I'd rather be dealing with a hard-to-turn car at a constant-but-reducing rate of speed than a car I can steer just fine as it accelerates uncontrollably.
Because then I CAN STEP ON THE BRAKES AND THEY'LL HAVE EFFECTIVENESS.
I would wager money that the majority of those organizations have rules against installing unauthorized programs on their computers, specifically P2P software in many cases.
Because it's worked so well in the past, when some idiot is breaking the rules to install some sort of software that they're already not allowed to install...
What's next, are we going to legislate against games being installed on workplace computers?
Except if they roll out this insane DRM to the rest of their games, they won't be retired in ten years because they'll have driven the company into the dirt.
Personally, if someone left him a threatening note, I'd wonder why the police aren't jumping all over this. A threat to a politician? I don't know any country that takes that lightly.
My point is that if this starts happening, nothing is sealed; the entire process will be a matter of public record and you can imagine the shitfit that the EFF would raise over it, if it does start happening.
Look, if it were that big of an issue, you'd see headlines about people leaving the company and suing them and settling out of court for huge sums due to health issues.
You're not going to get brain cancer from talking on your damned cellphone. If you're afraid you are, then quit using one. If you're afraid of cell towers giving you cancer, check yourself into an asylum, because if that were the case you'd see cancer rates across the country rising by tens of thousands of percent, centered on those towers.
You DID know that National Security Letters were found unconstitutional and can no longer be issued, thereby requiring a warrant and the due process behind it in order to get one's hands on such data, right?
Generally the problem with explosives is that they're either unstable or require a significant amount to actually do any damage. The shoe bomber was a moron and even if it had lit there would have been no damage to the fuselage of the plane itself. A couple passengers? Sure, but not the plane itself. So you're going to need a lot of explosives. At best you can find a really fat terrorist (and I mean REALLY fat), do some liposuction and replace the fat with explosives. Except that's not really going to work due to the way the body's structured; if you throw it in there, you've got maybe twelve hours before you start having some severe abdominal pain, and two days at the most before you become septic because some foul-up doesn't know how to do their job.
The other problem, of course, is evidenced by past experience... implanted bombs are redirected by the body. Usually downward. Breast implants may be an exception but attempts by suicide bombers to assassinate heads of state with implanted bombs usually end up detonating downward, not to mention a greatly decreased effect.
If you can jump on top of them first, however, it'll give a whole new definition to 'death from above'...
If I own a thing, it is mine to do with as I please, despite whatever the artist may intend.
If I somehow get my hands on an original Picasso and it is legally mine, then I am well within my rights to spray Beluga caviar all over it and utterly destroy it in that way, because it is my property.
If someone handed me five grand right now, I'd buy this, and then eBay it... after I take a fucking sledgehammer to it, complete with high-def video to send to the artist. Not that he'll care; he's gotten his cut of this little scam over and over, after all.
The Sandman angle was baffling because they tried to pass him off as this poor sod who's just trying to do right by his daughter and get the money for the mystery surgery she needs that they never addressed again. For all we know he thinks he'll solve her ills by getting her a heart transplant when they just need to repair a valve, or something.
Regardless, don't forget that this son of a bitch killed a man while trying to steal his car, intentionally or not, and the movie glosses over it. We don't need that sad single-emo-tear moment from him, we need him hermetically sealed in a prison cell and left to rot.
I know who you are, and I love you to death, but you're still wrong, C. Citing a single movie made by a popular actor, and NOTHING ELSE, in the face of a century and a half of scientific investigation... is not exactly going to fly.
There are people who have risked (and often, lost) their careers for far less than a trip to Tahiti. People with jobs that pay $120k/year who give out sensitive information for what, five or ten thousand. Once. When they make that much in a single month.
Never underestimate the levels of idiocy that people can stoop to. You'll always find someone more foolish than the last person.
Pales utterly in comparison to the hyperinflation that was caused by Mugabe's policies. If they hadn't redenominated the Zimbabwean dollar, the last printing of money would have had twenty-five more zeroes on it.
Then again confiscating personal property and businesses for redistribution by the state is almost NEVER a good idea.
Of course the world is actually somewhat oblong, the sky itself doesn't have a color and the sun doesn't move so much as the earth spinning in relative motion to it.
Certain assumptions only make sense in a certain context.
My question is... why is it necessary at all for everyone at a hospital to have internet access, then? If it's part of the job then the hospital can eat the costs for keeping security intact. I can't imagine why 99% of the staff should need the internet, though, unless it's just for use during downtime, in which case it is NOT necessary for them to have internet access.
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I'd rather be dealing with a hard-to-turn car at a constant-but-reducing rate of speed than a car I can steer just fine as it accelerates uncontrollably.
Because then I CAN STEP ON THE BRAKES AND THEY'LL HAVE EFFECTIVENESS.
I would wager money that the majority of those organizations have rules against installing unauthorized programs on their computers, specifically P2P software in many cases.
Those rules.
Because it's worked so well in the past, when some idiot is breaking the rules to install some sort of software that they're already not allowed to install...
