These people are desperate and without work in their country except for criminal con tricks such as this so the most compassionate thing you could do is ignore them and continue to educate your community about the trap.
How weird. Would you also advocate compassionately letting drug smugglers through but educating people on the harm of drugs, if they come from third-world countries?
Congratulations, you have one the "first post" prize. This was set up in the year 1922 by President Nboko of Nigeria, who felt that those who posted first to Slashdot on the 20th of June each year (his birthday) should receive a million US$. However to release these funds some small charges apply....
In Muslim countries killing your kids for honour, raping non-Muslims, stealing from non muslims and destroying there places of worship is seen as a virtue and not a crime.
Bruce Schneier is NOT a diplomat and has fuck all experience in dealing with international affairs. And what sort of Diplomacy are we supposed to use when "Stern Letter Writing", "UN Inspections" and threats fail? Obama showed quite a bit of creativity and tact in performing an elaborate Cyber-Attack that left our best Security Researchers stumped for months and seems to have worked quite well in derailing their bomb making efforts.
Would Schneier prefer we have gone ahead with Israel's agenda and bombed the suspected weapons making facilities and risked killing people -- even civilians? Or is he just the sort of Freedom Loving Pacifist that would have us dawdling around writing more "Sternly Worded Letters" until Iran finally trotted out a bomb and wiped out an entire city full of people?
I think he is one of those close-minded liberals who think that Muzzies are just "reasonable folk", and that they all know that though the Quran tells them to kill non-Muslims and rape their women they all have enough humanity to see that "it is just meant figuratively".
I had to try it with a response like that. It started out very responsive but hung after I clicked on Discussion Index and tried the link for Google Summer of Code link. Tried backing out to a couple of pages but links hang.
It's the way a good technical discussion forum should be but if used by typical users with all the image overhead they bring with them and the hangups of typical links to ad sites it would be slowed down like the rest of them.
Veteran government and private officials warn that much of the activity is too risky to make sense, citing the chances for escalation and collateral damage.
So the government is saying that responses to attacks should be proportionate and legal...... Pot, kettle... black
Ok, so if I just pull some random numbers out of my ass... We have 100 people. 50 have insurance and 50 don't. If they sell the hearing aid for $3000, they sell 50 of them. If they sell it for $500 they sell 100. Which makes them more money?
Exactly. In fact, remember those supply-and-demand lines from high-school economics. Basically, your revenue at any given price will be given by finding that price on the demand curve, finding the quantity that it gives you, and you multiply them.
Of course the economics courses will say that in a free market that won't happen, because someone else will undercut you. If someone can make a profit at selling at £500 to those who haven't brought from you they will - meaning the market will switch to the cheaper version.
That's why companies use patents like "hearing aid in a cuboid shaped box" to avoid the free market. Everyone knows its bullshit but no new players can break in. The other tactic is FUD - cheaper hearing aids are helping Communists, are prone to explode, etc.
If the Buddhists are right, some patent lawyers and company executives are looking forward to an reincarnation as a pile of petrified sh*t at the bottom of the ocean.ï
while others argue that offering visas to foreign workers reduces job prospects for Americans
H1B's are living and working in the same environment as Americans.H1B's typically have lower educational opportunities than Americans(Americans have access to educational facilities worldwide, but its very difficult for a foreigner to get admission in an educational insitute in America(for someone from one of the countries from where people aspire to live in America))
Then, why cant Americans compete with H1B's?
Because they expect to be paid more. You are not going to do a 12-hour a day IT job for the same money as a car salesman working 8 hours a day if you can get a job as a car salesman. On the other hand offer someone from a low-wage country 20k a year, give them a visa that won't let them change jobs and you're set up.
They ought to ask how many professors WROTE the textbooks that they are requiring students to buy. I'm not sure about other places, but at the community college that my wife attends 85% of the books that she has been required to purchase have been written by the professor teaching the class. Call me naive, but isn't that kind of a conflict of interest?
When I was at University the only textbooks written by the professor were widely used and published ones. He also was very careful to offer alternatives, though he dis say that his courses followed the structure of his books and with alternatives you would be jumping around more.
Wouldn't blurring these out be the same as putting up a sign saying "Women's Shelter"? I thought those places were nondescript houses.
I expect its the 1% of faces that don't get blurred that they worry about here - someone escaping a violent partner appearing on google images outside their address
Slashdot Mirror
Apple havent applied for an injunction to stop it being sold!
Maybe they haven't released it in East Texas
Microsoft is very close to doing what they're poo-pooing
Ha ha ... he said "poo poo".
These people are desperate and without work in their country except for criminal con tricks such as this so the most compassionate thing you could do is ignore them and continue to educate your community about the trap.
How weird. Would you also advocate compassionately letting drug smugglers through but educating people on the harm of drugs, if they come from third-world countries?
But having to do that would also waste our time. Are you willing to do that?
Well he's posting on slashdot isn't he?
"According to research by Cormac Herley at Microsoft, scammers are looking for the most gullible people"
Well no shit sherlock!
He might have had experience in their "OEM pre loaded" department
For once in my life, I want to say "FIRST POST!"
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The authors are worse than "damned liars" I say.
maybe they thought that they'd be damned if they did not lie.
