Just out of curiosity, why do you say it's "harder to purchase the rulings you want" out of people that aren't elected? Just like sales people from vendors that take me out to lunch and offer free game tickets and mugs and pens and vacations and all kinds of other crap. In politics it's called "contributions." In sales it's called "gifts."
Actually, it seems like it would be easier to have somebody that's not elected bought, since politicians have to publicly show who is giving them money.
...but it's just unrealistic to expect "cyber warriors" to get a job that requires physical exercise when they can get a less life-intrusive job for similar pay.
You're assuming that pay is the only motivator here. Patriotism aside, I'm guessing a fair majority of the armed forces got into it because they are thrill seekers. Just like the people who get into the armed forces so they can "drive tanks and blow shit up" without getting in trouble, I'm guessing there will be people who join this Cyber Command simply because they can hack without getting in trouble.
Also, don't forget that most of these geeks were ridiculed all throughout high school and just want to fit in. The chance to be part of something huge where your skills that meant shit in high school suddenly make you important might be another driving force.
Trent is a wonderfully varied musician. He still does the loud screaming over metal stuff, but he also has at least a couple softer ambient tracks on each album. If memory servers me right, the CD that the Closer song you mentioned was on has one of my favorite ambient tracks on it, A Warm Place. There are also some remix albums where he cuts out all or most of the hard stuff, leaving only the acoustic-type sounds (for lack of a better way of saying it). My favorite of these types is a CD called Still which is probably near-impossible to obtain legally now, as it was a limited edition included as a bonus. Well worth it if you can get your hands on it.
A simplification, yes, but still correct. The summary said pretty explicitly that the rerouting was happening on the DNS level. This isn't some HTML or Javascript code that is telling your browser to go elsewhere. This is the DNS server actually returning an IP when it should return an error. There's not a thing Lynx (or any browser) can do about that- as I said, it requests a page and happily displays the data it gets from the server it requested.
Perhaps my comment was modded informative because they thought it would be informative for you and others. Granted, I came off a bit short in my response, but I thought the whole thing kind of silly. At least I didn't ridicule you like the guy that got modded funny.;-)
Your examples have one major flaw- all of them involve the risk of loss of life. 10 year old kids driving and landmines have a large change of somebody getting hurt or killed. The law must always try to strike a balance between the loss of rights of the individual and the possible effects of these actions. The law correctly (in my opinion, anyways) assigns more weight to the right of individuals to keep their life than to the right of a 10 year old kid to go joyriding.
You can't really compare a 10 year old driving to a 10 year old downloading the CD of the current popular Boy Band.
So yes, you are correct that we can ask what percentage of a certain technology is used for evil/unlawful uses. However, don't forget to ask the (perhaps more important) question of "what is the risk." We must always weigh both answers, especially when the "fix" requires loss of rights.
I can't tell if this is flamebait or not, so I'll be good and reply instead of modding.
As long as it's over 0%, the percentage doesn't matter. The point is, they're supposed to be a common carrier and route the damn packets. Customers and services that customers pay to use rely on ISPs adhering to standards. And please, don't make Comcast out to be some great defender of the Copyright. They're only doing this to save their stockholders money- nothing more.
Besides, piracy existed (and still does) well before the Torrent protocol. HTTP, IRC, SMTP, and FTP are all still used to transfer files in violation of copyright. Should Comcast throttle these indiscriminately as well? Where do you draw the line?
Yeah, I use the same thing as my homepage at work. Lets my get my XKCD and Think'n Lincoln fix for the day, and see where the newest suicide bomber hit during the night. To be fair though, Google doesn't really advertise that feature as far as I can tell, and Yahoo had it first.
I've always thought that one of the main reasons Google took off so well is because it WASN'T a portal. Most people want a search engine, not a portal.
I would imagine that most of the people that use Yahoo do so because they DO want a portal, and they know they don't like Microsoft's portal. I realize they want the people at Yahoo, but it just seems to me their strategy of "Lets keep doing the same thing that people already gave up in favor of Google" is silly.
While your MSN point may be valid, I seem to remember an internet browser being an inseparable part of the OS. Oh, and a media player. Now that I've said that, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to make MSN a "part" of the OS. Besides, while I haven't used a Vista install disc yet, I don't remember the XP install disc giving you an option to not install MSN along with the rest of the OS.
