When you were running Linux as a Desktop, or even if you were 'playing' with it as a server (lot's of reboots) all the technical benchmarks you could quote, graph or shout about meant nothing compared to not having to wait for fsck upon bootup. Only for a computer in a production environment that never or rarely gets restarted did anything other benchmark compare in importance.
Well... once we don't have power grids, factories, etc.. controlled by crappy internet connected un-patched, non-firewalled windows boxes I will entirely agree with you. That's probably going to require actually getting harmed by something before that will happen though. I just hope it's something temporary like shutting down part of the power grid (in a way that it can be turned back on easily) and not something with longer term consequences like a release of material from a nuke plant that finally causes these things to be secured.
"t Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States"
It's the batshit insane bad guys attacking the greedy sociopaths! So long as this doesn't turn into an actual war I don't know who to root for. Let's go get some popcorn.
Sorry, that test fails my usability test. Any hardware manufacturer that wants to sell me a motherboard that requires I use this can stick their motherboard. I for one have no interest in a device which can never be rebooted remotely and can never bring itself back automatically after a power failure.
A police officer killing in the line of duty is acting on a clear and immediate threat. He is shooting someone who very well may shoot him at that moment. Afterwards he does have to justify it or he can go to jail himself.
This is not the same thing as gathering a group of like-minded people who you chose yourself in a room 1/2 way around the planet and deciding who lives and who dies and then classifying the information so that no body can ever verify what/why they did it, forever.
I'm not even making the argument that the drone killings need to stop, I'm only making the argument that there must be oversight. Perhaps after the president and his friends make his list they forward it onto a court, with a judge that he did not appoint himself looks at the evidence and approves or disapproves of it. If the evidence contains sensitive information that might get informants killed or similar stuff then it remains a closed process, just a judge or a handful of judges see it. If at all possible without endangering anyone though bring in a jury. Then... go kill the terrorist. As it stands though, we the people have absolutely nothing except the presidents word that he is using this power only against valid terrorists.
If you are helping the enemy and hiding with the enemy, then you will die with the enemy.
According to our executive branch any male found in the vicinity of the terrorist at the time they decide to attack him with a drone is also a terrorist. I sit here in a room with 3 other males, my coworkers. There are several times that many in the rest of the building. All they know about what I do after hours is what I tell them and they have very little involvement. Where I a terrorist (I am not) they would not be involved. When I leave here I drive streets full of strangers. I go places with more strangers. There are very very few times a drone could find me alone. How can I believe that anybody in the vicinity of anybody else is into the same stuff they are just because they are there? That is ridiculous.
They wanted to capture him, but that wasn't feasible.
Did you think I was talking about any one specific person? I was talking about the drone attacks. Who are you talking about?
You want everyone out, but you want a stable government when you leave.
Then we would need to conquer the whole region, redraw new national boundaries that actually respect ethnic and historical boundaries. Massively relocate people who have created settlements since the current lines were drawn. Then you would still require a massive effort to police the new boundaries for a few generations while people forget all the reasons they hate one another. Meanwhile with all that relocation, you are going to need to supply an unheard of amount of food, medical supplies, etc... while people get on their feet. Basically, undo everything from the Roman empire on.
Or... put in place a ruthless dictator who will ensure there is no fighting by crushing all opposition. Oops - tried that - Saddam Hussein.
Maybe arm a group of religious extremists and let them impose their own kind of peace. Oops, tried that too, Taliban.
Maybe it's time to just butt out and let the people determine their own way. It will probably take some generations, there will be much suffering along the way. There is much suffering now though too and no reason to expect it to ever end on the current path. Meanwhile, maybe we can try to be a better example in the way we do things ourselves. Perhaps stop spying on our own citizens, perhaps not execute anyone without due process...
One thing I really hate about this society is that stating the obvious but inflammatory 'reflects poorly' on anyone. Mormonism IS bat shit crazy (although so are most other religions). Really, read up on what they believe some time if you don't believe me. It's not quite as bad as Scientology but it's up there with it! Also, anybody who says being able to open airplane windows makes people safer IS 'A F***in Moron'. Unless maybe he did mean it as a joke. Then so what.. how badly should not realizing somebody is joking when they say something that is F***ing Moronic reflect on someone anyway?
