Atheism isn't a religion, but it is a leap of faith nevertheless.
No it isn't.
You are basically saying, without any proof, that god doesn't exist at the same time as a preacher is saying, without any proof
For this to work, we need to make the assumption that god exists in the first place.
In actual fact, atheism is more an act of thought then an act of faith. An atheist will look at the evidence of gods existence, if the evidence is not sufficient to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt that god exists then it is reasonable to conclude that god does not exit.
A theist is the opposite of this, theism requires a person to consciously ignore evidence to the contrary of a belief.
So in other words, atheism is a religion in the same way not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Where's the baseball head-splat, and chainsaw training programs for citizens assist in the control of the spread of the disease? Ammo depots? Location to get two-for-one specials for Colt 45's?
Given the hardiness of zombies, their inability to recognise danger and their strength in numbers, guns are an incredibly ineffective against them.
Also given the fact that Zombies will simply walk towards you oblivious of danger, would it not be easier just to place a trap or seven between you and the walking dead then sit back drinking coffee whilst they blindly walk into it.
Also, forget conventional vehicles, armour me up a steam roller, it's zombie squashin' time.
The difference is trivial, both are oftem malicious. The most common transmission method for malware these days is user intervention and yes, that is a valid transmission method.
Prioritize your work, CDC. Start with cancer and stuff.
What the CDC is trying to do here, is show Americans how to react in an emergency situation. The Zombie invasion is just there to pique the readers interest.
A lot of the stuff is not Zombie or even disease specific such as a water requirement. I grew up in the cyclone zone of Australia, a lot of what I read I already knew,
- stock up on fresh water (fill the bath, every available container)
- same with tinned food and other non perishables - fill up gerry cans
- have a short wave radio (two way if you've got one) and enough spare batteries
- know where the evac points are (set by the authorities)
- Plan a regroup point inside and outside the house with your families.
A lot of it is common sense which just doesn't get followed. That's what the CDC want to get through to people, in case another natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina happened again because in a disaster zone you may be out of reach of help for several days.
The point that probably made the most sense is this: America has plenty of people with guns, and hunters in America are so effective
So America is doomed.
The biggest problem with that idea, even if it were true (been shooting with a lot of yanks, good fun but they cant hit a barn door) is identifying zombies before there are so many infected that a group of disorganised gunmen become ineffective against the horde (20 Z's in one place will do).
Secondly, a deer or bear is an animal that is larger then a human with many vulnerable spots. The reason there is a lot of activism against hunting is because a lot of hunters wound animals and then the animal die of its wounds. Whilst effective against a bear or Kangaroo, its completely ineffective against the Zed's because they don't bleed out, they don't have a working heart, lungs et al. They have one very small vulnerable spot (the brain). Worse yet, they wont run away when shot.
Zombies would not survive more than a few weeks against the kind of firepower that our hunters possess.
that's backwards,
America wont last a few weeks against a Zombie infection because of it's inability to organise in a disaster situation.
A zombie infection is more akin to a natural disaster like a flood or fire then it is to a hunt. Given the lack of organisation to natural disasters in the States in recent years, well, maybe the CDC is better then FEMA at this.
Apple has NEVER denied that any computer, including it's own, is potentially vulnerable to exploits. Their position is the same as it's always been... users should take appropriate precautions. At times in the past they've offered for free commercial anti-virus apps as part of AppleCare and DotMac.
Current users should download Sophos Antivirus for Mac. It's free.
So Apple have never said Mac's don't get viruses.
Even if that is true, they've inferred it plenty of times. I remember these ad's where they had one guy acting as a Mac and the other acting as a PC when only the PC got sick...
That is pretty much saying Mac's don't get viruses.
Microsoft doesn't support removal of the hordes of malware on it's platform either.
But Microsoft wont deny malware's existence. In fact they publish several free tools to help you remove it. The fact that they aren't as good as free alternatives not withstanding.
Weapons, commercial aircraft, naval and commercial vessels.
