The road in front of my house is two lanes, probably 10m wide total, with banked turns, reflective lines and signs indicating where the turns are. The speed limit is 40 mph, though I've personally seen 70 as they go by.
The road was rebuilt about 10 years ago to these specifications because it was considered to be dangerous - it was made wider, banked more, and marked better to help reduce the accidents.
In the last six months, there have been two collisions in front of my house- one car v car and another car v tree- that one was due to excessive speed and resulted in three deaths.
The idea that roads can be made safer by widening them and adding lines and signs is wrong, in most cases. And unfortunately, it seems to be the typical response to dangerous roads in the US. If driving is mildly difficult, people will pay more attention and not hit things as often
I wasn't saying that safety devices on cars are bad- they certainly do save lives as your numbers show. But the traffic control devices do very little (or nothing) to help prevent accidents, which preventing wrecks is one of the primary reasons they exist.
As a driver, I think they need to point out that the idea is to NOT CRASH.
It all comes down to complacency. Safety items, on the vehicles and on the roads, encourages complacency. "If I stay in my lane I won't end up in an accident" - "If I follow all the rules and stop at the traffic lights I won't get in an accident"
These thoughts are fundamentally wrong. Avoiding wrecks is not a function of following the rules, it's a function of paying attention to what's going on around you, and what you're doing. Lines on the road and traffic control devices create a false sense of security and therefore encourages complacency.
I remember some studies where they removed all the lines and signs in some small towns in Europe and it resulted in many fewer accidents and an overall reduction in average driving speed. I really wish someone would try it in the US. We really need to remind our drivers that they are responsible for the safety of themselves and others.
approach to fighting phishing. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Phishers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(X) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) It will stop phishing for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users don't want to be educated
(X) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from phishers
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for information
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of phishing
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
(X) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
(X) Accessibility
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(X) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
(X) Why should we have to trust you and your information?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Right now it is running XP because her Care Bears game won't run under WINE.
Tied to Microsoft thanks to the Care Bears.
I know how you feel.
Re:Piracy Helps, someday they will notice that.
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It still costs too much for me. Still haven't bought one.
I do have a PS3, though. I guess hardware is more valuable to me if I can do things like change the hard drive and install linux without being called a hacker or it being assumed that I'm only trying to get free stuff.
Piracy Helps, someday they will notice that.
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If anything, the piracy has HELPED PSP sales. The reason there's 50m units is because they can be opened to do what you want.
I bought mine mostly to use it as essentially a 'portable dvd player' for my daughter. Handbrake your Disney DVDs, put them on a big Memory Stick, hit play, lock the keys, and she's happy for the car ride.
The fact that it came with that much openness got me to buy the device. Soon after I was using it to talk to my PS3 at home. Later I was on the PSN with it. And then Disgaea came out for it and I bought that, and a few other games. Now they are all on the aforementioned Memory Stick, because they run better from there.
If piracy is hurting Sony, then they need to charge more for the hardware. If piracy is hurting the developers, they need to learn to make games worth buying, and make them cheaper.
It's about the fact that you have a degree, and therefore show that you can learn.
It's been said that "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn unlearn and relearn" and I've found this to be very true. I'm actually a great example.
I have a wonderful job at a small software company doing a little bit of everything. I do a fair amount of JEE programming, I'm the Oracle DBA, I'm the sysadmin, heck, I've even created most of the marketing material. And for this I get paid what I consider to be a pretty fair amount and I'm looking at a significant raise this year, when most people around me are looking at potentially losing their jobs.
My Degree? I don't have one. Not even an AS yet. But I've certainly proven that I can learn- I spent my college money on airline pilot training. I'm a Certified Flight Instructor and Commercial Multi-engine pilot.
That shows I can learn complex systems and handle responsibility, which are the two core skills you really need to do anything in technology. It doesn't matter if you don't know something if you know how to learn it quickly.
I didn't end up in the airlines because I was finishing Multi when 9/11 happened, so the market quickly went away and I went back to using my hobby as a way to pay the bills. Now I play with computers for work and sometimes fly charters for fun.
Is that the right picture? The name of the file is "Challenger_drive.jpg" - but we're supposedly talking about a drive from Columbia-
Also that drive looks like awfully old technology- I know that doesn't mean much in government, but it looks like a drive that would come from Challenger... The corrosion looks like seawater corrosion, too, which would also indicate Challenger.
I use a mac as my desktop and linux on my servers. I can be productive, build my app and run it just fine on my mac, and not have to worry about the constant updates and GUI fighting that I do with linux desktops. . . and when it's all said and done and needs to go to a production server, drop it on a linux box and watch it hum.
