Linux and browse to the site.
The biggest problem with these AV softwares, is that many of them do not allow for the creation of a boot CD (Floppies are far too unreliable and a boot floppy can't be made for NT and seemingly for XP.) where the user can boot into a clean environment where the chances of a virus being active and stealthing are minimized during a scan. Without this capability, a running virus simply re-creates the offending files after they are deleted or on reboot. This however becomes a problem when a server cannot be brought down for a thorough untainted scan. This means one should have backup servers. Ie, if you aren't willing to invest in redundancy, one must risk paying the price.
Microsoft help presents instructions for creating a clean boot with msconfig but there are two problems with that. There can be no guarantee of a clean boot on a compromised boot media, and step 2 of 12 caused my XP to think it was booting up on a different machine when it was on the same exact machine it was running on before I rebooted! I ended up having to reactivate windows! Since I have a cd with only SP1 this could have been desasterous to try a repair using that CD.
Sooner or later, with all the proliferation of malware, we are going to hit a critical mass where legit software will be mistaken more and more for virus, and scanning will turn into a bigger and bigger hassle.
Backwards compatibility is a luxury that comes with a price and that price is being limited in how one can respond to threats and security holes. It seems that the next big step might be to have compatibility layers, where an OS ca
Well, the absurd, the controversial and the unprovable have become the staple of many an internet journalist. I exibit much of this behavior, try to do programming for very long, and honest or not, disgruntled or not, harmless or dangerous, programming can be supremely frustrating and frustration leads to rage and rage leads to the dork side - aka unusual behavior.
So, I guess if unusual behavior were the thermometor to detecting a person on the brink of doing somthing foolish and pointlessly harmful, than I guess almost all of us would be locked away.
Thing is, looney or not, few who work in a place for very long without making friends, and fact is, no matter how unusual we get, the idea of doing harm this kind of thing is a thing and indirectly hurting co-workers who are also friends, is anathema and sickening to think about.
Rather than unusual behavior, maybe they should look to those who are the loners. It's loners who might snap, the rest of us care too much about or fellow workers to do them harm, and care too much about the success of the company, and are too much into the team play of working together to make the company work to even think of doing this kind of thing.
PS: We are all losing our jobs at the end of the month, but I have no desire, to harm those closing us down. It was a nice 9 year spate of employment, and despite my impending unemployment at the end of the month, I still feel a certain level of gratefulness that I had the opportunity to work among some of the nices, and best folks I could ever hope to be around.
I'm not threatened by reading this kind of thing, most bosses with half a brain would take this statistic with a huge grain of salt the size of montana.
Sign me - not a loner.
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The universe is a finely balanced thing. When they released those protons the universe was unbalenced and is now on an unstoppable decline and will tip over and fall off the table.
Yeah I agree that its not right to punish everyone for the lunacy of a few but unfortunately it's hard to distinguish between the lunatic with a high power laser and the person who knows about lasers and how to avoid accidents and is determined to never cause harm.
If there were a program where I could take a test, and apply for a license to have one I'd get one, but unlike cars I don't think there is enough money in it to do it.
This is how freedom is lost by the actions of a few.
We can't just go into certain places in the wilderness, we all have a lot of restrictions because there are always a few fools.
Oh well I expect that some day I will be told to yield up my laser and I'll do it, b/c it's not worth fines and imprisonment to keep it, but till then I'll do the best thing I can and that is by being sure it isn't used to frighten or endanger others and never letting anyone else operate it even in my presence unless all nearby have one of the laser goggles that I got for that purpose.
NBullies in cyberspace or in school are still bullies. As for the law making it illegal to call someone mean or stupid all I will say is the real problem stems from their attitude. The behavior is only the symptoms.
We all knew the names of bullies at school. It didn't stop them. Take one look at Uselessnet and you see bullying from folks who give out their names, emails and all kind of stuff. Stupid people (bullies) stand by their stupidity.
So that's what was going on with Luke Skywalker! .. "Luke ... use the farce!"
So maybe they can adopt it as a new type of hearing aid if I believed it worked.
If this breaks privacy laws than so do licence plates. How would you feel if you started finding threatening notes on your car and around your home and the perp could not be caught because of privacy laws and you suffered great harm? How would you feel if they caught the perp when that first note showed up? Freedom is fine, but not when it becomes freedom to harm others with impunity. I would rather not sacrifice my safety on the altar of privacy.