We don't make a single TV (*) or DVD player in the US,
We (the west) do not make low skill, labour intensive goods because our economies don't support a large pool of low wage labour. We make high skill, labour moderate goods.
One of our key exports is education. People don't flock to China for their universities. As yet, the best BRIC nations have done to meet us in the commercial aircraft space is the Embraeer E-series (Brazil) which competes with the A320/B737, Cormac (China) hasn't even managed to put a B717/F50 clone into production yet let alone anything that competes with a A330 or larger.
Superfreighters are made in places like South Korea, US, Australia, Norway and so forth.
The west stays technologically ahead of BRIC, so we have industries that produce high technology products which we sell to places like China, Russia, Brazil and India.
The links are pretty useless, if you're looking for more information. They simply put you on the actual site being hosted on the ATV. While that's interesting, and it'll be great to see if we can Slashdot it, it's not informative, nor does it really discuss the project or talk about a how-to.
Which is really too bad, surfing around Mac Mini Vault doesn't yield anything about the project, just -that- it exists. Can anyone else find info on the thing?
Besides a DD-WRT based router will do pretty much the same job without having to fight the manufacturer every step of the way.
At work I worry about our Dells running Windows. But not our Red Hat server.
Spammers must love you.
I worry about our servers constantly. CentOS, Debian, Windows and AIX. Even though I keep them secure, behind firewalls, no user access, no default usernames/password (admin account disabled), very limited sudoers file web facing servers patched regularly I still worry because its good practice to be vigilant. If one of my servers becomes infected, I want to know it. I refuse to sit behind the delusion that "CentOS is safe".
I sincerely hope never to work with a sysadmin that disregards threats to any platform.
"Your computer has been infected. Please install this program to clean it."
It's social engineering, and you can't protect against that. The installer needs admin rights to install, so people have to enter their password - and they do.
Seriously - how are you supposed to protect against that?
There is only one way to protect against that, but it is contrary to almost everything Apple stands for.
The only defence against social engineering (and it's been around a lot longer then computers) is education. People need to be taught that their computer is not an appliance like a toaster, it's a complex machine like they car. This is the antithesis of the Apple "Just Works" philosophy where the user is not meant to know anything about the way computers work and just accept that it magically does stuff.
Apple users in my experience are more vulnerable to social engineering tactics because they don't just lack education about computers, they actively shun it. I remember the old days when the Mac enthusiasts would deride the PS2 ports because they were too complex, now that Mac has gained some popularity, that is coming back to haunt them.
Education is the only way to defend against social engineering attacks. With Windows users who recognise there is a threat it's hard enough, how do you educate those who refuse to even acknowledge that something may be wrong.
I'd rather have a phone that has a software-swappable identifier that handshakes with the tower, but I suppose that is just dreaming.
The security implications make this less then desirable.
Yes it is securable enough to work, in theory (using PKI)...
But in reality, where telco's won't even enforce security on voicemail (I call my voicemail from overseas all the time, I only need to enter my Australian phone number) and the average person doesn't give a crap about keeping their private key secure. When an attacker only needs 2 minutes to grab a phone, copy the private key and return it the average person wont even notice it's missing in that time and few people actually use the security features on their phone.
What I'd like is a mix between the two. The private key needs to be an installable ROM module (SIM card). The SIM is mine, I assign it to an IMEI and I give both to the telco who registers that on their system. If I want to register the same IMEI and SIM on a different network, I should be able to do that too. But because of the security implications, the SIM needs to be unique and hardware based.
This has less to do with practical concerns about footprint and more about making sim-swapping even harder.
Lets not forget the royalty fees to Apple.
Karma be damned, Apple want to make it harder for competitors to enter the marketplace seeing as they have trouble competing as it is. Not that I expect this to work, SIM's are very well entrenched GSM equipment manufacturers. Also, Apple do not want Apple devices on networks that Apple does not have an agreement with.
Less about practicality, more about locking in your own customers. Not that it would work here in Oz, if your telco refuses to swap your MicroSIM for a normal SIM you just take them to the TIO until they do. However I imagine in places without consumer protection it would be a serious hurdle to changing handsets.