Now we have a republican rising in the poles. I don't want to support Obama... he continued the warrant-less wiretapping of US citizens, he executes people without trial. (probably ones that deserve it but still, nobody should have that power) But... he hasn't dragged us into any more wars. He has been very slow to pull us out of Bush's wars and he has dropped some bombs to support a revolution (resulting in a rise for the Islamic Brotherhood ans Sharia law, yay... that really made the world a better place!) but he hasn't actually dragged us into a full out war. Look what the last republican did! Romney is talking about the US taking a greater roll in the world. What do you think a greater role means people?!?! We will be at war with Iran and Syria before we are even out of Afghanistan!
Unaffected?!? If it requires you to use your fuel faster your satellite is very much affected! Like you said, a dead satellite is often just one with no more fuel for orbit corrections.
Random? Yeah right! They probably will have a concealed foot pedal for that. Hot blonde coming, step here to get to grope her.. oh wait.. this is the TSA I'm talking about.. pre-pubescent boy coming, stomping hard on that button!
Because publishing short excerpts is FAIR USE. They shouldn't legally even have to have an opt out. That was just them being nice before a judge ordered it. Also... wasn't this project originally supposed to be for books where the authors are dead, missing, etc... and the current copyright holders unknown so they were 'saving' works that would otherwise be lost to time? I'm not sure when it became about just digitizing every book they could get their hands on but that didn't change the fact that they were operating under Fair Use.
But that isn't what Google did. They published short excerpts to give the public an idea of what books are out there thus encouraging them to go get a copy through other means, including by BUYING it.
When they are only publishing a few pages of a large book/document... Fair Use gives them the right.
It's not like they were putting whole books online or anything like that. It was just a little bit, usually the table of contents plus a few pages. All that ever would have done is make people aware of the book who might then want to buy it!
The publishers, who ultimately end up benefiting from this exposure made a big fuss about it. How is that not 'Intensely Idiotic'?
Yes, if you are already compromised the FIRST time you access the site it doesn't help. So? When was the first time you accessed your bank site, Your web mail? Do you even remember? How often have you accessed them since? Securing every subsequent access is certainly an improvement over never securing them at all!
Have you read MSDN documentation lately? How anyone can cram so much information on a page while answering nothing but the most obvious questions... Yes, it is WAY better than what we had in say the 80s with basica for 'free' or C/Assembler for an arm AND a leg and what is documentation? But I'll take a google search about an OSS friendly language any day over the MSDN docs. Granted, there is a lot of RTFM replies, asking questions in the wrong place, re-asking way too common questions, spam and etc... crap to filter out but once you train your brain to do that OSS forums answer 90% of my questions very quickly. MSDN rarely has the answer to anything I need. disclaimer, I am a C#.NET programmer by day.
Yes, that really sucks. I've been on both sides of that though. When the faceless big corporation that employs you doesn't give you access to that information imagine having to explain it 100 times a day while not putting down the hand that feeds you. I get it that the customer is annoyed but there still isn't anything the person on the phone can do until the customer quits their whining about it and just answers the damn questions already.... yes, again. There could be any number of individuals whose fault it is you are so inconvenienced, IT nazis that will not let the information in system A into system B, bean counters who will not pay to get someone to write the code to send the information to the call center and put it on somebody's computer screen, executives who really don't give a shit since their bonus comes either way, etc... It is highly unlikely the person on the phone wants to ask you any of that crap. They probably wish the information was sent to them even more than you.
Most likely that information was used for something, probably routing your call to the correct call center rather than some other that wouldn't be able to help you. It's unfortunate for both sides when that information isn't sent on to the individual who actually answers.
I used to be one of the human beings a person might reach after mashing in those possible combinations. I don't know how awful the system may have been that lead customers to do that. I had no input in making it or access to anyone who did. It may have really sucked but I sure hated those people that got to me by randomly mashing the wrong buttons. They were always so pissed off and difficult when I told them I had to transfer them. What did they expect? Ignore the system that is supposed to be helping you get to the right person, randomly push the wrong buttons and somehow magic gets you the right person? And it counted against my stats if they had to call back again?!?!
Did nobody notice that it was discovered missing on September 11th? Surely there is some crackpot reading this who should have come up with a terrorist or conspiracy theory to scare people with by now!
Intelligent brains are extremely complex. Yes, simple is stupid in this context. Simple brains require far less food to keep alive. Yes.. evolution prefers stupid. We are a very strange anomaly.
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Come on, if you are going to make a statement like that at least give some reasons.
When you were running Linux as a Desktop, or even if you were 'playing' with it as a server (lot's of reboots) all the technical benchmarks you could quote, graph or shout about meant nothing compared to not having to wait for fsck upon bootup. Only for a computer in a production environment that never or rarely gets restarted did anything other benchmark compare in importance.