If this is a violation of the right to privacy, than guess what. I guess so are license plates. Privacy is fine, but when it comes to the point where it allows folks to do crimes against your person or property in the name of an overdeveloped idea of privacy, it is taking it a bit too far. How would you feel if someone stated leaving threatening notes on your car, on your door and there was no way to catch them before they followed through? Now how would you feel if you got those threatening notes but they authorities were able to put a stop to them before you could come to harm? Would you really be concerned about codes if you weren't doing anything wrong? I wouldn't. I'd rather be safe.
I happen to be a 53 year old guy playing female toons because I think girls are cute and if I'm going to stare at a toon for hours on end I might as well enjoy what I am looking at. I have always been straight forward about my identity, When I join a guild I fill in my profile who I am, I also give a truthful answer when people as me who I am. There are antics that I get to enjoy because stuck-up, men are too puffed up stiff with pride that they won't allow themselves to find fun, where a male toon would look stupid.
Any game that starts out bossing me around about my personal preferences when I'm not harming anyone, because I'm HONEST, is a game I'm NOT going to play any more or even stop playing!
These scientists have never had to babysit toddlers or they might have known, that todders have not read the rules regarding speed limits.
Yep, Just another narrow minded excuse to tread those who have had a bit of bad luck such as job loss from hostile takeovers, Sickness all kinds of unexpected things that leave a person barely being able to put food on the table, so that they don't have to face the reality it might happend to them too. So, by judging folks, they get to feel distanced and immune to tragedy. They won't bother to try to find out why the person got into difficulty, no they don't care that the person has paid the debt but still has a bad rating because the debt was sold to 10 collection agencies, and the other nine want their share too. It would be too much trouble. It makes me sick! Let the first potential employer who has NEVER suffered terror, shame and demoralization from wanting to pay up and having been taken down by some loss, throw the first stone! I got one debt, When I was working for 10 years, I sought out the companies that I owed, I used my credit report, and this one company that went bankrupt 20 years ago and that I could not locate sells the debt to some other agency and they I get a mail from them the day we are suddenly kicked out of work! If I pay them, I'm out on the street!, if I don't I can't get another job!! I'm sick of living like this, someone run me over with a truck, shoot my head off take me out quick puleeze!!!
Seems this is the trend, when a sequal is created, go kill the original series I wonder if the big descision makers might be stuck thinking in the box that says "When the golden goose lays two golden eggs, we gotta throw the first one away. * "Oh we can't have two shows about the same thing, it will compete and confuse the viewers." I credit viewers with more wit than that and these shows don't seem to compete, they complement each other. Sure, the Ori make great villains. Some folks who are villains are simply that because they themselves are trapped and don't realize the sheer malice of who they think are their benefactors. I agree, with the idea that the good guys win more, but its just a fact that people don't like to lose, and I don't like to lose the chance to watch BOTH series! I would urge the producers to rethink why they are dropping SG1. Is it for valid reasons such as the actors and other sg1 folk want to move on, or because they are running out of ideas or is it just because they have come to believe that two golden eggs can't exist at one time?
Yep, I totally agree. Common sense and the ability to determine who would truly become a friend, and who will end up being a paid vandel is important. At the college where I worked, I caught a person hacking into the system, and I turned him in. My boss hired him on the spot to be in charge of security. I told my boss that I did not get the feeling that this person could be "Converted" by hiring him. At the time I was not a particulary good judge of character, and I still have more to learn. My boss did not take my advice, and chaos resulted. The hacker stole hardware, He got the main security key and let himself in during christmas break and opened the macintosh servers and attached the high voltage line to the screen, to the motherboard and so smoke arose when we returned. The IBM server's hard drive was missing and replaced by a damaged hard drive. The hacker, having admin rights, lifted the security options on the network, allowing users to get copies of all software running on the system including the Office Suites. His final act, was to steal two state of the art PC's from the computer lab building in front of all teachers and load it into his car. His mistake was trying to sell them to a friend of the adminstrator of that computer lab and having stolen the only computers of that particular brand sold in the entire state of California so it wasn't hard to narrow it down. I only wish I was there when they caught him and dragged him to jail. It is said he looked like a hurt puppy. He's now out of jail and lives down the road, and he sends viruses to me and another friend in a futile attempt to infect our systems, but all his efforts come to nothing in the end. Yes, sometimes, a hacker can make a good guard, but they got to have integrity, otherwise, its just plain courting desaster.