I kind of like the idea of 'the right to all which hasn't had such right retracted'
A document is only as good as the government that upholds it.
You're irremovable rights have already been removed at airports remember.
over what appears to be 'you have these explicit rights'
Which are only as good as the government that protects them.
The only difference is that we still have a large measure of freedom, if AQIS (Australian Quarantine and Inspection Services) or the Australian Customs Service decided to detain or my property under false pretences, I can demand an inquiry as others have done in the past and saw justice. Can you do the same with the TSA?
There is no difference between explicit and not explicit freedoms when those freedoms are protected by people. But by all means, hold on to your dusty document, I'm sure no president will dismiss it as "just a piece of paper".
That a man was questioned over a crime and released when there wasn't enough evidence.
Oh sweet Jesus in heaven, how do you step out the door in the morning with the fear of something strange yet within reason happening.
If there is anything for Aussies to be ashamed of here, it's our media. Fairfax is using the non-event to talk itself up and create a mountain out of a molehill. I've always said, Australian media was better then US media but today, they've made a liar out of me.
For that I'm shocked and appalled.
If anything, I feel sorry for the coppers who are going to get dragged through an inquiry over this. They were just doing their job and no one got harmed. I just hope Fairfax has the decency not to turn it into a trial by media.
it's just a bit of sarcastic humour and is quite common in the wide brown land.
For the most part, I'm just pulling your leg although certain members of/. do have this knee jerk reaction about Australia due to some bad preconceived notions about freedom (mostly over the fact we haven't actually got a dusty document that states we are in fact a free society, apparently you cant be free without one).
I just wanted to head them off at the pass.
and your treatment of the native population seems humane compared to how most other countries have treated theirs.
A bit of a bugbear of mine. I hold no grudge against the Aborigines, certainly it wasn't the nicest of histories but I have to wonder how well they would have fared if the French or Germanic states settled Oz. When the first colonies were settled (1788) slavery was already illegal in Britain (by extent in the colony of New South Wales) but the French were transporting them from their African holdings until the Napoleonic wars, I'd hate to think what a nasty little Austrian would have done to them in the 30's either.
From the fine article (first sentence, second paragraph)
He was later released without charge
So a person was bought in by police for questioning. Which as I understand it is legal in most western nations.
But it is very important to keep up the uninformed Australia bashing here on/. It must be required penance for having the better beaches and a working economy.
Phasers are essentially inferior to contemporary firearms
Apart from not requiring ammunition, ease of handling, multiple energy settings and so forth, not to mention the possibility of a projectile weapon breaching the hull.
they are actually slower than bullets.
This probably had more to do with the special effects at the time and has just stuck.
IANASTN, but here's my angle: phasers are something that the Borg encountered often enough to warrant an adaptation, but slugthrowers are something so ancient the Borg don't even remember them, therefore saw no reason to ever adapt to it.
IANATrekie but re-watching TNG (I was 8 when it was first screened here) but the Borg need to be shot with a weapon before they can adapt to it, which is why in the TNG series they can normally kill one or two drones before they adapt. The same would be true of traditional projectile fireams one would think.
So are many of the guns in Doctor Who. The ones used in The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit are barebones P90s, the ones in The Doctor's Daughter have a small flamethrower-like attachment to generate muzzle flash.
Why is the P90 so popular with sci-fi writers?
Conspiracy answer: FN are paying them to feature the weapons in their shows. This is why the P90 stopped being used in seasons 9 and 10 of SG1, HK made them a better offer so the writers switched to MP7's and G36's.
Serious answer: because they just look cool and futuristic... and it's cheaper to get an off the shelf gun and paint it rather then build an entirely new prop.
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No it isn't.
For this to work, we need to make the assumption that god exists in the first place.
In actual fact, atheism is more an act of thought then an act of faith. An atheist will look at the evidence of gods existence, if the evidence is not sufficient to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt that god exists then it is reasonable to conclude that god does not exit.