Well... once we don't have power grids, factories, etc.. controlled by crappy internet connected un-patched, non-firewalled windows boxes I will entirely agree with you. That's probably going to require actually getting harmed by something before that will happen though. I just hope it's something temporary like shutting down part of the power grid (in a way that it can be turned back on easily) and not something with longer term consequences like a release of material from a nuke plant that finally causes these things to be secured.
"t Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States"
It's the batshit insane bad guys attacking the greedy sociopaths! So long as this doesn't turn into an actual war I don't know who to root for. Let's go get some popcorn.
The suites charge only 10 cents? Remember when popular CDs were $30 or $40? (which was probably more like $60-70 in today's money)
Sorry, that test fails my usability test. Any hardware manufacturer that wants to sell me a motherboard that requires I use this can stick their motherboard. I for one have no interest in a device which can never be rebooted remotely and can never bring itself back automatically after a power failure.
The next big things will probably be cures for male pattern baldness and impotence.
A police officer killing in the line of duty is acting on a clear and immediate threat. He is shooting someone who very well may shoot him at that moment. Afterwards he does have to justify it or he can go to jail himself.
This is not the same thing as gathering a group of like-minded people who you chose yourself in a room 1/2 way around the planet and deciding who lives and who dies and then classifying the information so that no body can ever verify what/why they did it, forever.
I'm not even making the argument that the drone killings need to stop, I'm only making the argument that there must be oversight. Perhaps after the president and his friends make his list they forward it onto a court, with a judge that he did not appoint himself looks at the evidence and approves or disapproves of it. If the evidence contains sensitive information that might get informants killed or similar stuff then it remains a closed process, just a judge or a handful of judges see it. If at all possible without endangering anyone though bring in a jury. Then... go kill the terrorist. As it stands though, we the people have absolutely nothing except the presidents word that he is using this power only against valid terrorists.
If you are helping the enemy and hiding with the enemy, then you will die with the enemy.
According to our executive branch any male found in the vicinity of the terrorist at the time they decide to attack him with a drone is also a terrorist. I sit here in a room with 3 other males, my coworkers. There are several times that many in the rest of the building. All they know about what I do after hours is what I tell them and they have very little involvement. Where I a terrorist (I am not) they would not be involved. When I leave here I drive streets full of strangers. I go places with more strangers. There are very very few times a drone could find me alone. How can I believe that anybody in the vicinity of anybody else is into the same stuff they are just because they are there? That is ridiculous.
They wanted to capture him, but that wasn't feasible.
Did you think I was talking about any one specific person? I was talking about the drone attacks. Who are you talking about?
You want everyone out, but you want a stable government when you leave.
Then we would need to conquer the whole region, redraw new national boundaries that actually respect ethnic and historical boundaries. Massively relocate people who have created settlements since the current lines were drawn. Then you would still require a massive effort to police the new boundaries for a few generations while people forget all the reasons they hate one another. Meanwhile with all that relocation, you are going to need to supply an unheard of amount of food, medical supplies, etc... while people get on their feet. Basically, undo everything from the Roman empire on.
Or... put in place a ruthless dictator who will ensure there is no fighting by crushing all opposition. Oops - tried that - Saddam Hussein.
Maybe arm a group of religious extremists and let them impose their own kind of peace. Oops, tried that too, Taliban.
Maybe it's time to just butt out and let the people determine their own way. It will probably take some generations, there will be much suffering along the way. There is much suffering now though too and no reason to expect it to ever end on the current path. Meanwhile, maybe we can try to be a better example in the way we do things ourselves. Perhaps stop spying on our own citizens, perhaps not execute anyone without due process...
One thing I really hate about this society is that stating the obvious but inflammatory 'reflects poorly' on anyone. Mormonism IS bat shit crazy (although so are most other religions). Really, read up on what they believe some time if you don't believe me. It's not quite as bad as Scientology but it's up there with it! Also, anybody who says being able to open airplane windows makes people safer IS 'A F***in Moron'. Unless maybe he did mean it as a joke. Then so what.. how badly should not realizing somebody is joking when they say something that is F***ing Moronic reflect on someone anyway?
When will we not be at war?
