Show me a telephone number which you can dial and that, by the simple act of connection, results in the infiltration of your company's office
Again, how many data leaks have been caused by the company's own action or incompetence compared to hacking? We're a smart group here -- no need for "o noes, they're stealing my internets!!!oneone" boogeymen.
I decided then that I must eventually get a job with a glass office where the walls can be made opaque with a click of a button.
The natural correllary to that invention, of course, would be that a suitably intelligent prankster could eventually un-opaque your walls, likely at the most inopportune moment.
Actually, I always stay one generation behind. Just picked up an original xbox and gamecube to supplement my ps2 this year. This way I can find out which version will be the best in advance (a la Resident Evil 4) and buy accordingly.
The UK government has made no small secret that it thinks having the DNA of every person on file to run through each time they stop your car/arrest you to fish for other crimes would be a jolly swell idea.
Ah, the convoluted mantras of a nintendo fanboy...
The wii is the revolution, comrade! Backwards compatability to the NES! Everyone is welcome! Use either controller! It's open to all users! Family friendly games as well as more mature content! Online! The entire userbase will be satisfied...
but use the fucking wiimote or I'll gut you like a fish!!!
The government already has to provide a number of documents in foreign languages for everyone's benefit. A spanish translation of the Constituion isn't all that outlandish.
We've already decided this issue at the Nuremburg trials. "Just doing your job" or "just following orders" is absolutely never an excuse for one's actions. Even the Roman Praetorian routinely executed their emperors when the line had been crossed.
When I first saw the Matrix, I was absolutely floored by the following quote:
Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around. What do you see? Business people, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy.
To be honest? While I do beleive what I said, it's a fact that short, black-or-white statements resound with people in a certain way that provokes emotion.
I definitely agree. As egregious as putting up with "annoying" infringements of rights like airports delays/rfid passwords/ -- becuase it boils down to people imposing their will on others simply "because they can" -- the following step to civil war must be taken only under dire circumstances.
But don't take it from me. Take it from the wise folks who started this country:
and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government
And when you have people (both american citizens and captured foreign nationals) languishing in prison without trial, tens of thousands of civilians dying in a war the majority of the population does not approve of, secret laws, free speech zones, and any logical check of the government being denied for reasons of "national security"... then there is only one recourse.
Imperial Britian called the american colonists terrorists because they raided merchant suppliers, targeted officers on the field of battle, and ambushed their enemy using guerilla tactics. Of course those in power will drum up a holy crusade against terrorists towards the end -- it is the sign of their death knell.
In all seriousness, thanks for learning me today. I'll be sure to bring this incident up the next time the boss catches me "a-browsin'" during the workday.
See, I'm confused now. I'm college educated, but apparently I've never had reason to study this yet.
All the snopes-esque explanation (and the OP) say that the force of air hitting the outside of the plane is pushing IN on the door at (insert_large_number_here) psi, and that's why you can't open it midflight.
If the plane is pressurized for the comfort of carbon units (which I get, as atmosphere is thinner up there), then you have two opposing forces on the door which should make it somewhat easier.
The bit about height makes sense, though. Guess I never measured a passing airplane to see how high it was:)
However, we can stop toppling their sovereign leaders, establishing military presence without consent of the people, and sending their citizens to foreign prisons without trial.
If any of the above happened in the US because the government allowed it, would you stand for it?
That sounds like alot of force. How come planes don't just implode like a sub that strays too deep? Or passengers even hear the tell-tale buckling of metal as the hull adjusts to the pressure?
Also, not to be a wiseass, but how do skydivers get out of a plane?
Slashdot Mirror
I've successfully used the line "We've had one, yes... but what about second breakfast?"
It's all in the delivery.
Show me a telephone number which you can dial and that, by the simple act of connection, results in the infiltration of your company's office
Again, how many data leaks have been caused by the company's own action or incompetence compared to hacking? We're a smart group here -- no need for "o noes, they're stealing my internets!!!oneone" boogeymen.
Sure they grow up. Now they're better equipped to easily bypass any restrictions set up in order to browse at will.
Sir, you are a genius
I decided then that I must eventually get a job with a glass office where the walls can be made opaque with a click of a button.
The natural correllary to that invention, of course, would be that a suitably intelligent prankster could eventually un-opaque your walls, likely at the most inopportune moment.