A theist is the opposite of this, theism requires a person to consciously ignore evidence to the contrary of a belief.
So in other words, atheism is a religion in the same way not collecting stamps is a hobby.
It's also amusing how much of a religion opposing Apple seems to be. I have to wonder if the grand irony is lost on you haters.
So, is "hater" the word for "heretic" or "infidel" in the new religion.
See Sig.
Given the hardiness of zombies, their inability to recognise danger and their strength in numbers, guns are an incredibly ineffective against them.
Also given the fact that Zombies will simply walk towards you oblivious of danger, would it not be easier just to place a trap or seven between you and the walking dead then sit back drinking coffee whilst they blindly walk into it.
Also, forget conventional vehicles, armour me up a steam roller, it's zombie squashin' time.
But it's not AIDS, it's just Leprosy.
The difference is trivial, both are oftem malicious. The most common transmission method for malware these days is user intervention and yes, that is a valid transmission method.
Prioritize your work, CDC. Start with cancer and stuff.
What the CDC is trying to do here, is show Americans how to react in an emergency situation. The Zombie invasion is just there to pique the readers interest.
A lot of the stuff is not Zombie or even disease specific such as a water requirement. I grew up in the cyclone zone of Australia, a lot of what I read I already knew,
- stock up on fresh water (fill the bath, every available container)
- same with tinned food and other non perishables
- fill up gerry cans
- have a short wave radio (two way if you've got one) and enough spare batteries
- know where the evac points are (set by the authorities)
- Plan a regroup point inside and outside the house with your families.
A lot of it is common sense which just doesn't get followed. That's what the CDC want to get through to people, in case another natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina happened again because in a disaster zone you may be out of reach of help for several days.
The point that probably made the most sense is this: America has plenty of people with guns, and hunters in America are so effective
So America is doomed.
The biggest problem with that idea, even if it were true (been shooting with a lot of yanks, good fun but they cant hit a barn door) is identifying zombies before there are so many infected that a group of disorganised gunmen become ineffective against the horde (20 Z's in one place will do).
Secondly, a deer or bear is an animal that is larger then a human with many vulnerable spots. The reason there is a lot of activism against hunting is because a lot of hunters wound animals and then the animal die of its wounds. Whilst effective against a bear or Kangaroo, its completely ineffective against the Zed's because they don't bleed out, they don't have a working heart, lungs et al. They have one very small vulnerable spot (the brain). Worse yet, they wont run away when shot.
Zombies would not survive more than a few weeks against the kind of firepower that our hunters possess.
that's backwards, America wont last a few weeks against a Zombie infection because of it's inability to organise in a disaster situation.
A zombie infection is more akin to a natural disaster like a flood or fire then it is to a hunt. Given the lack of organisation to natural disasters in the States in recent years, well, maybe the CDC is better then FEMA at this.
Apple has NEVER denied that any computer, including it's own, is potentially vulnerable to exploits. Their position is the same as it's always been ... users should take appropriate precautions. At times in the past they've offered for free commercial anti-virus apps as part of AppleCare and DotMac.
Current users should download Sophos Antivirus for Mac. It's free.
So Apple have never said Mac's don't get viruses.
Even if that is true, they've inferred it plenty of times. I remember these ad's where they had one guy acting as a Mac and the other acting as a PC when only the PC got sick...
That is pretty much saying Mac's don't get viruses.
Microsoft doesn't support removal of the hordes of malware on it's platform either.
But Microsoft wont deny malware's existence. In fact they publish several free tools to help you remove it. The fact that they aren't as good as free alternatives not withstanding.
There, fixed that for you.
The Tea Party has always been a front for the Republican party to fool those who felt disenfranchised with the Republican party.
From the word go I called them the "I cant beleive it's not the republican party".
Weapons, commercial aircraft, naval and commercial vessels.
We (the west) do not make low skill, labour intensive goods because our economies don't support a large pool of low wage labour. We make high skill, labour moderate goods.