Now we have a republican rising in the poles. I don't want to support Obama... he continued the warrant-less wiretapping of US citizens, he executes people without trial. (probably ones that deserve it but still, nobody should have that power) But... he hasn't dragged us into any more wars. He has been very slow to pull us out of Bush's wars and he has dropped some bombs to support a revolution (resulting in a rise for the Islamic Brotherhood ans Sharia law, yay... that really made the world a better place!) but he hasn't actually dragged us into a full out war. Look what the last republican did! Romney is talking about the US taking a greater roll in the world. What do you think a greater role means people?!?! We will be at war with Iran and Syria before we are even out of Afghanistan!
Unaffected?!? If it requires you to use your fuel faster your satellite is very much affected! Like you said, a dead satellite is often just one with no more fuel for orbit corrections.
Random? Yeah right! They probably will have a concealed foot pedal for that. Hot blonde coming, step here to get to grope her.. oh wait.. this is the TSA I'm talking about.. pre-pubescent boy coming, stomping hard on that button!
Then the TSA perverts would probably grope even more!
Because publishing short excerpts is FAIR USE. They shouldn't legally even have to have an opt out. That was just them being nice before a judge ordered it. Also... wasn't this project originally supposed to be for books where the authors are dead, missing, etc... and the current copyright holders unknown so they were 'saving' works that would otherwise be lost to time? I'm not sure when it became about just digitizing every book they could get their hands on but that didn't change the fact that they were operating under Fair Use.
But that isn't what Google did. They published short excerpts to give the public an idea of what books are out there thus encouraging them to go get a copy through other means, including by BUYING it.
When they are only publishing a few pages of a large book/document... Fair Use gives them the right.
It's not like they were putting whole books online or anything like that. It was just a little bit, usually the table of contents plus a few pages. All that ever would have done is make people aware of the book who might then want to buy it!
The publishers, who ultimately end up benefiting from this exposure made a big fuss about it. How is that not 'Intensely Idiotic'?
Yes, if you are already compromised the FIRST time you access the site it doesn't help. So? When was the first time you accessed your bank site, Your web mail? Do you even remember? How often have you accessed them since? Securing every subsequent access is certainly an improvement over never securing them at all!
Please Please Please, just leave the union already!
Liar! You must be an anti-microsoft shill. I know because nobody ever bought anything from the Windows Marketplace!
Have you read MSDN documentation lately? How anyone can cram so much information on a page while answering nothing but the most obvious questions... Yes, it is WAY better than what we had in say the 80s with basica for 'free' or C/Assembler for an arm AND a leg and what is documentation? But I'll take a google search about an OSS friendly language any day over the MSDN docs. Granted, there is a lot of RTFM replies, asking questions in the wrong place, re-asking way too common questions, spam and etc... crap to filter out but once you train your brain to do that OSS forums answer 90% of my questions very quickly. MSDN rarely has the answer to anything I need. disclaimer, I am a C# .NET programmer by day.
If these people we would have college age newborns!
Yes, that really sucks. I've been on both sides of that though. When the faceless big corporation that employs you doesn't give you access to that information imagine having to explain it 100 times a day while not putting down the hand that feeds you. I get it that the customer is annoyed but there still isn't anything the person on the phone can do until the customer quits their whining about it and just answers the damn questions already.... yes, again. There could be any number of individuals whose fault it is you are so inconvenienced, IT nazis that will not let the information in system A into system B, bean counters who will not pay to get someone to write the code to send the information to the call center and put it on somebody's computer screen, executives who really don't give a shit since their bonus comes either way, etc... It is highly unlikely the person on the phone wants to ask you any of that crap. They probably wish the information was sent to them even more than you.
Most likely that information was used for something, probably routing your call to the correct call center rather than some other that wouldn't be able to help you. It's unfortunate for both sides when that information isn't sent on to the individual who actually answers.
I used to be one of the human beings a person might reach after mashing in those possible combinations. I don't know how awful the system may have been that lead customers to do that. I had no input in making it or access to anyone who did. It may have really sucked but I sure hated those people that got to me by randomly mashing the wrong buttons. They were always so pissed off and difficult when I told them I had to transfer them. What did they expect? Ignore the system that is supposed to be helping you get to the right person, randomly push the wrong buttons and somehow magic gets you the right person? And it counted against my stats if they had to call back again?!?!
Did nobody notice that it was discovered missing on September 11th? Surely there is some crackpot reading this who should have come up with a terrorist or conspiracy theory to scare people with by now!
Intelligent brains are extremely complex. Yes, simple is stupid in this context. Simple brains require far less food to keep alive. Yes.. evolution prefers stupid. We are a very strange anomaly.