"One of the strings attached to that "aid" money to Jamaica and all the other countries the USA gives money to, is that they enforce US style drug laws. Why should the USA care what people in Jamaica, Australia, or anywhere else do?"
Simple. When someone offers you a pile of dough with strings attached, you can either take it and abide by the strings, or say "no thanks". Guess what Jamaica did? They don't get the third choice of - we'll take the money, but screw your strings.
Sharing data was the function of the Arpanet that the academics were most interested in. The military was interested for different reasons. Remember, this was developed when the cold war was raging full force and the US was worried about a Soviet strike knocking out our military communication grid. It was designed to be failure-tolerant so if one hub was taken out, communication could still happen due to it's packet switching method of transferring data. To this day most military/government information is shared over private LANs and not over the internet in general.
Yeah, I'm relatively sure that 99% of torrent download ARE legitimate things like linux distros... Because terrabytes of distros are released EVERY DAY and that's what the majority of users are downloading...
I'm not denying that there aren't legitimate uses for torrents, but don't try to blow smoke up anyone's ass about what the majority are currently using it for.. I'm sure a few people will chime in and list their legitimate uses, but how many are going to chime in and admit they are violating (bullshit) copyright laws??
When is the industry going to start producing LCD with OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diode) to skip the backlighting entirely? Once that happens I think the argument is over. Super bright, can see in bright light, low power consumption, not as much side-angle fade.....
What the hell are these "Democrats" that you speak of??
In all seriousness though, Joe Liberman (and God willing Hillary too) is a good example of what most people think about moderate Democrats...If the Democrats want a chance they should take a lesson from the Republican handbook and actually cater to their own crowd rather than concentrate on the few percent of "undecideds" who probably won't vote anyways...
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Well, once again this is mostly due to market share. If more people actually used Macs, there would be more Mac users thinking they are invincible.
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The vulnerability can affect you system under Wine, but so far only 1 person has been able to get it to actually foul things up, and only after days of messing with the configurations.
So if someone posted a Windows vulnerability, would you disbelieve it until you saw a live demonstration of the exploit? Didn't think so... Apparently Macs are innocent until proven guilty, not so much for anything coming out of Redmond.
It depends on which Steve Jobs you want to believe. Jobs from 5 years ago spouting off about how "clock cycles aren't everything" and "IBM and Motorola chips are far superior to any Intel chips" or the Jobs of today with "Our new Intel chips make our old chips look like solid state transistors". It reminds me of when a product makes an imporvement, then they go to great lengths to show just how crappy the old product is compared to the New and Improved(TM) version. Great, so basically you are telling me your old product is crap, but hey, the new one sure is spiffy....
Go ahead whiney Mac fanboys (with the exception of WhinyMacFnaboy), start modding me down...
"If no one likes it, then tough shit. I refuse to apologize or be meek about heightened security of my OS preference simply because windows users are pissed off"
Well good thing the statements about Mac users being "smug" about security is all sour grapes - otherwise I'd have to point out that your response sounded pretty, well, "smug".
PS - for the rcord, this is how I define smug -
Function: adjective
Etymology: probably modification of Low German smuck neat, from Middle Low German, from smucken to dress; akin to Old English smoc smock
1 : trim or smart in dress : SPRUCE
2 : scrupulously clean, neat, or correct : TIDY
3 : highly self-satisfied
- smugly adverb
- smugness noun
Numbers 1 & 2 aren't the context I was using, but #3 seems to nail it.
I heard that the new system wouldn't run the beta version of Duke Nukem Forever - so they had to scrap the whole thing and start over from scratch. But that's okay - the DNF people have just done the same (for the 8th time).
"It really sounds as though the FBI needs a real IT department of their own"
In case you hadn't noticed, most experienced hackers that fit the technical side of the bill are -
A) too ethical to work for the FBI
B) unable to pass the psych screening
C) already being watched by the FBI and/or have criminal records
D) to out of shape to pass boot camp (even IT agents are still FBI agents)
E) making too much in the private sector to consider the paycut
For what it is worth I can remember around 1998 or so there were huge recruiting seminars for IT people that the FBI was hosting trying to hire a lot more technical types...
They day they switch over to Linux is the day I start robbing banks... In the time it takes for the average govenment civil servant to even figure out "man pages", I figure I can have a dozen banks knocked over...