One of our key exports is education. People don't flock to China for their universities. As yet, the best BRIC nations have done to meet us in the commercial aircraft space is the Embraeer E-series (Brazil) which competes with the A320/B737, Cormac (China) hasn't even managed to put a B717/F50 clone into production yet let alone anything that competes with a A330 or larger.
Superfreighters are made in places like South Korea, US, Australia, Norway and so forth. The west stays technologically ahead of BRIC, so we have industries that produce high technology products which we sell to places like China, Russia, Brazil and India.
The links are pretty useless, if you're looking for more information. They simply put you on the actual site being hosted on the ATV. While that's interesting, and it'll be great to see if we can Slashdot it, it's not informative, nor does it really discuss the project or talk about a how-to.
Which is really too bad, surfing around Mac Mini Vault doesn't yield anything about the project, just -that- it exists. Can anyone else find info on the thing?
Besides a DD-WRT based router will do pretty much the same job without having to fight the manufacturer every step of the way.
Not to mention it's half the cost and there's a long list of supported devices.
Spammers must love you.
I worry about our servers constantly. CentOS, Debian, Windows and AIX. Even though I keep them secure, behind firewalls, no user access, no default usernames/password (admin account disabled), very limited sudoers file web facing servers patched regularly I still worry because its good practice to be vigilant. If one of my servers becomes infected, I want to know it. I refuse to sit behind the delusion that "CentOS is safe".
I sincerely hope never to work with a sysadmin that disregards threats to any platform.
"Your computer has been infected. Please install this program to clean it."
It's social engineering, and you can't protect against that. The installer needs admin rights to install, so people have to enter their password - and they do.
Seriously - how are you supposed to protect against that?
There is only one way to protect against that, but it is contrary to almost everything Apple stands for.
The only defence against social engineering (and it's been around a lot longer then computers) is education. People need to be taught that their computer is not an appliance like a toaster, it's a complex machine like they car. This is the antithesis of the Apple "Just Works" philosophy where the user is not meant to know anything about the way computers work and just accept that it magically does stuff.
Apple users in my experience are more vulnerable to social engineering tactics because they don't just lack education about computers, they actively shun it. I remember the old days when the Mac enthusiasts would deride the PS2 ports because they were too complex, now that Mac has gained some popularity, that is coming back to haunt them.
Education is the only way to defend against social engineering attacks. With Windows users who recognise there is a threat it's hard enough, how do you educate those who refuse to even acknowledge that something may be wrong.
I'd rather have a phone that has a software-swappable identifier that handshakes with the tower, but I suppose that is just dreaming.
The security implications make this less then desirable.
Yes it is securable enough to work, in theory (using PKI)...
But in reality, where telco's won't even enforce security on voicemail (I call my voicemail from overseas all the time, I only need to enter my Australian phone number) and the average person doesn't give a crap about keeping their private key secure. When an attacker only needs 2 minutes to grab a phone, copy the private key and return it the average person wont even notice it's missing in that time and few people actually use the security features on their phone.
What I'd like is a mix between the two. The private key needs to be an installable ROM module (SIM card). The SIM is mine, I assign it to an IMEI and I give both to the telco who registers that on their system. If I want to register the same IMEI and SIM on a different network, I should be able to do that too. But because of the security implications, the SIM needs to be unique and hardware based.
Lets not forget the royalty fees to Apple.
Karma be damned, Apple want to make it harder for competitors to enter the marketplace seeing as they have trouble competing as it is. Not that I expect this to work, SIM's are very well entrenched GSM equipment manufacturers. Also, Apple do not want Apple devices on networks that Apple does not have an agreement with.
Less about practicality, more about locking in your own customers. Not that it would work here in Oz, if your telco refuses to swap your MicroSIM for a normal SIM you just take them to the TIO until they do. However I imagine in places without consumer protection it would be a serious hurdle to changing handsets.
A document is only as good as the government that upholds it.
You're irremovable rights have already been removed at airports remember.
Which are only as good as the government that protects them.
