It's the mark of the impact of a series when you mourn the passing of actors on them as if they were your family. Babylon 5 was so well constructed and intricate that the characters had real depth, and you felt like you knew them, and by way of that, the actors. I'm hoping these stories work; I know JMS won't dilute the franchise the wat Star Trek has been reduced to pitiful ruins.
It's clear you don't know how Congress works.
Ted Stevens is a United States Senator.
You're clearly not qualified to choose your own elected representatives. You should just give up.
And it's clear that you don't know semantics: Congress is divided into two branches: the Senate and the House of Representatives. A member of the Senate is a "Senator", while a member of the House is a "Representative". Any member of Congress is considered a "Congressman," althought the term has come to be generally to be equated with the House. And no, I don't go in for all the PC crap, so if you're female you are still a "Congressman". And Ted Stevens is still ignorant, no matter what you choose to call him.
So are you implying that we should repeal all anti-spam laws and let the spammers that have been convicted out of jail? We should go ahead and make wire fraud legal? Afterall, we can't necessarily enforce that outside of the US. Should we also make terroristic threats legal? Someone could call anyone from outside of the country where we couldn't enforce it and threaten someone's family. Should we make producing narcotics legal since those can be produced in other nations?
Wire fraud is enforced globally because we have the cooperation of foreign banks. Terroristic threats made from outside the country are also enforceable with the cooperation of other countries. This is a one-sided attempt to tell people what they can and can't put in their META tags. Your arguments are specious, because you are comparing criminal acts to what someone puts as web content on a web site. If someone choses to advertise their porn with false meta data, hoping to lure children to their site, then they will be found out by one of the enforcement agencies in this country, using existing laws. Trying to legislate META tag content is a stupid idea.
Congress, with all the problems in the world, focuses on THE most pressing problem right now - misleading meta tags.
Well, web developers have been abusing them for years. I personally hope a lot of these web developing scum are locked up... to make the Internet safe for us application programmers.
What? It's precisely because it can't be codified globally that it's pointless to do anything about it here. Do you honestly think that anyone outside the US is going to voluntarily conform to this law? Do you think anyone inside the US can't get around it by moving their content outside the US?
As usual, Congress is meddling in things it does not understand. They want to look like they are doing something to protect children, yet at every turn the things they come up with are ludicrous. And they've also dropped the ball on the whole Net Neutrality issue. It's clear Congress doesn't understand what the Internet is ("a series of tubes" said the learned Congressman) or how it works, or the fact that it's a global resource, far outside the realm of their ability to control it.
And there you have it. You can already get this information via the radio in most metropolitan markets, so what's the point? Unless you're Speed Racer, real-time traffic updates aren't going to be of much use. And here's a little point to consider: where are they getting the traffic information from? Answer: the same sources that provide it to the radio and TV stations. Unless Google is going to build its own traffic sensing network (and don't put it past them), their data is only going to be as good as the last update you would get from the traffic reporting agencies anyway. Let's face it, when an accident happens, even with all the people who own mobile phones, how long does it take before it's reported to the traffic monitors? ANd even then, how many times have you heard reports of an accident that have long been over and traffic is flowing again, despite the traffic report saying that things are still backed up? Nope, this is just Google pushing the limits of what they should be doing to try and establish themselves in another niche market.
If anything, F-Secure is sounding a warning. Mobile viruses may not be the primary attack vector now, but with smart devices ever increasing (and a propensity of some executives to store everything on them, including passwords), it makes sense to stir up a little fear in the hope of preventing future harm.
And let's not forget that as people demand there mobile phones to be more things and be able to interface with other computers, the possibility of using a person's mobile phone as a backdoor through security into a system rises. Comapnies are having a hard enough time defending against USB drives that may be seeded with virii; IT security's workload will double if they also have to start taking into account mobile phones that can connect to networks via Bluetooth so people can access work email, voice messages, etc.
People may want to call this FUD, but paranoia is the order fo the day when it comes to network security.
Most mobiles run J2ME, and you can't do anything interesting in J2ME. You can't even get the whole screen on some mobiles, let alone use directory services. And because J2ME allows the phone creators to load on different modules to there phones (JSR-182, etc), you don't even know if you will be able to do something when you get to a phone. You would have to be very clever indeed!