There are many in this thread saying that Apple is proprietary. Well Yes! Duh! They are! Apple is a For Profit company doing exceedingly well at making a profit because they put out a good, cohesive desktop system that pretty much just works. Thankfully they are open to the idea of F/OSS and therefore don't go out of their way to keep it from happening on their platform- in fact, Apple supplies a lot of tools to let you go to town hacking all you want. That's a _lot_ better than the alternative, being cygwin on windows.
I've always seen OS X as a "Linux variant" - don't beat me up guys, I know that's not true- that has a company driving it and focusing it. With focus comes restrictions, but those restrictions are more than outweighed by the productivity increases thanks to the existence of some standards.
Pidgin recently forked because nobody could agree upon how the text input box should be sized. QED.
Ubuntu has done wonders for focusing linux, and that's why it's made strides on the desktop- but it's nowhere near what OS X has done. Not just in usability, but in the underlying tools and things like Applescript and Automator that the flamemakers tend to know nothing about.
Also- I saw a complaint about the iLife / iWork file formats. 1) These applications export to more standard formats, and 2) They are just folders, with an actually pretty easy to follow layout inside the folders. I don't think it'd be too hard to write a parser- at least not as hard as when OOo tried to open Word files the first time around.
Anyone who complains about price hasn't priced hardware recently. If you want a decent computer, it costs money. Apple doesn't sell a bargain machine because they don't want to sell and support cheap shit that will be useless next year. That's why their machines have longer lives.
Thank you for providing me a comment to grab on to.
I was going to rebunk you on everything except #1 (which is totally true, IMHO), but then I realized that you've already been modded flamebait and therefore I shouldn't feed the troll.
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I've said this all before and I'm saying it again here.
This is classic Bullet-Meets-Foot Disease.
Sony's cutting out the retailer. Well, the retailer sells systems for you, you dummies.
Sony's cutting out used games. Used games get people into your system, and drives sales of new games, you dummies.
Sony's still hasn't realized that the flexibility of the PSP is a driving factor for many people to buy it.
The road was rebuilt about 10 years ago to these specifications because it was considered to be dangerous - it was made wider, banked more, and marked better to help reduce the accidents.
In the last six months, there have been two collisions in front of my house- one car v car and another car v tree- that one was due to excessive speed and resulted in three deaths.
The idea that roads can be made safer by widening them and adding lines and signs is wrong, in most cases. And unfortunately, it seems to be the typical response to dangerous roads in the US. If driving is mildly difficult, people will pay more attention and not hit things as often
I wasn't saying that safety devices on cars are bad- they certainly do save lives as your numbers show. But the traffic control devices do very little (or nothing) to help prevent accidents, which preventing wrecks is one of the primary reasons they exist.
As a driver, I think they need to point out that the idea is to NOT CRASH.
It all comes down to complacency. Safety items, on the vehicles and on the roads, encourages complacency. "If I stay in my lane I won't end up in an accident" - "If I follow all the rules and stop at the traffic lights I won't get in an accident"
These thoughts are fundamentally wrong. Avoiding wrecks is not a function of following the rules, it's a function of paying attention to what's going on around you, and what you're doing. Lines on the road and traffic control devices create a false sense of security and therefore encourages complacency.
I remember some studies where they removed all the lines and signs in some small towns in Europe and it resulted in many fewer accidents and an overall reduction in average driving speed. I really wish someone would try it in the US. We really need to remind our drivers that they are responsible for the safety of themselves and others.
Is your password 17JJ?
we should make people less stupid.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) demographic
approach to fighting phishing. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Phishers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(X) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) It will stop phishing for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users don't want to be educated
(X) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from phishers
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for information
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of phishing
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
(X) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
(X) Accessibility
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(X) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
(X) Why should we have to trust you and your information?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
I'll get back to you when I get a fast enough connection to do that. BT is plenty fast. I hit the speed cap on my modem all the time.
It's better anyway :-P
You know you want to network that collection of old Macs you have.
Right now it is running XP because her Care Bears game won't run under WINE.
Tied to Microsoft thanks to the Care Bears.
I know how you feel.
It still costs too much for me. Still haven't bought one.
I do have a PS3, though. I guess hardware is more valuable to me if I can do things like change the hard drive and install linux without being called a hacker or it being assumed that I'm only trying to get free stuff.
Get a different primary operating system.
If anything, the piracy has HELPED PSP sales. The reason there's 50m units is because they can be opened to do what you want.