Another thought: Where is the line between the OS and the "extras" that might come along with it? Just the kernel? What about drivers? File Explorers? Media players that are required as they plug into said file explorers. It's a slippery slope, I think.
It's all semantics anyway; instead of people calling the Vista OS bloated, would you prefer "The default (only?) install of Vista is bloated." Or maybe "The Vista suite of applications is bloated." Or maybe we can just say "Vista is bloated."
I'm not saying we should stop exploring and studying. But sticking our head in the sand and ignoring the possibility of finding something that could kill billions of people is not the way of going about it. Thankfully, I'm sure the people working on this are going to try their best to keep it separate from our environment, if for nothing else than to avoid ruining their experiments.
Samples taken from the moon obviously haven't wiped out life on Earth, why should we believe that samples taken from Mars would?
That is horrible logic. Even if we ignore the fact that mars and the moon have some radically different environments, what you basically just said is "If I can stick my arm in this cow's mouth and not get bit, then I should be able to stick my arm in any animal's mouth without worry of getting bit.
There is a lot of stuff out there we haven't seen. And it's entirely possible that some of that stuff is capable of killing us.
I hope I'm wrong, but it almost sounds like you condone the murderer's actions.
Aside from moving as soon as a registered sex offender moves into your neighborhood, how is this list going to protect your family? How is it going to stop a neighbor from breaking into your house and raping your children? Or better yet, how would it stop a registered sex offender from another neighborhood from breaking into your house and raping your children? That's right, it won't... unless you're thinking about being proactive and hunting everybody down on this list to string them up before "they strike again."
I agree with your thoughts on the mental institutions, but I also think prisons do provide a role here. Unless a judge determines that the offender should undergo a psychiatric evaluation, I would imagine that he feels that some punishment / time to reflect on what the offender did should be enough to help. If not, the offender commits another crime before or after getting out of prison, and they go back for longer. Yes, it's a flawed system, but there must be a balance struck so that not too many people who really have changed don't rot away in prison the rest of their lives.
No, I was actually using my phone as a modem to dial an ISP that I keep around for just purposes. Just to be clear, this is was dialup, I was NOT using a data plan, as I don't have one.
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Errr, no. Common sense is just that- common. If this were common to all, than there would be no arguing.
Just out of curiosity, why do you say it's "harder to purchase the rulings you want" out of people that aren't elected? Just like sales people from vendors that take me out to lunch and offer free game tickets and mugs and pens and vacations and all kinds of other crap. In politics it's called "contributions." In sales it's called "gifts."
Actually, it seems like it would be easier to have somebody that's not elected bought, since politicians have to publicly show who is giving them money.
Hmmm, this would explain why I just got a black screen with a mouse pointer when I logged in this morning. :/
Also, don't forget that most of these geeks were ridiculed all throughout high school and just want to fit in. The chance to be part of something huge where your skills that meant shit in high school suddenly make you important might be another driving force.
Trent is a wonderfully varied musician. He still does the loud screaming over metal stuff, but he also has at least a couple softer ambient tracks on each album. If memory servers me right, the CD that the Closer song you mentioned was on has one of my favorite ambient tracks on it, A Warm Place. There are also some remix albums where he cuts out all or most of the hard stuff, leaving only the acoustic-type sounds (for lack of a better way of saying it). My favorite of these types is a CD called Still which is probably near-impossible to obtain legally now, as it was a limited edition included as a bonus. Well worth it if you can get your hands on it.
A simplification, yes, but still correct. The summary said pretty explicitly that the rerouting was happening on the DNS level. This isn't some HTML or Javascript code that is telling your browser to go elsewhere. This is the DNS server actually returning an IP when it should return an error. There's not a thing Lynx (or any browser) can do about that- as I said, it requests a page and happily displays the data it gets from the server it requested.
;-)
Perhaps my comment was modded informative because they thought it would be informative for you and others. Granted, I came off a bit short in my response, but I thought the whole thing kind of silly. At least I didn't ridicule you like the guy that got modded funny.
Why would you think Lynx would be immune to this? Lynx requests 'www.slfjiuhsf.com' and gets data back.
How nice of them to give you access to the CPU. ;-)
Why would they have to test it? Vista is the "most secure OS ever!"