Given the profusion of virii and trojans and the insidiousness of some of their mechanisms, are you implying that virus writers aren't going to be clever enough to pull this off? That's like saying the dam isn't going to break even though there's three feet of water in your living room. If there's an advantage to be gained or a buck to be made, you know some very skilled code monkeys are going to find a way to make it work.
Similarly, I'd call Bezos's craft a VTOL airplane -- though I might give it an asterisk -- VTOL airplane*.
And in that regard, we don't need another rocket that reach 100km -- what we need is private industry to develop one-off and reuseable systems to work in Earth orbit and beyond, and heavy lift vehicles to get cargo into space in bulk to help build the next generation of Moon exploration vehicles. It sounds like Bezos is in it for the tourist dollars more than anything, and I'm afraid the ticket price is going to far outwiegh the VTOL capacity and the quick turnaround time. I won't be surprised if Blue Origin becomes his personal space yacht. I'm getting this feeling that I'm reading a Heinlein story.
Space Shuttles MUST land horizontally. Soyuz and such MUST land vertically. And the summary says Blue Origin will have VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) capability , which might suggest it's something like an option, extra, non-default.
And on a darker note, all spacecraft have the ability to land by crashing, as Soyuz, the Shuttle, and the DC-X prototype which will become Blue Origin have done. People can spend an awful lot of time arguing about the semantics, but in the end it doesn't matter how the rocket takes off or lands, as long as it does it safely. I don't think it would be very good publicity if Blue Origin killed a lot of passengers, anymore than the Challenger and Columbia accidents have helped NASA's reputation.
"Can you imagine some surfer finding the digital camera of his dreams at a knock-down bargain price but refusing to buy it because the page it's on only has a PR of one? I don't think so."
No, but I can imagine a surfer finding the camera of his dreams and buying it from some schlock electronics outfit with an artificially high page rank.
Page Rank seems to work on the premise that the more a site is linked to, the more valuable it is. So if five million people link to a white supremacist site, that means there's valuable content there, right?
This is where Google's power is diluted and why a lot of the searches I do seem to come up with pretty crappy results. PageRank is pointless, if only because a) actually useful sites may very well not get linked to very much, as no one wants the sites overrun by the whole Internet or b) uselss sites with drivel for content may be over-linked because a few million idiots think that the content is the word-of-the-lord.
What is needed is a personal page-ranking system -- a central repository where people can rate websites based on factors that matter (ease of use, content, etc.), kind of like the Zagat guide to web sites. It's not enough to blindly search for any site that links to the data I want; I need it to link to site that have the data I want and have it a useful/easy-to-find format.
It is hardware agnostic so it can adjust to different systems, and you can also install your own apps into it so that your Vista install becomes a full system image install.
So now MS can find out what you're installing on your computer when it makes contact with Redmond, and thereby apply patches that will bollix up any software MS doesn't like! Brilliant!
It's pretty obvious that the idea behind MySpace was more to generate buzz than to actually run an efficient IT organization and world-class site. It grew from a little thing into a gigantic thing too fast for the developers and infrastructure people to adjust their mentality to the large scale. If the whole site is down, that means no rendundant data centers or colocations, or even worldwide coverage. A site can't grow as large as they have while neglecting the fundamentals.
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I think it's hilarious when I see parents on the news talking about the "myspace generation". "Oh yeah, my son has music playing while watching tv and IMing his friends and updating his myspace all at the same time". It makes them completely unfocused and makes it possible for them to half-ass ten things at once. I think myspace and AIM are possibly the two most influencial things dumbing down children in america today. I actually think that without these two things children in Amercia would be smarter. Would you want to leave that legacy? Dumbing down an entire generation...
Hey it started way before MySpace. Every generation has had its dumbing down influence: Rock 'N Roll in the 50's, Drugs in 60's, Disco and more Drugs in the 70's, Video Games in the 80's... Sure, none of these things are harmful in and of themselves, but the issue has always been one of abuse. Kids who listened to the beginnings of rock in the 50's certainly didn't turn out too bad, or we wouldn't be here now. The fact is, something interesting and unique tends to make itself known every decade or so, and a cadre of devoted worshippers take this thing and run it into the ground. There's definitely a dumbing down, but I don't think it's so severe, owing to the fact that plenty of us are still here making productive lives.