I bought mine mostly to use it as essentially a 'portable dvd player' for my daughter. Handbrake your Disney DVDs, put them on a big Memory Stick, hit play, lock the keys, and she's happy for the car ride.
The fact that it came with that much openness got me to buy the device. Soon after I was using it to talk to my PS3 at home. Later I was on the PSN with it. And then Disgaea came out for it and I bought that, and a few other games. Now they are all on the aforementioned Memory Stick, because they run better from there.
If piracy is hurting Sony, then they need to charge more for the hardware. If piracy is hurting the developers, they need to learn to make games worth buying, and make them cheaper.
People still buy good music.
It's about the fact that you have a degree, and therefore show that you can learn.
It's been said that "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn unlearn and relearn" and I've found this to be very true. I'm actually a great example.
I have a wonderful job at a small software company doing a little bit of everything. I do a fair amount of JEE programming, I'm the Oracle DBA, I'm the sysadmin, heck, I've even created most of the marketing material. And for this I get paid what I consider to be a pretty fair amount and I'm looking at a significant raise this year, when most people around me are looking at potentially losing their jobs.
My Degree? I don't have one. Not even an AS yet. But I've certainly proven that I can learn- I spent my college money on airline pilot training. I'm a Certified Flight Instructor and Commercial Multi-engine pilot.
That shows I can learn complex systems and handle responsibility, which are the two core skills you really need to do anything in technology. It doesn't matter if you don't know something if you know how to learn it quickly.
I didn't end up in the airlines because I was finishing Multi when 9/11 happened, so the market quickly went away and I went back to using my hobby as a way to pay the bills. Now I play with computers for work and sometimes fly charters for fun.
Every time EA lets me play SPORE
I've been wondering the exact same things, but been too apathetic and lazy to do the work.
This is genuinely relevant to my interests, and made my day better.
Despite people assuming otherwise, Ron Paul is still officially in the race. That makes 4- so, maybe the editor is high.
If it was from Challenger, then there's no restriction on size. It could have been a 40mb drive.
From the looks of the drive, it kinda looks like an ESDI drive to me. I dunno though, after all, it's torn up pretty bad.
I agree that it's likely a typo, but it's certainly an ambiguously confusing one.
Is that the right picture? The name of the file is "Challenger_drive.jpg" - but we're supposedly talking about a drive from Columbia-
Also that drive looks like awfully old technology- I know that doesn't mean much in government, but it looks like a drive that would come from Challenger... The corrosion looks like seawater corrosion, too, which would also indicate Challenger.
Oh my God thank you for making light of this.
I use a mac as my desktop and linux on my servers. I can be productive, build my app and run it just fine on my mac, and not have to worry about the constant updates and GUI fighting that I do with linux desktops. . . and when it's all said and done and needs to go to a production server, drop it on a linux box and watch it hum.
There are many in this thread saying that Apple is proprietary. Well Yes! Duh! They are! Apple is a For Profit company doing exceedingly well at making a profit because they put out a good, cohesive desktop system that pretty much just works. Thankfully they are open to the idea of F/OSS and therefore don't go out of their way to keep it from happening on their platform- in fact, Apple supplies a lot of tools to let you go to town hacking all you want. That's a _lot_ better than the alternative, being cygwin on windows.
I've always seen OS X as a "Linux variant" - don't beat me up guys, I know that's not true- that has a company driving it and focusing it. With focus comes restrictions, but those restrictions are more than outweighed by the productivity increases thanks to the existence of some standards.
Pidgin recently forked because nobody could agree upon how the text input box should be sized. QED.
Ubuntu has done wonders for focusing linux, and that's why it's made strides on the desktop- but it's nowhere near what OS X has done. Not just in usability, but in the underlying tools and things like Applescript and Automator that the flamemakers tend to know nothing about.
Also- I saw a complaint about the iLife / iWork file formats. 1) These applications export to more standard formats, and 2) They are just folders, with an actually pretty easy to follow layout inside the folders. I don't think it'd be too hard to write a parser- at least not as hard as when OOo tried to open Word files the first time around.
Anyone who complains about price hasn't priced hardware recently. If you want a decent computer, it costs money. Apple doesn't sell a bargain machine because they don't want to sell and support cheap shit that will be useless next year. That's why their machines have longer lives.
Thank you for providing me a comment to grab on to.
I was going to rebunk you on everything except #1 (which is totally true, IMHO), but then I realized that you've already been modded flamebait and therefore I shouldn't feed the troll.
Trogdor?
PAX was a chemical to calm the population on the planet Miranda in the 2005 movie Serenity
Ah, so how long until we have Pax?