Your examples have one major flaw- all of them involve the risk of loss of life. 10 year old kids driving and landmines have a large change of somebody getting hurt or killed. The law must always try to strike a balance between the loss of rights of the individual and the possible effects of these actions. The law correctly (in my opinion, anyways) assigns more weight to the right of individuals to keep their life than to the right of a 10 year old kid to go joyriding.
You can't really compare a 10 year old driving to a 10 year old downloading the CD of the current popular Boy Band.
So yes, you are correct that we can ask what percentage of a certain technology is used for evil/unlawful uses. However, don't forget to ask the (perhaps more important) question of "what is the risk." We must always weigh both answers, especially when the "fix" requires loss of rights.
I can't tell if this is flamebait or not, so I'll be good and reply instead of modding.
As long as it's over 0%, the percentage doesn't matter. The point is, they're supposed to be a common carrier and route the damn packets. Customers and services that customers pay to use rely on ISPs adhering to standards. And please, don't make Comcast out to be some great defender of the Copyright. They're only doing this to save their stockholders money- nothing more.
Besides, piracy existed (and still does) well before the Torrent protocol. HTTP, IRC, SMTP, and FTP are all still used to transfer files in violation of copyright. Should Comcast throttle these indiscriminately as well? Where do you draw the line?
Yeah, I use the same thing as my homepage at work. Lets my get my XKCD and Think'n Lincoln fix for the day, and see where the newest suicide bomber hit during the night. To be fair though, Google doesn't really advertise that feature as far as I can tell, and Yahoo had it first.
I've always thought that one of the main reasons Google took off so well is because it WASN'T a portal. Most people want a search engine, not a portal.
I would imagine that most of the people that use Yahoo do so because they DO want a portal, and they know they don't like Microsoft's portal. I realize they want the people at Yahoo, but it just seems to me their strategy of "Lets keep doing the same thing that people already gave up in favor of Google" is silly.
Who are you counting here? I was talking about white males, since that is all that mattered back then.
Bullshit. Just because the majority wanted to own slaves didn't make it right.
You can't; you just posted.
While your MSN point may be valid, I seem to remember an internet browser being an inseparable part of the OS. Oh, and a media player. Now that I've said that, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to make MSN a "part" of the OS. Besides, while I haven't used a Vista install disc yet, I don't remember the XP install disc giving you an option to not install MSN along with the rest of the OS.
Another thought: Where is the line between the OS and the "extras" that might come along with it? Just the kernel? What about drivers? File Explorers? Media players that are required as they plug into said file explorers. It's a slippery slope, I think.
It's all semantics anyway; instead of people calling the Vista OS bloated, would you prefer "The default (only?) install of Vista is bloated." Or maybe "The Vista suite of applications is bloated." Or maybe we can just say "Vista is bloated."
Yes, it's called the RIAA Radar.
http://www.riaaradar.com/
Firefox is safe anyway, for the time being.
Still, NoFlash... NoScript... soon I'll have to install NoImage and NoCSS. I guess it's time to go back to Gopher.
I'm not saying we should stop exploring and studying. But sticking our head in the sand and ignoring the possibility of finding something that could kill billions of people is not the way of going about it. Thankfully, I'm sure the people working on this are going to try their best to keep it separate from our environment, if for nothing else than to avoid ruining their experiments.
There is a lot of stuff out there we haven't seen. And it's entirely possible that some of that stuff is capable of killing us.
I hope I'm wrong, but it almost sounds like you condone the murderer's actions.
Aside from moving as soon as a registered sex offender moves into your neighborhood, how is this list going to protect your family? How is it going to stop a neighbor from breaking into your house and raping your children? Or better yet, how would it stop a registered sex offender from another neighborhood from breaking into your house and raping your children? That's right, it won't... unless you're thinking about being proactive and hunting everybody down on this list to string them up before "they strike again."
I agree with your thoughts on the mental institutions, but I also think prisons do provide a role here. Unless a judge determines that the offender should undergo a psychiatric evaluation, I would imagine that he feels that some punishment / time to reflect on what the offender did should be enough to help. If not, the offender commits another crime before or after getting out of prison, and they go back for longer. Yes, it's a flawed system, but there must be a balance struck so that not too many people who really have changed don't rot away in prison the rest of their lives.
With enough mattresses stacked, you can survive anything.
No, I was actually using my phone as a modem to dial an ISP that I keep around for just purposes. Just to be clear, this is was dialup, I was NOT using a data plan, as I don't have one.