Yes, MySpace sucks and is probably a big waste of a kid's time, but the fact is most of the kids who use it will not abuse it and turn out all right, while those who do abuse it will become more societal detritus that we're all going to have to pay for at some point. Nothing changes.
Blood. A mix of your DNA plus biomarkers. Of course if you've seen the movie, perhaps that too can be spoofed.
In the end, there's no truly safe solution, except for multiple layers of passwords, biometrics, DNA samples, and the like, and even then, a determined foe will find a way to breach it. What Mankind can create, Mankind can subvert.
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Your opinion is highly illogical. ;)
Dammit Spock, don't quote logic to me... I may be a good ole country doctor, but I know what I like...
It's the mark of the impact of a series when you mourn the passing of actors on them as if they were your family. Babylon 5 was so well constructed and intricate that the characters had real depth, and you felt like you knew them, and by way of that, the actors. I'm hoping these stories work; I know JMS won't dilute the franchise the wat Star Trek has been reduced to pitiful ruins.
With apologies to Star Trek fans everywhere, I agree.
And it's clear that you don't know semantics: Congress is divided into two branches: the Senate and the House of Representatives. A member of the Senate is a "Senator", while a member of the House is a "Representative". Any member of Congress is considered a "Congressman," althought the term has come to be generally to be equated with the House. And no, I don't go in for all the PC crap, so if you're female you are still a "Congressman". And Ted Stevens is still ignorant, no matter what you choose to call him.
Wire fraud is enforced globally because we have the cooperation of foreign banks. Terroristic threats made from outside the country are also enforceable with the cooperation of other countries. This is a one-sided attempt to tell people what they can and can't put in their META tags. Your arguments are specious, because you are comparing criminal acts to what someone puts as web content on a web site. If someone choses to advertise their porn with false meta data, hoping to lure children to their site, then they will be found out by one of the enforcement agencies in this country, using existing laws. Trying to legislate META tag content is a stupid idea.
I doubt they'd go for it... they'd hate to have their "tubes" tied.
Well, web developers have been abusing them for years. I personally hope a lot of these web developing scum are locked up... to make the Internet safe for us application programmers.
Well, if this passes, there's your first test case. Anyone know a porn star named Barbie with a web site?
What? It's precisely because it can't be codified globally that it's pointless to do anything about it here. Do you honestly think that anyone outside the US is going to voluntarily conform to this law? Do you think anyone inside the US can't get around it by moving their content outside the US?
As usual, Congress is meddling in things it does not understand. They want to look like they are doing something to protect children, yet at every turn the things they come up with are ludicrous. And they've also dropped the ball on the whole Net Neutrality issue. It's clear Congress doesn't understand what the Internet is ("a series of tubes" said the learned Congressman) or how it works, or the fact that it's a global resource, far outside the realm of their ability to control it.
...to use the META tags "Congress" and "intelligent" on the same web page.
Everybody knows there's a hidden code in our DNA... Leonardo DaVinci put it there!
And there you have it. You can already get this information via the radio in most metropolitan markets, so what's the point? Unless you're Speed Racer, real-time traffic updates aren't going to be of much use. And here's a little point to consider: where are they getting the traffic information from? Answer: the same sources that provide it to the radio and TV stations. Unless Google is going to build its own traffic sensing network (and don't put it past them), their data is only going to be as good as the last update you would get from the traffic reporting agencies anyway. Let's face it, when an accident happens, even with all the people who own mobile phones, how long does it take before it's reported to the traffic monitors? ANd even then, how many times have you heard reports of an accident that have long been over and traffic is flowing again, despite the traffic report saying that things are still backed up? Nope, this is just Google pushing the limits of what they should be doing to try and establish themselves in another niche market.
Quite true -- but then how do you classify the Bell X-1 and its bretheren? Of course in the 40's and 50's, they were called "rocket planes" and justifiably so.
And let's not forget that as people demand there mobile phones to be more things and be able to interface with other computers, the possibility of using a person's mobile phone as a backdoor through security into a system rises. Comapnies are having a hard enough time defending against USB drives that may be seeded with virii; IT security's workload will double if they also have to start taking into account mobile phones that can connect to networks via Bluetooth so people can access work email, voice messages, etc.
People may want to call this FUD, but paranoia is the order fo the day when it comes to network security.