There are a number of bullets that destroy data and the credibility of anti-malware sofware. They are * Human error, * The price of backwards compatibility, * Cooincidental matching of signatures, * Virus mutation, * Being famous enough to attract scrutiny that reveals weaknesses or just plain arrogant claims that attract challengers, * The bad habit of implicitly applying fame instead of shame to virus writers. No software is immune to being hit by one of these bullets sooner or later unless you are running an etch-a-sketch laptop. Human error we all know, but with the hundreds of thousands of virus signatures to search, it is bound to happen that some legit software would have a sequence of bytes that match a signature at times. Its sheer probability. I won't fault Nav for that. Major AV softwares are big targets for those seeking fame that don't care if its infamy if they can write a virus that rides on the weaknesses of a major piece of software or Windows itself. Arrogant claims also attract unwanted attention. On my work machine, I had an AV software that claimed to scan all incoming traffic and claimed to block the incoming threats before they got onto my machine, failed to protect my machine when I got a message from someeone who appeared to be a friend, who knew the answer to my question, but the link they sent ended up downloading 400 viruses, all of which this AV corporate edition detected AFTER they were installed on my machine! These weren't new viruses, but had been in the AV signature file for ages. Obviously, some low life took it as a challenge to find a weakness in this software, to prove that their software did not provide the bulletproof security they claimed. I avoid the big four major brands of antivirus software in favor of one less known that uses the signatures from one of the major four. The best protection against viruses is the brain of the user who is computer saavy. I used HijackThis to remove those 400 viruses. I installed it, I googled the UID of every process I did not recognize until I had eradicated every virus on the system. Up to a few weeks ago, I had and used NAV 2005, but it kept starting disabled because it did not play nice with my audology sound card software or vice versa. Eventually, a virus got through, even though I hadn't opened any email and again, HijackThis was a quick rescue. Now when I get email where I feel I must check out the link I suspect I'll boot into Linux and browse to the site. The biggest problem with these AV softwares, is that many of them do not allow for the creation of a boot CD (Floppies are far too unreliable and a boot floppy can't be made for NT and seemingly for XP.) where the user can boot into a clean environment where the chances of a virus being active and stealthing are minimized during a scan. Without this capability, a running virus simply re-creates the offending files after they are deleted or on reboot. This however becomes a problem when a server cannot be brought down for a thorough untainted scan. This means one should have backup servers. Ie, if you aren't willing to invest in redundancy, one must risk paying the price. Microsoft help presents instructions for creating a clean boot with msconfig but there are two problems with that. There can be no guarantee of a clean boot on a compromised boot media, and step 2 of 12 caused my XP to think it was booting up on a different machine when it was on the same exact machine it was running on before I rebooted! I ended up having to reactivate windows! Since I have a cd with only SP1 this could have been desasterous to try a repair using that CD. Sooner or later, with all the proliferation of malware, we are going to hit a critical mass where legit software will be mistaken more and more for virus, and scanning will turn into a bigger and bigger hassle. Backwards compatibility is a luxury that comes with a price and that price is being limited in how one can respond to threats and security holes. It seems that the next big step might be to have compatibility layers, where an OS ca
Well, the absurd, the controversial and the unprovable have become the staple of many an internet journalist. I exibit much of this behavior, try to do programming for very long, and honest or not, disgruntled or not, harmless or dangerous, programming can be supremely frustrating and frustration leads to rage and rage leads to the dork side - aka unusual behavior. So, I guess if unusual behavior were the thermometor to detecting a person on the brink of doing somthing foolish and pointlessly harmful, than I guess almost all of us would be locked away. Thing is, looney or not, few who work in a place for very long without making friends, and fact is, no matter how unusual we get, the idea of doing harm this kind of thing is a thing and indirectly hurting co-workers who are also friends, is anathema and sickening to think about. Rather than unusual behavior, maybe they should look to those who are the loners. It's loners who might snap, the rest of us care too much about or fellow workers to do them harm, and care too much about the success of the company, and are too much into the team play of working together to make the company work to even think of doing this kind of thing. PS: We are all losing our jobs at the end of the month, but I have no desire, to harm those closing us down. It was a nice 9 year spate of employment, and despite my impending unemployment at the end of the month, I still feel a certain level of gratefulness that I had the opportunity to work among some of the nices, and best folks I could ever hope to be around. I'm not threatened by reading this kind of thing, most bosses with half a brain would take this statistic with a huge grain of salt the size of montana. Sign me - not a loner.