What's next, are we going to legislate against games being installed on workplace computers?
Except if they roll out this insane DRM to the rest of their games, they won't be retired in ten years because they'll have driven the company into the dirt.
Personally, if someone left him a threatening note, I'd wonder why the police aren't jumping all over this. A threat to a politician? I don't know any country that takes that lightly.
This has 'PR stunt' written all over it.
My point is that if this starts happening, nothing is sealed; the entire process will be a matter of public record and you can imagine the shitfit that the EFF would raise over it, if it does start happening.
Look, if it were that big of an issue, you'd see headlines about people leaving the company and suing them and settling out of court for huge sums due to health issues.
You're not going to get brain cancer from talking on your damned cellphone. If you're afraid you are, then quit using one. If you're afraid of cell towers giving you cancer, check yourself into an asylum, because if that were the case you'd see cancer rates across the country rising by tens of thousands of percent, centered on those towers.
Sure. Right after they get a warrant.
You DID know that National Security Letters were found unconstitutional and can no longer be issued, thereby requiring a warrant and the due process behind it in order to get one's hands on such data, right?
Generally the problem with explosives is that they're either unstable or require a significant amount to actually do any damage. The shoe bomber was a moron and even if it had lit there would have been no damage to the fuselage of the plane itself. A couple passengers? Sure, but not the plane itself. So you're going to need a lot of explosives. At best you can find a really fat terrorist (and I mean REALLY fat), do some liposuction and replace the fat with explosives. Except that's not really going to work due to the way the body's structured; if you throw it in there, you've got maybe twelve hours before you start having some severe abdominal pain, and two days at the most before you become septic because some foul-up doesn't know how to do their job.
The other problem, of course, is evidenced by past experience... implanted bombs are redirected by the body. Usually downward. Breast implants may be an exception but attempts by suicide bombers to assassinate heads of state with implanted bombs usually end up detonating downward, not to mention a greatly decreased effect.
If you can jump on top of them first, however, it'll give a whole new definition to 'death from above'...
"Fighter will differ maneuverability and invisibility in the optical, infrared and radar wavelengths."
Yes, so I assume this and its radar/infrared/optical invisibility will see production beyond the prototype right after the Su-47 does.
Nevermind that apparently a long and extraordinary mediation would only have taken a couple of days, according to her.
...You're a genius. That is absolutely perfect.
Now all I need to do is come up with five grand.
If I own a thing, it is mine to do with as I please, despite whatever the artist may intend.
If I somehow get my hands on an original Picasso and it is legally mine, then I am well within my rights to spray Beluga caviar all over it and utterly destroy it in that way, because it is my property.
If someone handed me five grand right now, I'd buy this, and then eBay it... after I take a fucking sledgehammer to it, complete with high-def video to send to the artist. Not that he'll care; he's gotten his cut of this little scam over and over, after all.
The Sandman angle was baffling because they tried to pass him off as this poor sod who's just trying to do right by his daughter and get the money for the mystery surgery she needs that they never addressed again. For all we know he thinks he'll solve her ills by getting her a heart transplant when they just need to repair a valve, or something.
Regardless, don't forget that this son of a bitch killed a man while trying to steal his car, intentionally or not, and the movie glosses over it. We don't need that sad single-emo-tear moment from him, we need him hermetically sealed in a prison cell and left to rot.
I know who you are, and I love you to death, but you're still wrong, C. Citing a single movie made by a popular actor, and NOTHING ELSE, in the face of a century and a half of scientific investigation... is not exactly going to fly.
If you didn't expect that, then why were you posting anonymously?
There are people who have risked (and often, lost) their careers for far less than a trip to Tahiti. People with jobs that pay $120k/year who give out sensitive information for what, five or ten thousand. Once. When they make that much in a single month.
Never underestimate the levels of idiocy that people can stoop to. You'll always find someone more foolish than the last person.
...Right, actually different concepts. That'll teach me to post before I drink my coffee. Moving right along.
Agreed. I just have to wonder why they didn't bother to correct the spelling as proper: ABSORB.
And before that they actually have to exist.
Pales utterly in comparison to the hyperinflation that was caused by Mugabe's policies. If they hadn't redenominated the Zimbabwean dollar, the last printing of money would have had twenty-five more zeroes on it.
Then again confiscating personal property and businesses for redistribution by the state is almost NEVER a good idea.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I haven't generated ninety gigabytes of temporary files and duplicates in my entire LIFETIME.
If that's the kind of writing I can expect from you, point me somewhere that I can get more. That's quality.
Of course the world is actually somewhat oblong, the sky itself doesn't have a color and the sun doesn't move so much as the earth spinning in relative motion to it.
Certain assumptions only make sense in a certain context.
My question is... why is it necessary at all for everyone at a hospital to have internet access, then? If it's part of the job then the hospital can eat the costs for keeping security intact. I can't imagine why 99% of the staff should need the internet, though, unless it's just for use during downtime, in which case it is NOT necessary for them to have internet access.