Well, he was going to go after him, but was accused of Republicans of "wagging the dog" to deflect from his blowjob malfunction. Also Clinton's staff told the incoming Bushites to make getting Osama a top priority...and they laughed. Probably wouldn't be "good business" to kill the son of the family - the Bin Ladens - that Bush is in the oil business with...
"Please do remember that Saddam Hussein made a habit of thumbing his nose at the United Nations, and that instead of following up on all its condemnations of his actions, the UN just laughed at his antics."
So to show Saddam that the U.N. must always be listened to, the US decided to "thumb their noses" at the U.N. and start an illegal war. Now Saddam knows the U.N. is to be respected...Too bad the US doesn't...
Now go back a few years when we were fighting against our real enemy Iran. Guess who put Saddam in power, trained him, and sold him weapons, including the biological agents like the ones he used against the Kurds? If you said the US and Great Britain, you win a cigar.
"I keep seeing this, but I have a copy of the Constitution right here, and I can't see anything in there about foreign matters (except "he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers") or national security. Can you cite the appropriate section?"
Alberto Gonzales is busy drafting it up as we speak..."The Constitution 2.0" should be coming out soon.
Nor can the operatives go through the enormous amounts of data they are collecting. Thats why typically in the past, they would actually concentrate thier efforts on people they suspected to be terrorists. Now everyone is a suspected terrorist I guess...
Actually, they would stop as soon as they jumped and the vocieover would come in "Looks like them Bush boys are in a heap o' trouble this time. Let's just hope they can outrun the long arm of the law one more time..."
Then they would go sailing over the wall, but the 3 police cars behind them wouldn't make it over and end up piling up on themselves...
"Hi honey. What a day. Do we have anything to eat?"
"Um, no, but we do have this ghetto laptop."
"Can you eat it?"
"No."
"That's great. Maybe we can look at pictures of food then."
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"One of the strings attached to that "aid" money to Jamaica and all the other countries the USA gives money to, is that they enforce US style drug laws. Why should the USA care what people in Jamaica, Australia, or anywhere else do?"
Simple. When someone offers you a pile of dough with strings attached, you can either take it and abide by the strings, or say "no thanks". Guess what Jamaica did? They don't get the third choice of - we'll take the money, but screw your strings.
Sharing data was the function of the Arpanet that the academics were most interested in. The military was interested for different reasons. Remember, this was developed when the cold war was raging full force and the US was worried about a Soviet strike knocking out our military communication grid. It was designed to be failure-tolerant so if one hub was taken out, communication could still happen due to it's packet switching method of transferring data.
To this day most military/government information is shared over private LANs and not over the internet in general.
Yeah, I'm relatively sure that 99% of torrent download ARE legitimate things like linux distros... Because terrabytes of distros are released EVERY DAY and that's what the majority of users are downloading...
I'm not denying that there aren't legitimate uses for torrents, but don't try to blow smoke up anyone's ass about what the majority are currently using it for.. I'm sure a few people will chime in and list their legitimate uses, but how many are going to chime in and admit they are violating (bullshit) copyright laws??
When is the industry going to start producing LCD with OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diode) to skip the backlighting entirely? Once that happens I think the argument is over. Super bright, can see in bright light, low power consumption, not as much side-angle fade.....
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What the hell are these "Democrats" that you speak of??
In all seriousness though, Joe Liberman (and God willing Hillary too) is a good example of what most people think about moderate Democrats...If the Democrats want a chance they should take a lesson from the Republican handbook and actually cater to their own crowd rather than concentrate on the few percent of "undecideds" who probably won't vote anyways...
We still have a two party system in America. We have the religious right-wing Republicans, and the secular moderate Republicans.
You misspelled "Windows XP" with "OSX" /. karma!
Wouldn't want you to lose any
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Well, once again this is mostly due to market share. If more people actually used Macs, there would be more Mac users thinking they are invincible.
[/joke]
The vulnerability can affect you system under Wine, but so far only 1 person has been able to get it to actually foul things up, and only after days of messing with the configurations.
So if someone posted a Windows vulnerability, would you disbelieve it until you saw a live demonstration of the exploit? Didn't think so... Apparently Macs are innocent until proven guilty, not so much for anything coming out of Redmond.
It depends on which Steve Jobs you want to believe. Jobs from 5 years ago spouting off about how "clock cycles aren't everything" and "IBM and Motorola chips are far superior to any Intel chips" or the Jobs of today with "Our new Intel chips make our old chips look like solid state transistors". It reminds me of when a product makes an imporvement, then they go to great lengths to show just how crappy the old product is compared to the New and Improved(TM) version. Great, so basically you are telling me your old product is crap, but hey, the new one sure is spiffy....