In Muslim countries killing your kids for honour, raping non-Muslims, stealing from non muslims and destroying there places of worship is seen as a virtue and not a crime.
Well in 20 years, we'll have x86 denial syndrome instead (of Amiga Denial Syndrome that is).
I deny that
Bruce Schneier is NOT a diplomat and has fuck all experience in dealing with international affairs. And what sort of Diplomacy are we supposed to use when "Stern Letter Writing", "UN Inspections" and threats fail? Obama showed quite a bit of creativity and tact in performing an elaborate Cyber-Attack that left our best Security Researchers stumped for months and seems to have worked quite well in derailing their bomb making efforts.
Would Schneier prefer we have gone ahead with Israel's agenda and bombed the suspected weapons making facilities and risked killing people -- even civilians? Or is he just the sort of Freedom Loving Pacifist that would have us dawdling around writing more "Sternly Worded Letters" until Iran finally trotted out a bomb and wiped out an entire city full of people?
I think he is one of those close-minded liberals who think that Muzzies are just "reasonable folk", and that they all know that though the Quran tells them to kill non-Muslims and rape their women they all have enough humanity to see that "it is just meant figuratively".
I had to try it with a response like that. It started out very responsive but hung after I clicked on Discussion Index and tried the link for Google Summer of Code link. Tried backing out to a couple of pages but links hang.
It's the way a good technical discussion forum should be but if used by typical users with all the image overhead they bring with them and the hangups of typical links to ad sites it would be slowed down like the rest of them.
I tried the same thing, its lightning fast.
Veteran government and private officials warn that much of the activity is too risky to make sense, citing the chances for escalation and collateral damage.
So the government is saying that responses to attacks should be proportionate and legal ...... Pot, kettle... black
How many phones effected? Was it quickly fixed? I updated my Sony Live Wt9i (based on Xperia) and still accessed wifi without problems
Artificial scarcity is morally wrong and economically harmful.
That's what I said to a girl who turned out not to be on the game
Ok, so if I just pull some random numbers out of my ass... We have 100 people. 50 have insurance and 50 don't. If they sell the hearing aid for $3000, they sell 50 of them. If they sell it for $500 they sell 100. Which makes them more money?
Exactly. In fact, remember those supply-and-demand lines from high-school economics. Basically, your revenue at any given price will be given by finding that price on the demand curve, finding the quantity that it gives you, and you multiply them.
Of course the economics courses will say that in a free market that won't happen, because someone else will undercut you. If someone can make a profit at selling at £500 to those who haven't brought from you they will - meaning the market will switch to the cheaper version.
That's why companies use patents like "hearing aid in a cuboid shaped box" to avoid the free market. Everyone knows its bullshit but no new players can break in. The other tactic is FUD - cheaper hearing aids are helping Communists, are prone to explode, etc.
U.S. Govt. Appears To Have Nabbed Kurupt.su Carding Kingpin
I thought he had something to do with sorting cotton fibres before spinning.
... only two want .sex
I hope that they can come to some arrangement
If the Buddhists are right, some patent lawyers and company executives are looking forward to an reincarnation as a pile of petrified sh*t at the bottom of the ocean.ï
Or even worse than that, as another patent lawyer
my mom would just give both web sites a 'timeout' and tell the boys to behave.
She'd also give them both a blow-job.
Stroke Risk Spikes In Healthy Adults Who Don't Get Enough Sleep
Thank God I'm an unhealthy adult who doesn't get enough sleep.
while others argue that offering visas to foreign workers reduces job prospects for Americans
H1B's are living and working in the same environment as Americans.H1B's typically have lower educational opportunities than Americans(Americans have access to educational facilities worldwide, but its very difficult for a foreigner to get admission in an educational insitute in America(for someone from one of the countries from where people aspire to live in America)) Then, why cant Americans compete with H1B's?
Because they expect to be paid more. You are not going to do a 12-hour a day IT job for the same money as a car salesman working 8 hours a day if you can get a job as a car salesman. On the other hand offer someone from a low-wage country 20k a year, give them a visa that won't let them change jobs and you're set up.
They ought to ask how many professors WROTE the textbooks that they are requiring students to buy. I'm not sure about other places, but at the community college that my wife attends 85% of the books that she has been required to purchase have been written by the professor teaching the class. Call me naive, but isn't that kind of a conflict of interest?
When I was at University the only textbooks written by the professor were widely used and published ones. He also was very careful to offer alternatives, though he dis say that his courses followed the structure of his books and with alternatives you would be jumping around more.
'The words MICRO and SOFT don't apply to my penis.' In a strange effort to be inclusive, a monitor displaying the lyrics added, 'or vagina.'
What in the hell is an "or vagina"? Is that new hardware slang for an OR gate?
Well, Micro and Soft would be ideal for a vagina.
Maybe for you, would it match the size of your dick?
But LEXICAL SCOPING isn't one of them!
oh bitch - I'll scratch your eyes out
Wouldn't blurring these out be the same as putting up a sign saying "Women's Shelter"? I thought those places were nondescript houses.
I expect its the 1% of faces that don't get blurred that they worry about here - someone escaping a violent partner appearing on google images outside their address