Given the profusion of virii and trojans and the insidiousness of some of their mechanisms, are you implying that virus writers aren't going to be clever enough to pull this off? That's like saying the dam isn't going to break even though there's three feet of water in your living room. If there's an advantage to be gained or a buck to be made, you know some very skilled code monkeys are going to find a way to make it work.
Similarly, I'd call Bezos's craft a VTOL airplane -- though I might give it an asterisk -- VTOL airplane*.
And in that regard, we don't need another rocket that reach 100km -- what we need is private industry to develop one-off and reuseable systems to work in Earth orbit and beyond, and heavy lift vehicles to get cargo into space in bulk to help build the next generation of Moon exploration vehicles. It sounds like Bezos is in it for the tourist dollars more than anything, and I'm afraid the ticket price is going to far outwiegh the VTOL capacity and the quick turnaround time. I won't be surprised if Blue Origin becomes his personal space yacht. I'm getting this feeling that I'm reading a Heinlein story.
And on a darker note, all spacecraft have the ability to land by crashing, as Soyuz, the Shuttle, and the DC-X prototype which will become Blue Origin have done. People can spend an awful lot of time arguing about the semantics, but in the end it doesn't matter how the rocket takes off or lands, as long as it does it safely. I don't think it would be very good publicity if Blue Origin killed a lot of passengers, anymore than the Challenger and Columbia accidents have helped NASA's reputation.
No, but I can imagine a surfer finding the camera of his dreams and buying it from some schlock electronics outfit with an artificially high page rank.
Page Rank seems to work on the premise that the more a site is linked to, the more valuable it is. So if five million people link to a white supremacist site, that means there's valuable content there, right?
This is where Google's power is diluted and why a lot of the searches I do seem to come up with pretty crappy results. PageRank is pointless, if only because a) actually useful sites may very well not get linked to very much, as no one wants the sites overrun by the whole Internet or b) uselss sites with drivel for content may be over-linked because a few million idiots think that the content is the word-of-the-lord.
What is needed is a personal page-ranking system -- a central repository where people can rate websites based on factors that matter (ease of use, content, etc.), kind of like the Zagat guide to web sites. It's not enough to blindly search for any site that links to the data I want; I need it to link to site that have the data I want and have it a useful/easy-to-find format.
So now MS can find out what you're installing on your computer when it makes contact with Redmond, and thereby apply patches that will bollix up any software MS doesn't like! Brilliant!
Actually, the word "gotuit" is from the Czech for "more meaningless content"...
It's pretty obvious that the idea behind MySpace was more to generate buzz than to actually run an efficient IT organization and world-class site. It grew from a little thing into a gigantic thing too fast for the developers and infrastructure people to adjust their mentality to the large scale. If the whole site is down, that means no rendundant data centers or colocations, or even worldwide coverage. A site can't grow as large as they have while neglecting the fundamentals.
Hey it started way before MySpace. Every generation has had its dumbing down influence: Rock 'N Roll in the 50's, Drugs in 60's, Disco and more Drugs in the 70's, Video Games in the 80's... Sure, none of these things are harmful in and of themselves, but the issue has always been one of abuse. Kids who listened to the beginnings of rock in the 50's certainly didn't turn out too bad, or we wouldn't be here now. The fact is, something interesting and unique tends to make itself known every decade or so, and a cadre of devoted worshippers take this thing and run it into the ground. There's definitely a dumbing down, but I don't think it's so severe, owing to the fact that plenty of us are still here making productive lives.
Yes, MySpace sucks and is probably a big waste of a kid's time, but the fact is most of the kids who use it will not abuse it and turn out all right, while those who do abuse it will become more societal detritus that we're all going to have to pay for at some point. Nothing changes.
Blood. A mix of your DNA plus biomarkers. Of course if you've seen the movie, perhaps that too can be spoofed.
In the end, there's no truly safe solution, except for multiple layers of passwords, biometrics, DNA samples, and the like, and even then, a determined foe will find a way to breach it. What Mankind can create, Mankind can subvert.
A long passphrase is much better, in my opinion.
Until the Alzheimer's sets in... or you have one too many at a party the night before... get a concussion...
Better write it on a Post-It Note... then again, better not.
That's what you think!!! (Pulls tin hat tighter around head)