Go ahead whiney Mac fanboys (with the exception of WhinyMacFnaboy), start modding me down...
"If no one likes it, then tough shit. I refuse to apologize or be meek about heightened security of my OS preference simply because windows users are pissed off"
Well good thing the statements about Mac users being "smug" about security is all sour grapes - otherwise I'd have to point out that your response sounded pretty, well, "smug".
PS - for the rcord, this is how I define smug -
Function: adjective
Etymology: probably modification of Low German smuck neat, from Middle Low German, from smucken to dress; akin to Old English smoc smock
1 : trim or smart in dress : SPRUCE
2 : scrupulously clean, neat, or correct : TIDY
3 : highly self-satisfied
- smugly adverb
- smugness noun
Numbers 1 & 2 aren't the context I was using, but #3 seems to nail it.
I heard that the new system wouldn't run the beta version of Duke Nukem Forever - so they had to scrap the whole thing and start over from scratch. But that's okay - the DNF people have just done the same (for the 8th time).
"It really sounds as though the FBI needs a real IT department of their own"
In case you hadn't noticed, most experienced hackers that fit the technical side of the bill are -
A) too ethical to work for the FBI
B) unable to pass the psych screening
C) already being watched by the FBI and/or have criminal records
D) to out of shape to pass boot camp (even IT agents are still FBI agents)
E) making too much in the private sector to consider the paycut
For what it is worth I can remember around 1998 or so there were huge recruiting seminars for IT people that the FBI was hosting trying to hire a lot more technical types...
They day they switch over to Linux is the day I start robbing banks... In the time it takes for the average govenment civil servant to even figure out "man pages", I figure I can have a dozen banks knocked over...
Well, he was going to go after him, but was accused of Republicans of "wagging the dog" to deflect from his blowjob malfunction. Also Clinton's staff told the incoming Bushites to make getting Osama a top priority...and they laughed. Probably wouldn't be "good business" to kill the son of the family - the Bin Ladens - that Bush is in the oil business with...
"Please do remember that Saddam Hussein made a habit of thumbing his nose at the United Nations, and that instead of following up on all its condemnations of his actions, the UN just laughed at his antics."
So to show Saddam that the U.N. must always be listened to, the US decided to "thumb their noses" at the U.N. and start an illegal war. Now Saddam knows the U.N. is to be respected...Too bad the US doesn't...
Now go back a few years when we were fighting against our real enemy Iran. Guess who put Saddam in power, trained him, and sold him weapons, including the biological agents like the ones he used against the Kurds? If you said the US and Great Britain, you win a cigar.
I have a copy of it. You can get one too. Go to Office Depot, they sell them in packs of 500 - and it comes in a variety of colors.4 1195&No=10&Nty=1&Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial&Ne=100 000%205%201&Ntt=paper&N=100123&uniqueSearchFlag=tr ue&y=0&x=0&Nr=100000&Ntk=all&An=text
http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=8
They'll just dig up something from the hours and hours of illegal tape recordings of the judge's phone conversations to blackmail her with...
"backward "heartland" full of violent, inbred simpletons"
You know, that insignificant mass of land between New York and Los Angeles called "America".
"I keep seeing this, but I have a copy of the Constitution right here, and I can't see anything in there about foreign matters (except "he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers") or national security. Can you cite the appropriate section?"
Alberto Gonzales is busy drafting it up as we speak..."The Constitution 2.0" should be coming out soon.
Nor can the operatives go through the enormous amounts of data they are collecting. Thats why typically in the past, they would actually concentrate thier efforts on people they suspected to be terrorists. Now everyone is a suspected terrorist I guess...
Actually, they would stop as soon as they jumped and the vocieover would come in "Looks like them Bush boys are in a heap o' trouble this time. Let's just hope they can outrun the long arm of the law one more time..."
Then they would go sailing over the wall, but the 3 police cars behind them wouldn't make it over and end up piling up on themselves...
"Hi honey. What a day. Do we have anything to eat?"
"Um, no, but we do have this ghetto laptop."
"Can you eat it?"
"No."
"That's great. Maybe we can look at pictures of food then."
Nope - good old Bush concentrated on real issues, like stopping gays from getting married...
One word for that guy..... Strategery...