The only difference is that we still have a large measure of freedom, if AQIS (Australian Quarantine and Inspection Services) or the Australian Customs Service decided to detain or my property under false pretences, I can demand an inquiry as others have done in the past and saw justice. Can you do the same with the TSA?
There is no difference between explicit and not explicit freedoms when those freedoms are protected by people. But by all means, hold on to your dusty document, I'm sure no president will dismiss it as "just a piece of paper".
i'm Australian and i'm horrified.
That a man was questioned over a crime and released when there wasn't enough evidence.
Oh sweet Jesus in heaven, how do you step out the door in the morning with the fear of something strange yet within reason happening.
If there is anything for Aussies to be ashamed of here, it's our media. Fairfax is using the non-event to talk itself up and create a mountain out of a molehill. I've always said, Australian media was better then US media but today, they've made a liar out of me.
For that I'm shocked and appalled.
If anything, I feel sorry for the coppers who are going to get dragged through an inquiry over this. They were just doing their job and no one got harmed. I just hope Fairfax has the decency not to turn it into a trial by media.
it's just a bit of sarcastic humour and is quite common in the wide brown land.
/. do have this knee jerk reaction about Australia due to some bad preconceived notions about freedom (mostly over the fact we haven't actually got a dusty document that states we are in fact a free society, apparently you cant be free without one).
For the most part, I'm just pulling your leg although certain members of
I just wanted to head them off at the pass.
A bit of a bugbear of mine. I hold no grudge against the Aborigines, certainly it wasn't the nicest of histories but I have to wonder how well they would have fared if the French or Germanic states settled Oz. When the first colonies were settled (1788) slavery was already illegal in Britain (by extent in the colony of New South Wales) but the French were transporting them from their African holdings until the Napoleonic wars, I'd hate to think what a nasty little Austrian would have done to them in the 30's either.
In fact he was placed under questioning arrest and taken to a police station.
He was questioned for an unspecified number of hours and released.
Yes, that's how it works. Technically they do place you under arrest because it's in relation to a crime. They didn't ask him to make a statement.
He had to be charged or released. In this case, they had no charge for the person in question and he was released.
As the AC said, you're trying to make a storm in a teacup.
He was later released without charge
So a person was bought in by police for questioning. Which as I understand it is legal in most western nations.
/. It must be required penance for having the better beaches and a working economy.
But it is very important to keep up the uninformed Australia bashing here on
Phasers are essentially inferior to contemporary firearms
Apart from not requiring ammunition, ease of handling, multiple energy settings and so forth, not to mention the possibility of a projectile weapon breaching the hull.
This probably had more to do with the special effects at the time and has just stuck.
IANASTN, but here's my angle: phasers are something that the Borg encountered often enough to warrant an adaptation, but slugthrowers are something so ancient the Borg don't even remember them, therefore saw no reason to ever adapt to it.
IANATrekie but re-watching TNG (I was 8 when it was first screened here) but the Borg need to be shot with a weapon before they can adapt to it, which is why in the TNG series they can normally kill one or two drones before they adapt. The same would be true of traditional projectile fireams one would think.
So are many of the guns in Doctor Who. The ones used in The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit are barebones P90s, the ones in The Doctor's Daughter have a small flamethrower-like attachment to generate muzzle flash.
Why is the P90 so popular with sci-fi writers?
Conspiracy answer: FN are paying them to feature the weapons in their shows. This is why the P90 stopped being used in seasons 9 and 10 of SG1, HK made them a better offer so the writers switched to MP7's and G36's.
Serious answer: because they just look cool and futuristic... and it's cheaper to get an off the shelf gun and paint it rather then build an entirely new prop.
So, when does the B ship leave?
Shortly before the rest of us die from a dirty telephone.
The 10.2 kilometer tunnel is 14.4 meters in diameter. Big Becky ate through 1.6 million cubic meters of rock to reach her goal.
Those sneaking Canadians digging a drug smuggling tunnel. It's either that or they plan to sneak their armies across the border and invade.
One of those.
Six platoons of mounties are on their way to polite you into submission.