Posts by Jesse 115 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2008
Yes, but, then we'd have to ask ourselves: Is 007 a british superhero, or is he just a character from the British secret service who is oh so obviously British?
Limiting the franchise to nothing but fanfare for everything [insert character's nationality here] would be pretty damn stale.
It did work for Austin Powers, though...
I believe I have read at least one article where Charlie admitted to have been drinking while writing.
Unfortunately, like spam, a sensationalist can come off as a total dick even though it is merely his job to come off that way for increased revenue.
I blame the system more than I blame the people. But, yeah, he ought to rethink some things.
From a wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociated_press
"A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated Press to a random body of text in hopes of finding an interesting new word. (In the preceding example, ‘window sysIWYG’ and ‘informash’ show some promise.)"
Therefore, I submit that all of Amanfrommars' posts are informash.
The ISS is a dead project, soon to land in the ocean with its billions of wasted dollars. There's no point building a launch program that will so soon be obsolete. Incidently, that's why they should have scrapped both the ISS and the Shuttle long ago as someone else has mentioned.
Personally, I hadn't even noticed these were on the market. I was looking forward to the Air Rape model. My running partner is still deciding between Air Pillage and Air Murder.
The atrocity here is not that stab reflects violence and death. The problem is that some (payed) jackass has the imagination to pair "stab" with shoes to form a sort of marketing ploy and Nike followed through with it!
Interesting point in that I wonder if this is all a stunt by him to prove (now to prove in court) that he was in fact doing his job, and he was well qualified for it; albeit in this case now he is a criminal, vandal, and saboteur.
I have found that many logical and genuinely smart people are completely and hopelessly socially inept.
"...i have seen staffys sharing crisps with babies before they are so gentle, they are so emotional "
I've seen Snow White singing to the birds while they wrap a blue ribbon around a dog who is breast feeding babies that are riding pink ponies with unicorns dancing in the mist. So gripping, so emotional.
Death to the CEO of Playmobil!
"Can someone just make ONE alternative to Windows "
Uhm, you are suggesting that to stop being pigeonholed into windows, we should be pigeonholed to only one alternative? Lack of competition is what got us here in the first place.
The problems lie elsewhere but largely revolve around poor [human] communication.
I normally like to read a review so that I don't need to actually have the software.
I don't use linux, so some questions that come to mind are:
Does Linux use a Services Repository approach to processes? As Uwe points out, it's (SMF) awkward to get used to, but as a sysadmin I have come to love the organized approach, especially when it comes to troubleshooting.
ZFS is bunk. We don't even use it although Sun packages it. That said, no mention whatsoever of Solaris Volume Manager. Does linux have a free volume manager?
No mention of Solaris Containers and Zones.
Is Linux as well documented as Solaris?
The only way that I can picture this occuring is that the brushes must have grabbed some slack in the leash that was near or on the curb. No dog is stupid enough to go near a streetcleaner. Most dogs are freaked out by a vacuum cleaner.
Or the street sweeper was a decepticon.
The problem is that asking any individual, no matter how brilliant, their thoughts on a subject because they have traveled relatively 'nowhere' in comparison to the vast universe is a lot like a dog and pony show.
Why not simply ask them rhetorically "So, you went several thousand feet from earth's crust. We should spend more money so you and others can go further, no?"
"As far as I can tell the terrorists won"
Not really, because their live's are still shitty for the most part, they have no rest with the veins sitcking out of their foreheads at "America" this and "Jews" that and frothy mouthed nerds screaming "OMG ARMAGEDON!" every day on the internet would be foaming at the mouth about some other subjects whether they be the war on 'tar wrists' or whatever e.g. like Microsoft or Scientology.
Sure my erosion of freedoms is pissing me off, but that's what elections and activism is for.
I'm still living good in USA. People need to shut off the electronics and get some fresh air.
That is the heart of the solution. Problem is, most people are stupid, and, as with scams and spams, if you reach enough people, even a 1% return can be very lucrative.
That said, I think the easiest solution would be that the lost funds should come directly out of EBAY's pockets. Then there might actually be a fraud system put into place.
It's kind of tough in America to do that though, Nowadays corporations have more freedoms than consumers. Just another reason our founding fathers are rolling in their graves.
Will always be an issue as long as individuals can have access to a system anonymously.
If security is an issue, then the access to an item of importance must require identification.
When people are responsible for their actions and know that by doing something, whether physically or on a network, that they will be held accountable, then there will be as much of a threat that someone will rob your database as there is someone may rob your bank. Although probably less depending on the monetary (or entertainment value) of your data.
What Snier is saying is that your database must be as secure as a bank is- and this is not by encorporating some third party to build a security megacenter right next to your bank, whether or not you man that megacenter isn't of issue.
No matter what, you'll always need physical police and security officers as you'll need virtual police and security officers -- but you still need a secure infrastructure in place.
I don't know how the AC above got from discussing his enhanced security posture to saying that infosec is dead or dying. That was some pretty good magic.
"I didn't realise that the USA had citizens who blinkeredly followed the party line, ignoring facts and making skeptics and objectionists out to be the enemy.
Your statements really are so misinformed. I can do no better than to suggest you read some independent books on the subjects you seem to proclaim you know so much about - maybe start with Deliver us from Evil by William Shawcross"
I found it interesting that you suggested the former commenter, another AC, read an independent book citing his ignorance of facts. Clearly a non-independent history book would be a better suggestion? So I thought to myself, "I wonder who William Shawcross is?" Lo and behold a writer for several left-leaning periodicals.
I think that in contrast to the other AC's overall point you are actually the one who brought a party line and ignoring facts to the discussion.
But this is often the tact of wiley conversationalists: To take a point, in the formers case, that comparing the US to China along political and judicial lines is poor logic, and to cause that discussion to suddenly turn to political parties and whether or not history itself truly happened as one or another professes.
This survey is useless.
"Little attempt is made to verify the authenticity of the passwords, beyond follow-up questions asking what category it falls under. So we don't know whether women responding to the survey filled in any old rubbish in return for a choccy treat or handed out their real passwords."
What were the passwords for? Email? Corporate Account? Yahoo games?
Did the user change the password as soon as they got to their PC?
Are men more likely to tell the truth and decline giving out passwords because they enjoy the feeling of empowerment and protection, whereas women are more craving objects/possessions and thus told a lie to get free chocolate? Can we thus say that men are more likely to tell the truth and women are more likely to lie?
My own assertions above are just as stupid as those made from the survey.
"So SWORDS was yanked because it made people nervous. Meanwhile, the V-22 Osprey program has killed 30 people during test flights, but the tiltrotor aircraft is currently in active service."
SWORDS is in use by the US Army. Osprey is in use by the US Marines. These are different bureaucracies acting under different circumstances with different matters weighing in on any decisions made.
For instance, the impact of an osprey missing from a battle is huge compared to shelving a camera-bot.
Alas, I do agree with the thought though: a Life is a Life.
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