The high ground gives him +5 agility
I disagree. One of the first reviews I saw of this -- when the meme was just starting to leave the internet, summed up the situation very nicely.
The title says it all: either that appeals to you, or it doesn't.
I really doubt the hype affected ticket sales in more than the most marginal of ways.
Actually, I always stay one generation behind. Just picked up an original xbox and gamecube to supplement my ps2 this year. This way I can find out which version will be the best in advance (a la Resident Evil 4) and buy accordingly.
New? "He needed killin'" is still a valid affirmative defense in many of our charming southern states.
The UK government has made no small secret that it thinks having the DNA of every person on file to run through each time they stop your car/arrest you to fish for other crimes would be a jolly swell idea.
I call it the "high-five". Kinda takes the string out, dontcha think?
Ah, the convoluted mantras of a nintendo fanboy...
The wii is the revolution, comrade! Backwards compatability to the NES! Everyone is welcome! Use either controller! It's open to all users! Family friendly games as well as more mature content! Online! The entire userbase will be satisfied... but use the fucking wiimote or I'll gut you like a fish!!!
our Hoyl Constitution
The government already has to provide a number of documents in foreign languages for everyone's benefit. A spanish translation of the Constituion isn't all that outlandish.
Um, how could Sony's tecnhology get inside Emule, Kazaa, and Bittorrent?
Okay, so all that leaves is the explanation of why the entire load of passengers aren't incinerated by even the smallest of fires. Chicago theater?
You do realize that his job...
Stop right there. (insert godwin spoiler)
We've already decided this issue at the Nuremburg trials. "Just doing your job" or "just following orders" is absolutely never an excuse for one's actions. Even the Roman Praetorian routinely executed their emperors when the line had been crossed.
When I first saw the Matrix, I was absolutely floored by the following quote:
Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around. What do you see? Business people, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy.
To be honest? While I do beleive what I said, it's a fact that short, black-or-white statements resound with people in a certain way that provokes emotion.
I definitely agree. As egregious as putting up with "annoying" infringements of rights like airports delays/rfid passwords/ -- becuase it boils down to people imposing their will on others simply "because they can" -- the following step to civil war must be taken only under dire circumstances.
But don't take it from me. Take it from the wise folks who started this country:
and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government
And when you have people (both american citizens and captured foreign nationals) languishing in prison without trial, tens of thousands of civilians dying in a war the majority of the population does not approve of, secret laws, free speech zones, and any logical check of the government being denied for reasons of "national security"... then there is only one recourse.
Imperial Britian called the american colonists terrorists because they raided merchant suppliers, targeted officers on the field of battle, and ambushed their enemy using guerilla tactics. Of course those in power will drum up a holy crusade against terrorists towards the end -- it is the sign of their death knell.
This post should be modded +6 ironic
dhmo.com should post an editorial on this "small victory" in the war against that deadly compound.
Okay, slashdot. I get it. I'm an idiot :)
In all seriousness, thanks for learning me today. I'll be sure to bring this incident up the next time the boss catches me "a-browsin'" during the workday.
See, I'm confused now. I'm college educated, but apparently I've never had reason to study this yet.
:)
All the snopes-esque explanation (and the OP) say that the force of air hitting the outside of the plane is pushing IN on the door at (insert_large_number_here) psi, and that's why you can't open it midflight.
If the plane is pressurized for the comfort of carbon units (which I get, as atmosphere is thinner up there), then you have two opposing forces on the door which should make it somewhat easier.
The bit about height makes sense, though. Guess I never measured a passing airplane to see how high it was
Regardless of how you feel, the DMCA specifically outlaws this.
"How we feel" is the central tenet of a democratic society. If a law is unjust, it is our duty to defy it.
no you cannot appease them
However, we can stop toppling their sovereign leaders, establishing military presence without consent of the people, and sending their citizens to foreign prisons without trial.
If any of the above happened in the US because the government allowed it, would you stand for it?
Mole Men.
Ah, that delightful TV leprechaun!
That sounds like alot of force. How come planes don't just implode like a sub that strays too deep? Or passengers even hear the tell-tale buckling of metal as the hull adjusts to the pressure?
Also, not to be a wiseass, but how do skydivers get out of a plane?